Custom software for education
We build software for schools, multi-academy trusts, colleges and training providers: admin and approval workflows, integrations with your MIS, evidence and compliance tracking, and tools for learners and parents. Safeguarding and data protection requirements shape the design from the start.
Systems we build
Multi-Academy Trust Analytics Dashboard
A centralised reporting platform that pulls data from every school in a trust regardless of their MIS provider, enabling trust leaders to compare performance, attendance, and exclusion data across schools and identify trends requiring intervention.
AI-Powered Adaptive Learning Platform
A personalised learning system that adjusts content difficulty, pacing, and teaching style based on individual student performance data. Uses spaced repetition algorithms and formative assessment analytics to optimise knowledge retention.
Digital Safeguarding and Concern Recording System
A secure platform for recording safeguarding concerns with chronological timelines, risk assessment scoring, multi-agency referral workflows, and management oversight dashboards. Meets all requirements of KCSIE 2024.
Virtual Learning Environment with Assessment Integration
A comprehensive online learning platform with content authoring, video hosting, discussion forums, assignment submission, automated marking for objective assessments, and plagiarism detection integration.
Problems we hear about
- Multi-academy trusts managing dozens of schools need centralised data systems but face incompatible MIS platforms across their estate, making group-level reporting difficult
- Safeguarding requirements under KCSIE 2024 demand robust digital systems for recording concerns, sharing information with local authorities, and maintaining single central records of staff checks
- Ofsted inspection readiness requires schools to produce evidence of curriculum intent, implementation, and impact across subjects, which is difficult without integrated assessment data
- Student engagement and retention in further and higher education requires personalised learning pathways and early intervention systems that identify at-risk learners before they drop out
- SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) provision requires coordinated Education, Health and Care Plan management across multiple agencies and service providers
Off-the-shelf or custom?
Schools have well-established MIS, VLE and safeguarding products, and we would not suggest replacing them. Custom software is useful for the gaps between them: trust-wide reporting, workflows unique to your setting, and joining up data that currently lives in spreadsheets.
Rules we design around
- UK GDPR with specific provisions for children's data
- KCSIE 2024 (Keeping Children Safe in Education)
- DfE Information Management Strategy
- Children and Families Act 2014 (SEND provisions)
- Age Appropriate Design Code (ICO Children's Code)
- Ofsted Education Inspection Framework
- Prevent Duty under Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015
- Equality Act 2010 accessibility requirements
Relevant services
- Web applications that are fast, accessible and maintainable
- Mobile apps for iOS and Android
- AI development services, from proof of concept to production
- AI agents that work inside your existing systems
- SaaS development for products that need to scale
- Bespoke software, built around how your business works
- API integrations that stop the re-keying
Common questions
Can Elsio integrate with school MIS systems like SIMS, Arbor, and Bromcom?
How does Elsio ensure safeguarding compliance in education software?
Does Elsio understand the Department for Education data standards?
Can Elsio build platforms that meet Ofsted digital evidence requirements?
Does Elsio work with universities as well as schools?
Tell us about your education project
Send a short brief and we will come back with questions, a rough approach and whether we are the right fit. No sales sequence.
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