e-portal teaching

JD3112

Hi,

I have just come across a job advertisment where it states that 'a knowledge of e-portal teaching techniques is desirable'.

I used e-portal once (I think) last year during my HDip to enter in xmas exam results for my classes.

I am just wondering is e-portal all about administration (i.e. results, timetable, roll etc)?

I don't think it would take too long to get used to the programme so it seems strange to mention the above in the job advert??

Unless its something different altogether?

Cheers

mazken

We use e-portal in our school for everything you have mentioned in your post i.e. roll calls, assessments, checking where students are if you need them (students info, contact info, their timetables, their teachers etc....it's v useful in that regard!!). It's a really handy system. I know that other schools use it for announcements...there's a calender on the home page so you can mark in events. Other schools allow parents to have access it (obviously on a more limited basis). Hope that helps. There's nothing too difficult about the system at all!
Best of luck with the job application

JD3112

Thanks

rainbowtrout

It's exactly as mazken says. We use it for roll call, entering exam results, have our timetable on it, can do the roll for supervision classes for absent teachers and parents can access their son/daughter's profile.

Seems like an odd thing to put in a job advert. The cynical part of me would wonder is the job gone already and it was put in to be able to dismiss applicants in an interview that didn't have eportal experience.

evolving_doors

Ya funny to put that in an ad

same as asking a candidate,, "have you ever used this thing called 'The Internet'"

Maybe if you're a nqt and haven't used it before it;d put you off applying thinking it'd be some mad complicated software that youd have to go on a weekend course and be put up in a hotel in kerry to learn (just like that newfangled facebook thing they're all talkin about;))

gaeilgegrinds1

Odd to have that in an advert, I'd say as was suggested it is to put people off. It's not difficult to use, we use it for everything. I'd apply if I were you anyway but swot up on it in case called for interview.

niall3r

I also would not be put off applying for the job if I were you. You can pretty much pick it up yourself.

Further Ed.

I would just draw attention to the phrase used - 'a knowledge of e-portal teaching techniques is desirable'.

It may be poorly phrased but it may refer to the use of a VLE or something similar to Moodle or Blackboard rather than administrative techniques as previously referred to. Other posters are bading their knowledge of e-Portal on its use in Irish secondary schools.

e-Portal has other packages for FE and HE which are widely used in the UK. Check out this link - http://www.serco.com/markets/education/schools/secondary/facility/ePortal.asp

TheDriver

I don't know of any school who uses eportal for anything other than admin. Even at that, eportal is merely an interface for admin through the internet afaik

Further Ed.

I was just saying that maybe it is poorly phrased and they could be using the term ePortal to cover a myriad of VLE systems and not just the ePortal admin activity. Anyway best of luck

tweety7

how do i input test results on eportal

TheDriver

go to main menu, then assessment

evolving_doors

Entering exam results is supposed to be difficult with a Mac

curiousgirl201

Just wondering can teachers see all of the students exam results just by clicking their name or can they only see the students results of the subject they teach? For example,can a Geography teacher see the results of a students English exam?

TheDriver

A Teacher has access to the results of all students, exactly the same as if a Teacher can go to the office and get all the results. Not a privacy issue at all

Pwpane

TheDriver wrote: »

A Teacher has access to the results of all students, exactly the same as if a Teacher can go to the office and get all the results. Not a privacy issue at all

And can change the comments of the other teachers!

Look up the student's results as a whole, then click on another teacher's comment....