Welcome!

What is SARDS?


SARDS is a website for School Administrators in the state of Victoria, Australia. It is an independent site run by School Administrators, and is not owned by or affiliated with the Dept of Education. SARDS stands for School Administration Resources, Discussion, and Support, and aims to be an online support network for all School Administration staff. You can read more about the history and purpose of SARDS on the About page. SARDS is only available to employees of DE who work in Administration, and also anyone in DE who supports school administrators. All content on this page is only available to people with a registered account, and to apply for an account you must be an employee of DE.

What does SARDS do?


SARDS is many things:
  • An online discussion board where you can ask questions, discussion current issues, and browse the history of discussions over many years. SARDS is not an email list, but it does send a daily summary email once a day on school days to let you know what's happening in the dicussions.
  • A libary of common SQL queries useful in CASES, but not (yet!) in the standard reports available in CASES
  • Some calculators to help with common scenarios faced by ES Admin

I would like to join SARDS, how do I get access?


To get started, click the blue Create Account button on the top right hand corner. It will send an email to verify your email address, and once that’s done we’ll activate the account and you’ll have full access to everything and start receiving the daily summary emails.