Slide deck of presentations given at the 2012 NAACE conference

1. Cutting Costs Using ICT
Alan Richards

2. About Me
Information Systems Manager @ West Hatch High School
Worked in education ICT for 18 years
SharePoint MVP

3. Cutting Costs Using ICT
Virtualisation
The Paperless School
Power Management

4. Why ?
1.5 million sheets of paper a year
Printing costs for letters, reports
Postage costs for letters, reports
Admin time
Increase availability of data
Data analysis
Easier than paper
Export to Excel

5. Academic Review Day
Drop down day for students
All students, along with parents, attend
interview with teacher
Fill in an online form
Data collected is emailed to student and
parent
Data is all saved to SharePoint 2010

6. Getting At The Data
• Easy navigation items on the Learning Gateway
• Year Managers
• Form Tutors

7. Getting At The Data
Simple search for teachers to find targets set for students in their classes

8. Getting At The Data
Simple images show if targets met or not

9. A Constant Reminder
Students log onto the Learning Gateway and see their targets

10. Online Homework
• Staff Set homework using a
form based on our Learning
Gateway
• Students see the homework
on their main gateway page
• Parents view the homework
set when they log onto the
gateway

11. Online Homework
Both students and parents can see the homework set by logging onto the
Learning Gateway

12. Progress Data

13. What Else
• Staff Absence Requests
• Easy completed forms
• Workflow deals with approval process
• Users can see their own requests and status
• VET Requests
• Easy completed forms
• Workflows deal with approval process
• Users can see own requests and status
• Deals with reminders for risk assessments etc

14. Questions
Email me: arichards@edutechnow.com
Check my blog: www.edutechnow.com
Twitter: @arichards_Saruk