Help for all staff

Signing in, finding pupils, Home, the Heat Map, your tasks, the calendar and getting help.

Find a pupil and read their profile: Use the search box at the top of Student Radar to find a pupil, then open their profile. The profile brings their attendance, behaviour, attainment, actions and more together in one place.
Sign in with an email code: Staff don’t have a Student Radar password. Instead, you type your work email address and Student Radar emails you a one-time code. Enter the code and you’re signed in.
Sign in with a passkey: A passkey lets you sign in to Student Radar with your device’s fingerprint reader, face recognition or screen lock, instead of waiting for an email code. You set up a passkey once on each device…
Accept your invitation and set up your account: When your school adds you to Student Radar, you get an invitation by email. Accepting it links your account to your school. There’s no password to set: you sign in with a code sent to the email…
Add a passkey or authenticator app: In Profile & security you can add a passkey, so you can sign in with your device’s fingerprint reader, face recognition or screen lock. You can also add an authenticator app on your phone as a…
Switch between schools: If you work in more than one school, or in a school and its trust or an alternative provision, you can move between them without signing out. You see one school at a time, and Student Radar shows…
Find what needs your attention on Home: Home is your morning view of the school day. It brings together your timetable, the pupils who need a check today, what has changed since the last school day, and the actions and messages waiting…
Choose your Home favourites: Favourites let you look at Home through one class, year group or form at a time. Each favourite becomes a lens next to Today at the top of Home. Choose a lens and the counts, pupils and changes on…
Read the Heat Map: levels of need and flags: The Heat Map shows the pupils you can access in one place, grouped by year and class. For each pupil it shows a level of need, their attendance and short flags for circumstances such as SEND or…
Filter the Heat Map and save a cohort: The Heat Map starts with every pupil you can access. Filters narrow it to the pupils you want to look at, such as one year group or pupils at the Urgent and High levels. Cohorts let you compare…
Manage your tasks in My Actions: My Actions is your to-do list in Student Radar. It brings together the pupil actions assigned to you, your own personal tasks, and items from other parts of Student Radar that need your attention.…
Assign a pupil action to a colleague: A pupil action is a follow-up for one pupil, with an owner, a priority and a due date. When an item in your My Actions list is about a pupil and someone else should deal with it, you can turn it…
Ping a colleague about a pupil and reply to pings: A Ping is a short question to a colleague about a pupil, such as how they’re getting on in a lesson. The colleague replies through Student Radar, and the question and reply stay together on the…
Add an event to the calendar: The Calendar brings your school’s events, meetings, review dates and deadlines together in one place. You can add your own events to it, such as a club, a meeting or a reminder about a deadline,…
Find a time and book a meeting: When you need to get colleagues together, for example for a review or a parent meeting, the Calendar can show you when everyone is free and suggest times. If you’d rather let people choose, you…
Subscribe to a Student Radar calendar: You can see Student Radar calendar events in Outlook, Google Calendar or another calendar app by subscribing to them. Student Radar gives you a private link for one calendar, such as your own, a…
Manage your notifications: Student Radar tells you when something needs your attention, such as a request sent to you, a task or a calendar reminder. Notifications collect under the bell at the top of the screen. You can…
Find anything with the command palette: The command palette is a quick way to jump to a page or a pupil without using the sidebar. Open it with a keyboard shortcut, type a few letters and press Enter.
Give points from anywhere: The Give points button at the top of every page lets you recognise a pupil’s achievement in a few clicks, without leaving what you’re doing. You can also record a needs-work observation privately.…
Ask for help in school: Use In-School Support when you need a colleague to come and help, for example with a pupil who has left a supervised area, a medical problem or a behaviour situation. Student Radar sends your…
Contact Student Radar support: If you’re stuck in Student Radar, or something isn’t working as you expect, you can send a message to the Student Radar support team from any page. Your message goes with the address of the page…
Raise a safeguarding concern about a pupil: If something you see or hear worries you about a pupil’s safety or wellbeing, record it in Student Radar so it reaches your school’s safeguarding team. You don’t need to investigate or be certain.…
Report a concern about a member of staff: If an adult who works at your school does or says something that worries you about the safety or wellbeing of children, you can report it in Student Radar. Your report goes to the safeguarding…
Log a minor injury: When a pupil has an everyday bump, graze or nosebleed, use Quick log to add it to the school’s first aid record in a few moments. Quick log opens a shorter version of the injury form, with the…
Call for first aid: When someone needs a first aider, you can send a request from Student Radar. It alerts the first aider on duty on your school’s first-aid rota, and you can follow their response on screen.
Book a room or resource: Resource Booking lists the rooms, equipment and vehicles your school shares, such as the hall, an ICT suite, a set of laptops or the minibus. You can see what’s free in a week and book a slot, so…
Use Student Radar on a phone or tablet: Student Radar works in the web browser on your phone or tablet. Sign in at the same address you use on a computer. On a smaller screen, the sidebar moves into a Menu at the bottom of the screen,…
Use voice commands: You can use your voice to move around Student Radar, open a pupil’s profile, or start a task, calendar event or first aid record. Voice commands never save anything for you. Anything you start by…