About Discovery Christian College
Established in 2015 as a response to the growing need for a high school in Agnes Water, the College has grown into a vibrant community. Despite being young, the college’s learning community creates confident, resilient young adults ready to influence and shape the world around them. Discovery is a supportive learning environment where students can realise their potential.
Our main priorities
- Streamlining back-end operations
- Reducing administration and workload for staff
- Improving user experience and communication with parents
- Give parents access to their child’s individual learning and school information
- A school management system that integrates with our existing products
How we selected our software partner
Before Compass, the College struggled with data double-handling. Due to the limitations of the old school management system, information was processed multiple times across different areas of the school, which created inefficiencies.
Parents wanted to stay engaged with their children’s school activities. By enhancing the learning management system’s functionality, we can give parents access to communications without overwhelming them with emails.
We selected Compass as our software platform because it streamlines administration and integrates seamlessly with our existing systems, making it an ideal solution for a developing school. We loved Compass’s layout; it was user-friendly and easy to navigate. We love the academy feature. It gives you real-time information as you need it. You’re not waiting for a call center or somebody to reply.
Our implementation process
We were very impressed with how the Compass team connected us with other schools to obtain information. They provided us with the time and space to decide what we needed, and everyone we interacted with was accommodating in answering our questions.
Our biggest concern was ensuring that Compass worked with everything we had in place already. The Compass onboarding team guided us to ensure our existing systems were compatible with Compass.
The implementation and onboarding processes have gone very smoothly. We are currently undergoing quick and efficient on-site training.
Compass offers seamless integration and enhances flexibility
Here’s why Compass was the right choice for us.
- Integrates well with existing school management products
- Streamlines administration, such as developing reports and importing student data, including attendance
- Able to target information or communication that relates to a specific child or group.
- Well-laid-out navigation and simple to use
- The Academy feature gives near-real-time information
- The Compass team is very accessible and helpful in answering support questions
- Improved reliability and portability of cloud software enable real-time attendance tracking over multiple periods
“We were really pleased with Compass’s flexibility, which is probably the biggest thing, but also their knowledge of how the product works and syncs with other platforms.”
Expectations and initial impressions of Compass
The college onboarding experience with Compass has been very positive. On-site training is currently in progress, and we’ve had excellent support from the Compass team. We are excited to roll out Compass and Griddle, the timetabling product.
We hope for a 50 percent parent uptake of the Compass app to ensure our parents are engaged with their child’s learning. We also look forward to hearing from our parents and teachers about some positive feedback on Compass.
As a growing school, we look forward to continuing our partnership with Compass. We highly recommend Compass for their support in helping us achieve our goals as a school community.
