What is Satchel One?
Satchel One is the market-leading learning platform that's launching with full cloud MIS functionality next academic year. Already used by ~1 in 3 UK secondary schools, it's firmly the teachers' choice for ease of use and classroom management. From the team behind award-winning software, Show My Homework, schools can use the suite of classroom management apps to support learning, save teachers time and involve parents in the learning process.
With the ability to choose your own apps, schools can create a bespoke learning platform to suit their needs, choose from: Show My Homework, Seating, Behaviour Attendance, Detentions, Timetables, Welfare Notes and Documents.
Achieve a consistent approach to online learning that involves teachers, students and parents in the process, whilst providing powerful evidence to Ofsted of your school’s behaviour and attendance policies. All from one simple login.
Satchel One, is now also an official Google for Education Partner and a Microsoft partner, offering powerful integrations to help schools take a holistic approach to education. Integrated use of these platforms results in an online learning experience like no other.
Learning Platform Features:
- Show My Homework
- Behaviour
- Attendance
- Timetables
- Welfare Notes
- Detentions
- Seating
- Documents
MIS Functionality:
Apps
Everything you need for classroom management including Behaviour, Detentions, Homework, Seating and Timetables.
Students
Manage your student profiles, applicants and their parent or carer records easily.
Staff
Access everything for staff HR, personnel, contracts and directory from one place.
School
From subjects and departments, to teaching groups and academic structure, organise your school details effectively.
System
Setup roles and permissions, or personalise with public pages and custom themes securely.
Working with MATs
Satchel One provides multi-academy trusts with consistent reporting across all schools in the MAT and makes it simple for trusts to adhere to centralised attendance, behaviour and homework policies, and in the future a cloud-based MIS. By providing each school in your trust with access to Satchel One, trust leads can enjoy the benefits of dealing with a single supplier, preferential rates and tools for use in both primary and secondary schools.
Stay in touch
Stay in the loop about our MIS developments
Visit www.teamsatchel.com to learn more about our MIS, including our 'One Licence Offer' where we will provide you with up to 18 months free of charge if you're using another MIS provider, plus 25% off your first paid year.
Get a demo of Satchel One
Visit www.teamsatchel.com to book in a demo of multi-award winning Satchel One. We can run you through any combination of our apps and provide you with pricing and next steps for you to consider in your school.
Call us today
Give our friendly team a call on 020 7197 9550. Whether you're looking to discuss our product suite, find out about our MIS launch or anything else, we're happy to talk to you.
Recommended Usage
20 minutes per week
Educational Impact
Case Studies
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Satchel One Reviews
from 34 Verified Reviews
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Neelam Parmar
Digital Learning
Used Satchel One daily for 1-2 years
Mar 2023
Fully cloud-based that involves parents in educating their children.
Neelam Parmar found Satchel One:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“All homework is set in one place and easy to find/refer to when needed.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“No major impact on teaching efficiency”
- Significantly improves school processes“Homework can be monitored and evaluated on a regular basis and checked when it is completed by students or not.”
- Significantly improves parent engagement“Parents are informed”

RICHARD ABBEY
SCIENCE TEACHER
Used Satchel One daily for 3-4 years
Feb 2022
FOUND IT USEFUL TO USE. EVIDENCE OF HOMEWORK SET AND MARKED AVAILABLE FOR PARENT EVENINGS AND DISCUSSIONS
RICHARD ABBEY found Satchel One:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“HOMEWORK -SETTING AND MARKING, RESETTING /REUSING REGISTER MARKING , SEATING PLANS COMMUNICATION WITH STUDENTS AND PARENTS”
- Significantly improves school processes“COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SCHOOL AND HOME, EASY TO FIND INFORMATION OFTEN NOT MENTIONED BY STUDENTS EASILY AVAILABLE INFORMATION FOR PARENTS AND STUDENTS TO REVISIT”
- Moderately improves parent engagement“TO ENSURE INFORMATION IS PASSED ON REDIRECTING PARENTS TO THE INFORMATION THEY MISSED.”

Mr Flynn
Teacher of Design and Technology
Used Satchel One weekly for 5 years+
Feb 2022
Show my Homework has been an invaluable tool for us, particularly throughout the challenging times of COVID: it's also very easy to use, and the Team have responded really well to feedback, creating new features which extend the effectiveness of SMH as a teaching and learning tool.
Mr Flynn found Satchel One:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“The ability to quickly re-use work, ease of editing, preparing drafts ahead of time, ability for other members of Faculty to share resource, Self-marking and analysis of comprehension in Quiz mode can direct future study areas.”
- Moderately improves school processes“Throughout the pandemic SMH has been essential in providing a familiar platform for students to access online learning resources. We also used the comment section to effectively communicate with our students. provide feedback, and pastoral support.”
- Moderately improves parent engagement“Parents sometimes communicated via comment section, many parents like the ability to monitor their child's homework/work.”

Simon Oldfield
Head of RE and Citizenship
Used Satchel One weekly for 3-4 years
Feb 2022
No other piece of software has so positively and widely impacted by teaching.
Simon Oldfield found Satchel One:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“The ability to set, collect and record homework tasks is a dream!”
- Significantly improves school processes“The ability to communicate clearly to varying groups of students allows efforts and energy to go into other things.”
- Significantly improves parent engagement“Easier for parents to partner in the hw process.”

James
Teacher
Used Satchel One daily for 3-4 years
Feb 2022
Excellent service!
James found Satchel One:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Quizzes - mark themselves.”
- Significantly improves school processes“Marking easier.”
- Significantly improves parent engagement“Students can show work to parents easily.”

Andy Braithwaite
SMHW Lead
Used Satchel One for 5 years+
Jan 2021
Saves lots of teachers time - easy for students to use on multiple platforms
Andy Braithwaite found Satchel One:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Attach worksheets / No printing of worksheets / Reuse HW for different classes / online submissions of work”
- Moderately improves school processes“The expectation by Parents that HW is always published on SMHW. Platform for students to submit work”
- Slightly improves parental engagement“Becoming more useful, but Parental engagement still low - parents do not understand SMHW enough - engagement is often parents querying either lack of HW or submissions”

Liz
Teacher of MFL
Used Satchel One for 5 years+
Dec 2020
Only good experiences administering and using it
Liz found Satchel One:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Reusing previous homeworks”
- Moderately improves school processes“Getting messages to students”
- Significantly improves parental engagement“Parent app monitoring homework better”

Dec 2020
I think it costs the school a lot
Damian Woolf found Satchel One:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Students can submit online”
- Significantly improves school processes“Can reuse homeworks”
- Moderately improves parental engagement“You don’t link parents to students which is bad”

Dec 2020
It was a lifesaver in Lockdown. The company quickly adapted further tools. Now it's a comprehensive site.
steve found Satchel One:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“Lockdown. Always at the keyboard.”
- Slightly improves school processes“Parents can see comments I put to students. They get involved more.”
- Significantly improves parental engagement“They can view all tasks.”

Sam Obeng-Asare
Head of Economics and Business studies
Used Satchel One for 2years
Nov 2020
it is informative and useful to set work as a teacher and check work as a parent
Sam Obeng-Asare found Satchel One:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“I don't know how, I only set work for my pupils”
- Significantly improves school processes“Homework task set ahead of time”
- Significantly improves parental engagement“parents can check what work is set and or due”

Nov 2020
Saves time, allows me to send web links and the huge variety of types of homework. Amazing support during lockdown and you are helpful when I cannot get hold of our own IT!
Kim Vale found Satchel One:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Not having to copy worksheets, not having to take in physical work. Spelling tests and quizzes marked automatically”
- Significantly improves school processes“Setting work for absent students”
- Moderately improves parental engagement“Parents know what their children should be doing and by when - only helpful if they engage with this”

Rosie
KS3 RS Coordinator
Used Satchel One for 2 months
Nov 2020
Really good. A couple of things that could make it easier to use.
Rosie found Satchel One:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“We are using it to set remote work which is adding to workload but I imagine normally it is very helpful being able to set the same homework etc for multiple classes”
- Moderately improves school processes“Easy to set remote work. No need to use homework diary.”
- Moderately improves parental engagement“Can check on students homework”

Oct 2020
It is very efficient; allows parental access; archives tasks; allows 2 way communication between pupils and teachers; keeps records and much more. We don't use seating plans, timetabling or behavior in Satchel One but I wish we did.
Emma found Satchel One:
- Moderately improves attainment“It enables students to be more organized about there homework and enables increased parental involvement both of which have a positive impact on attainment.”
- Does not significantly reduce teacher workload“It allows documents, presentations and links to be attached saving printing and allows homework tasks to be reused/edited for other groups and shared with colleagues.”

Jul 2020
Very professional, rapid answer to issues, constantly updating in response to feedback - new facilities added regularly
Emma Callan found Satchel One:
- Moderately improves attainment“Gives students access to information about the task at home and allows parents to see exactly what needs to be done.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Can set same task for equivalent classes/ whole year group etc”

Jul 2020
not sure it does ease my workload as it is currently
Stella found Satchel One:
- Slightly improves attainment“being able to send feedback to students and add screen shots or web links”
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“submitting grades , having to deselect students, then select, then deselect can be a bit time consuming”

Jul 2020
Good to share workload across a department and to track students' knowledge; parents like being able to see that too.
Clare found Satchel One:
- Does not significantly improve attainment“Good for students learning key knowledge like quotations; knowing quotations helps them improve their attainment in the Lit exams.”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“As a department, we have each taken responsibility for doing quizzes for spelling and knowledge of key info in a scheme. They are a bit onerous to set up, but links can be shared and then we don't all have to do them individually. Great as well to track scores in spelling tests.”

Jul 2020
I would like to see the recurring feature added for regular HW (see Q9). I also think that expanding the quiz feature where questions can be posed that ask pupils to type a short, one word answer would be helpful. The multiple choice option is great, but they only make up a small portion of an exam paper so pupils need to be able to recall names etc. and not always chose it from a set of options. It is difficult to create a platform whereby pupils can write extended answers (Google Forms works to an extent here) but answers for 'state the name of...' questions could be loaded by the teacher when creating the quiz. Teachers would still need to be able to overwrite the mark given to allow them to give marks for misspellings etc.
Siobhan found Satchel One:
- Slightly improves attainment“Pupils can be held accountable by parents so may complete more work (especially over this lockdown period).”
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“A regular piece of HW set is a reminder to complete Tassomai questions. I log who has completed them in Satchel:One and award stamps for highest number etc. However, I have re re-use the same HW every week which is time consuming. Being able to re-use HW is helpful compared to always having to start from scratch however, if there were an option to tick the HW as recurring then I could choose multiple dates and set the HW for the term. I like being able to set HW in advance as it is sometimes easier to block this in when I have time, especially at the start of the term. The new options for flexible tasks etc. is a great addition also. I do not make enough use of the community feature.”

Jul 2020
It isn't perfect but the functions they have work really well, and there is lots in development too. The customer service is excellent, and they are very responsive to suggestions. The apps are easy to use and really enhance the system, for example it is super easy to tick off homework on the app if it is completed on a different website. Not 10 yet as the detentions module needs more development and the parent app should mirror what the teacher ticks off as completed not what the student ticks off.
Tina found Satchel One:
- Slightly improves attainment“Unsure, as we have only used it properly since lockdown. Prior to that we posted homework through it but didn't use it to monitor work. We haven't yet measured attainment since lockdown”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Easy to post homework (reuse tasks), students submit via the app so no need to log when it comes in, no need for extra records of work, seating plan can replace printing of class lists or photos, easy to add behaviour through the seating plan. All of these save time”

Jul 2020
Ease in which you set work, collate progress and monitor attainment.
Michelle Venn found Satchel One:
- Slightly improves attainment“Provides an overview of the students who are completing work for progress.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Quizzes are particularly good at showing progress and misconceptions.”

May 2020
it almost meets all of my needs
Lisa found Satchel One:
- Slightly improves attainment“flipped homework - where they prepare for future learning”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“students can complete research tasks prior to the lesson using their own resources rather than teacher providing”

Sylvia Hawken
Teacher of Religious Education
Used Satchel One for 3 years
May 2020
I have found it incredibly useful during this period of lockdown, however I was using it to enter homework as well and that has been excellent
Sylvia Hawken found Satchel One:
- Slightly improves attainment“students are able to work independently but still achieve support”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“It can mark for us and it can enter data about completion”

James Hutchings
Teacher
Used Satchel One for 3 years
May 2020
Easy to use! Very useful!
James Hutchings found Satchel One:
- Significantly improves attainment“Knowledge quizzes have pushed pupils to do well.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“It records results of the quizzes.”

Mar 2020
Easy to track homework and chase outstanding homework. Reports are easy to download and print.
Michaela found Satchel One:
- Significantly improves attainment“More homework completed, revision on time and more recall on information by students”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“We used to write in students planners, saves lesson time and chasing up of uncompleted homework is easy and trackable”

Mar 2020
Limited question types, inability to set tasks to just some of a class or individuals. Needs a better messaging system/notifications
Rick found Satchel One:
- Slightly improves attainment
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Tracking submissions”

Mar 2020
It is helpful but the assessment grid is to clunky
Mandy found Satchel One:
- Moderately improves attainment“tracking h/w”
- Slightly reduces teacher workload
