Storing evidence of assessment and achievement. The Classroom Monitor markbook is unique, a single place where teachers can not only record their assessments, track and level pupils, and write reports in one simple process, they can make notes, attach and store files and evidence of assessment against pupils’ records creating a simple online e-portfolio of pupil achievements.
It’s as simple as highlighting the relevant boxes in the markbook and right-clicking. Teachers can add notes, attach photos, videos, documents or sound recordings onto the markbook. These are stored securely and are instantly accessible for moderation meetings, to pass from teacher to teacher and for sharing best practice across a school. In line with the new Ofsted framework 2012 demonstrating level judgements and showing evidence of those judgements to Ofsted or for the Local Authority becomes a breeze.
If a secondary school is using our online reporting module, any evidence attached to a pupil record can also be shared online with parents or students. Parents can share in the achievements of their child by seeing photos of work they have done, videos of projects or field trips, links to blogs or even sound recordings made in the classroom. Parental involvement is key to a student’s learning success, inspire your parents and make them feel part of their child’s learning with engaging material, directly from the classroom without adding to teacher workload.
Linking assessment to resources, content and lesson plans
Pupil assessment is only effective if it feeds back into a teacher’s lesson planning and used to drive future learning and ensure teaching is focused on every student's individual needs.. The Classroom Monitor markbooks allow a teacher to do just that, any teacher can highlight an objective and link it to content, activities and resources which can be used in their classroom, given to students or shared across the school. Resources can take the form of web links, or files can be attached directly (documents, video etc) and will create a high quality bank of the best resources automatically shared for best practice across your department.
"We encourage teachers to use this as a “live” mark book in their lessons helping to record and share progress with students. The reporting tool also helps us to provide clear and specific next step targets for students, which has been highlighted through our parents forum meetings as key information " Felicity Smith, The Hermitage School