Your School Already has a Report System?
The Paper Chase
If your school has an inadequate or paper-based system you will appreciate what a nightmare it can be, chasing bits of paper with reports getting lost or damaged. One report may pass through several hands - plenty of scope for mishap, frustration and stress.
Existing Computer-Based System
Alternatively your school may have developed a bespoke computer system. With such systems a common problem is lack of scalability: what copes well with a handfull of teachers may become unworkable when servicing many simultaneous users.
Maybe the in-house system has been developed and maintained by a member of staff. When that person leaves, detailed knowledge of how to operate and administer the system often leaves with them.
So:
- How easy it it for teachers to use? more...
- How easy it it to administer? more...
Does your current system use Microsoft Access?
Compare Ease Of Use with CAIRO
How Does Your System Stack-up?
Many Time-saving Features:
CAIRO has been designed from the ground-up as a simple system for teachers to operate. Total training time, for teachers with modest computer skills is typically about 40 minutes, less for those who are familiar with the Windows™ Operating System
- CAIRO presents you with choices that are relevant to you. No wading through exhaustive class lists - just select from the classes that you teach.
- Typically only three mouse-click sare required to get to your data
- Simple, uncluttered menus
- Quick-Access Menu gives the major system features as large labelled buttons
- Customisable Statement Bank:
- Custom: You can create your own bank of useful words, phrases, text snippets and paragraphs. Such a bank is specifically for your use only - others cannot access your comments.
- Gender: Your statements can be constructed such that all pronouns can be changed, when the phrase is inserted, to reflect the sex of the current student. In a real time-saver in a mixed-sex school.
- Substitution: Special words get changed. For example #FirstName# becomes the first name of the current student when the phrase is inserted. There are many available substitutions that cover such things as: the current subject, tutor group, teaching class, student's "known-as name" and so on.
