Five tools to one platform for a multi-academy trust

Context

Teaching across a multi-academy trust ran on five systems that never talked to each other: question banks, exam portals, slides, spreadsheets and paper registers.

Challenge

Tutors juggled all five to run a single week of teaching — setting work in one tool, examining in another, recording attendance on paper — and marks and records had to be re-keyed between systems. Leadership had no single picture of the term; assembling one meant chasing spreadsheets school by school.

What we built

We deployed Exam Binary across the trust: papers generated, assignments set, online exams run and attendance taken in one place, with marks and records flowing through automatically. Attendance became visible in one live dashboard across every academy.

How it ran

The deployment followed our standard arc — strategy, build, run. We started with the trust’s actual teaching workflow, then delivered senior-led with weekly demos and QA gates on every release, documented as we went under one named owner. Training brought tutors onto the platform so the trust owns the tools day to day, and it now runs with SLA-backed support — leadership gets one clear picture of the term, and tutors got their week back.