Introducing Student Surveys by August Schools
A unified survey and assessment tool for your whole school community
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Join us for a first look at Student Surveys, a new SIS-integrated survey and assessment tool within August Schools. Student Surveys brings student, faculty, and parent feedback together in one secure, centralized system, eliminating the need for disconnected tools. With full integration into your SIS and the health and wellbeing data already in the August Schools platform, you can connect insights to gain a more complete, contextualized picture of your school community.
From wellbeing pulse checks to mental health assessments and parent engagement surveys, you’ll gain a unified perspective that helps leaders act with clarity and confidence.
Transcript
Right.
Welcome everyone to another Atlas webinar today.
We're super excited to have our great friends and partners at August schools presenting with us.
We're gonna have Pete and Victoria and they are going to talk about school surveys, a new SIS integrated survey and assessment tool that they have coming out.
So without further ado, Pete and Victoria welcome and I'll hand it over to you.
Awesome.
Hey everyone.
Hi, uh, I am, uh, Victoria, the product manager here at August, and I'll let, uh, Pete introduce himself too.
I'm Pete.
I'm the CEO here at August schools, seeing a lot of the names come in.
I think I know a lot of you.
Thanks so much for joining.
Really appreciate it.
Awesome.
Uh, so I know we have some friendly faces, people I recognize who are already, uh, using, uh, August schools.
But before we dive in, uh, I wanted to just give a quick overview, uh, of who we are, uh, and what we do for those who aren't, uh, familiar.
Uh, so August Schools is a student wellbeing platform, uh, built specifically for K 12 schools.
Uh, so our goal is to make it easier for schools to support the whole student physically, emotionally, academically, uh, and socially because we know, uh, that a kid can't learn, uh, if they're not feeling well.
Uh, so we give practitioners the tools they need, uh, to work together, uh, across roles, uh, and departments in a way, uh, that, you know, facilitates collaboration without sacrificing, uh, student data privacy.
So, uh, we actually started as a platform for school counselors, but have now expanded to serve school nurses, learning specialists, athletic trainers, uh, divisional heads, uh, pretty much anybody who supports the student in some way.
Uh, so having that entire student support team in one platform, uh, it means that everyone's on the same page, uh, about which students might need extra support.
Uh, it means no more double entry or juggling Google sheets and disconnected tools.
Uh, it means that, you know, a head of upper school who, you know, has the full context of the support a student has received, uh, when inevitably, uh, their parent calls.
So everything you need to know about a student's health and wellbeing is accessible in one place, uh, by the right people with the right level of access.
So we make it easy for student support teams to see, uh, and use that real time data about student wellbeing so they can move beyond just, you know, gut instinct and make thoughtful, uh, informed decisions about what their students truly need.
Uh, so having that data in the platform allows teams to act early, uh, before small issues become crises.
Our goal is to really make, uh, proactive preventative support part of everyday, everyday practice so that, uh, no kid falls through the falls through the cracks.
Uh, and in that vein, uh, I'll actually hand it over to, to Pete to talk a bit more about student surveys and why we're here today.
Thanks for the intro, Victoria.
Um, I hope, I hope most of you know about the, um, the work we do that, that Victoria just outlined there, and probably see how much student surveys kind of aligns with what we already do, um, both in terms of kind of the technology and the use cases.
Um, we've wanted to do this for a really, really long time.
I, um, I personally have kind of, uh, suffered over the lack of student voice in the platform.
We have so many different adults representing the views of students in our platform right now.
And, you know, when you're working with schools trying to more deeply understand the social emotional climate, things like that, it's like, okay, well, what are the students actually saying directly? Um, so this has been something we've wanted to do for, for a long time, and, um, and we're really excited about it.
That being said, like, well, in that same vein, a a way of thinking about this progression is, um, like when we first started the product, it was primarily about practitioners taking notes on meetings and interventions with students.
So we kind of started our journey actually pretty late in what you think of as kinds of kind of the need assessment and the kind of journey, the student support journey students go on.
So we've been working on getting further and further upstream in that lifecycle.
So we started with this documentation platform about the intervention, but how do you find out that that kid needs an intervention? And not every kid raises their hand and walks into the counselor office, right? So we started with referrals, which we launched last year.
Okay, let's have adults in the building be able to refer students in, uh, to other practitioners.
That's us getting more proactive, further upstream into needs identification space.
And now this is getting even further upstream, letting students kind of enunciate their own needs, their own perspectives, and, um, just getting more and more proactive and further and further kind of up that lifecycle has been an important goal for us.
So, um, so that's when I said at the beginning that this is kind of, um, very much aligned with what we already do.
Um, a lot of counselors are maybe running a survey in a different system right now trying to identify need, uh, students with different mental health, uh, support needs, uh, but then they're taking the notes on the interventions they then have with those students in August.
It's just gonna be great for all those folks to be able to do all of that in one place.
Um, so from a use case perspective and from a, um, the kind of personas we currently serve, perspective, this makes a ton of sense.
Also from a technology perspective, this is kind of what we already do, right? So we send forms to parents to fill out information about their students.
This is all that same technology, but we're just directing the forms to the student.
So the new thing from a tech perspective at Ag August schools, by and large, is student authentication and just making sure that our routing and off flows work now for the increasing amount of stakeholders we have in the school community coming in.
But although this is a new product, it's very much a mature battle pro, uh, battle tested product in that it's the same form builder.
It's same form requests, it's the same form review rails and processes that folks are already using in the platform.
Um, and it also means that the roadmap for, um, kind of continuing to improve the product really aligns with our existing roadmap and our existing functionality and features.
So, um, I'll just say the big thing here is elevating student voice.
It's the use case.
It's, you know, rounding things out for, uh, for the users we already serve.
But, uh, in a lot of ways it's, it's stuff August has already done for a long time, both in the wellness space and also in the form and data collection space.
Um, so, so maybe with that, um, a lot of folks have have shown up as a, a really nice group.
Um, I, I think we have enough.
I think some folks are probably eating lunch or I'm curious, are folks currently running social emotional surveys at the schools today? Belonging surveys, screeners? How are you currently asking students for information? If you are at all, I'd, I'd be curious to hear any perspectives.
Um, I'm gonna be passing it off to Victoria for, uh, for a demo shortly.
If anyone wants to share tools they might use to, uh, ask for data from students who can, but no pressure.
Yeah, we do a lot of surveys.
We use Google Forms, um, but the issue we run into is storage.
Like we do the same survey over and over and over again.
Um, and the data sets get too big to storing Google Sheets.
So having a database that actually has some built-in survey and survey platform and storage would be awesome.
Cool.
Yeah, Google Forms is by far the one we've seen the most, and frankly, with some of the use cases we see folks using it for, it makes us nervous from a security perspective.
Um, but the operational pieces are, are quite cumbersome as well.
Um, any other providers or use cases folks wanna call out before Victoria? Does her overlap? Uh, not so much a use case, but a question.
We're already a subscriber of August schools.
Um, is this built into our package or is this a, a add-on feature? Uh, kinda cutting right to, uh, right to the commercial aspect? Uh, this will be, this will be an upcharge.
Um, we're gonna price it extremely aggressively, especially for the first users and folks who are current customers.
Um, every time we've rolled out a new product, it's been the same ethos, which is let's get people getting value out of the tool before we spend a lot of time optimizing how we're gonna charge for it and the value capture side.
So we're still, like, people are bringing us use cases we hadn't even thought of.
And we are trying to explore what the kind of fair and appropriate pricing is for.
If you're doing a weekly pulse check for a 1500 student community, that's actually gonna be meaningful load and actual, like compute cost for us that we need to think about.
If you're doing an annual mental health screener and you're just kind of using that at the beginning, in the middle of the year, it's a very different load.
So we're considering a tiered structure, but short version is like, we're not gonna let price get in the way of anyone trying this out and enrolling it out, but it will be, um, like it's gotta be a different line item.
It's a pretty significant, uh, kind of new service and, and, uh, new feature set.
Uh, but Victoria, please.
Yeah.
Uh, so, well, I mean, Eric, you outlined exactly what we've been hearing, uh, from schools and we, you know, talking to a lot of schools about this.
We, we sort of hear a similar story is first is that piece about, you know, surveys often live completely outside of your core systems.
So they're in tools like you said, Google Forms, or SurveyMonkey, or Qualtrics, um, that aren't connected to the SIS or to any student data for that matter.
Uh, so that creates a lot of extra work, as I'm sure you know, uh, for whoever, you know, whether it's you or somebody else who has to sort through those survey responses and make sense of it, uh, you know, creating data silos, things often get lost and then it's hard to use that data after it's collected.
Um, and then second, there's the sort of the targeting issue that if you want to send a survey, uh, just to ninth grade students or to let's say students in a particular advisory or support tier, it takes a lot of steps and often involves like uploading a spreadsheet, uh, consolidating that spreadsheet.
Um, and then there's a question of where that data lives afterwards.
You know, like you said, usually it's in another spreadsheet not linked to the student record, so it makes it really hard to get, uh, the surveys to the students that you're trying to reach.
Um, and then security is another big concern We've heard.
You know, these surveys are collecting sensitive, often very personal information from students, uh, you know, when they're talking about their own mental health.
Uh, but the tools, uh, being used often don't have that sort of strong role-based permissions or visibility controls.
Uh, so it can be unclear who has access to what or giving access to more people than intended.
Um, and then finally the thing we, we hear a lot is like, you know, we collected all this survey data from students, but now, you know, we're not quite sure what to do with it.
Uh, and so when there's that sort of limited visibility into the results, um, it's hard to see, you know, how they're used, how they're followed up on, and it becomes yet another, uh, data silo.
And so, uh, like Pete said, that's why having surveys within the August schools platform just made so much sense.
Um, you know, August is already integrated with your SIS we're already pulling in all the demographic information from Blackbaud and Vera Cross and, you know, our platform was built to protect that sensitive information that gets collected in these surveys.
Um, so all that to say, uh, you know, it student surveys is, you know, designed specifically for the student facing use cases.
Things like wellbeing, pulse checks, school climate surveys, assessments, social emotional check-ins.
Um, but the key difference here is that it's just fully embedded in the s platform.
So that means it's already integrated with your SIS your student support workflows, your role-based permissions, everything.
It's not, you know, this separate tool, you have to set up sync or, you know, train people on.
Uh, it's just already, it's a natural extension of what your teams are already doing in August.
Um, and so as part of the Student surveys feature, we've included a library of survey templates that were created, uh, you know, by research as a research researchers at some of the best universities surveys like, um, and these may sound familiar, the child, uh, and Youth Resilience measure, uh, the Children's Hope Scale, uh, the School Burnout Inventory, uh, student Academic Optimism Scale, uh, you know, the Penn State Worry Questionnaire for children.
Um, these are all evidence-based surveys designed to assess different facets of wellbeing in kids.
So we have all these awesome pre-built templates in there, but you can also create your own, because we know, uh, every school has their own unique, uh, use cases.
Uh, and because, like Pete was saying, we already have that existing infrastructure to build forms for enrollment, uh, that if you're already using August, your nurses, uh, are familiar with, uh, it's easy to build out custom forms just like you would in Google Forms.
And I'll, and I'll show how, show you how that's done.
Uh, so you can build a survey for anything from prom signups to, this was actually an example that I was just talking to a school yesterday about, um, getting student feedback about their new block schedule.
Um, so you can tailor it to your students and target that survey to the respondents you wanna hear from, because we already pull in those groups and sections from your SIS.
So our goal is to make it as easy as possible to collect and use that survey data.
Um, so for, you know, as those who are already using August know, you know, for the past couple years, we've already had that ability to send forms to parents and guardians.
Um, so for this initial version of our survey tool we're focused on, instead of sending those forms to parents, sending them to students, uh, so that includes wellbeing, engagement, belonging, all those other areas where you may want to hear, you know, directly that student voice.
But in our next phase of development, uh, we're gonna be expanding the tool to support even more types of surveys and audiences.
So think, for example, allowing a faculty member to fill out a survey or assessment about a student in order to do, like progress monitoring, for example.
Uh, you know, our approach is really to build based on what our schools need.
Um, and our schools have been amazing partners, uh, in this work already.
Uh, so as we continue building this out, you know, we'll be listening to our schools and seeing, you know, how can we build an awesome platform that supports your work.
So I know that was a lot.
I'll pause there, Pete, if there's anything else you wanna add before I'll just dive into, into the demo.
No, yeah, boot up the demo, uh, let to show folks some product.
Awesome.
Um, yeah, I think I, I, I'm not sure if any of you you're at, um, I spoke at a previous Atlas event just kind of doing an overview of what IT leaders need to know about data management in the, uh, health and wellbeing space.
And I feel like I talked a lot in that, uh, talk about what August doesn't do in the life cycle and surveys and student feedback was such a big part of that, um, and really talked about how there's so many different point solutions in this space, and no one does it all well, and I don't think we're there on the full, the full thing yet, but this is just like, it's a, it's a big deal to close this gap and importantly to connect the thing of like, feedback from student directly into action from practitioner.
So I'm, I'm hoping Victoria can show us some of the kind of inter linkages where it's like beginning of the school year, I get to screen students, identify students who might be raising their hands, who want additional supports.
Great, here's my list for counselors to then go meet with those students, apply tags to give them a different intervention level.
Um, you schedule student support to help the workflows for the counselors to actually have personal accountability to make sure they're meeting with all the students who gave a, uh, a given kind of response to a survey.
Like putting these things together is just what's got me most jazzed, I think.
Um, but, uh, yeah, Victoria, I, I'd, uh, I personally love to see how this thing works.
Awesome.
Alright, lemme share my screen.
Everyone can see.
Cool.
Yep.
Awesome.
Um, so I mentioned a lot of the different templates, any, uh, that are part of this, but for the sake of this example, I'm gonna be talking through the wellbeing pulse check.
Um, so this is just like a very simple three question.
It's meant to be like a quick wellbeing check-in for, for students.
Um, and so as you can see here, how are you feeling today? How supported you feel at school today? Is there anything you need help with right now? It's meant to be just such a quick way to check in on, check in on students.
So this is the template here in our platform.
The people who use August are already familiar with these form templates.
Uh, it's that same exact functionality.
This is where I can set, you know, I only want this to be visible to counselors.
Uh, for example, I could always, you know, I could add maybe like a, an administrator role, for example, and that that's how we limit access to who can see these.
Um, and then, so I'll go ahead, I'll request forms.
Uh, and this is where you can select, you know, who's gonna be receiving this.
So let's say I only wanna do class of 2028, and I always like to just clarify, this is our testing environment.
This is not real student data.
So this, these are not real students here.
Um, so I can select class of 20, 28, just want it to go to them.
Uh, and then I can send the request instead of student contacts, which would be like the parents, um, just the students.
So just select that, submit, boom, there goes, uh, my survey goes out.
And then to show you all what that looks like on the recipient side.
So this is me, Victoria, being the student.
Um, I get this email, you know, school logo, uh, that I just click on the survey I wanna fill out.
Uh, and with our student authentication with that magic link, it logs them right in.
Um, and so here you can see I already started to fill this out.
Um, but it takes me right into that survey.
I can fill it out, uh, and then hit submit, uh, so on.
So then to go back to sort of like the user side, so me as, uh, let's say a counselor, uh, if I'm back in here, uh, I'm gonna go in and I actually, we, we sent out a request earlier.
That way we could have some cool responses to show you all.
So I'm gonna go in to this, um, batch that I sent out, this form request I sent out.
Um, and these are all the kids in the class of 2028.
Uh, I can click in and see their responses.
So I can see, okay, what did Victoria say? She's not doing so good, but she does feel very supported, which is great.
She needs, is there anything you need help with right now? Yes.
So like, I would, you know, be able to go reach out to Victoria, see what she needs, um, but then, you know, you can see those individual responses.
But the really cool thing is that you can then see all those results in aggregate.
So I'll just click this view results button, um, and then this report automatically generates.
And so it gives me lots of different views here.
Uh, but this, you know, who hasn't submitted, we always wanna be able to see that.
Um, I can see, you know, all the responses.
Uh, in this case, this was the class of 2028.
So I can see just all the responses in aggregate makes it easy here.
I can download this.
Um, and then, uh, you know, as I was saying before, what's really nice about things being already integrated with the student information system is that we're already pulling in all this stuff.
You know, we're already pulling in the demographics, uh, race, gender, grade level.
So all these data cuts are already in there.
Um, and so if you, if you remember that student, the wellbeing pulse check, it was three questions.
And so you'll see here each, each one of those questions responses.
So for how are you feeling today? You know, we can really easily at a glance see, you know, what was the breakdown of that? Those answers like, okay, maybe something, you know, a good chunk of our class of 2028 is not doing so good, something we need to investigate.
And then you can see that same response data by race, by gender, in this case grade level, uh, wouldn't really matter.
But, um, you know, are there any disparities here that would be important to be aware of Things that, you know, might indicate something more systemic that we want to address as a school? Um, any differences, uh, in gender? So, um, just having that integration there with the SIS just makes it so much easier to action on this data and understand as a team, uh, what, what's the next step there.
Um, so I wanted to show sort of this view of the data, but then as I mentioned, we have all these awesome templates, uh, but you can also create your own, because we know that, you know, each school is gonna, you know, wants to serve that unique, uh, use case.
Uh, so I also wanted to show you all, uh, I know I mentioned how yesterday I had been chatting with a school about how they wanted to, uh, gather feedback on their new block schedule.
And so I just wanted to show how easy it is to build one of these out just to build out a form.
It's just like Google Forms if you use that.
So I had this question, uh, you know, compared to our previous schedule, how does the new block schedule compare? Um, and then let's say I wanted to, you know, add a question.
Maybe I wanted to add a paragraph response type that says, like, um, any other feedback or something like that, um, I would just, I would make that not required.
I hit save and then I have this additional question there asking for any other feedback.
And so it's just easy as that you just add question, you select, okay, short answer, maybe I want, uh, like a radio single select, a dropdown for people to choose from.
Maybe I want people, you know, to sign something.
There's the possibilities are truly, uh, limitless with this.
Uh, and so just wanted to quickly show, uh, you know, same sort of visibility setting here, who can see this, who can see the results, um, of how this works.
So I'll sort of pause there, see if anybody has any, any questions from there.
So many answer types.
They can, every time I look in that menu, they're proliferating.
I know we always have more.
I'm like, whatever we hear people need, we'll vote it out.
So we have a new, actually a new answer type coming soon that'll be like, like a Likert scale.
So we, you know, having the difference between the vertical and the horizontal is important for surveying like this.
So, uh, that's one that will, uh, is being added, uh, as we speak.
How robust is the, um, survey, uh, construction platform, for example, does it allow for logic on questions? So sending people to different questions based on an answer they give to a previous one? Um, and what does the backend look like for surveys that you create on your own? Does it pick the visualizations for those questions based on the type of question that it is? Or, um, do you have some, do you choose what the visual visualization looks like? Yeah, so for your first question, um, conditional questions are actually something that, you know, we can do on the backend when we're building this.
But right now, I actually just saw a, a preview of it this morning.
We're putting into the ui, so you can actually build that yourself.
Uh, anybody who's building a form can add that in.
Um, so you could say, you know, only show if they responded yes to this initial question.
Uh, things like that.
Um, and then for your second question, that sort of view results is sort of a standard generic, uh, template, but, um, our querying and reports is incredibly powerful.
And so it can be, uh, altered based on whatever, uh, you know, you need.
So the charts display based on sort of the data inputted that you're wanting to see.
Um, but all of that is customizable, the columns, you know, there's a lot of power there.
Cool.
Any other questions? I think you, uh, just muted, Kevin.
I'm just, uh, curious about the, uh, longitudinal aspect of it.
And maybe you're gonna get to this, but what, what will things look like on the backend to be able to sort of look at responses over time to questions, um, maybe questions that have been asked on different surveys at different times, but being able to kind of bring them together based on the same, the question that happened over time.
Yeah, exactly.
So, um, I know you all use August, so if you know you're familiar with that, um, the, uh, the chart that shows sort of the spikes over time of different issues that come up, um, it'll be similar to that.
So, like you said, if there's a form template and you're wanting to see what changes happened over time in how kids responded, that's something that, uh, will be sort of a data visualization from that form template itself.
So let's say I wanna, oh, sorry, go ahead.
Sorry, but I'm, I'm real.
I think Camel is asking, um, Camila did better at that time.
Um, if the question, if the same question were in different surveys, would we aggregate that data? Oh, okay.
And the answer is in our current design, no, it would have to be within Gotcha.
That same survey.
And we're basically saying if you run the same survey again and again, we'll aggregate that data, but the questions don't bring any metadata across surveys right now.
But that's, that's an interesting ask that makes a lot of sense that you'd want that.
I just wanna make sure we're answering accurately on the detail there.
Oh, yeah.
Sorry, not To, but Victoria, sorry.
No, no.
Yeah, yeah.
So the form template, I misunderstood the form template.
If you did that sort of repeatedly over time, you would then be able to see that longitudinal view.
Sure.
For, so for something like the a, a quick pulse survey, then you could see that easily.
'cause it's the exact same form.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
I see.
Awesome.
So I can, uh, take a minute just to talk about sort of student data and you know, why having this secure platform is so critical.
And, you know, if you're already using August, this will all sound, uh, familiar.
But, uh, you know, we're SOC two certified the highest standard, um, in software.
All of our data is handled in alignment with ferpa.
We have role-based permissions, as you saw, to make sure that only the right people can access certain information.
The surveys are distributed securely to the right students.
Uh, and data as with all data in August is encrypted in transit and at rest.
Um, the data stays within your school's ecosystem.
It's, uh, not shared externally.
Each school's platform is actually a standalone, um, instance, sort of as an added, uh, layer of protection.
And, uh, you know, I'm sure you've heard us, uh, say this already, but data security is an afterthought.
It's, you know, security is the foundation for how August schools was built, because from the beginning we've been handling, you know, the most sensitive information, student physical and mental health data.
Uh, so this is something we take incredibly seriously.
We're mentally preparing ourselves for the wiz kids at your schools to start knocking on the system.
Uh, 'cause we have some, we have some of our engineers we're kind of former K 12 hackers, and we're like, okay, some of the kids are gonna take a hack at this system now that we're addressing them directly, so we gonna be extra ready.
Um, but we're ready, We're ready.
Um, and then the last thing I just to to quickly touch on is, is just talking about what happens after the survey is submitted.
So I, you know, our goal is not just to collect data, it's that, you know, making sure that it's something done with that data afterwards.
And I think that's where student surveys, you know, in August really shine.
Uh, because since it's already built into August, the data flows directly into your existing workflows.
So counselors, deans, student support teams, whoever needs access to that insight can see it immediately without needing to like export anything or build a report.
You know, you don't have to wait weeks for someone to do an analysis and clean up your data.
You have the insights right there, um, as soon as the first kid submits the survey.
So I, I was actually just talking to, uh, a director of wellbeing in California who's gonna start using student surveys.
Um, and she was already thinking about like, you know, how could she use the wellbeing pulse check? Uh, and she was already saying like, okay, I can segment the kids into, you know, ones that I'm more worried about who maybe responded like not doing good.
And then those kids would receive a follow up from the counseling team versus kids who said, okay, instead of good.
And she was like, okay, those kids, you know, I'm not like super worried about, but they might need a little extra support.
And so those kids could then just be routed to, you know, meet with a trusted adult, like an advisor or something.
So it was just really cool, um, to hear how people are already thinking about using this.
And, you know, that's exactly the kind of targeted support that's possible when student voice is just, you know, part of that picture.
So those real time results, it means faster follow up, more meaningful support, uh, and just better visibility for teams and for IT teams.
It just means fewer tools to maintain, uh, and just lower support burden over time, so everything's connected, uh, and streamlined.
Um, so with that, you know, what's next? This is just the beginning of, you know, the surveys and what we're working on.
We're gonna start, uh, with student facing surveys focused on wellbeing, but the infrastructure of this form building and form collection, uh, we've built, can support so much more than that.
Um, we're building this standalone product that supports, you know, full role-based workflows.
That means, you know, you'll be able to send any form to any person within the school community, not just students, but faculty and staff too, thank referrals, instant reports, feedback forms, and we'll also be supporting surveys submitted about students.
So things like a teacher check-in, debriefs after support meetings, lots of really cool stuff to come.
Um, and all of this ties in really nicely with our existing product roadmap.
Uh, you know, our big focus in the coming months is analytics and reporting.
We wanna make it easier than ever to get the exact data you want, uh, and build customizable dashboards that show, you know, relevant charts, visualizations, and data for each role.
Because, you know, we've heard from our schools what matters to a head of upper school is very different than what, you know, a a school nurse or a director of health services wants to, wants to track.
Uh, so we wanna make it super easy to understand your data, connect it, and make it really easy to act on.
So, um, I'll hand it over to Pete to just talk a little bit more about, uh, where we're headed with some benchmarking as well.
Oh yeah, the benchmark stuff I, I think is, uh, potentially very exciting.
Um, so what we hear again and again is, uh, this data is interesting in the context of my school, but help me understand how this compares against similar institutions, my peer set.
So, uh, and that can mean a lot of different things.
That could mean elite schools in my area.
That could mean similarly situated boarding schools.
Maybe it's a girl school on the other side of the country, but that's how we compare ourselves typically with an organization or an association.
Um, so we're going to be, we're, we're both very cognizant of not, uh, kind of pretending that there's statistical significance.
Um, so we wanna make sure that we actually have an appropriate end value in some of these communities.
But, um, like International Coalition of Girls Schools is an example of, of an, of an organization where we have a ton of clients.
And, um, so we're, uh, working with ICGS and ICGS member schools basically say, Hey, if, um, if everyone who participates in a given survey agrees to share anonymized, uh, results back to a central source, would everyone in this consortium agree to then, uh, share kind of benchmarking data back to inform one another about, Hey, how did everything, um, we send the same assessment to all of these students.
Um, how is one school's answers kind of comparing to, to another peer school's answers? Um, again, all like, uh, all completely anonymized and the only thing that, um, other schools would only get the benchmark.
Um, so we'd handle all of that routing in internally.
And, um, so that's a piece.
I think there's a lot of, uh, especially in the, um, like it is just kind of impossible to make meaning out of some of these things in isolation.
So the longitudinal piece is a great way of understanding how are things changing? Okay, great.
Against my own baseline is another example of just, uh, more context to create more meaning.
So, um, ICGS we're, uh, we're booting that one up, um, because it's kind of an obvious one in terms of our customer account, but as, uh, as you think about potentially using the product, uh, I invite you all to think about, Hey, what are things we might wanna ask students? And kind of, um, compare notes with our, uh, with our peers in a way that respects, uh, student privacy.
Um, yeah, and I think like, uh, well just one more note on the roadmap.
Again, I think this very much is kind of, um, there are a couple specific student surveying things, and we'll get more ideas as we roll it out more, but for the most part, it's form requests kind of delivered through different means of single sign-on.
Um, the reporting I think is the long tail of this, God, we're collecting more and more information from more and more different sources in the way folks wanna visualize that information becomes appropriately more complex.
We don't have a report right now that can show you student survey result side by side with attendant counseling interventions, and then there's their next assessment, like, I really wanna see that journey.
So that's, um, that's where we'll be investing over time.
It's very much, um, kind of aligned with the reporting, uh, with the reporting roadmap that, that we already have based on, um, all the data we're collecting.
Um, and LA last but not least, for the prepared remarks.
Um, and Brian helped us get a little bit in front of this earlier.
Um, but we'll be a separate charge for current customers, uh, development partnerships is what we're going for now.
So super aggressive pricing.
We tend to lock, we tend to lock that pricing in for a long time.
I think our, some of our first customers are still paying what they paid in 2021.
Um, so it's good to get in early, but, um, we're really, really excited to see how folks use it.
And we want to, um, we're hoping folks use it a ton and, um, we're gonna kind of chase the usership with the pricing model, but, uh, we expect it to price kind of pretty similarly to the existing form request product and that it's a similar game.
Kind of think about these things and how much traffic is gonna come, how much data is being collected, uh, by this institution.
So, uh, if you're like, I just wanna send a single mental health assessment next year, we love to make that like super, super affordable and impossible not to 'cause we just think it's something you should be doing.
Uh, if you're like, okay, we wanna do weekly surveys and we're gonna be doing hundreds of surveys next year, we're gonna price that differently.
Um, but we just wanna meet each customer where they are in this journey.
Um, it's, uh, been painful to hear in the past about like, Hey, we wanna send this belonging survey, uh, but we're not because it's a hassle and it's operationally complex to the point of being able to like, just not feasible.
So we're trying to break down those barriers.
Um, with that, uh, any, any other, uh, questions, please, comments, feelings, and also no pressure at all.
Um, How easy is it to export the results from a, uh, whatever survey or form you send out, uh, to like a CSV or Google Sheet or whatever? Just pop it right out.
Yeah, Just the download button.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Like, this is why I say like, it's a, it is a relatively mature product.
We're gonna be running into a lot of stuff.
I'm sure that like each use case is its own little bear.
But, um, stuff like that, build it, send it, download it, distribute it, filter it.
That's the rails we're sitting on.
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I was gonna say, if you wanna see, it's just this download button and then you can choose, you know, PF Excel, CSV.
Awesome.
Send other people.
Yeah, just to quickly show.
Awesome.
Well, uh, wonderful to spend, uh, 45 minutes with y'all.
Thanks so much for asking questions, being engaged, paying attention, not making too much background noise if you weren't meaning to talk.
All of it.
Great audience.
Thanks guys.
And I can share just a quick, um, a quick website, Paige, if you wanna learn a little bit more.
Thanks Victoria.
Thanks Pete.
We really appreciate your partnership.
This is awesome work you're doing.
Uh, keep our community posted.
I'm excited to hear about the future benchmarking abilities too.
Um, I think that's gonna be really exciting to follow over time.
So, uh, make sure that you all sign up for the Atlas Annual Conference.
You're gonna see Victoria and Pete, I hope, uh, and yeah, we'll be there, Eric there, and hopefully everyone else on this call.
Um, we look forward to seeing you and thanks again.
I hope everyone has a great rest of your day.
Bye y'all, everyone.
Nice to see y'all..
Takeaways
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Elevating Student Voice
The platform moves beyond adult observations by allowing students to directly articulate their physical, emotional, and social needs through authenticated, secure, and evidence-based survey tools.
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Seamless SIS Integration
By integrating directly with systems like Blackbaud and VeriCross, the tool eliminates manual data entry and allows for instant demographic analysis of survey results without external spreadsheets.
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Proactive Well-being Interventions
Real-time data visualization enables student support teams to identify struggling students immediately and transition from reactive crisis management to proactive, preventative care based on actual student feedback.
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Enhanced Data Security
Using a SOC 2 certified, FERPA-compliant platform for sensitive health surveys provides a more secure alternative to general-purpose form builders, keeping student data encrypted and within the school's ecosystem.