How we test every update on real school websites
Before a plugin or WordPress update reaches your website, we now run it against real school websites first. Here is how, and the other work this term that keeps your website fast.
A cookie banner that really asks
Smart Cookies now gives visitors a real choice (accept, reject or choose) and holds back analytics and advertising code until they say yes.
Bigger uploads, iPhone photos, and image edits that stick
Upload files up to 500 MB, drop in iPhone photos without converting them first, replace a document everywhere it is used, and see your crops straight away.
Your staff vacancies, now ready for Google Jobs
Every open vacancy on a Realsmart website now carries the details Google Jobs needs, and every school now points search engines at its own sitemap. There is nothing to switch on.
Website compliance that reads your policies, not just their names
Our website compliance check now reads the policies themselves, shows what it found and where, and tells you when a visit looks like an Ofsted review.
See your whole trust鈥檚 website compliance in one place
Move between your trust鈥檚 school websites from the bar and see every school鈥檚 compliance in one place. Compliance view rolling out to trusts this term.
Microsoft 365 licences, handed out automatically
Realsmart Sync can now give every new pupil and member of staff the right Microsoft 365 licence, with rules for groups that need something different and a page showing who gets what.
Back to school with QR sign-in: class-sorted printing, teacher tools and a smarter scanner
QR cards now print in registration-group order, teachers can replace a lost card, login sheets come one page per form, and the new scanner reads cards held at any angle.
Summer sign-in improvements: clearer 2FA across schools, and stronger encryption
Staff who work in more than one school can now tell their authenticator codes apart, pupils no longer get stuck on a password screen they can’t use, and older encryption is switched off.
Groups inside groups, now in Google and Microsoft 365
Put one group inside another in ADAdmin and the link stays live as your MIS changes. Google gets a true nested group, and Microsoft 365 gets the people, kept in step.