Daybook and Forms

One of the most powerful and key elements to Engage, was the launch of Engage Daybook a few years ago. Since then, its capability has grown as its power is realised and harnessed.

Plus, if the school’s policy is to be green, Daybook and Forms enables your school to be as paperless as it wants.

What is Daybook?

The Engage Daybook started life as a request posted on Share Ideas by one of our schools for somewhere in Engage to record daily ‘happenings’ such as a detention, a merit, or a visit to the nurse. Why? To avoid hand written paper notes being mislaid or lost, let alone the considerable manual time involved in the workflow.

Engage Forms and Workflow Manager

Since its original release, Daybook has been heavily developed to include Engage Forms and their workflow. A school can now create their own easily customised and fully bespoke forms to replace almost 100% of any paper based form and its workflow, however complex. The flexibility is considerable.

Forms can even require counter signatures to confirm acceptance, for example, of Policies, Co-curricular activities, Equipment loan, Additional charges, and Permissions.

Engage Forms can incorporate any amount of pages, field types, such as text, ticks, attachments, electronic signatures, uploads, costs, body maps – the list is almost endless – together with multiple stage workflows.

The author of the specific form simply creates an Engage Form from the embedded template guide and can include the workflow it’s to follow, any electronic signatures required along the way, and any follow up that may be required.

Once a form has completed its workflow, it’s automatically filed into the Document Management System. It cannot be lost or mislaid.

Example features

  • Each field can be positioned exactly where it’s required to appear in a list of fields
  • Each field can have colouration and a mandatory setting
  • Each field can have security added to it so only certain types people can see it
  • Each form can have its own security
  • Depending on permissions, Students, Staff and Parents can raise forms – or the school can raise forms on their behalf
  • Each form can have an icon appear next to a student for a set number of days, so the teacher may be informed if, for example, a student has received a merit/detention that day or that week
  • Forms can have automated alerts to notify people or groups of people
  • Equipment can be added
  • Costs can be added which can automatically appear on fee billing

Forms can be linked

Forms can be linked to sub-forms, such as:

  • House points, merits and sanctions can be recorded and reported upon
  • Forms can be completely confidential
  • Forms can handle customisable work flow within the school

Daybook is a complete and comprehensive incident and behaviour management system as well as a forms and workflow manager. For example:

  • Consent forms for parents
  • Record of medical/first aid
  • Exeat forms with notifications to Bursary and Security
  • Logging CAS activities for IB schools
  • Records of achievement
  • UCAS entry forms
  • House points
  • Detentions
  • Sports event reports
  • Parent school feedback

Key features of Engage Forms and Workflow Manager

  • Form creation using the embedded Engage template
  • Workflow definition using the inbuilt prompts
  • Forms can demand authorisations, refusals, and signatures at any stage of the workflow
  • Forms can automatically adjust Fee Billing. E.g., deduct a lunch not taken, or charge for additional days of boarding
  • Forms can demand document uploads of any file format at any stage of the workflow
  • The ability to embed the Engage Pay Now button (due late 2019) before another stage in the workflow can be accomplished
  • Forms which have completed their workflow are filed in Daybook, and any uploaded attachment is stored in the Document Management System

Literally, any form you can think of – Engage Daybook with Engage Forms and Workflow has yet to be beaten.

Finally, there’s a suite of reports which can pull data from the Daybook for analysis.