Latest Developments, Bugs & Fixes

• Foundation Stage teacher? Actually, any teacher wanting to export evidence of assessments?! You can now export a complete record of all assessments made along with any evidence attached. Sometimes called a 'pupil profile'. Visit Analysis->Summary Sheets>and select the option with 'objectives in a list'>be sure to tick 'Include Evidence!'.
• The levelling screen in Classroom Monitor has been updated to use a better design for levelling pupils manually, or using the indictor guides Classroom Monitor displays.

Browser compatibility changes; Classroom Monitor will be updated to allow use in Google Chrome and Safari (for use on Apple Macs inc. iPads)

Classroom Monitor will be modified to allow schools to record progress in finer detail, such as:

• Fine grades e.g 2C+, 2B+
• The percentage of a PScale to be complete e.g. P6 60%
• The percentage of an EYFS phase to be complete e.g. 40-60 33%

28/03/2011 -

delayed until 20/04/2010 for further testing

We will be making some enhancements to Classroom Monitor:

• 'Test Results' will be renamed 'Summative Assessments' so it is clear that this area can be used for recording summative teacher assessments.
• When selecting an APP markbook, it will be possible to select specific AFs to view, rather than having to load all AFs for every level.
• We will also be renaming 'Class Management' -> 'Group Management' so it is clear that this area can be used to create groups for any purpose, such as intervention groups etc...

11/04/2011 -

delayed until 20/04/2010 for further testing

We will be making some modifications to the report-writing area in Classroom Monitor over the next few weeks:

• Dates which are automatically added to pupils' reports to allow end of year information to be split from interim information will be made invisible
• A summary of which subject have been ticked completed for each subject will be added
• The spell checker will be updated so it will underline as you type and will have a synonym checker
• A new improved statement bank will be added including secondary specific statements, better lookups and will be more in depth.
• Some minor improvements will be made to the layout and design

Classroom Monitor's Online Reporting module has now been released for general use, but will only be made accessible by teachers upon request. Please call 0844 5555211. Classroom Monitor has also undergone a makeover and to make room for a new 'Share with Parents' icon from the teacher view, the 'Test Results' area has been moved under 'Assessment'.

Our online reporting to parents module will focus on parental engagement; providing parents with access to pupils' reports, progress, achievement, attendance, attitude and behaviour.

Classroom Monitor will also go further, by providing parents with access to evidence to support assessments and online resources to support target setting.

• The analysis pages and help sections have been populated with new video tutorials (all marked as *new).
• It is now possible to set end of key stage / year targets as PScales.

We apologise for any problems experienced with the website today for 20 minutes between 12:55 and 13:15- a problem occurred on one of our servers - this has now been resolved.

23/11/2010

• Tracking sheets with targets will be improved to allow output in levels as well as points.
• The Target Setting area will be improved to allow targets to be set in PScales as well as NC points / levels

• Tracking sheets (in levels) have been improved to show progress (in points).

MIS Synchronisation

We were experiencing a couple of problems with our MIS synchronisation tool between the 4th and 7th October.

1) It seemed that classes with unusually long names had not been exporting to Classroom Monitor since the 4th October.

2) In some cases, teacher<->class permissions which have been set by the administrator have been overwritten by the synchronisation tool the following day.

These problems were resolved on the 7th October.

ISP Grid:

We apologise to users who have been waiting for this for some time. The ISP grid allows assessment results to be exported to excel in a format which makes pupil progress easily to visualise; such as the identification of pupils making slower progress than expected.

We have made improvements to the graphs in Classroom Monitor:

• Information from the graphs can be instantly saved in an excel Tracking Sheets from the graph page itself.
• Options to add and remove pupils and subjects from the graphs have been added to the graphs page so that 'busy' graphs can be simplified without have to leave the web page!

Updates for the new 2010-11 academic year include

• Improvements to our help videos and tutorials and easy access of these from the most relevant screens
• Curriculum customisation options will be improved, allowing schools to enable and disable subjects from different curriculums (National Curriculum, APP etc)
• In Analysis - the graph creation wizard has been simplified and Tracking Sheets have been improved to include progress between assessments
• The EYFS areas have been consolidated into the 13 areas of the EYFSP to make the EYFS easier to navigate and to provide better tracking through the EYFS to EYFSP
• In 'Import historic assessments' option will be included to allow schools to import historic assessment data from excel - this can be found when logged in as your school's administrator
• A new administration option allows schools to 'modulise' Classroom Monitor - sections can be switched off if you are not using them. Not using Classroom Monitor for your reports? Then switch it off to make the interface even simpler for teachers.
• Our MIS Synchronisation tool will now import teachers and collect attendance data for end of year reports and Online Reporting.
• A new feature called 'MIS Mapping' means that secondary school teachers will only have access to the subjects and classes they teach

We will no longer be supporting Internet Explorer 6 for use with Classroom Monitor. This has been a difficult decision, but the tools used to build Classroom Monitor are starting to cause problems with IE6.

On a positive front we will be switching back on the '1up & 1down' options for selecting multiple levels from the class markbook from 1st July.

• The option to add a school logo to reports has been added to the 'generate reports' screen. It could previously only be found in the management (admin) area.
• Some 'intelligent' improvements have been made to the statement bank.
• Tracking Sheets have been modified to include test names rather than just the heading 'Test'

The next update of Classroom Monitor will include:

• The association of teachers and subjects so that where required, secondary schools teachers will be granted access only to the subjects of concern to them. Associations be be automatically made by the MIS Synchronisation tool.
• Some customisable reporting options will be added so extra information can be added to reports e.g. effort grades.

• A 'Show EYFSP only' filter will be added to filter the EYFS subjects in the report-writing and analysis modules.
• The EYFS areas of learning will be re-ordered to match the order on the standards site.
• A change will be made to the EYFSP CSV Export for data returns - FSP terms will be changed to months.

Primary/ Secondary

• The levelling screen in Classroom Monitor has been updated to further streamline the assessment process in Classroom Monitor. Results of historic assessments imported from your MIS system are displayed to further inform teacher judgements.
• The Report-Writing screen has undergone a makeover to improve usability. Reports for all subjects are now editable from one screen and the statement bank has been improved with the option to create statement bank sub-categories.

Primary /Secondary

In March we will be updating Classroom Monitor with:

• Monthly usage statistics - automatic emails containing usage statistics and assessment summaries will be sent to system administrators - first email will be sent at end of March.
• Users will be able to login using their email address as an alternative to their Classroom username.

• APP Primary Science (levels 1+2) to be added to Classroom Monitor.

Completed

13/01/2010

Delayed until Feb 5th 2010 - in order to make some small modifications.

We are pleased to announce that we will be launching a new Evidence and Resources area at BETT 2010. This will include the ability to:

• Support assessments by attaching evidence in the form of video, photo, documents and notes.
• Share lesson plans and useful teaching resources by linking resources to assessment criteria.

Completed

14/12/2009

We have added the examples for the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile to both Class and Pupil markbooks. These can be displayed by hovering over the EYFSP Points.

Completed

02/12/2009

We have updated Classroom Montior with an automatic save for the Class Markbook (pupil markbook to follow soon). Class Markbooks are set to automatically save every 20 mins.

• A percentage of pupils to progress graph has been added into the analysis area of Classroom Monitor.
• A new value added graph (progress bar graph) has be added to the analysis area.
• An issue with ordering pupils by attainment on APP markbooks has been resolved.
• The option to view progress results by term has been added to help schools with large amounts of historic data.

Completed

11/11/2009

Our MIS Synchronisation (MIS Sync) tool is now fully functional. This tool will automaticaly export pupil, teacher and class data from your MIS system (Sims etc) to Classroom Monitor without you having to lift a finger! This fully automatic tool will save many hours of administration and can be purchased for just £100 a year.

Completed

04/11/2009

• 'Welsh as a Second Language' has been added to the welsh curriculum; apologies for this previous ommission.
• In the welsh curriculum the assessment criteria for Science have been grouped into the 'Planning', 'Developing' and 'Reflecting' skills from the skills framework. We are in the process of making similar changes for Maths, English and ICT.

Completed

03/11/2009

• When creating groups a 'Not' option has been added next to 'Pupil's First Language' so that pupils whose first language is not English can be selected to create EAL groups.
• Tracking sheets have be updated so that test results and teacher assessments can be exported to the same tracking sheet.
• Pupil's assessment levels have been added to the start date column in Target Setting to make this area easier to use.
• In User Management teachers can be associated with classes to speed up the process of adding teachers during a school year.

Completed

19/10/2009

New content has been added:

• SEAL
• Welsh as a Second Language (Welsh Curriculum)

Completed

12/10/2009

• Stage one of our new MIS Sync tool is completed and ready for testing, this tool will syncronise the pupil, class and teacher data held in your MIS with Classroom Monitor.
• Excel Tracking Sheets displaying targets are now colour coded to highlight below/above/on track pupils.
• Levels on Selected date graphs and Progress Graphs now display both levels and points on the graphs Y Axis.
• Extra options when creating Summary Sheets are now available (retain/remove pie chart, include list of when objectives were assessed, display objectives in a table format with 'ticks' for Target/Almost/Met).

Completed

01/09/2009

• The new version of Classroom Monitor includes:
  A new Pupil Markbook which allows assessments to be made for one pupil in multiple subjects and multiple levels. Perfect for APP and EYFS!
• A new Target Setting tool which allows either points per year or end date targets to be set. Pupils can then be tracked against these targets in the Analysis area.
• The Analysis area of Classroom Monitor has been simplified to be much more intuitive to use. Additional graphs and excel outputs are available for analysis of pupil data.
• Assessments made against the EYFS will be scored so that simple analysis can be carried out to see an overview of which children are working above and below age related expectations.
• The APP objectives have all been re-written into Parent Speak for use with target setting and report-writing.
• New content has been added including APP Science (KS3), APP ICT (KS3), Citizenship (KS1-4).