[sims] Programme of Study

[duesouth]

I've been asked to look at SIMS Programme of Study with a view to using it for KS3.

 

I thought I'd post here to get feedback from anyone who has used this.

 

What do you think of this area of the system? How easy is it to set up from a SIMS Manager point of view? How easy do teaching staff find to use it (worth mentioning that IT literacy is pretty poor here)?

 

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

Edited January 27, 2022 by duesouth

[bobsmith]

Looked at it when it first came out, then cried and hid under my desk.

 

Does it even fit your assessment strategy for KS3?

That's the reason I didn't bother - the path we went down didn't lend itself to the PoS stuff.

[ABR82]

Looked at it when it first came out, then cried and hid under my desk.

Does it even fit your assessment strategy for KS3?

That's the reason I didn't bother - the path we went down didn't lend itself to the PoS stuff.

 

Pretty much the same as what we did. Shown it by reps, had a play.

 

It might work, if that is how you assess, but it felt more like a desperate attempt to jump onto the assessment without levels bandwagon rather than something that had been planned/thought out for a while. Not entirely user friendly to my mind either. We went a different way.

[duesouth]

@ABR82 @bobsmith Thanks for the replies. Out of the box, no, it doesn't fit our KS3 assessment strategy. I've been looking at creating something for our KS3 assessment strategy, and seems like way too much work. It certainly felt rather clunky and I'm not sure our teaching staff would like it that much. Thanks again.