Teachers
Phase
Modern
teachers simply do not have the time to fiddle around with administration
tasks or the desire to adapt to continuingly changing reporting
systems that:
• Are at best poorly designed.
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Confusingly laid out.
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Constantly changes, therefore;
•
Requires
a steep learning curve every year.
•
Allow the adventurous into parts of the program they shouldn’t
be in and therefore…Break easily
•
Are unable to tell the parent the gender of their child.
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Have difficulty informing the parent their child is unique.
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Claim to be automated even though they require hours of cutting
and pasting statements into a word processor at a later date to
get the promised ‘Personalised touch’.
Take
the pain and hours of work out of creating a class report. SIRS
offers a one stop solution to reporting that requires you use
no other program at a later date. Once the data is entered it
remains. A completely customisable statement bank not only means
the fast production of reports it also means that students can
be referred to as individuals so parents know that the report
in front of them is about their child. A well designed graphical
user interface will prevent the need for costly specialised training.
Deployment across a network coupled with internet access from
home means it has never been easier for a teacher to complete
their reports at their own leisure.
Administration
Phase
Often,
in an attempt to reduce the workload of a teacher, more and more
work is dumped at the doors of a school's administration department.
SIRS has been designed to make the administration's life as easy
as it is possible to do so because like teachers they too have
more things to do than type and print report after report.
The
input of data from local government databases has been largely
automated and it is possible, through CSV files, to take data
from a variety of different sources and populate the SIRS database.
Most of the mundane tasks associated with data entry have been
streamlined by highly functional and well designed wizards so
as little time as possible is consumed by repetitive and mundane
tasks.
SIRS
has been designed to give administration ultimate control over
the entire reporting procedure so that when that time of year
creeps around again they know they will be in the driving seat:
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SIRS tells administration which class reports are ready to be printed,
which teachers have not started their reports and which teachers
have made a start to a classes reports but have
not finished them thus easing the process of ensuring all reports
are ready by the deadline.
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Previous years reports or duplicate reports can be retrieved and
printed at the click of a button with no need to wade through endless
paper based or word processed documents.
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Printing
is a painless experience and is flexible in that it can be used
to print a batch of one hundred or just one report.
The Reporting strategy phase
The
management of the reporting process is an ever progressing role
and so it is reassuring to know that SIRS has allowed for this
by providing stability in an ever changing environment. Whoever
is in control of the strategic development of a schools reporting
process can know that SIRS is there to help them by providing;