Online entering of exam results

Enright

Looking for some help (again)

We are using facility in school, each term every teacher fills out exam results and the secretary enters them manually. I would like to teachers to be able to enter them online. Ive been on to the Dept of Ed and Science who tell me that its impossible to do this, due to security, data protection and especially as the software doesnt allow it.

My question: is anyone using facility able to enter results online? using facility or any other program? What alternatives exist?

Any suggestions will be welcomed!

TheDriver

Yes, my school uses an online version, we can enter results through an interface called eportal which is accessible through the schools website. Its just an interface to facility, works great and saves us all a lot of hassle. Parents can look up their kids results the second they are entered.

gaeilgebeo

Enright wrote: »

Looking for some help (again)

We are using facility in school, each term every teacher fills out exam results and the secretary enters them manually. I would like to teachers to be able to enter them online. Ive been on to the Dept of Ed and Science who tell me that its impossible to do this, due to security, data protection and especially as the software doesnt allow it.

My question: is anyone using facility able to enter results online? using facility or any other program? What alternatives exist?

Any suggestions will be welcomed!

Each teacher has a number on computer and their classlists. You enter results and comment for your own classes.

Toto Wolfcastle

I think it would be a good idea rather than having to go into school to enter the results into facility. I mean, I don't mind, and I suppose if I couldn't I could give them to the secretary to do, but it would be handy to be able to do them from home online.

However, I can imagine that it would cause problems such as those mentioned by the DES. I'd be interested in knowing whether it is, in fact, possible.

Toto Wolfcastle

TheDriver wrote: »

Yes, my school uses an online version, we can enter results through an interface called eportal which is accessible through the schools website. Its just an interface to facility, works great and saves us all a lot of hassle. Parents can look up their kids results the second they are entered.

That is a very good idea.

spurious

Anyone know a way of using Moodle to link with Facility? Will eportal allow that?

We have the same alleged security issues with Facility, but if we could somehow do it through Moodle, then staff could enter stuff from home.

dlgirl

We also use e-portal in our school. It allows us to register students for attendance, update their exam results, make appointments with students, quickly find details about the student e.g. parents contact details, find where a student is at any particular time in the day, check our own timetable/class lists etc.

By the mid-term break it is hoped that we can use e-portal from home.

TheDriver

we have been using eportal for about 2.5 years now, parents have encompassed it very well and we find it saves us a lot of time. It also allows us to input our roll easily each day than to use books like we used to. Maybe there is security issues but to be honest, it works and no one has a problem and no one can go looking into other kids results unless you are serious into hacking etc and if thats your forte, then exam results aren't exactly worth it! Parents love seeing results especially trend graphs of the results.
I have tried linking moodle with facility and there is a plugin on the moodle website www.moodle.org which is used in a few schools in England, however the principal is weary of linking too much together for time being and we are only getting moodle accepted which is a process we want to monitor closely.I even looked up my timetable on eportal last week for the coming year from home.

Enright

eportal sounds interesting
can i see a sample or where can i get a link?
did your school do it yourselves or pay a third party?

thanks for the asistance thus far

Enright

To answer my own question:

i think this is the company i was looking for

http://www.sercolearning.com/

Tom Dunne

Enright wrote: »

I would like to teachers to be able to enter them online. Ive been on to the Dept of Ed and Science who tell me that its impossible to do this, due to security, data protection

Well if that's the case, then every Institute of Technology in the country is breaking the law.

I've entered exam results from my kitchen table, via the web using Banner software.

Might be a bit of an overkill for second level, but it's certainly possible.

rainbowtrout

TheDriver wrote: »

we have been using eportal for about 2.5 years now, parents have encompassed it very well and we find it saves us a lot of time. It also allows us to input our roll easily each day than to use books like we used to. Maybe there is security issues but to be honest, it works and no one has a problem and no one can go looking into other kids results unless you are serious into hacking etc and if thats your forte, then exam results aren't exactly worth it! Parents love seeing results especially trend graphs of the results.
I have tried linking moodle with facility and there is a plugin on the moodle website www.moodle.org which is used in a few schools in England, however the principal is weary of linking too much together for time being and we are only getting moodle accepted which is a process we want to monitor closely.I even looked up my timetable on eportal last week for the coming year from home.

We use eportal in our school as well. There is a computer in each class room so teachers enter the roll online in each class. It's linked to an automatic dialler so if a student is missing from class and it's not in the system already (school tour, sick etc ) the dialler keeps ringing the parent until they answer. We've had a few teething problems with it but it seems to be working.

We put in our christmas/summer/mock test results on it. We can do that from home as well as there is a link on the school website. As TheDriver said, you can access any students details, contact details, number of absences, list of teachers, their timetable. Our own timetables are on it as well. For the first time this year students are getting their own printed timetables instead of the vice principal calling the whole thing out on the first day to each year group and them writing it out.

Overall it's quite good, we've been using it since about a year.

Here's a screenshot of my homepage on it. I've blanked out the details of course, but it lists my classes for the day, the class groups I teach and I can click on any of them to get a class list, do roll call, results entry etc.

Delphi91

When you say "online" do you mean via the internet or just through a computer in the school?

I set up Facility to do this a few years back - its very straight forward to do. I created the report formats, etc so that the student reports printed correctly at the end. Each teacher logged in to Facility, was presented with a class list, and all they did was enter each exam grade, followed by a number from 1 - 20 (which corresponded to a pre-defined comment) and then went on to the next student. I reckon that a teacher who was reasonably adept at using a computer could enter 5-6 class sets of results in probably 10 mins. Contrast this with writing in exam results into exam books.....

While we've gone down the road of using ePortal in the last year or so for recording attendance, we haven't used it for exam result entry yet, but it seems straight forward. BTW, ePortal is expensive.

Mike