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Clipboard vs SchoolsBuddy

Clipboard is built exclusively for co-curricular and extracurricular management, so you get the purpose-built features and fine details that make the difference every week.

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The Clipboard advantage

A complete solution

SchoolsBuddy lacks purpose-built Incidents and Timesheets. Clipboard includes both cutting admin and preventing overpayments.

Built for Sport Music and Clubs

Clipboard is an all-in-one platform for extracurriculars across sports, music, and clubs.

Smarter safeguarding insights

Clipboard enables users to track live attendance, manage unmarked rolls, and set rule-based reminders and alerts, along with providing comprehensive program overviews and analytics.

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User-friendly, mobile-first design

Give coaches, tutors & staff access to Clipboard via their own devices so they can easily update information wherever they are.

What schools are saying

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"The Activity Selection module has saved us around three full days of admin work. The setup was easy to navigate, and the help videos were great. Parents love the ease of the new sign-up method; the user experience is excellent."

Director of Co-Curricular, Canberra Girls Grammar School

Joel Copeland

Key Features

Communication with your community

Staff, parents & students use Clipboard or one of our partner integrations to view events such as sports fixtures, rehearsals and music lessons and receive a push-notification as soon as anything changes. Busy parents can also sync their children’s extracurricular schedule to their personal calendar app.

Clipboard demo screen

Attendance tracking and reporting

Staff can easily mark attendance where ever they are and on any device and are sent alerts to mark the roll so you can be confident that students are accounted for at all times. If a student is marked absent, parents can be automatically emailed to alert them to their child missing a session. Clipboard's Attendance page helps to uphold high duty of care standards by providing reporting on attendance and participation across all activities.

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Activity selection & payments

Clipboard does more than let parents signup for activities. It lets families preview line-ups in advance, view images and key info, and join fair, timestamped waitlists with clear capacity limits. It’s like an online shop that drives enrollments for your school.

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Team & Group Management

Manage all your teams and groups in one easy-to-use location, and quickly make changes by dragging and dropping students. You can also add student positions (e.g. 'Flute' or 'Left Back') and track jersey numbers or captains.

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Incident reporting

Staff can quickly record incidents directly from their mobile phones, increasing the accuracy of the reporting and instantly notifying the relevant people.

All incidents are available in Clipboard with a trail of follow-up notes and the ability to set a 'Return to Play' date to ensure that injured students don't participate in activities.

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Staff timesheets

Schools save up to $100K each year and multiple days of staff time each pay run using Clipboard Timesheets.

Clipboard flags hours entries that don’t match up with the schedule, giving you confidence that timesheets are always accurate. Plus, the system automatically calculates pay rates, overtime, allowances, penalty rates, classifications and cost codes in line with relevant awards.

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How Clipboard Compares

Features

SchoolsBuddy
Clipboard
Attendance Reporting
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Live dashboards, unmarked-roll views, smart reminders and detailed analytics
Activity Selection
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Preview activities, rich details, capacity limits and timestamped waitlists
Incident Reporting
Not available
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Built-in incident reporting with instant notifications.
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equiment management
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Sport, music and clubs
Digital timesheets
Not available
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Award compliant
Music functionality
Limited
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Rotating schedules, inventory, fixtures and analytics that scale
User Interface
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Mobile-first, intuitive.

Your Migration Made Simple

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Seamless Migration Support

Our implementation team will guide your entire transition from your current system, processes or SchoolsBuddy.

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Minimal Learning Curve

Staff and parents adapt instantly thanks to Clipboard’s intuitive design.

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Data Sync

We'll ensure our integration platform partners sync from day one of going live to your school community – hit the ground running.

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Real Results

Save 50–140 hours per week on admin. Improve safeguarding. Reduce costs.

A More Integrated System, by Design

Clipboard connects deeply with the systems your school already uses, making it the most comprehensive extracurricular management solution available.
Clipboard becomes your single source of truth for all extracurricular and co-curricular activities. Whether you’re tracking attendance, publishing fixtures, or managing incidents and timesheets, everything is connected and up to date automatically.

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Schools that trust Clipboard

Trusted by schools of every size, from public and rural schools to multi-campus independant colleges.

250,000+

Students & parents use Clipboard weekly

Over 3 million

Events powered by Clipboard

350+ schools

Number of schools that use Clipboard

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Clipboard saves at least a few hours every day. Because we save time, we can spend more time with the students.

James Houghton

Head of Sports

Siena College

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Clipboard allows us to be streamlined across all users. Even the experience for the parents who don't see the back end, find it simple to navigate, and that's been a real advantage.

Jonathan Harvey

Assistant Principal of Sport and Co-Curricular

St Augustine's College

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Clipboard has transformed the operations of our music department, saving at least 50 hours of work each week and increasing the safety of students. With Clipboard, we can easily schedule lessons and rehearsals, stay on top of attendance, communicate with our staff and students, manage activity sign-ups and payments, process timesheets for our tutors, manage our instruments and assets, and much more.

Ari Farrar

Head of Music

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The thing we love about Clipboard for running all our co-curricular programs is it's an end-to-end solution for us. It starts with the input of student information and we can do rolls, activity selections, scheduling, and timesheets right down to incident reporting.

Greg Meagher

Executive Director of Co-Curricular

Pymble Ladies' College

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Clipboard can save up to 140 hours a week between all the different sports. Which is obviously a huge number and a huge amount of admin, and it’s theoretically a few people working full time just on role marking and team selection.

Cameron Hart

Head of Sport

St Joseph's College Hunters Hill

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Clipboard solved all three of the major issues I was facing at Pymble and again at Barker. It's a very simple system to use and covers our duty of care issues that we did have really well.

Cameron Anderson

Head of Sport

Barker College

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We've got a better sporting program and better results because of Clipboard. It saves us time, and gives our coaches and staff more time to work with students and develop their knowledge and skills because they're not wasting time on admin.

Michael Blake

Headmaster

St Joseph's College Hunters Hill

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Implementing Clipboard has been a tremendous asset. This technology has ensured effective communication and less time on mundane administrative tasks.

Stephen O’Donnell

Director of Co-Curricular

Waverley College

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Our parents can see their sons' personalised schedule and get instantly notified when anything changes last minute. Clipboard also integrates seamlessly alongside our other core systems at the school.

Paul Lister

Chief Information Officer (CIO)

The Scots College Sydney

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