Take the register in the corridor. Enter marks at your desk.

No. Marks are entered on the web, in Exams Scores, where the whole class list fits on screen with marks, maximum, percentage and a column for anyone who missed the paper. The staff app is for the work that happens away from a desk: the register, the daily progress report, class news, photos, study material, progress notes and students' questions.

Once marks are in, results, rank lists and report card PDFs come from the same records on the Gold plan. See exams and report cards for how grading schemes and locking work.

On the staff app or the web: choose the class, and the subject and timetable period if your school takes attendance period-wise, then mark each student present, absent or on leave. Parents with the app get a notification within the hour, on Android.

You don't have to compile anything at the end of the week. Every Monday at 1 am, if email is set up, class teachers are emailed last week's Excel sheet for their class and subject teachers one for each subject they teach, with each student's percentage. To check a figure by hand, our attendance percentage calculator does the sum.

Mostly it moves work rather than adding it. The register you'd fill in anyway is taken on the phone, the weekly attendance sheet is compiled for you, and report cards come from marks you enter once instead of copying them into each card.

What it does add is typing marks into a screen rather than a mark book, and the daily progress report if your school uses one. Help Videos inside ProEMS walk through the main screens, so the first week isn't spent asking the office how things work.