We moved to Evolve Clubs for our 2021/2 Clubs Programme and have found it very straightforward and intuitive to use. Having previously relied on spreadsheets for club allocation, with school numbers increasing and a wider variety of clubs on offer, we needed an online solution that was user friendly, allowing us to administer clubs and record attendance easily.
We currently run over 200 club sessions each week, equating to approximately 3,500 pupil sessions across all years and use Evolve daily to look at pupils’ club timetables, for staff to take registers, make club bookings, etc. We also use it termly to run billing reports, check which locations are in use for clubs, etc.
We have been impressed with how easy it is to use and the support team and developers have been responsive to our requirements too.
Our Clubs Admin team find it straightforward to set up new clubs and new programmes, often cloning clubs from previous years to save time keying and the closed dates feature is also useful. More recently, we have used the Guest User feature to offer our external club providers limited access so they can take registers in the same way as our staff do – saving time and ensuring everyone can quickly see attendance information.
Evolve is now well embedded across school and forms part of our induction for new staff. We have written our own training material for staff and generally found it very reliable to use.
Cranford School, Oxfordshire