What is Satchel One?
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What is Satchel One?
Satchel One is the only cloud MIS that evolved from a learning platform, offering schools an all-in-one MIS with a classroom-first approach. Built on the foundation of the market-leading Show My Homework, Satchel One has been designed with teachers and students in mind, making it the preferred choice for nearly one in three UK secondary schools. Satchel One brings together powerful tools that streamline classroom management, save time for teachers, and improve student engagement, all while encouraging parental involvement.
With full cloud MIS functionality and a flexible, app-based system, Satchel One allows schools to tailor their platform to suit their specific needs, whether it's for managing attendance, exams, behaviour, admissions, or other critical areas of school life.
Benefit from our Phased Rollout:
Satchel One’s phased roll-out ensures schools can transition at their own pace. Schools have the flexibility to enable any combination of classroom management features before switching on the full cloud MIS functionality. A dedicated Satchel Project Manager works closely with each school to customise the rollout, providing tailored training and support throughout the process.
Recommended Usage
20 minutes per week
Educational Impact
Additional evidence
Mar 2021
Increased Student Engagement (Ashton on Mersey School)
May 2024
Paper to Cloud: How Hatfield Wick Education Transformed with Satchel One MIS
Jun 2024
Switching from Arbor back to Satchel One
Sep 2024
A Comprehensive review of Satchel One MIS
 Company | Business Name: Satchel HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded: 2011 |
| Age Range | 5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18 |
 Features | HomeworkAttendanceSeatingTimetablesBehaviourDetentionsContentReportsGradebookNotice BoardGradingAssessmentDocuments SharingWelfareBehaviour ManagementBehaviour ReportsMis SyncSeating PlansTrack Pupil ProgressLesson AttendanceParent AppMessagingDiscussionClassworkAiManagement Information SystemMisExamsAdmissions |
 Languages | English |
 Accessibility | Moderate features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy PolicyGDPR |
 Requirements | Internet - Low BandwidthInternet - High BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookDesktop - LinuxMobile - iPhoneMobile - iPadMobile - WindowsMobile - Android No technical capacity needed. Users need access to a device such as a mobile phone, PC or laptop |
 Set Up | A few days |
 Training | In PersonLive OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos |
 Support | EmailFAQs/ForumKnowledge BasePhone Support Live chat for customers |
| Home Learning | Parent Access School must create the account. Mobile app and desktop versions available |
 Tags | HomeworkAttendanceDetentionsBehaviourWelfareSeatingSeating PlansTimetablesClassroom managementLearning platformDistance learningShow My Homeworkwelfarebehaviour managementMISschool managementSchool Management SystemManagement Information System |
AIAI usage The Satchel One team has not stated whether it uses AI. | |
Satchel One PricingPricing Plans Free TrialPaid Subscription Satchel One pricing starts from £2.5 / per-pupil Request a quote to get pricing.  Optimised for a quick response | |
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Satchel One Reviews
from 51 Verified Reviews
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Mar 2025
Sarah Hawkins found Satchel One:
- Improves school processes“Homework process”
- Reduces teacher workload
- Improves parent engagement“They can follow the homework set and behaviour points”
- Improves teaching efficiency
Mar 2025
Very useful to use with the students!
James Hutchings found Satchel One:
- Improves school processes“Setting quizzes.”
- Reduces teacher workload“Can be marked easily.”
- Improves parent engagement“Parents can see the work.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Quick to mark quizzes.”
Feb 2025
Sofia Hubbard found Satchel One:
- Improves school processes
- Improves parent engagement
- Reduces teacher workload
- Improves teaching efficiency
Feb 2025
Whilst the system itself is considered, I have used better but the main issue is the customer support or lack of it and no resolution to an ongoing issue.
Shayne Taylor found Satchel One:
- Improves school processes“Whilst its good at some things, there is an ongoing issue with detentions which has been reported at least 6 times by numerous members of staff and it is still not reolved.”
- Improves parent engagement
- Reduces teacher workload
- Improves teaching efficiency
Feb 2025
Working as Attendance Officer, some areas need further development.
Debbie Hayward found Satchel One:
- Improves school processes
- Improves parent engagement
- Reduces teacher workload
- Improves teaching efficiency
Jan 2025
There are some excellent tools that, once staff understand how to use them, help communication with student and parents alike.
Sam Baglin found Satchel One:
- Improves school processes
- Improves parent engagement
- Improves teaching efficiency
- Reduces teacher workload
Nov 2024
Wonderful service from Reesee. Thank you
Alison found Satchel One:
- Reduces teacher workload“No sure”
- Improves teaching efficiency“NA”
- Improves school processes“NA”
- Improves parent engagement“NA”
Nov 2024
It has revolutionised homework at our school and made it a non-issue, when before we couldn't even begin to understand the issue.
Steve Ramsey found Satchel One:
- Reduces teacher workload“Quizzes and Spelling tests are marked for you, feeding back can be done really efficiently, and giving rewards and sanctions is quick and easy.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Rewards and Sanctions are easy to give each lesson, and detentions are set automatically”
- Improves school processes“Whole school detentions, rewards and homework is much easier to monitor and report on now.”
- Improves parent engagement“Over 50% of parents regularly engage with Satchel One, helping us support their children with behaviour and homework.”
James Hutchings
Teacher of History
Used Satchel One weekly for 5 years+
Nov 2024
Easy to use.
James Hutchings found Satchel One:
- Reduces teacher workload“Quizzes.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Comments box.”
- Improves school processes“Marking of quizzes.”
- Improves parent engagement“Parents reply to messages.”
Oct 2024
Easy to use! Very effective!
James found Satchel One:
- Reduces teacher workload“Quizzes are excellent!”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Easy for marking.”
- Improves school processes“Easy to write instructions.”
- Improves parent engagement“Parents will use this to talk to me.”
May 2024
Very customer focused company, who were fantastic during lockdown and moved moutains to support schools with the new way of remote learning. There set of tools are intuitive and very easy to use for staff, students and parents
Stuymac found Satchel One:
- Reduces teacher workload“Instant communication with students regarding lesson requirements or homework Very easy and quick to use seating planner tool Easy way of rewarding students or setting behaviours/detentions which are quickly shared with parents and students 360 report for students, ideal for face to face meeting with parents to give a summary of students behaviour”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Excellent seating plan tool Excellent rewards/badges tool Very good homework tool”
- Improves school processes“Vert good integrated tool for behaviours linked to a detention tool with a register Very good reporting tool to quickly see which students need a greater focus”
- Improves parent engagement“Parents love the homework tool to help support students Parents are instantly aware of rewards and behaviour points Parents get access to the students timetable”
Jan 2024
Some aspects for attendance officer are awkard and don't provide a streamlined work flow. There are compromises that writing back to sims makes editing prior and future marks difficult. Some aspects are revolutionary like seating plans, badges and easy access to points.
Ian Mead found Satchel One:
- Reduces teacher workload“Seating plans are easier to administer and more informative”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Setting and administering detentions is now easier and more transparent.”
- Improves school processes“Detention systems are more robust and able to provide extra feature like sanction for n offences.”
- Improves parent engagement“Good ptake form parents in general but some problems getting google classroom assignment to sync has caused some frustrations.”
Dec 2023
Xerxes found Satchel One:
- Reduces teacher workload
- Improves teaching efficiency
- Improves school processes
- Improves parent engagement
Dec 2023
Staff, parents and students are pleased with our expanded use of Satchel One and the benefits of bringing all these systems and processes under one umbrella package. The customer support is also very strong which is important with any IT based system.
S Yalden found Satchel One:
- Reduces teacher workload“Being able to use one system rather than multiple packages to carry out a range of teacher tasks such as seating plans, rewards, sanctions, messaging, homework, communication with parents etc.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“By being a one stop shop for registers, conduct and homework it is an efficient use of time rather than using multiple systems. Seeking support to a class is more efficient and timely because of the on alert feature.”
- Improves school processes“One bringing everything under one system it is easier to achieve consistency and is generally more efficient.”
- Improves parent engagement“We have seen a rise in parent and carer access to Satchel from 29% when we used is solely for homework to 60% when we added in the additional features improving home-school communication and engagement.”
Dec 2023
Really good product, when it becomes a full MIS I think it will be much more powerful then it is now. There are still refinements to be made for what schools want, but these readily become available and Satchel engage with schools based on their needs
Andy found Satchel One:
- Reduces teacher workload“Collaboration - reusing Homework, sharing ideas, one click solutions to a lot of admin tasks that normally take a lot longer”
- Improves teaching efficiency“When used properly it is all of the time, getting staff to use the full features means real efficiency on a range of areas, homework, seating, attendance, praise and behaviour”
- Improves school processes“Satchel are very receptive to talking about improving / changing features to make things work for schools.”
- Improves parent engagement“When parents are onboard it enables parents to see a holistic view of their child's attendance, behaviour and homework meaning they engage more and feel a part of the school”
Dec 2023
Satchel One's customer support team has been nothing short of excellent. Every request we send (and we send a lot!) is taken seriously and dealt with quickly and professionally. We're so happy with Satchel One that we have decided to fully invest in all the services that they offer.
Chris found Satchel One:
- Reduces teacher workload“Setting homework, allocating behaviour points and taking registers is all very streamlined by Satchel One.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Satchel One has helped significantly with organising homework and remote learning. In the classroom, we are saving time (compared to old systems) with doing tasks like awarding achievement points and recording attendance.”
- Improves school processes“Our teaching staff find it much easier to quickly access student details, such as parent contact information, on Satchel One as opposed to our old MIS system.”
- Improves parent engagement“As we have increased our use of Satchel One so to have our parents become more engaged. We now have 95%+ of our parents looking at it regularly. Their feedback is that it is very helpful to be able to instantly see homework tasks and behaviour feedback for their child.”
Ryan
Head of High School
Used Satchel One daily for 4-6 months
Dec 2023
Ryan found Satchel One:
- Reduces teacher workload
- Improves teaching efficiency
- Improves school processes
- Improves parent engagement
Neelam Parmar
Digital Learning
Used Satchel One daily for 1-2 years
Mar 2023
Fully cloud-based that involves parents in educating their children.
Neelam Parmar found Satchel One:
- Reduces teacher workload“All homework is set in one place and easy to find/refer to when needed.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“No major impact on teaching efficiency”
- Improves school processes“Homework can be monitored and evaluated on a regular basis and checked when it is completed by students or not.”
- Improves parent engagement“Parents are informed”
Feb 2022
FOUND IT USEFUL TO USE. EVIDENCE OF HOMEWORK SET AND MARKED AVAILABLE FOR PARENT EVENINGS AND DISCUSSIONS
RICHARD ABBEY found Satchel One:
- Reduces teacher workload“HOMEWORK -SETTING AND MARKING, RESETTING /REUSING REGISTER MARKING , SEATING PLANS COMMUNICATION WITH STUDENTS AND PARENTS”
- Improves school processes“COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SCHOOL AND HOME, EASY TO FIND INFORMATION OFTEN NOT MENTIONED BY STUDENTS EASILY AVAILABLE INFORMATION FOR PARENTS AND STUDENTS TO REVISIT”
- Improves parent engagement“TO ENSURE INFORMATION IS PASSED ON REDIRECTING PARENTS TO THE INFORMATION THEY MISSED.”
Mr Flynn
Teacher of Design and Technology
Used Satchel One weekly for 5 years+
Feb 2022
Show my Homework has been an invaluable tool for us, particularly throughout the challenging times of COVID: it's also very easy to use, and the Team have responded really well to feedback, creating new features which extend the effectiveness of SMH as a teaching and learning tool.
Mr Flynn found Satchel One:
- Reduces teacher workload“The ability to quickly re-use work, ease of editing, preparing drafts ahead of time, ability for other members of Faculty to share resource, Self-marking and analysis of comprehension in Quiz mode can direct future study areas.”
- Improves school processes“Throughout the pandemic SMH has been essential in providing a familiar platform for students to access online learning resources. We also used the comment section to effectively communicate with our students. provide feedback, and pastoral support.”
- Improves parent engagement“Parents sometimes communicated via comment section, many parents like the ability to monitor their child's homework/work.”
Simon Oldfield
Head of RE and Citizenship
Used Satchel One weekly for 3-4 years
Feb 2022
No other piece of software has so positively and widely impacted by teaching.
Simon Oldfield found Satchel One:
- Reduces teacher workload“The ability to set, collect and record homework tasks is a dream!”
- Improves school processes“The ability to communicate clearly to varying groups of students allows efforts and energy to go into other things.”
- Improves parent engagement“Easier for parents to partner in the hw process.”
Feb 2022
Excellent service!
James found Satchel One:
- Reduces teacher workload“Quizzes - mark themselves.”
- Improves school processes“Marking easier.”
- Improves parent engagement“Students can show work to parents easily.”
Jan 2021
Saves lots of teachers time - easy for students to use on multiple platforms
Andy Braithwaite found Satchel One:
- Reduces teacher workload“Attach worksheets / No printing of worksheets / Reuse HW for different classes / online submissions of work”
- Improves school processes“The expectation by Parents that HW is always published on SMHW. Platform for students to submit work”
- Improves parental engagement“Becoming more useful, but Parental engagement still low - parents do not understand SMHW enough - engagement is often parents querying either lack of HW or submissions”
Dec 2020
Only good experiences administering and using it
Liz found Satchel One:
- Reduces teacher workload“Reusing previous homeworks”
- Improves school processes“Getting messages to students”
- Improves parental engagement“Parent app monitoring homework better”
Dec 2020
I think it costs the school a lot
Damian Woolf found Satchel One:
- Reduces teacher workload“Students can submit online”
- Improves school processes“Can reuse homeworks”
- Improves parental engagement“You don’t link parents to students which is bad”
