Conference Module

• TECH Set up for Assessment Calendar, and Google Classroom synchronisation

  TECH Set up for Assessment Calendar, and Google Classroom synchronisation. Give this guide to your School IT Department.Featured

• Conferences - Staff Help Guide (NEW version 2026)

  In-Person and Online Virtual Parent Teacher Interviews. This is the new version of conferences released 2026.Featured

Careers Module

• SchoolPoint - Careers -Student Interviews with Google and Microsoft Calendars

  We have improved how Careers Administrators and other staff set up Interview times that allow students to book a one-on-one hui.Featured

• SchoolPoint -Careers: Student Career Suggestions/ Research

  Select from a vast variety of qualities for you students to choose from to help them work out if they are the right fit for a certain job. Featured

• Careers: Permissions required

  Permissions are required by staff to be able to access and complete actions within the career module of SchoolPoint.Featured

• Request Student Leaving Intentions- Customise / Export Data

  You can choose if you want your students (by year level) to be able to select their next year intentions. You can choose to if you will force them to select their intentions for next year before they are able to select courses.Featured

• SchoolPoint -Careers: Cover Letter Builder

  Get your students to make their cover letters (as well as C.Vs) In SchoolPoint.Featured

• Careers: CV Builder and Cover Letter Module

  Composing your C.V is normally hard work.... Making your C.V in SchoolPoint is really easy! Featured

• Careers: Student Referee Forms/ Halls of Residence Applications

  Here, you can customise and build forms for your students to be able to apply to get references for their Halls of Residence Applications.Featured

• Careers: Student Career Interviews

  Here you can set up interview dates/ times that your students can book appointments with you as career advisor/ Dean/ HoD etc to discuss Career options/ Course planning etc.Featured

• Careers: Student Career Groups

  Within this page, you can create Career Groups for your students, so they can be notified of meetings etc related to their chosen career field.Featured

• Career & Pathway Planning - Overview and Help Guide links

  Our Careers area works well alongside SchoolPoint Course Selection and brings through up to date job information from Tahatu NZ (Careers NZ)Featured

• SchoolPoint- Careers: Career Planning Forms

  Here your staff can customise forms so you can help your students plan their careers and school pathways.Featured

• SchoolPoint - Careers: Job Information

  Here you can search as an Administrator, or Careers Manager, a huge list of jobs and preview them to read all about them.Featured

• Careers Events Calendar

  Here you can plan events with your students such as day trips to universities, or places of employment, career expos etc.Featured

• Careers: Left/ Leaving Students Follow up

  This screen will show left students who have been marked as left in KAMAR. You may want to keep them in this screen to follow them up in the future etc. Featured

• SchoolPoint -Careers: Student Skills Filter (Qualities/ Interests/ Values)

  In this section you can filter the strengths and skills to see which of your students have selected which apply to them.Featured

• Careers: Career Planning Forms

  In this section, you can set a series of questions on a form, both academically or career planning related, for your students to answer to get an idea of where they are heading.Featured

• Careers: Manage Strengths & Skills

  Manage your skills visible and selectable to your students here, to help with their career path.Featured

SchoolPoint Permissions

• Assigning Access for Staff to Selected Learning Areas/Departments (Released 2026)

  Assign your staff to particular learning areas either individually or in bulk. Featured

Syncing Data/ Staff/ Students to and from KAMAR

• Pre-enrols/ New students: How can they select courses with no current school email?

  Your pre-enrols are loaded into the pre-enrol section of your Student Management System's database (KAMAR/ Musac/ Wonde/ Synergetic etc).Featured

• 📺 How to Sync Staff & Student Photos or Update Manually

  You can sync photos from your Student Management System, or add/ replace photos manually in SchoolPoint/ SchoolBridge (new 2026)Featured

Course Selection Module

• Create / Edit / View Courses- Set Restrictions on Courses

  This help guide details the Courses area of SchoolPoint and what each menu item means and what you can do. You can also set restrictions on courses per year level.Featured

• Important Information to prepare for Course Selection Opening

  Important Information to prepare for opening course selection (previous users). Check off the steps below BEFORE allowing students to log in to select.Featured

• Course Selection via Timetable Lines and/ or Semester Options (2025)

  You can opt to run your course selection in Semesters and/ or Timetable Lines for your school. This looks a lot different from previous years so please contact Inbox Design if you need any assistance, or for us to check over your set up before opening up to students.Featured

• Adding Course Costs and Contributions to Courses

  There is a field under each course when creating or editing a course, to allow for the input of course costs and contributions/ uniform required or stationary, which you have the option of filling out.Featured

• Repeating a Course/ Allowing Re-selection of the same Course

  If you have students repeating a year level or even just a course, there is the ability to allow this.Featured

• Course Confirmation Module- All about it

  How to export Course Selection Data once your students have CONFIRMED their courses. Do this in January/ February once you have rolled the timetable in your student management system.Featured

• Attaching SchoolBridge Forms to Courses in SchoolPoint for Selection (IFTTT)

  There is now the ability for schools who use both SchoolBridge and SchoolPoint software, to prompt students to complete a separate form, when choosing a particular course for course selection.Featured

• Course Selection - Setup Overview- Opening for Selection- New Users

  We have created this guide mostly for new/ first time Full Administrators of SchoolPoint. If you still have any questions, please reach out.Featured

• Changing Which Timetable Year Students are Selecting Courses for

  It is important at the start of your course selection period, that you ensure your students are selecting for the right timetable year, and that you are editing courses for the correct timetable year that you want displayed.Featured

• HoD /Staff/ Caregiver Approval/ Bulk / Removing Students within Courses

  There is the option for HoDs/Staff / Caregivers to APPROVE/ MOVE/ REMOVE student selections within each course/ subject.Featured

• Course Selection- Opening for Selection and Closing

  Choose whether you want students/ parents to be able to start selecting courses, or not.Featured

• Deleting/ Adding / Locking a Course for a Student via Admin/ Bulk

  There will be many times where as an Admin, or possibly HoD if you have permissions, that you will need to remove courses, and likewise add or change courses around for your students. You can also add students to the course in bulk via MOE type/ SMS Group etc.Featured

• Course Selection- Exemptions- All about them

  You can allow students to request exemptions when adding courses. This means that students can request an exemption to get into a course when they wouldn't ordinarily be able to. Featured

• Create/ Edit/ View Learning Areas- Set Learning Area Rules and Assign Staff

  Create / edit your learning areas for online course selection. Here you can set up learning areas and rules, as well as assign your staff to their learning areas.Featured

• SchoolPoint -Course Explorer- All about it

  Here you can filter and search students in various courses/ year levels/ tutor classes and see what/ how many courses they have chosen, all onscreen.Featured

• Clear Out Test Data / Previous Course Selections to Start Over- This is IMPORTANT!

  As an administrator, you can clear out data you may have been using to test with, or to reset Course Selection information to begin a new year of selecting. This is very important to ensure the course rules are applied to students correctly for that year when they log on and also to reset their leaving intentions settings- if you require these to be set before courses are selected.Featured

• Course Selection/ Careers Reports and Exports (extensive) New 2026

  We have made a new more customisable reporting tool which was released early 2026.Featured

• Printing Pathway / Course Booklets

  You have several filters to print or download here. You can generate PDF printable Course Booklets for your school or CSV files.Featured

• Allowing Students to Select their Course Priority

  You are able to choose whether you want your students to select their courses by priority order if you wish. They can choose all their courses and then drag and drop the priority order. This is possible for back ups also (if you allow back ups to be selected).Featured

• Daily Email Summary for Tutor Teachers

  If your students make any changes to their course selection, you can notify your tutor teachers of this via email summaries. These will be sent daily in students have made changes to their courses over the previous 24 hours.Featured

• Browsing Course Information/ Learning Areas/ School Resources - Public non-logged in view

  You can allow your students/ caregivers to visit SchoolBridge and browse learning areas/ courses/ School public resources, without Logging in. This is also where your potential community can access "external conferences" which are conferences held for non enrolled students. Great for enrolment interviews.Featured

• SchoolPoint: How to Print Useful Information Booklets

  You can print or download your useful information booklets.Featured

• SchoolPoint: Adding Images to Individual Courses

  This guide tells you how to add images into your SchoolPoint courses.Featured

• Sites Extra Feature (Now Curriculum Explorer)

  We have created a great way to "showcase" your courses and learning areas to your students via SchoolPoint Curriculum Explorer (Previously known as Sites). This is a paid add on so please contact Inbox Design for more information.Featured

• SchoolPoint- Learning Area Rules/ Prerequisites/ Restrictions /Compulsory Courses- All about them

  With our SchoolPoint Course Selection tools, you can set rules around your learning areas and coursesFeatured

• How to Enable/ Disable Course Selection for Individual Students

  If you have closed your selections for all students, but still have a few students who need to select some or all of their courses, you can search the students, and allow them individually to make changes/ selections. Likewise if you want to test with a student before opening up selection to the whole year level you can do this here also.Featured

Account access/ Staff codes

• Staff Code Changes- Staff can't log in

  If you have new staff who are using old codes or changing staff codes, they may not sync to SchoolBridge/ SchoolPoint. See the possible causes for this below.Featured

• Troubleshooting- Staff can't Log In/ No account found

  If your staff have issues logging in, contact your IT department or Administrators first, else follow this guide below.Featured

• Missing Staff, Missing Students? Check 'Include in KAMAR Directory Services'

  Check your Directory Services if you have missing staff / students in SchoolBridge that are not syncing from KAMAR.Featured

• Searching Students/ Parents - Update October 2025

  If you need to search up a student, you can do this via SchoolPoint and SchoolBridge if you have the permission to do so.Featured

• Sign in as a Student or Caregiver for Testing

  When you are setting up dashboards or testing other features in SchoolBridge or SchoolPoint, it can be useful to view the system from the perspective of a student or a caregiver.Featured

• User Access Logs- Checking who has done what, where!

  As an administrator, it is often useful to see who has made changes and where. Accountability is important in your team, and also to track changes made and when.There are several Action/ Access Logs, and email logs to be able to check changes and when they were made. These changes include changes made by staff, students and caregivers and are found in many different areas in SchoolPoint and SchoolBridge.Featured

• SchoolPoint- Viewing Student Details via ADMIN Log In

  Once your staff members log in, if they have the correct permissions they can search a student and view a summary of all student details including the courses they have chosen, and results etc.Featured

• Sync Staff to SchoolPoint/ SchoolBridge from KAMAR

  Sync staff into SchoolPoint/ SchoolBridge from KAMAR.Featured

• SchoolPoint- Student Menu Settings - Important changes coming soon Term 2 2025

  This is where you can customise what your students will see in their SchoolPoint dashboard menu. Previously called Student NavigationFeatured

• KAMAR Sync Settings & Troubleshooting

  This guide explains how to set up your Directory Services sync in KAMAR and Troubleshooting steps for data sync errorsFeatured

• Voting Module

  Set up Voting Ballots to allow Staff, Students and/or Caregiver to place votes on categories of candidates.Featured

• SchoolPoint- Assessment Calendar/ Daily Diary - Student View

  As admin, you can customise the name of the assessment calendar for your students. The calendar is used for many things. You can add assessments/ link with Google Classroom etc. Featured

• Customising Labels / Messages and Language Settings for Students, Caregivers and Staff Views

  Customise the messages and labels for your entire SchoolPoint system to suit your school.Featured

• Resources - Useful Information/Instruction Pages

  These are information / instructional pages which you can create and customise yourself to allow students and caregivers to use to help them navigate SchoolPoint. They can be turned on and off depending what you are promoting at the time, such as parent teacher interviews/ course selection etc. Featured

• Extra Curricular Courses- All about them

  These are great for setting up short term courses/ sports/ crafts/ hobbies/ music and other elective classes.Featured

• SchoolPoint- Entering Privacy Mode as logged in Admin

  You can now enable privacy mode when logged in, so that you can make screen shots of different screens to possibly create help guides for students/ staff/ visible on the public dashboard. Featured

• Assessment Calendar- All About It / Adding Assessments via Courses/ Google Classroom

  An assessment can be added to an entire class, individual students, or can exclude individual students. Reminders can be set for students. This is the main SchoolBridge calendar but will show all events/ notices and assessments from SchoolPoint within this. You cannot sync assessments back to KAMAR but can import to SchoolPoint from KAMAR.Featured

• Moderation List- Search and Create/ Moderation Cover Sheets

  Use this function to search up a standard in SchoolPoint and create moderation records.Featured

• Student Voice Surveys

  Set up student / caregiver and staff surveys within your school with easy online access for all parties.Featured

• SchoolPoint-How to Add an Image to your Student Voice Survey Questions

  Steps to add images to your Student Voice Survey questions.Featured

• Moderation and At Risk Data- How to check it is current

  View current student NCEA data for each standard.Featured

• At Risk Tool- Syncing Assessment Data from KAMAR to At Risk Tool

  At Risk Tool- Syncing Assessment Data from KAMAR to At Risk ToolFeatured

• Export Assessments in bulk from KAMAR into Calendar

  There is a feature which allows you to bulk export assessments from KAMAR via the Assessment Calendar.Featured

• Student Flags - All about them

  Student Flags are a useful way of noting important information on the student's profile. These can also show things like "late passes" or gym memberships for the student to display and show on via their ID cards.Featured

• SchoolBridge Dashboard Links to SchoolPoint - Managing and Editing For Staff View Only

  When you previously logged in to SchoolPoint you would have used www.nameofschool.schoolpoint.co.nz/control as a staff member/ administrator- If you just had SchoolPoint. As we are slowly combining the layout of SchoolPoint and SchoolBridge, you will now log in via nameofschool.bridge.school.nz. You will be taken to the SchoolBridge screen of icons regardless of having a subscription to SchoolBridge or not. You will use an icons on the SchoolBridge dashboard which take you through to the SchoolPoint areas your school uses.Featured

• Syncing Attendance Data for NCEA Filter Tool from KAMAR

  Sync from KAMAR to SchoolPointFeatured