Elevate 2025 in Brisbane Australia on August 18 to 20

Discover Elevate 2025 Sessions

Our sessions and descriptions will be available on Monday April 28, 2025.

If you are interested in submitting a speaking session for 2025, please use the link below.
Deadline to submit all speaking proposals is February 28, 2025 at 11.59pm AEDT

Session Information

For more detailed information on our Agenda sessions, please click the

Tuesday Sessions

Tuesday Session 1

Presenter: Belinda Lennox

How you can use FACTS calendar for daily notices as well as targeting groups from Senior Leadership to the wider school community.

Presenter: Dianne Campbell

Are you using FACTS to its full potential? See how one school looked at FACTS software, and discovered the value of the Payment Portal.

Tuesday Session 2

Presenter: Coles

Presenter: FTM Team Member

Presenter: Cameron Watt, Auckland Grammar School

2025 brought a huge change to markbooks. See how you can now copy markbooks from year to year and from subject period to subject period.

Tuesday Session 3

Presenter: Robyn Aitken

Walking through the process of the enrolment form, through to Finance, invoicing, Debt collection, signatures and legalities.

Presenter: Greg Campetilli

Presenter: Anita Stark, Samuel Marsden

Join Anita Stark, Associate Dean Year 10 at Samuel Marsden Collegiate School, as she shares how the school utilises FACTS to produce comprehensive assessment reports. Don't forget to follow this up with the Assessment Reporting - 'Show and Tell' session (S33).

Tuesday Session 4

Presenter: Cameron Watt & Clare Linzey

​Join Cameron Watt, Director of Information Services at Auckland Grammar School, and Clare Linzey, Deputy Principal at Selwyn College, as they showcase how their schools are leveraging eForms.

Presenter: Rosemaree Bust

Overview and featuring the improved screens, reporting & work flow (dependent on scopes implemented).

Tuesday Session 5

Presenter: Schoolbox Team Member

Presenter: Shalini Kaiser

FACTS Wellbeing has three arms. Check out our Health and Safety Module. Track concerns from the staff, students and wider community.

Presenter: Delwyn Guilford

Challenges faced and how they can be overcome? Tips and tricks, 2 schools/part of panel - 1 NZ, 1 Australian.

Tuesday Session 6

Presenter: Pete Duthie, Rangitoto College

Join Pete Duthie, School Leader and Operations Manager from Rangitoto College, as he shares how their institution has effectively utilised FACTS to enhance and streamline human resources operations.

Presenter: Robyn Aitken

Overview and featuring the improved screens & work flow (dependent on scopes implemented).

Presenter: Sarah Reilly, PVCC

Join Sarah from Plenty Valley Christian College as she shares how the school has streamlined its enrolment processes using FACTS Tuition Management.

Wednesday Sessions

Wednesday Session 7

Presenter: Sharon Johnson, Queen Margaret College

​Join Sharon Johnson, Data Manager at Queen Margaret College, as she shares how the college has effectively integrated ManageBac with FACTS Markbooks to streamline their results management.

Presenter: FTM Team Member

Discover more about how to adjust payment plans to better suit the needs of individual families and explore custom characteristics – a powerful feature that lets you offer tailored schedules to specific families for greater flexibility and support.

Presenter: Carl Hogan

Come armed with your ideas for how a new Student Dashboard could look in FSM. How can we pull together the data we hold on academic progress, assessment, wellbeing, attendance and so on into a an informative view?

Wednesday Session 8

Presenter: Shalini Kaiser

Explore the updated tools for setting up school interviews with ease and efficiency. We’ll cover all the key features designed to save you time.

Presenter: Katie Leslie

Debtor Summary, Messages on statements/Invoices/Quick Family Accounting Adjustments/Email notificatons before the first direct debit for payment plans/Documenting contacts made with stakeholders via debtor comments.

Wednesday Session 9

Presenter: Belinda Lennox

FACTS Wellbeing has three arms. Most of us are familiar with behaviour but not Guidance. Come and see how this modules can assist your Guidance Counsellors.

Presenter: Carl Hogan

Learn the basics of how APIs work and why they’re useful. Discover how our API library can help your school connect systems and work more efficiently.

Presenter: Rosemaree Bust

Aligning accounting processes with the FACTS creditor module.

Wednesday Session 10

Presenter: FTM Team Member

FTM offers more than 50 reporting options if you know where to look. We’ll show you how to get the most out of built-in and custom reports, as well as which ones we think every school should utilise.

Presenter: Lisa Sutcliffe

Join Lisa Sutcliffe, our Admin/Curriculum, Onboarding and Training Lead and bring along your school’s assessment reports and share how you’re using FACTS. See how others are reporting, swap ideas, and pick up new tips you can take back to your school.

Presenter: Carl Hogan

What does best practice for access control in FACTS School Management look like? Join us for a practical discussion on this and how SSO and MFA can enhance security and usability.

Wednesday Session 11

Presenter: FTM Team Member

End of year renewals is a crucial time of your year with FTM. Learn more about the steps involved to make your Renewal as efficient as possible! We'll also have a peek at our new Balance Transfer feature!

Presenter: Carl Hogan

We’ll take a look at how to define and specify colours and then work through how you can use your school’s branding to customise FSM.

Presenter: Lisa Sutcliffe

Creating custom timetables in FACTS is now easier and more flexible. And the best part? Roll marking stays simple and stress-free.

Wednesday Session 12

Presenter: Delwyn Guilford

Say goodbye to static snapshots—now you can access everything in one place with One Database. Join this Design Studio session to explore where this could make the biggest difference across your school finances.

Presenter: Lisa Sutcliffe

Say goodbye to static snapshots—now you can access everything in one place with One Database. Join this Design Studio session to explore where this could make the biggest difference across your school.