Multi Academy Trust Website Design by Schudio: Peace of Mind, Care over Cash, and a Personal Touch

At Schudio, we believe in the transformative power of education and the role that a well-crafted, user-friendly website can play in promoting it. We’re not a large, faceless corporation. We’re a small, dedicated team of professionals who put peace of mind and care over cash. We’re here to help your school or Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) shine online with our specialized multi academy trust website design services.

600+

Websites Launched

5000+

Trained Managers

10,000+

Compliance Audit Completed

92%

Happiness Rating

4.9

Google
Ratings

£50k+

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We have worked on over 200+ UK MATs
Built with Trusts in Mind

Unique MAT Specific Website Features

Our multi academy trust website design service is constructed with your needs in mind. We understand the pressures and challenges you face, and we’ve developed unique features to help ease your burden. With Schudio, you can centralize control of all your school websites, manage key elements at the Trust level, and streamline compliance management across your Trust.

Streamlined Compliance Management Across Your Trust

No matter the size of your Multi-Academy Trust, anywhere up to 80% of your policies are Trust-wide. Our unique, innovative technology enables your Trust staff to manage these policies centrally and deploy changes and updates across all the academies in your Trust at once.

Total Flexibility Over System Access

Your Multi-Academy Trust website package will include unlimited users and the ability to control all website users centrally, right across the Trust. By using the range of different user types and totally flexible access permissions, your staff will only have access to the areas of your website that you want them to.

Online, Expert-Led Training for All

Through our market-leading online training platform, SchudioTV every single member of staff in each of your schools will have access to The Essential School Website Training Course at no additional cost. This online, on-demand training platform means you have expert training available all year round at zero additional cost.

Dedicated Team of Compliance Expert

Unrivalled MAT Website Compliance

One of the biggest issues faced by Multi-Academy Trusts in regards to websites, is compliance.

Our team of experts are trusted by over 3500 schools for compliance related support. We are hands-on experts and offer exceptional levels of advice and support. What’s more our School Website Compliance Software includes specific reporting on the requirements of Trusts.

Expert-Level Ofsted Compliance Audits as Standard

Every single member of the Schudio team undertakes training to understand the importance and fundamentals of school website compliance. What’s more, key members of the team have an incredibly deep insight into the best practices around compliance and The School Website Requirements Guide is trusted by over 3500 schools as the go-to compliance resource.

Optional Annual Trust-Wide Compliance Seminar

Every year we run The Ofsted Ready Website Day at our offices in Lancashire. As a Multi-Academy Trust, you have the option for us to run this event for all your schools at one of your training days. Benefit from exceptional advice and big savings, ensuring everyone knows the key skills around website compliance.

Priority Access to Regular Compliance LiveSteam

At least once a month we run compliance webinars and Livestream broadcasts exploring the latest developments and best practices around school website compliance. Your Trust will have priority access to these regular broadcasts so that your team is always right up to date.

Fast, Friendly Advice & Support

Trust-Wide Exceptional Support

Our team of UK based, school website experts are passionate about providing only the very best levels of support.

Every school within your Trust and every member of your team centrally must always feel looked after and well-supported. That understanding is key to everything we do as a Multi-Academy Trust website company. Our team know schools inside out and are passionate about taking care of your team.

We Are Infinitely Patient

The phrase ‘infinitely patient’ wasn’t coined by us. We’ve adopted it because clients keep telling us we are ‘infinitely patient‘. We take great delight in taking all the time you need so that we know you’re happy with the results, whatever the issue you’re facing.

We Are Supportive & Knowledgeable

Through a rigorous and ongoing program of training and support, our team knows our products from front to back. When you get in touch with our team you can rightly expect the very highest levels of support from our team.

Fast Response Time & Priority Support

Over 85% of all support inquiries are handled successfully within 1 hour. That means that you can be assured of a timely response whenever you or any member of staff within your entire Trust need help.

We’re Trusted by Leading UK MATs

Our Multi Academy Trusts

We’re hugely privileged to work with a large and growing number of Trusts from just 2 schools up to 30+ and have launched large numbers of school websites on a single day successfully.

Enterprise

Additional Support in Managing Website Content

The pressure on digital marketing support is therefore very high. To support this we offer a low-cost service to manage content for you. This service is designed to help you feel like you have a dedicated member of staff at your disposal whenever you need them – particularly during intense times of the year.

What’s Included

This service is to help you feel that you have a dedicated member of staff at your disposal whenever you need them – particularly during intense times of the year.

  • Creating new pages and posts

  • Amending menus and submenus

  • Adapting content on existing pages

  • Adding and resizing images and galleries

  • Curating documents such as policies, procedures and prospectus

  • Adding calendar events

  • Embedding video content

  • Emergency and time-sensitive announcements on the home page (text, images, and pop ups)

At the beginning of a content relationship we will work with you to create a project plan of the key content periods of the year – things that typically repeat at set times e.g. new term announcements, recruitment seasons, annual reports etc.

Pro-Active Content Management

As an example, three weeks before the regular Autumn-term parents’ evening we will send you the content you published the previous year in an easy-to-view format:

  • Text with dates and times

  • Video

  • Download assets e.g. PDF reminder

  • Images

  • Online booking forms

You can quickly annotate this resource with the changes you wish to make and send it back to us to have published in good time for your audience.

We will programme these into our project management system to prompt us to be proactive and remind you of a new content requirement. We can set these reminders at a time to suit you.

Best Choice for Your MAT Solution

Built for Multi Academy Trust

Your Multi-Academy Trust website should make it easy for you to celebrate all the amazing things that go on right through your Trust. We will make it incredibly easy for all your staff to shout loud about your amazing schools and all that goes on there! And we’ll make sure you don’t worry about compliance because we have you covered.

Reviews & Testimonials

What They Say About Us

4,9 Google Ratings

Don’t just take our word for it. We’re trusted by leading UK MATs and schools for our exceptional multi academy trust website design services. Hear from our satisfied clients about their experiences with Schudio.

Susan Fielding

Schudio’s website CMS software is totally geared up for educational settings. They have thought everything through in detail and are constantly evolving the software to keep abreast of changes in education policy. As web manager I have used a number of website CMS software packages and Schudio’s is by far the easiest to navigate, but with all the powerful features to make the website ‘live and breath’.

Craig Pugh

The Schudio team are a great bunch of professionals and are always there to support, should you need it. The CMS is brilliant for schools/multi-academy trusts – It’s simple and very easy to manage, making everything a breeze!

Mollie Warne

Parallel Learning Trust have worked with Schudio on website compliancy and a Trust wide website re-design. I can honestly say that the team provide an outstanding service to their customers and they go above and beyond when it comes to their clients! I just want to say a massive thank you from PLT for adding value to the organisation and we are looking forward to working with you in the future.

Ben Garside

We’re really pleased with our decision to work with Schudio to help redesign our website. We’re very happy with the results and the whole team are friendly, helpful and easy to work with. The CMS is great and will make life so much easier for our staff. The support is also very good. Overall we feel as though we have had great value for money.

A Pincombe

I recently attended the Ofsted School Website Requirements training course run by Schudio. It was most informative and helpful, with practical suggestions on how to make website administration manageable. All the Schudio trainers were approachable and extremely helpful. I am hoping to attend more Schudio courses in the near future.

Suzie Brown

Superb training. A lovely environment to learn in, patient trainers who were happy to help with even the smallest queries and questions, easy to follow explanations, repeated explanations as necessary and a great lunch! I would recommend Schudio to anyone wanting a fully functioning tailored website that is easy to manage.

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Your domain is the address your website can be accessed from, make sure you have a plan for your domain before your site is ready to go live to ensure there’s no unnecessary delay.
Usually the best domain for your new website is the one already in use. 

To use the same web address for your new website you will need to get in contact with the current administrator of your domain.
When ready to go live we’ll send some A records to update in your domain DNS settings.
Your current administrator should be able to advise you who to contact to make the required changes to put your new website live.

If you are having trouble identifying who administers your domain, please get in touch and we will try and help. (It could be your local authority, a private company or someone at school).

If your current administrator no longer wants to administer your domain, or you want to transfer that responsibility away from them you can do it yourself, or we can do it for you (additional charges apply for Schudio to manage your domain).

If you want to setup a new domain, that’s also an option, although we’d suggest only doing this if your current domain is irretrievable.

Check Our Blog for more information about domains:
https://www.schudio.com/learn/managing-domain-names-school-website/

https://www.schudio.com/school-domain-names-everything-you-need-to-know/

All invoices are payable on 30 day terms from date of invoice. Invoices are generated when we begin work on your project.

Any recurring or annual fees will also be due 30 days from date of invoice. This invoice date will be on the anniversary of the initial invoice date.

Should your account fall into arrears action may be taken to suspend your account.

 

We require 30 days notice before the renewal date of a contract to cancel a subscription. Accounts which are signed up for 3 years are required to run for the full 3 year period.

 

Most payments are received via bank transfer, some payments are received via cheque.
If you need to pay using another method please get in touch.

 

Support & Hosting Payment
This payment covers the ongoing support for the use of your website.
We provide a comprehensive knowledge base to answer the most common questions, and a support system with multiple levels of impact each with specific response and resolution times.
Full details are outlined in the Schudio service level agreement.
This payment is also for making your site available to access on the web. The hosting of the Schudio CMS (Content Management System) used to manage your site and all of your files
It also includes the management of your bandwidth (traffic) and webspace (storage), so you will not reach a limit with visitors unable to access your website.

Package Payments
Your package payment is for continued use of the the licence of the software that runs the package. Package payments are payable in line with your package contract, usually every 1 or 3 years.
A school website package payment also includes the design element of the site, so when any subsequent package payments are due you will also be eligible for a design update.

We would recommend publicising it to your parents through your school website an also possibly mentioning it in a newsletter that you send out to them.
If you have signed up for a Schudio school website then you could try to time this publicity with the launch of your new website.

On every page on the site there is a button in the bottom left of the screen.

Contact Support

This is the very best way of getting in touch with us if you have a problem. When you click it a small popup box appears next to it.
Type your support request into the box and click the magnifying class or hit ‘Enter’. 

At the next stage the pop-up will show any support articles that might match the entered query. Hopefully one of these support articles can answer your question right away. Clicking the relevant article will load it within the pop-up box.

If the articles aren’t quite what you’re looking for then you can always send a message using the button at the bottom.
A very simple form with 3 fields. Subject, How can we help you? and an option to attach a file.

Knowledge Base

This is where supporting documentation and helpful articles on using your Schudio product can be found.
The knowledge base has articles covering more general topics, but also covers the specifics of a product. We would always recommend reading the relevant articles in the knowledge base as a first port of call if you ever get stuck. These are the same articles displayed within the support widget and can be viewed within the widget, or via the separate knowledge base webpage.

If you are unable to raise a support request using the in system button you can send an email to support@schudio.com.
Using the contact support buttons helps us to identify and solve any problems faster so please do use them if you need help.

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