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London, UK – Alma Technologies, the leading provider of cloud-based student data management systems, announces the launch of its UK version of the platform, Alma UK. This exciting development tailors Alma’s innovative and user-friendly technology to schools and multi-academy trusts in the United Kingdom, streamlining their administrative processes, improving communication and collaboration, while enhancing the overall student experience.

Although Alma’s future-ready student information system platform was previously available in the UK (and worldwide), Alma UK has been adapted to address specific needs of UK schools and MATs. This includes readying Alma’s MIS platform for DfE reporting as well as lexicon revisions unique to the UK.

Alma UK offers a comprehensive set of features, including student registration, enrolment, fee management, scheduling, gradebook, and more. The platform is designed to provide a seamless and intuitive user experience, with a focus on simplicity and accessibility and its cloud-based infrastructure means that student data can be safely accessed from anywhere, anytime, eliminating any restrictions of on-premises access. Alma UK also offers the industry’s most robust security measures to ensure the protection of student data and privacy.

“We are thrilled to bring Alma’s groundbreaking technology to schools and MATs in the United Kingdom,” said Andrew Herman, CEO and Co-founder of Alma. “Our mission is to empower educators and administrators with the tools they need to support students and improve educational outcomes. Alma UK is just the latest step in our commitment to delivering this mission on a global scale.”

Alma UK’s user-friendly interface makes it easy for teachers, administrators, and students to access information and collaborate. Users also have access to an expansive range of integrations with 3rd party software, such as Google for Education apps – and the MIS contains built-in tools to greatly ease transition away from outdated, cumbersome systems.

Alma UK has already received significant interest from schools and MATs across the United Kingdom, and looks forward to working with new partners to help them transform their administrative processes and improve student success.

To find out more information, please visit the company website: www.getalma.com/uk

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“This contract will replace the existing i4see system that was first implemented in 2001 and is difficult to adapt to everchanging federal and state reporting guidelines,” said Frank Edelblut, education commissioner. “The new system (Alma) leverages technological advancements and is designed to empower educators by enabling real time data collection that will improve analysis and reporting. This upgrade will also enhance efficiency across New Hampshire’s school system, while simultaneously creating significant monetary and labor savings.”

Alma’s solution leverages cutting-edge technology, including robust validation engines, automated workflows, and the Ed-Fi operational data store to streamline the state reporting process for both the State and Local Education Agencies. District and school users will efficiently resolve issues and certify data submissions, allowing the state to more immediately analyze data and derive meaningful insights. Every LEA in the state will experience a simplified data submission process, improved validation checks, and simplified communication channels with the State. Schools and districts using the Alma SIS benefit from Alma’s full suite of future-ready tools to support daily operations and ongoing data validation, plus significant cost-savings and the peace of mind knowing their SIS provider is fully aligned with new and changing state reporting requirements.

New Hampshire K-12 districts are already familiar with Alma’s cutting edge student information system, which has been adopted by many New Hampshire LEAs over the past five years. Alma has become a trusted name in K-12 student data.

“Alma is excited to be selected as the NHED State Level Solution,” says Alma Co-Founder and CEO, Andrew Herman. “We are unwaveringly committed to this partnership and supporting NHED’s modern and progressive approach to education. Alma looks forward to partnering with both the New Hampshire DOE and New Hampshire K-12 districts to successfully carry out their educational visions.”

New Hampshire school districts and the NHED will also benefit from hands-on support and training emphasizing change management best practices. Alma’s dedicated team is committed to helping the NHED, LEAs, and community stakeholders achieve their strategic goals and support their educational vision. With Alma, New Hampshire is set up for success now and in the future.

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Data Lab’s trackable metrics for attendance, discipline, and grading provide insight and highlight change over time. Administrators can interpret this data by signaling important indicators that help schools analyze and better identify student support needs and school function. “Alma’s mission focuses on building tools to support the greatest generation of students,” says Andrew Herman, Alma Co-Founder and CEO, “gathering and interpreting Data Lab’s insights brings a critical lens to the way schools view how they serve those students.”

With Data Lab, schools gain deeper insights from daily data they already collect, using it to take actionable steps towards improving student outcomes, addressing truancy and chronic absenteeism, establishing equitable discipline interventions, and much more.

The release of Data Lab bolsters Alma’s mission to increase educational equity and inclusion to foster positive change within schools and districts. Herman continues, “with Data Lab, staff can ask critical questions about how students are being served, how to replicate success, and assess system health by addressing trends as they happen within the school year.” This can include which populations of students are seeing which trends, what and where change is needed, how data insight can shape or reshape school policy, identifying support and resource allocation, and much more. Data Lab offers infinite ways to help educational leaders use data to see their school’s story unfold.

Data Lab’s comprehensive “plug and play” dashboards are available to a wide range of staff, from entire teams to specific members of leadership, providing full transparency and insight into student support needs. District leaders using Data Lab can view multiple schools to further enhance consistency and implement strategies for support. Administrators gain X-ray vision into the overall health of individual schools and districts, identifying pathways to address systemic and structural changes, and recreating successes.

Through Google Data Studio, Ed-Fi analytic tables, and Alma’s highly intuitive SIS platform, Data Lab’s familiar data structure helps staff identify leading indicators in determining the health of their school. Data Lab highlights change over time, revealing the distribution of reasons to help create a more accessible and equitable approach to student success.

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Alma works directly with professional translators to achieve correct syntax and the most accurate translation for all languages available within the platform. The immediate addition of Spanish translation accompanies Alma’s registration feature, AlmaStart, which allows users to customize enrollment forms in the language(s) of their choice, creating a more accessible registration experience for new students and families.

Increasing educational equity, inclusion, and family engagement are mission-critical to Alma. The mobile-optimized portal, AlmaNow, gives families and students access to academic progress directly from their mobile device. By expanding AlmaNow to include multiple languages, beginning with Spanish, learning communities can now more equitably engage families in supporting their students. Learning communities have the opportunity to increase family engagement that can lead to greater student outcomes.

Increased language access to Alma’s parent and student portals continues to strengthen school communities’ efforts to encourage families to be invested and included in the education of their children.

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