One simple platform for your whole school's voice
Elections, surveys, consultations, polls and resolutions, all in one place. The Election Wizard® guides you through every step, so you need no prior experience to run them well.
No training course. No IT ticket. No prior experience needed.
The platform was built so a busy member of staff can run a proper election or survey without help. The Election Wizard® does the thinking, ready-made templates do the drafting, and your school data flows in on its own.
The Election Wizard®
Tells you what to do at every step and sets the technical detail correctly for you. You just answer the questions.
Live in under 5 minutes
From a standing start to a real, open ballot or survey in minutes. Save anything you run again as a template.
Ready-made school templates
Pupil wellbeing, safeguarding, SEND, parent and staff surveys, governor elections. Pick one and go.
Your data, connected
Sync your roll automatically through Wonde, so your parent, staff and pupil lists are always current.
The Election Wizard®, start to finish
The same guided flow whether you are running a parent governor election, a wellbeing survey, a staff consultation or a student council vote.
Start a new event in one click
Open the Wizard and choose what you want to do. It then asks plain-English questions and configures the rest behind the scenes.
- Elections, surveys, resolutions, referendums
- Motions, policies, recalls and RSVPs too
- No need to know which voting method to pick
Step-by-step, with sensible defaults
A clear progress bar walks you through dates, candidates or questions, and your branding. Start from a ready-made template and you are most of the way there already.
- Plain-English prompts, nothing technical
- Pull in a school template and edit it
- Your logo and welcome message throughout
Invite your community, see turnout climb
Contacts come straight from Wonde, so there is nothing to type. Voters take part on any device with one click. You watch turnout in real time and nudge non-voters in two clicks.
- Branded portal, any device, no installs
- One-click reminders to non-voters
- Every admin action logged for scrutiny
A clear result, and evidence that builds all year
Results are ready the moment voting closes. Every event feeds your reporting, so at any point you can generate one report that pulls your whole year of engagement together.
- Instant, shareable results and a PDF
- Round-by-round detail for STV
- Rolls up into your annual report
Everything your school needs to ask, decide and record
Parent governor elections are where most schools start. The same platform runs every other kind of engagement across the year, from the same place.
Elections
Parent governors, staff governors, student council, head boy and girl.
Surveys & consultations
Parent and staff voice, statutory consultations, You Said We Did outcomes.
Resolutions & motions
Governing body decisions and policy votes, recorded with a clear audit trail.
Referendums & polls
Uniform changes, charity of the year, event feedback, quick yes or no votes.
Policies
Consult on and adopt policy changes, with everyone's acknowledgement recorded.
RSVPs
Collect attendance confirmations for meetings, AGMs and school events.
Officials & terms
Track who holds each governor role and when their term of office ends.
Live polling
Real-time polls during an AGM or all-hands meeting, with instant results.
Ready-made templates, written for schools
Over 30 templates you can use as they are or adapt. A few of the survey templates already built in:
A year of activity, one inspection-ready report
Every election, survey and consultation feeds the same place. When you need it, the platform pulls your whole academic year together into a single stakeholder engagement report, with your results benchmarked against similar schools.
- Parent, staff and pupil voice in one document
- Benchmarked against similar schools
- Ready to hand to governors or an inspector
Cyber Essentials certified
Independently assessed against the UK government's cyber security standard.
UK hosted, ICO registered
Your data stays in the UK. Encrypted in transit and at rest. ICO ZA462087.
Connects to your MIS
Wonde links to the MIS systems used across UK schools. One click, no IT setup.
Experienced with schools
We work with schools and trusts every day and know how governance really runs.
Part of a complete participation system
These features are how the CLEAR approach works day to day: one platform to listen, represent, consult, engage and assure across your whole school community, all year round.
And you are never on your own
Guided onboarding, MIS connection, exemplar policies and a calendar to start from. Every school also gets an end-of-year review with us to plan the year ahead. It is all part of the service.
Before you book a demo
Do I need any experience to run an election or survey?
No. The Election Wizard® guides you through every step in plain English and sets the technical detail for you. Most schools have their first event live in under five minutes.
Is it only for parent governor elections?
No. It runs elections, surveys, resolutions, referendums, motions, policies, recalls, RSVPs and live polling, with ready-made templates for pupil, parent and staff engagement. Most schools start with governor elections and quickly use it for far more.
How does it connect to our school data?
Through Wonde, which links to the MIS systems used across UK schools. It connects with one click from your admin account, with nothing to install and no IT department needed.
What evidence does it produce for governors and Ofsted?
Every event feeds one annual stakeholder engagement report that pulls your whole year together, benchmarked against similar schools. You can hand it to your board or an inspector as it is.
Is it secure?
Yes. We are Cyber Essentials certified, UK hosted and ICO registered. Ballots are encrypted, each voter has a unique secure login, votes lock once cast, and every administrator action is logged.
See it set up for your school
Book a short demo and we will show you the exact flow for the elections and surveys you need to run this year.