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School Management
Bring school life together
Hero is the school management system that connects every part of school life around every learner. Start with the essentials, or get flying with the complete platform.
One app keeps every family informed and engaged
Parent App
Streamline family communications, share learning and school notices. Reduce admin with absence reporting, payments, bookings and reports all in the same place.
Celebrate progress & build trust
Share photos, videos and work samples from the school day – supporting meaningful conversations at home.
Two-way messaging
Enable seamless, trackable communication between families and your school office.
Community feed
Post targeted communications to the whole school, a specific class, or just your staff, with optional parent commenting.
Surveys, insights & permissions
Quickly gather student voice, parent preferences and trip permissions using simple surveys and Hero's Calendar & Excursions feature.
Staff communication
Dedicated staff feed for internal notices, keeping staff-wide communication separate from family-facing content.
Visible student progress for teachers, leaders and families
Learning portfolios
Capture and share learning, assessments, wellbeing, groups and other data all in one place. Post photos, videos and work samples through Hero, as part of everyday teaching.
Goal-setting and personalised pathways
Support progress with goal setting (including ILP goals), personalised pathways and digital badging.
Assessment & insights
Track achievement with assessments and curriculum outcomes and content, supported by powerful data triangulation, insights and analysis.
Formal reporting
Personalise and send structured semester reports directly within Hero, with all the underlying learning data already captured in the system. Families can view reports in the Hero Parent App.
Flexible templates
Pre-built DoE-aligned templates covering Years 1–6, Kindergarten, Students with Disability and EAL/D — ready to use, easy to customise, or create your own.
Student App
A secure app for students to share their work, set goals and self-assess.
Comet AI
Generate goal-aligned activities for learners based on their current progress and curriculum goals.
Complete school management, with Department of Education sync
A complete solution
Power your school’s admin & finance – with DoE-Approved tools that streamline workflows, support compliance, and drive operational excellence school-wide.
Attendance management
Simplify attendance with real-time tracking, absence reporting via the Hero Parent App and attendance interventions. Reduce the morning rush, keep records accurate and meet department compliance requirements.
Centralised information
Access comprehensive student, caregiver and staff information in one secure system.
Class & group management
Easily manage class placements, groups, teams and more with drag-and-drop simplicity.
Compliance & reporting
Stay compliant with built-in reporting to meet Department of Education requirements.
Billing that works for your school and community
Student billing
Manage student-related costs, contributions and activities with billing fully integrated into the Hero app.
Online payments
Families pay directly through the Hero app. No separate portal, no manual follow-ups for your Finance Officer.
Event payments & consent
Collect excursion payments and caregiver permissions in the same flow, so nothing gets missed and records update instantly.
One place for every health, behaviour and wellbeing record
Behaviour & suspensions
Record, track and analyse behaviour incidents, formal cautions, suspensions and expulsions, aligned to DoE requirements. Build an auditable history that supports consistent practice across your school.
Sickbay
Log sickbay visits with searchable tags, and keep a clear record of who's been seen, when, and why.
Medications management
Securely record medication requirements and schedules, administration logs and student health support plans so the right staff always have the information they need.
Learning support
Record and track individual learning support and minutes, keeping needs visible alongside everyday classroom data. Every entry is date and time-stamped, so the full picture travels with the student throughout their time at school.
EAL/D support
Track and support EAL/D students in Hero, and keep families connected to their child's learning through the Hero Parent App.
Powerful insights across every cohort, class and the whole school
Insights at every level
A real-time picture of learning, wellbeing, engagement and attendance across your whole school. Drill down by group, cohort, class or individual student to identify trends and respond early.
Data Walls
Visualise student performance data in a format built for data-driven conversations, without needing to pull information from multiple systems.
Curriculum data & insights
Triangulate curriculum data across tag analysis, rates of progress and achievement patterns to inform teaching and intervention planning.
Data to guide decisions
Keep observations, progress data and intervention records together to support assessment, planning and discussion with peers and AP, C&Is.
Everything your school needs to plan, book and go
Shared calendar
Bring excursions, events and daily activities together in one clear calendar for staff and caregivers.
Risks & approvals
Keep students safe with built-in risk assessments, and route events through staff sign-off before they go live.
Digital permissions & payments
Collect caregiver permissions, activity choices and excursion payments online, with automatic reminders sent to anyone yet to respond.
School bookings
Run parent-teacher interviews and student-led conferences with booking tracking, break management and automated notifications.
Easy booking
Caregivers self-book their interview slot directly through the Hero Parent App.
NZ Curriculum Toolkit
Capture learning, analyse data & drive progress.
Reporting Tools
Structured, MoE-aligned, and easy to share reports that make learning visible.
What's Included?
- Targeted student groups & lists
- Digital learning portfolios
- Templated milestones
- Real-time reporting & assessments
- Rich data insights
- Staff, Student & Community Feeds
- Parent App
- Student App
- Super Support
Administration Tools
Complete School Management System and two-way Te Rito integration.
What's Included?
- Targeted student groups & lists
- Digital learning portfolios
- Templated milestones
- Real-time reporting & assessments
- Rich data insights
- Staff, Student & Community Feeds
- Parent App
- Student App
- Super Support
Finance Tools
Student & family billing & payments.
What's Included?
- Targeted student groups & lists
- Digital learning portfolios
- Templated milestones
- Real-time reporting & assessments
- Rich data insights
- Staff, Student & Community Feeds
- Parent App
- Student App
- Super Support
Communication Tools
One app - connecting schools and families.
What's Included?
- Targeted student groups & lists
- Digital learning portfolios
- Templated milestones
- Real-time reporting & assessments
- Rich data insights
- Staff, Student & Community Feeds
- Parent App
- Student App
- Super Support
Interviews
School Bookings for parent-teacher interviews and student-led conferences.
What's Included?
- Targeted student groups & lists
- Digital learning portfolios
- Templated milestones
- Real-time reporting & assessments
- Rich data insights
- Staff, Student & Community Feeds
- Parent App
- Student App
- Super Support
Calendar & Excursions
Plan and manage trips, events, communication, and payments.
What's Included?
- Targeted student groups & lists
- Digital learning portfolios
- Templated milestones
- Real-time reporting & assessments
- Rich data insights
- Staff, Student & Community Feeds
- Parent App
- Student App
- Super Support
Real-time Updates on Learning
With a user-friendly interface, caregivers can easily keep up to date on the progress of their child and key school information - anywhere, anytime. Channelled through one app, caregivers can view notices, the school calendar and term dates, as well as provide permissions, book school interviews, report an absence, make payments, and more!
Comprehensive Medical Management
Every learner receives informed care with Hero's comprehensive medical management toolset. Record multiple medical conditions and specialists for individual learners, school-wide, and track the administering of medications via a dedicated medications register!
School Bookings
The tool to solve your school booking needs! Quickly and easily create events, school-wide or for specific groups, using Hero's comprehensive School Bookings functionality. Engage caregivers in meaningful learning conversations, to support their child’s growth and progress.
Super Simple Surveys
Gather valuable information from your caregiver community and students, with Hero's multi-purpose Super Simple Surveys tool! Responses are automatically saved into the app for easy planning, making it simple to gather trip permissions, student voice, and other insights.
Learning Portfolios
Students share learning through posting media, documents, images and videos, making learning stories visible for teachers and caregivers. This builds a rich, digital portfolio of feedback, reporting, and celebration that moves with them through their primary years.
Personalised Goal Setting and Digital Badging
Hero empowers students to take charge of their learning with the ability to set individualised goals and identify next steps, in collaboration with teachers. To recognise key milestones in the learning journey, schools can choose to award Digital Badges which display on a student's profile, for teachers, caregivers and the student themselves to celebrate.
Powerful Insights
Whether it be a target group of 3 students or the whole school, all groups in Hero include the powerful Insights page. Insights include analysis of demographics, content, tags, assessments, progress and attendance. Insights are designed as the starting point for making informed data-driven decisions that make a difference.
Targeted, Aggregated Data Analysis Tools
Hero's data analysis tools have been built to ensure that data can drive key decision making. Powerful tools provide access to whole school or targeted data, that is highly visual, online and in real time. Smart data analytic reports remove the need for manual manipulation and present information in a clear, learner-centred format.
List Builder with Powerful Filtering and Sorting
Generate lists on the fly or using an extensive selection of pre-made lists. Lists can be bookmarked for quick access, saving valuable administrative time. Filtering and sorting tools allow you to build the exact list that you need, while printing and export options take your lists to where you need them.
Flexible Assessment and Reporting Options
Hero seamlessly integrates any combination of curricula, syllabuses, and assessment structures, to meet the varied reporting needs of schools. Schools can adapt and extend these for teachers and learners to benefit from, with data able to be analysed through our powerful Insights tool. Visual graphs and content descriptions support caregivers to understand progress, as it unfolds!
