“Pupils found the software easy to use and enjoyed working from school and home. They quickly found their way around the site and used the resources to help them with their targets. They appreciated the ability of staff to comment and the way they could quickly access how well they were doing. Staff could easily track the progress of each pupil and highlight work that was late or incomplete. The ability to create tasks and provide on-line resources helped to ease some of the time constraints in a lesson with a large number of pupils. Also, those who missed lessons were able quickly to view the resources used. Due to the monitoring capability and feedback, it was shown that pupil’s performance improved and as a department we were able to view each other’s work and moderate across the year group. The lack of paper saved teachers time and allowed for a more meaningful assessment to take place and engaged the pupil and parents in the learning process. Pupils needed to learn appropriate skills of uploading and downloading work and resources, but even the less able easily acquired these skills easily. The system is good value for money as it not only provides much needed resources for the teacher and provides a valid assessment capability, but also involves both parents and pupils in the learning process and gives pupils ownership of their work.”
Colin Whitehead, teacher, Christopher Whitehead School, Worcestershire