Policies and Procedures Made Easy

The initial set up is free and SchoolDocs then charges an annual subscription fee. Based on the average fee, SchoolDocs costs the same as just four relief teaching days per year.

The annual subscription fee is determined by the roll size of your school. Prices effective from 1 August 2017.

Optional Extras

• International Students Module set up fee – $495 (excl GST)
• RTLB Module for RTLB Lead Schools – $495 (excl GST)

Costs Saved Using by SchoolDocs
Paper-based documentation costs money – in photocopying, folders, surveys, and administration time controlling the documents – even if the board is writing the policies for free. Very often, the school is still not confident that their policies and procedures are up to date, accurate, and reflecting the latest requirements – and they can't be accessed online.

If the principal or senior management are researching, word-smithing, and updating content, the cost is hard to estimate but, if done to a high standard, would be a minimum of 2–4 hours per month, or over $2,000 of a principal's time. One estimate is that the true cost to a school of performing these tasks is closer to $10,000 per year, taking into account the value of trustee, principal, and staff time, and printing and distribution costs. The costs of poorly considered and out-of-date policies and procedures may be even greater. 

By implementing SchoolDocs at your school, you are freeing the principal and senior management team to focus on leading learning, you are freeing trustees to focus on governance, and you are receiving a very robust, up-to-date, and widely reviewed set of online policies and procedures.

• Your SchoolDocs site is easy to navigate, with a table of contents and a search.
• Each school has a unique user name and password and the site is accessible to the whole school community.
• Related documents are just a click away with hyperlinks to other topics, forms and relevant websites.
• To take a look at our Model Site, please contact our Business Relationship Manager for a user name and password.

The SchoolDocs content has been developed by educationalists and a specialist documentation services company. Content is kept up-to-date with regular reviews, trigger reviews, changes from new requirements, and other updates that the SchoolDocs team action after extensive research and in consultation with the school.

Contact our Business Relationship Manager for access to the set of policies and procedures on our Model Site.

The transition from a school’s existing set of policies and procedures to the SchoolDocs set is a process that occurs over a period of time. When SchoolDocs has prepared your school’s site, the principal is asked to review the special content before it goes live to the community.

There are various other ways of engaging more fully with the content, for example, the Health and Safety committee could review the Heath and Safety content and the various committees of the board could engage with their particular section of the set.

At some point the board may formally resolve to adopt their new set of policies and procedures, working on the basis that over the next three years content will all be reviewed and/or audited.