School Reporting Suite

Saving Teachers Time

Month: May 2015

Our School Reporting Suite – Not Just For Teachers

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The School Reporting Suite is a cloud or local server based software solution designed to help teachers manage the recording and tracking of student assessments.

This safe and accessible system allows teachers and administrators to efficiently and effectively prepare, analyse and manage the production of annual reports. SRS is designed to work with a wide range of different curricula, including those that are used in faith schools or on a niche grading platform.

SRS includes charting & reporting functions that convert complex data into digestible information, allowing for easy understanding of student progress.

Who Can Use SRS?

The SRS is designed to be a valuable tool for teachers, parents, pupils and school management to effectively record, track and monitor the performance of pupils within their respective school system.

This allows teachers to efficiently and effectively prepare, analyse and manage the production of continuous pupil assessment reports, whilst headteachers can track the reporting process in real time.

This enables the headteacher to monitor the completion of reports and performance in one place, and in real time, allowing them to manage teachers and the reporting process more effectively.

This security and flexibility means that SRS can be used in the UK education system and around the world, as the system can accommodate any grading system. The flexibility of the system and its ability to incorporate different languages means that the system can be implemented anywhere in the world.

SRS for Parents

Using the cloud based system also allows for reports and data to be transferred over the internet. This enables parents and pupils to view (but not change) their reports and input their comments in real time.

If you have any questions about the School Reporting Suite program, and about how it can benefit schools regardless of their curriculum, contact us for a demo.

Teachers Save Time With SRS

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Time is one of the most valuable resources for individuals, and for teachers in particular it can often feel like there is never enough.

With such a varied and demanding job, managing time is an essential skill for any teacher. Even for the most experienced and organised teacher, finding the time to manage marking and assessments, and drawing up lesson plans, can be a challenge due to the sheer volume of work.

This is the reason that we have developed our system in collaboration with teachers, in order to give them their time back so that they can focus on the 101 other tasks they need to master to be a successful educator.

The Time-Poor Diary of a Teacher

Reports suggest that teachers can spend only a third of their time instructing pupils face-to-face, with the rest of their time dominated by admin, lesson preparation, and reporting tasks. Teachers work long hours far beyond their time in the school.

The administration itself, and time spent doing admin, puts a great deal of pressure on teachers. Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: “It is clear from the survey that although teachers love their profession, workload is unmanageable, accountability systems add unnecessary pressure and they are underpaid for the work they do.”

Therefore, any methods that help teachers reduce the time they spend on administration will reduce the pressure on teachers and the unpaid work that they do.

How SRS Can Help

At Aspiring Panda, we have developed our software, School reporting suite, to allow teachers and administrators to efficiently and effectively prepare, analyse, and manage the production of annual reports.

SRS has been proven to reduce report writing by 50%. This gives more time for teachers to teach and pupils to learn, giving head teachers’ peace of mind. Our service is hosted on secure servers on a cloud service that allows educators quick password protected access to all tracking and reporting stages anywhere, any time.

What Is the School Reporting Suite?

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The School Reporting Suite is designed to allow educators to assess, track and report the progress of students. It is designed to work across a wide cross-section of curricula, and to be usable in a wide range of languages.

This flexibility, along with its cloud based functionality, has meant that we are receiving more and more enquiries from the senior management teams of schools using a faith based curriculum.

So What Does The School Reporting Suite Do?

Assessment

The School Reporting Suite is an online reporting system that allows teachers to record every test or exam result of every child in a given class.

The system is also easy to use, and much less time consuming than manual data entry. As SRS is a cloud based system, it allows teachers to update information and records from any location, 24 hours a day, dependent only on having connection to the internet.

Tracking

This assessment monitoring tool allows teachers to analyse the results within the suite at the click of a button. This means pupil’s achievements can be tracked against targets, enabling the school to identify those students that need help. Subsequently, it can also be used to gauge whether interventions are successful.

This can represent a significant time saving for teachers when compared to a paper based system, while also enabling the ability to access information instantly based on the needs of school managers and teachers.

The system can be fully customised to the needs of the school and curriculum to make the assessment tracking and reporting system as simple as possible.

Reporting System

This progress can be presented to school management who can track where teachers are in completing their assessments in real time. These can then be passed for comment , reviewed, and sent back electronically, saving time for all parties and resources such as paper and printing ink.

The reporting system puts results in an easy to analyse format for all stakeholders. When complete internally, it can be sent to parents electronically who can send it back with comments.