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Security-compliance
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Accessibility statement
3 min read
Overview Every school website has an Accessibility statement page. The page tells visitors how accessible the website is, what to do if they cannot use part of it, and who to contact. The page is made for you the first t...
Monthly website report
4 min read
Overview Dashboard → Monthly report gives a short report on the school website for one month, written for a headteacher, governors or trustees. It starts with a few sentences "In brief", then shows: Website compliance: h...
Ofsted website alerts
2 min read
Overview Every RealSmart website is watched automatically for the pattern an Ofsted inspector's pre-inspection review usually leaves: a methodical look through safeguarding, SEND, pupil premium, governance and other stat...
Smart Accessibility
7 min read
Overview Smart Accessibility adds a small button to the left edge of every page of your website. Visitors click it to open a panel of tools that change how the website looks for them: bigger or smaller text, high contras...
Smart Alert
8 min read
Overview Smart Alert puts a single, prominent message on every page of your website. It is the right tool for something urgent and short-lived that everyone needs to see straight away: a snow day, an emergency closure, a...
Smart Alert Plus
4 min read
Overview Where Smart Alert shows one fixed message you type yourself, Smart Alert Plus builds a banner automatically from your most recent posts in a category you choose. It is useful when you have several related announ...
Smart Cookies
6 min read
Overview UK law (PECR, alongside UK GDPR) says a website must ask before it sets cookies that are not needed for the website itself to work, such as analytics and advertising cookies, and refusing must be as easy as acce...
Smart Lock
4 min read
Overview Your homepage is usually the most visited — and most easily broken — page on the site. Smart Lock protects it by redirecting anyone who tries to open it in the WordPress editor, back to the dashboard, before the...
Smart Maintenance
5 min read
Overview Smart Maintenance replaces your public website with a simple maintenance page for visitors, while staff who can edit the site carry on working on it as normal. It is useful while you are making a large or disrup...
Smart Policies (Policy Manager)
11 min read
Overview Policy Manager keeps your policy documents in named groups — for example "Statutory Policies" or "Curriculum Policies" — and shows each group on your website as a tidy, searchable list where visitors can view or...
Smart Redirect
3 min read
Overview When someone signs in to your school website through single sign-on, Smart Redirect can send them straight to a specific page based on their account type — staff to an intranet page, pupils to a learning dashboa...
Smart Visibility
4 min read
Overview Not everything on a school website should be visible to everyone. Smart Visibility lets you restrict whole posts, pages and notices to chosen account types, and it gives you a shortcode to restrict just part of...