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Tokairo Attendance Manager (TokAM) enables colleges to accurately capture studentattendance to maintain high student retention rates and therefore secure increasedfunding.

The TokAM school attendance systems ensures colleges can efficiently respond to AuditInspection requirements by providing attendance data on line when requested. TokAMsintuitive design allows Auditors to easily cross check inspection results quickly and to whatever level of detail they require.

The system provides colleges with a quick return on investment by enabling them to cut costs

on manually entering attendance and administering registers. TokAM also integrates with the

leading MIS and Timetabling systems.

Here are some of the benefits enjoyed by Colleges who have chosen to implement

TokAM:

Early warnings of premature withdrawal. Poor attendance is one of the first signs a

student is having difficulties.

Automatic upload to EMASYS for enrolment, weekly payment decision and Bonus

Payment decisions.

Proactively provide for student needs. Greater efficiencies capturing attendance and

the speed of reporting enable you to be far more effective and proactive.

Retain and support students and their employers. Failure to attend or random

attendance are trigger points to undertake the necessary actions.

Deliver tailored reports using TokAM's 35 configurable reports, web reporting and the

facility to build your own.

Early warning of truancy is achieved using distributed reports and rapid register capture.

Quickly identify non attending students to provide help and pastoral care before being

automatically 'withdrawn' after 4 non-attendances and therefore the loss of hard earned

funding.

Configure register layouts to meet individual needs. TokAM allows colleges to

configure their register layouts while also providing efficiency gains automatically reading

up to 20 different hand written attendance marks using optical and intelligent character

recognition (OCR/ICR).

Quickly capture missing enrolments and timetable changes. Often prolific during the

start of an academic year TokAM goes a long way to help colleges implement "day one"

registers.

Efficient Education Maintenance Allowance rollout. Consistent, accurate and timely

attendance capture is central to the rollout of EMA.

Achieve savings of 25,000 or more per annum. Colleges pay for TokAM within a year

from staff savings and benefit from an ongoing saving of up to 25,000 per annum, a

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saving which can be re-deployed to other areas of the college.

Use a range of different register types within the college.

o Paper based registers are read using optical character recognition (OCR)

techniques. Colleges who have carried out audits of their data have found TokAM to

be between 98-99% accurate.o Register Direct Data Entry (DDE) for tutors networked laptops.

o Web Register attendance data entered over the Internet or intranet using TokAM

Web Registers.

o Other methods such as swipe cards will be developed in the future.

On-line secure access to student folders using TokAM's Document Handling Module.

Compliance with the freedom of information and data protection acts using

TokOpen Document Handling Module.

Reduction in EMA administration costs is achieved with TokAM EMA Modules. One staff

member can process up to 600 EMA student forms in one day.

Full audit tracking and register retrieval. TokAM delivers online assistance during audit

inspections providing easy retrieval of a previously captured attendance data and scanned

register images should they be required.

Full security and accuracy entering attendance data. TokAM enforces tight security

and system access as well as accurate attendance data entry.