Setting an IT budget without a map of what you already have means deciding blind. The Scoliom assessment is carried out entirely remotely, wherever your school is: a 45-minute conversation with the leadership team, a guided questionnaire, then a written document that stays yours — whether or not the story continues with us.
The equipment has built up through successive purchases and a string of providers taking over from one another. How many workstations are genuinely in service, which licences are still being paid for, which subscription renews itself quietly? With no answer to hand, the budget is set by guesswork — and usually on the high side.
Passwords, access to the platforms, the history of what was installed, supplier contacts: none of it is written down anywhere. One departure or one spell of sick leave, and on the first Tuesday of the school year the school can no longer get into its own system.
A backup that fails silently, a server no longer supported by its vendor, a line that saturates the moment three classes connect: no signal ever reaches the leadership team. The breakdown then happens at the worst possible moment — exam week, the re-enrolment campaign, the day report cards go out.
We start from what is costing you, not from what interests us.
45 minutes over a video call: spending that drifts, breakdowns that keep coming back, enrolment files that drag on, families who are hard to reach.
Equipment, network, software, contracts: all recorded in writing.
Workstations, servers, connectivity, licences and subscriptions in force are listed from a guided questionnaire completed with your team, and from the documents you choose to share.
What is burning, and what can wait.
Every risk is written in the language of school leaders, with its concrete consequence: a day of lessons lost, an invoice to redo, a student record left exposed.
Steps set against the school year.
What can be dealt with before the next term, what waits for the holidays, what is scheduled for the following school year — never major work in the middle of an exam session.
Including handing it to someone else.
The written review comes to you as a PDF, yours to use as you wish: your board, your own technician or another provider can work from it exactly as it stands. Look through a sample assessment.
Nothing is plugged into your systems.
No connection to your network, no credentials requested, no student data handed over: everything rests on the conversation and on the documents you choose to share.
The assessment commits you to nothing: the action plan holds good even if you never call us back. If you do entrust us with carrying it out, everything sits inside the Scoliom management contract — a single point of contact, a written scope, modules already built and then configured for your school — from day-to-day management of your IT estate to the school's cybersecurity. The Scoliom Essentiel plan — “running the school” — is quoted on request: the amount depends on your student numbers, your country and the scope you choose.
Worth knowing: the assessment is carried out remotely and with no commitment — it is the first step of the method, not a service to be ordered separately. If you then decide to work with us, the Essentiel school management platform, the Sérénité plan — the connected school — and the Direction Numérique plan — the school under control — are all set out in a written quote: the amount depends on your student numbers, your country and the scope you choose, it is settled after the remote assessment, and it then stays fixed for the whole school year — never any billing per student.
See also: the Scoliom module screens — demonstrations on fictional data.
No commitment means exactly what it says: no purchase conditions, no automatic renewal, no persistent chasing. You receive the written review and you do what you want with it — present it to your board, hand it to your own technician or to another provider. If we are not the right partner for your school, we say so.
No. At this stage no access is requested and no credentials are shared with us: the assessment rests on the conversation with the leadership team, on a guided questionnaire and on the documents you choose to share. If we then start working together, data is hosted in the European Union, encrypted, and handled under the GDPR and the data protection rules that apply in your school's country.
Yes, and that is often where it earns its keep. It brings an outside, independent view of what is already in place — equipment, network, management software and contracts in force — without calling into question the work of your own technician. Many school leaders use it as a roadmap to hand to their current provider: the document belongs to them, with no obligation to work with us.
A 45-minute conversation, a guided questionnaire, then a written review with risks ranked by priority and a 30/90/180-day action plan. Remote, with no access to your systems, and with no commitment.
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