Education · UK
Microsoft Power Platform for UK Education
Universities, colleges, and multi-academy trusts already run on Microsoft 365, and already have thousands of hours going into forms, approvals, and answering the same student questions. Power Platform turns those into self-service, without a new system to procure or another supplier to assure.
Student Services
Enquiry and case handling
Admissions
Application workflows
Staff Processes
Approvals and requests
Trust Reporting
Cross-site dashboards
The Problem
Challenges We See Across Education
The patterns below come up in almost every education conversation we have. If two or more sound familiar, there is usually a quick win available.
Student services drowning in repeat questions
Term dates, fees, timetables, and process questions consume the majority of front-line capacity that should go to students who genuinely need support.
Forms and approvals still on paper or PDF
Mitigating circumstances, placement approvals, trips, and expenses running through printed forms and email means no tracking and no data.
Every academy or faculty doing it differently
Devolved processes with no shared platform make trust-wide or institution-wide reporting an exercise in chasing spreadsheets.
Budgets that will not stretch to new systems
Sector finances rarely support a new procurement for each process, but the processes still need fixing.
What We Build
Power Platform Solutions for Education
Built on Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Copilot Studio, and Dataverse, inside your own Microsoft tenant.
Student Services & Enquiry Management
Case-managed student enquiries with triage, ownership, SLA tracking, and reporting on demand themes across the academic year.
Admissions & Enrolment Workflows
Application capture, document upload, offer workflow, and enrolment tracking on Power Pages and Dataverse, integrated with your SITS or MIS.
Copilot Studio Student Assistant
A 24/7 AI agent on the student portal and in Teams answering routine questions from your own handbooks and web content, escalating to staff with context.
Staff & Academic Process Apps
Mitigating circumstances, module changes, placement approvals, trip authorisation, and recruitment requests as tracked digital workflows.
Trust & Institution-Wide Reporting
Power BI dashboards spanning sites, faculties, or academies for attendance, applications, service demand, and compliance.
Governance for Citizen Developers
Environment strategy, DLP policy, and maker enablement so enthusiastic staff building apps becomes an asset rather than a risk register entry.
Typical Projects
Where Education Organisations Usually Start
Focused first projects that deliver a visible result quickly, then extend once the approach is proven.
Mitigating circumstances applications
Students submit evidence online, cases route to the right panel, decisions and communications are tracked end to end.
Consistent decisions with a clear audit trail
Student enquiry chatbot
A Copilot Studio agent grounded in the student handbook answers common questions overnight and at peak enrolment.
Front-line capacity freed for complex cases
Educational visits approval
Trip proposals, risk assessments, consent, and headteacher sign-off in one tracked workflow across the trust.
Approvals evidenced, deadlines met
Central services request portal
Academies raise IT, estates, HR, and finance requests through one portal with routing and SLA visibility.
Trust services measurable for the first time
Governance
Compliance & Data Considerations
Everything we build runs inside your own Microsoft 365 tenant, under the controls you already operate.
Safeguarding-aware design
Sensitive cases handled with restricted visibility, field-level security, and defined escalation routes to designated safeguarding leads.
Accessibility for student-facing services
Public and student-facing portals built and tested to WCAG 2.2 AA in line with the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations.
Data protection and retention
Student data held in UK-region Dataverse within your tenant, with retention and disposal aligned to your records management schedule.
Related Case Studies
Power Platform for Education: Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions from UK education organisations considering Microsoft Power Platform.
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Talk to Someone Who Knows Education
Book a free consultation. We will look at the process causing you the most pain, tell you honestly whether Power Platform is the right answer, and scope it if it is.
