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  • This article explains how to best contact Schoolworks Support for a quick resolution to your issue.

  • Prior to contacting Schoolworks Support, please assess all other support options available to you:

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Schoolworks Technical Support

  • Schoolworks Technical support is included with your Schoolworks licensing fee and is for help related to a feature of Schoolworks which is not working - typically a bug or system malfunction.

    • Additional support such as training, help with reporting, document creation, setup of Schoolworks (products, pricing, templates) integrations will typically incur additional time based fees or a premium support package.

    • We will advise if this is the case.

  • Technical support requests can either be made via our Support Portal or via an email request to support@schoolworks.io

  • In either case, we will need to have a user account setup in our Support System (Atlassian) so that your email address is recognised by our ticketing system.

  • If you have not submitted a request before or you have just joined your school please ask your manager or HR department to send an email with your details - first/last name, department and email address to support@schoolworks.io so we can set up a support account for you.

Support Ticket Best Practices

  • So that we can provide fast and efficient support and avoid unnecessary to and fro messages, please consider the following best practices:

    • Please consider the nature of the support request and if the support is covered by your plan

    • Email to: support@schoolworks.co.ukio

      • This automatically creates a TICKET for your request - (please see process below)

      • Please avoid emailing Schoolworks staff directly as this won’t create a TICKET acknowledgement and will slow down our ability to provide assistance

    • Email Subject

      • The email subject is used in our ticket name in our support desk to identify your specific issue

        • Please use a short descriptive in the email subject to help distinguish your ticket from everyone else's and to avoid confusion

          • e.g. Teacher (Bob Smith) cannot login - Urgent is much better than Help needed

    • Email body/content

      • Please describe your problem with as much information as possible

        • e.g. For Student ST-65241 we can’t book the GE Course for 2 weeks from 4th May 2023 to 10th April 2023 is much better than Enrolment screen is not working

      • Please describe all the steps we need to follow to replicate the problem you are having

        • We test for most situations so it is likely you may have found a very specific problem that requires more complicated steps to reproduce

      • Please describe both the error but also what you expect to see

        • e.g. Finance for the Booking ID 2323 should be £2499.50 but the screen is showing incorrect as £2200.50 is much better than Finance is incorrect

      • Please describe the urgency of your request

        • If your issue is preventing you or a group of users please help us prioritise your request

        • Please also advise if your request is not urgent or ideally when you would like your issue resolved

          • This will help us assign our resource to those who really need it

    • Use screen shots where possible

      • A picture tells a thousand words and will help us see what you are seeing

        • Please include a FULL screenshot of your screen rather than just a snippet of the screen, as this may help us to better understand the context of the issue

    • Use URL links to the records in your Schoolworks

    • Pleases (and thanks in advance!)

      • Please send a new email, new subject line for your new request.

        • Please don’t forward a long email chain or discussions from multiple people as it may take longer for us to process or understand it, or we may ask you to resubmit a request

      • Please make further replies or follow ups regarding the same issue with the TICKET-XXXX in the subject - see further communications below

        • This avoids creating multiple new tickets for the same issue

      • Please avoid using coloured text (we can’t see it on the ticket)

    • Best Practice Email example:

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