IT managers - How do you assist with results

[scholes99]

A few days ago the Headteacher called me into a meeting and said he wants me to come up with an idea that will help improve the school / improve results

 

He believe's that my knowledge and expertise in my field should be utilised to help with the curriculum side too.

 

I have told him that the reliable network infrastructure that I have put in place along side Google apps and Office 365 are helping in their own way.

 

I just wanted to know if any other network managers / IT managers have been asked the same question? and if you have any ideas that you could share?

[Steven_Cleaver]

This sort of came out by accident in my case I was asked if I could cover for our Data Manager who was sort of retiring so had reduced working days and we were having difficulties replacing her.

 

So at a Curriculum Meeting because the Data Manager was off staff were sort of complaining that they couldn't access their data as the Data Manager usually printed this for them so Head said can you devise system so staff can easily access this so created an App and linked all Department data to this exported from SIM's which has now sort of developed into its own Web based system for Data analysis and Intervention system linked with data auto extracted from SIM's and automatically analysed.

 

So Head said was their anything else I could think of so we setup remote access system so Staff and Students could access all work and systems externally better productivity, logging to see how much this is being used, approx. 24,000 logins a year.

 

Worked with Departments to make resources were put on our VLE for students, analysis on usage etc which was fed back to SLT and SLT followed up where this wasn't being used.

 

Parental Pages on the school website, Parent Forum, Curriculum information which is updated each Term to make sure Parents are aware of what is going on with Student Curriculum, homeworks etc

 

Parental Portal use Insight so Parents and Students can see Attendance, Behaviour, Exams, Reports, Options and looking at linking in Assessment system. Also saved money less Paper Reports as now nearly all on line.

 

Student and Parent Voice surveys and analysis of this Parent Voice again on Website and Students Survey analysis go to Departments to look at improvements and again SLT look at any issues raised from this, we use Survey Monkey which saves time. We also usually do Parent Surveys on Parents Evening and offer Parents any advice on using Parental Portal or other systems and deal with any issues they may be having.

 

I do a sort of yearly report to SLT and Governors on all this and anything else we are looking at, this also highlights where IT funding is going.

 

Obviously if already using some of these could just highlight this to Head that if these are used well have an impact on Teaching and Learning.