Latest Updates

With Emerge V2.0 you now have the capability to take attendance for any class/subject in the school timetable. This extends the capability in previous versions of Emerge so that supply/cover can take attendance in classes on any Emerge device providing the user has the required privileges to do so (see 'multiple profiles' below).

Emerge has also been extended to allow attendance to be taken for any SIMS group. This includes classes, lessons, year groups, houses, school trips - in fact any bespoke group set up in SIMS.

There are now a range of new user profiles to further control what information is available to different types of Emerge user.

Admin (Senior Leadership Team)
View all student information
View all staff information
Send SMS (requires Messenger)
Take attendance for own timetable
Take attendance for other teachers/lessons

Teacher
View all student information
View limited staff information (no personal contact)*
Take attendance for own timetable
Take attendance for other teachers/lessons

Teacher (no messaging)
View all student information
View limited staff information (no personal contact details)*
Take attendance for own timetable
Take attendance for other teachers/lessons

Supply Teacher
View all student information
View limited staff information (no personal contact details)*
Take attendance for other teachers/lessons
Cannot send SMS (Messenger required)*

Disabled (remote wipe)
No access to any data – databases remotely wiped*

*those highlighted in light purple are limited or unavailable features.

The new timetable list view provides the ability to scroll through an entire timetable, be that a single or two week timetable, in one convenient place.

A whole host of updates have been added to the Emerge Management Console to configure and manage Emerge. Updates include:

•  Automatic extraction of staff profiles from SIMS linked to user profile
•  One-click enabling of the Service Bus (provides access to Emerge over 3G phone networks)
•  Simple Groupcall Messenger SMS integration
•  Simplified proxy configurations
•  One-click remote wipe/disable users

Not only has the Emerge Management Console been greatly extended, we have streamlined the process to massively reduce the time and complexity required for an installation.

Groupcall are proud to announce that we have integrated Messenger. If Emerge users also have Messenger installed in their school they are able to send SMS messages to parental contacts directly from Emerge whether in school or out on the playing field or even out of the country while on a school trip. With just a few clicks of a button, Emerge users are able to send messages to any groups available in SIMS.

In the event of a lost or stolen device, the remote wipe has been included in the management console to provide an easier mechanism for remotely wiping encrypted databases (student information) from Emerge.

We have made a number of significant changes to the way it provides connectivity over 3G to make it faster and more robust.

We've added a 'cancel' button to allow you to get past the updates and use Emerge when you need it.

By popular request, we've added 'X' to the list of available attendance codes for 'un-timetabled sessions of non-compulsory school-age pupils'.

Usernames are no longer case sensitive.

Emerge is now available for Pearson e1 users.

•  Minutes Late and Absence Notes write-back
•  Behaviour & Achievement write-back with video and photographic evidence

•  Emerge for SchoolComms
•  Emerge for Parents (the new parental app!)
•  Emerge for Windows