Trailblazing: a new digital & integrated approach to the student record system at TEDI-London

The freedom to decide what the new best practice looks like 

Having comprehensively reviewed the market, David and the rest of the TEDI-London team decided that Microsoft Dynamics 365 would provide the best platform on which to build a new, digital and integrated system for student records. It would enable the team to manage the entire lifecycle of a contact – from application to alumni. 

David explains, “When you buy into Microsoft, you’re buying into a development resource that can’t be replicated anywhere else… The Microsoft development teams working on these products far outstrips anything you could do yourself. And I think the functionality and useability is only going to get better.” 

Ease of management, wealth of features 

The new student record system includes a wealth of functionality, including the curriculum, with all the programmes and modules, attendance and attendance monitoring, the student timetable, assessments and outcomes, and appeals. 

“We’ve got an end-to-end student record system that is built on the Microsoft Higher Education Accelerator and encompasses all of our marketing, recruitment and applications processes,” says David Minahan. “We manage those student applications through a workflow process with lots of automation and have also built the integrations we need.” 

An amazing outcome – with continual improvement possible 

The TEDI-London team has also leveraged the no-code and low-code tools of the Microsoft Power Platform to add additional usability and extra tools for users – both for staff and students. Using Microsoft Power Apps, the team has already developed a mobile timetable app for students to access and more will follow. Access to the apps will be via users’ Microsoft 365 account. 

“For TEDI-London it has been an amazing outcome really,” states David Minahan. “My colleagues have got a system that works in the way that they want it to work for the processes they have. And, from my perspective, we’ve got a reduced long-term overhead in terms of the cost of IT.”