Welcome to iAbacus for Ireland
Welcome to iAbacus for Ireland
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For schools across Ireland, iAbacus provides a clear, collaborative framework that is fully aligned with the Department of Education's vision for school improvement. Whether you are a primary school undertaking School Self-Evaluation (SSE) against the Looking at Our School 2022 framework or a post-primary DEIS school building a targeted action plan, our platform helps you to evaluate your practice, drive meaningful improvement, and support every learner's journey.
For schools across Ireland, iAbacus provides a clear, collaborative framework that is fully aligned with the Department of Education's vision for school improvement. Whether you are a primary school undertaking School Self-Evaluation (SSE) against the Looking at Our School 2022 framework or a post-primary DEIS school building a targeted action plan, our platform helps you to evaluate your practice, drive meaningful improvement, and support every learner's journey.
Align your SSE with the official Looking at Our School 2022 framework.
Create a single source of truth for your School Improvement Plan (SIP).
Drive targeted improvement in DEIS schools with a specific action plan.
Strengthen your school's approach to wellbeing with a dedicated framework.
Develop your digital learning strategy using the official national framework.
Support staff professional dialogue, linked to your Croke Park hours.
Demonstrate impact with clear, evidence-based reports for the Inspectorate.
Empower your school community with a shared collaborative planning tool.
Develop leadership capacity with a reflective, structured process.
How it's used in Irish schools
How it's used in Irish schools
iAbacus brings clarity and consistency to all your improvement work, from strategic School Self-Evaluation against the LAOS 2022 framework to planning your digital learning strategy.
iAbacus brings clarity and consistency to all your improvement work, from strategic School Self-Evaluation against the LAOS 2022 framework to planning your digital learning strategy.
Create a collaborative, live self-evaluation using our dedicated templates aligned with the Looking at Our School 2022 framework. Bring your leadership team together to build a shared, evidence-rich picture of your school's strengths and priorities, and turn your SSE into a meaningful, actionable School Improvement Plan (SIP).
Support every member of your team with a simple, structured tool for professional learning and development. Staff can evaluate their practice, evidence their impact, and create targeted goals for their growth, fostering a culture of meaningful reflection that can be linked to your Croke Park hours.
Empower your leadership team to drive a whole-school priority, such as implementing the Digital Learning Framework or strengthening your approach to wellbeing. Use our dedicated templates to ensure a consistent, evidence-based approach to strategic improvement across your school.
Create a holistic view of a pupil's journey. Use individual abacuses to track academic progress, monitor wellbeing, or coordinate support for pupils with additional needs, ensuring every child is supported to achieve their full potential.
A flexible tool for every purpose and role
A flexible tool for every purpose and role
Every purpose
Every purpose
From whole-school self-evaluation using the LAOS 2022 framework and DEIS action planning, to managing wellbeing provision and supporting staff development, iAbacus supports every aspect of your school's improvement journey.
Every role
Every role
In an Irish school, collaboration is key. iAbacus empowers your entire team—from the Principal and Deputy Principal to classroom teachers and Special Education Teachers—to collaborate on shared goals and contribute to a unified vision.
Principals
Principals
Lead collaborative School Self-Evaluation and improvement plans, support your in-school management team, and report to your Board of Management with confidence and evidence.
Middle Leaders
Middle Leaders
Drive improvement for your subject department or pastoral area with a clear, evidence-based process that develops your leadership and strategic thinking.
Teachers / TAs
Teachers / TAs
Own your professional growth with a simple, structured tool for reflection, professional dialogue, and evidencing your impact on learner outcomes over time.
LAOS 2022: Leading improvement with confidence
LAOS 2022: Leading improvement with confidence
Our whole-school templates, aligned with the LAOS 2022 quality framework, give school leaders a single, collaborative hub for their improvement plan, turning evaluation into confident, strategic action.
Our whole-school templates, aligned with the LAOS 2022 quality framework, give school leaders a single, collaborative hub for their improvement plan, turning evaluation into confident, strategic action.
Smart features that save time
Smart features that save time
Everything you need to embed a sustainable culture of self-evaluation and improvement.
Everything you need to embed a sustainable culture of self-evaluation and improvement.
Templates for Irish schools
Templates for Irish schools
Start straight away with templates for schools in Ireland — or let us design one tailored to your needs.
Collaborative planning
Collaborative planning
Co-create plans with colleagues and build a shared culture of ownership across your school.
Instant one-click reports
Instant one-click reports
Export PDFs in a single click — ready to share with your Board of Management or the Inspectorate.
Track progress visually
Track progress visually
See progress over time with a visual record that shows not just where you are — but how far you’ve come.
Templates for schools in Ireland
Templates for schools in Ireland
iAbacus includes a library of ready-made templates tailored specifically to the Irish context, ensuring you can align your self-evaluation with national priorities from day one.
iAbacus includes a library of ready-made templates tailored specifically to the Irish context, ensuring you can align your self-evaluation with national priorities from day one.
This template provides a clear framework for Primary and Special schools to conduct a robust self-evaluation aligned with the Looking at Our School 2022 quality framework. It creates a single, dynamic hub for your School Improvement Plan (SIP), consolidating all judgements, evidence, and actions.
Designed for post-primary leadership teams, this template mirrors the LAOS 2022 framework, ensuring your SSE is comprehensive and directly aligned with Inspectorate expectations. It streamlines the entire process, saving valuable leadership time and fostering collaborative, evidence-based planning.
Based on the Wellbeing Policy Statement and Framework for Practice, this template helps you evaluate and strategically plan your whole-school approach to wellbeing. It provides a structured process to ensure a healthy, supportive, and inclusive environment for all learners and staff.
This template allows you to structure your school's self-evaluation against the official Digital Learning Framework. It helps you to visualise your progress, create a dynamic and actionable plan, and build a centralised evidence base to share with the Inspectorate or Board of Management.
This template empowers post-primary leaders to evaluate their effectiveness against the four leadership domains of the LAOS 2022 framework. It is a powerful tool for individual reflection, team development, and for building leadership capacity across the school.
A structured framework for DEIS schools to evaluate performance against key themes, strengthen community links, and build an evidence-based action plan. It integrates your DEIS plan into your SIP, streamlining reporting and driving targeted improvement for your students.
A Teacher-Centric Approach to Appraisal
A Teacher-Centric Approach to Appraisal
Support staff growth with a unique, teacher-centric approach. iAbacus transforms professional development into a meaningful dialogue, empowering teachers to own their learning journey and evidence the impact of their practice.
Support staff growth with a unique, teacher-centric approach. iAbacus transforms professional development into a meaningful dialogue, empowering teachers to own their learning journey and evidence the impact of their practice.
Not just evaluation
Not just evaluation
Too many tools stop at judgement. iAbacus moves you forward.
Too many tools stop at judgement. iAbacus moves you forward.
Unlike audit and compliance systems that simply show where you are, iAbacus connects evaluation to action. It leads you through analysis, planning and collaboration — ensuring insight becomes strategy and drives real improvement.
Supporting every learner's journey
Supporting every learner's journey
Create a holistic, 360-degree view of a pupil's progress. Use our learner-focused templates to coordinate support, track wellbeing, and ensure every child—especially those with additional needs—has a clear and personalised path to success.
Create a holistic, 360-degree view of a pupil's progress. Use our learner-focused templates to coordinate support, track wellbeing, and ensure every child—especially those with additional needs—has a clear and personalised path to success.
Instant Insights
Instant Insights
From multiple perspectives to one clear picture
From multiple perspectives to one clear picture
The true power of iAbacus emerges when evaluations and action plans are shared. Our unique "Overlay" features let you combine input from different teams, subjects or schools — instantly. This creates a panoramic view that reveals patterns, highlights good practice and supports more informed, strategic decisions.
What youre colleagues are saying...
What youre colleagues are saying...
"The most straightforward and simple improvement tool I have come across in the last 10 years."
-- HEADTEACHER --
"Because it’s not complicated everybody gets it! Not having to explain it makes it easy to share."
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"At strategic board level we use it to look at strengths and weaknesses across all the schools."
-- GROUP CEO --
"It was a revelation! Lo and behold, I only had to look at it to know what it is all about."
-- IT JOURNALIST --
"It's intuitive and reflects very simply the journey we want teachers to plan for themselves."
-- HEADTEACHER --
"The most powerful tool for providing concrete evidence towards appraisals."
-- HEADTEACHER --
"I like how it helps you reflect as a practitioner. The visual idea of an abacus makes it easy to use."
-- TEACHER --
"It’s simple and easy to use even for a computer-phobe like me. Thank you for all your help."
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"The idea is good, the display is good – the final report function is very good."
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Book a personal demo
Let us show you how iAbacus can be shaped around your goals — in a friendly, no-pressure session.
Try iAbacus for FREE
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Unlock the full platform with your team and experience the clarity and confidence iAbacus brings.
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Book a demo and get a free 30 day trial
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Align with Irish priorities using templates for the LAOS 2022 framework and DEIS.
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A single source of truth for your school's entire improvement journey.
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Empower every role with intuitive tools that foster shared ownership.
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Drive continuous improvement with a living, evidence-based process.
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