To develop high quality, cost-effective educational administration solutions for teachers with the express purpose of reducing their workloads. Software design driven by teachers’ needs, for teachers’ benefit.
To help ease the work and stress loads of teachers and administrators by providing professional support, advice, and outsourcing of the highest standard.
SEQTA Software is a division of Saron Education Ltd, an unlisted public company founded in 2006.
Early in 2006, CEO and founding Director, Grant Grosser, while a deputy principal at a large K–12 private school noticed that the need for relief teachers was substantially higher at the end of each term as teachers succumbed to illness due to workloads and stress. After spending a substantial amount of time in research, Grant saw the need for a company dedicated to finding solutions to what he was convinced was a global crisis in teaching, and decided to tackle the issue of teacher and administrator workloads head on.
By April 2006 Grant, who had previously developed reporting, attendance, and behaviour management software for his school, had come up with a unique concept for software that would substantially reduce teacher and admininistrator workloads by integrating every aspect of the teaching / learning environment of a school into a single, web-based software package.
By August 2006, the concept for Teachers’ Assistant was well advanced, patent applications were progressing, and developers were employed to being work on this watershed piece of software.
Teachers’ Assistant began trials in January 2008 in a small number of schools. In 2009, this was extended to involve 10 schools. In May 2009, version 1 of Teachers’ Assistant was released and the refinement of the software continued. Thanks to the experience and feedback of approximately 300 teachers using version 1, a continuous process of refinement and development was possible and resulted in version 1.5 being released in Augusty 2009.
A second product, SEQTA Coneqt, began development in May 2009. SEQTA Coneqt is a portal-style interface for students and parents that allows them to tap into the wealth of information and resources held within Teachers’ Assistant, making the Seqta Suite the world’s first Fully Integrated Learning Management System (FILMS).
Why is the FILMS concept unique? Essentially, because teachers don’t need to do anything other than their normal programming, planning, and assessment to gain all of the benefits of the LMS.
SEQTA Software was formed as the software division of Saron Education Ltd in July 2009 and continues to go from strength to strength, with full scale marketing having begun in August 2009.
SEQTA Software has a dedicated team of outstanding staff with an excellent knowledge and understanding of their individual roles. Despite the fact that all SEQTA products are sold as a service, the management, maintenance, and support requirements for the software are very low, allowing us to keep the team small, and the cost to schools low, while providing the highest standards of service.
Grant has over 20 years of experience in schools at all levels, from classroom teacher to deputy principal. He also has experience in private enterprise. As well as managing Saron Education Ltd and SEQTA Software, Grant oversees the strategic direction of software development, marketing, and training.
John is a qualified accountant with many years of experience in the corporate sector and has first-hand experience at starting up highly successful companies. Prior to emigrating from South Africa, John was an Executive Director of Alexander Forbes, one of the world’s top ten insurance companies. John looks after all aspects of financial management, corporate governance, and investor relations.
George has had significant experience both in school Information Technology departments and also in companies that outsource IT services to schools. George handles all aspects of implementation and also undertakes some of the programming, helpdesk, and support tasks.
Lance has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and has extensive experience in software development and systems integration. Lance is primarily responsible for our quality control systems, version deployment, and systems integration.
Barry has a Bachelor of Computer Science (Hons). He is primarily responsible for interface work and has oversight of the development of SEQTA coneqt and our mobile solutions.
As an experienced teacher and office manager, Sharon runs the SEQTA office and provides on-the-ground training support for teachers.
A secondary science teacher by profession, Julie has taught in both government and independent schools, in distance education, and in online learning. She has also experienced great success as a Marketing Manager in private enterprise, and more recently, worked in corporate Project Administration.