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★ FSI Exclusive — No Other System Offers This

ACARA-Sync
Automatic Australian Curriculum Mapping
for School Libraries

ACARA-Sync automatically maps every resource in your school library to the Australian Curriculum — by learning area, strand, and year level. No manual tagging. No extra modules. Just your collection, intelligently linked to ACARA from the moment each book is catalogued.

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What is ACARA-Sync?

Your entire library collection, automatically mapped to the Australian Curriculum.

ACARA-Sync is an exclusive SmartSuite feature that automatically links every resource in your school library to the Australian Curriculum (ACARA). The moment a book is catalogued, SmartSuite assigns the relevant learning areas, strands, sub-strands, and year levels — without any input from the librarian.

Teachers can then search the library by curriculum outcome or code. Students can discover what's available for their area of study. And librarians can see — at a glance — which parts of the curriculum are well-resourced and where the collection has gaps.

Teacher-librarian using ACARA-Sync curriculum mapping in SmartSuite

See ACARA-Sync in Action

Watch how SmartSuite automatically syncs your library collection with the Australian Curriculum, saving hours of manual cataloguing work.

Who benefits from ACARA-Sync?

ACARA-Sync makes the library a more useful teaching and learning tool for everyone in the school.

Teacher-Librarians

  • ✓Prove curriculum alignment to school leadership
  • ✓Identify gaps in the collection and direct purchasing
  • ✓Collaborate with classroom teachers using a shared language
  • ✓Save hours of manual tagging — it happens automatically

Classroom Teachers

  • ✓Search the library by learning area, strand, or year level
  • ✓Find relevant library resources for any unit of work
  • ✓Share curated resource lists with students
  • ✓Work with the librarian to support curriculum delivery

School Leaders

  • ✓Demonstrate curriculum integration to accreditors
  • ✓Make data-driven collection development decisions
  • ✓Show the library's contribution to learning outcomes
  • ✓Justify library budget with curriculum coverage reports
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SmartSuite is the only school library system in Australia with ACARA-Sync.

Automatic curriculum mapping is not available in any other school library management system. It is not an add-on or a module — it is built into every SmartSuite subscription at no extra cost.

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ACARA-Sync — Frequently Asked Questions

What is ACARA-Sync?+
ACARA-Sync is an exclusive SmartSuite feature that automatically maps every resource in your school library to the Australian Curriculum (ACARA). It links each item to the relevant learning areas, strands, and year levels — without any manual tagging by the librarian.
Is SmartSuite the only library system with ACARA-Sync?+
Yes. ACARA-Sync is exclusive to SmartSuite. No other school library management system in Australia automatically maps library collections to the Australian Curriculum.
Does ACARA-Sync require any manual setup or tagging?+
No. ACARA-Sync runs automatically in the background. Librarians do not need to tag or categorise resources manually — the curriculum mapping happens the moment a book is catalogued.
Can teachers search the library by curriculum outcome using ACARA-Sync?+
Yes. Through SmartSearch, teachers and students can search the school library by curriculum code, learning area, strand, or outcome. SmartSuite returns only the resources your library actually holds.
Does ACARA-Sync show gaps in our library collection?+
Yes. ACARA-Sync gives librarians a curriculum coverage map — showing which learning areas and year levels are well-resourced and where the collection has gaps. This is invaluable for budgeting and collection development.
Is ACARA-Sync included in the standard SmartSuite subscription?+
Yes. ACARA-Sync is built into every SmartSuite subscription at no additional cost. There are no extra modules to purchase and no additional fees.

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