Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) has selected InPlace Software to manage field education across its Faculty of Community Services, following a competitive RFP process. The deployment will replace TMU’s long-standing PlacePro system and support 800 undergraduate and graduate students in the Schools of Social Work and Child and Youth Care.
TMU’s transition to InPlace this spring will carry forward more than 20 years of placement history — agency relationships, field instructor records, and student placement data — from PlacePro to InPlace Software. Every community partner record and placement connection moves with the institution, ensuring that decades of relationship-building and data history remain intact.
“Replacing a system we’ve used for two decades was never something we were going to do lightly. Our field education work is built on long-standing relationships with community agencies across Ontario, and those relationships had to come with us. What stood out about InPlace was how seriously they took that migration: every agency record, every field instructor, every piece of placement history moves forward. At the same time, we’re giving our coordinators, faculty, and students a modern, mobile platform that supports CASWE-ACFTS accreditation evidence and the way our programs actually run today,” shared Muleh Bisrat, Systems Implementation Lead, Faculty of Community Services, Toronto Metropolitan University.
For TMU’s social work programs, the move directly supports CASWE-ACFTS accreditation requirements, which require documented evidence of student competency development and field instructor qualifications. InPlace’s competency tracking and structured evaluation documentation are designed to meet these standards, giving program leadership confidence that accreditation evidence is captured consistently in one place across every cohort.
InPlace will centralize the full field placement lifecycle for TMU, from pre-placement requirements and agency agreements, through interview tracking and candidate matching based on student profiles and proximity, to timesheets with agency approvals, learning plans, evaluations, competency tracking, and hours verification. Automated reminders for forms and documents take the chasing out of coordinator workflows, freeing field education staff to deepen community partnerships and focus on student success.
“Being selected by TMU after a competitive RFP is a strong signal of our dedicated service to the Canadian Higher Education market. Social work and child and youth care programs don’t take system changes lightly, as these programs run on decades of agency relationships and field supervisor trust. Our job was to prove we could carry all of that forward, not start over. We’re bringing more than 20 years of TMU’s placement history into InPlace, meeting accreditation requirements out of the box with our InSight Survey and Assessment feature, while freeing their coordinators from the administrative load that comes with managing 800 students across two schools. We’re proud to be part of the TMU community.”
– Aaron White, General Manager, InPlace North America
For TMU students, including newcomers to Canada, students from equity-deserving communities, and those balancing placements alongside work and family responsibilities, InPlace provides a mobile-first, centralized experience. Requirements, schedules, evaluations, and a complete field education record live in one place, accessible from any device.
TMU’s deployment reflects a broader shift across Canadian social work and community services education, as faculties move from legacy placement systems and disconnected spreadsheets to centralized platforms that support accreditation reporting, agency relationship management, and a modern student experience, all without losing the institutional data built over decades of community partnership.
About Toronto Metropolitan University
Toronto Metropolitan University is one of Canada’s leading universities, known for its commitment to applied, experiential, and community-engaged learning. Its Faculty of Community Services prepares students for careers in the helping professions — including social work, child and youth care, nursing, midwifery, nutrition, occupational and public health, and disability studies — with deep ties to community agencies across the Greater Toronto Area and beyond. Learn more at torontomu.ca.
About InPlace
InPlace is the world-leading placement management software, used by more than 250 higher education institutions across Australia, the United Kingdom, North America, Europe, and Asia to coordinate clinical placements, work-integrated learning, and field experiences for over a million students each year. From nursing and allied health to career services, teacher education, social work, and community services, InPlace gives institutions an enterprise-solution to manage placement requests, competency tracking, compliance, timesheets, evaluations, and reporting. InPlace is a product of QuantumIT. Learn more at inplacesoftware.com.
