A web-based parent portal software designed to link directly with the SIMS management information system, allowing schools to engage parents in their child's education. Schools decide what data to make available for parents to view. Parents can login to INSIGHT Software, via a link on the school's website and see their child's data. The parent portal has helped schools improve communication between teachers, parents and pupils thus sharing pupil data online, as a result helping improve a child’s attendance, behaviour and more. By sharing pupil data online with parents, has helped schools save time and costs of paper, printing, and postage, as well as create a dialogue with parents and pupils helping in raising pupil attainment across the school. Parents can quickly see a snapshot view of the most important data as soon as they login, including: attendance for today, school notices, alerts for attendance and behaviour, assignments, recent behaviours. By keeping track of their child's attendance by viewing: timetable, attendance for today, attendance for this term, week by week attendance with overall weekly percentage, lesson by lesson attendance, attendance code summary, statistical summary, attendance by session, attendance by subject, comparison of attendance against class and year, termly attendance for the whole time at school..parents can see how their child's attendance is improving or otherwise. Positive and negative behaviour along with points can also be viewed by parents. Parents can also see any detentions issued and scheduled for their child and check if the detention was attended. To view how well their child’s behaviour is compared with the class and year group, a behaviour comparison chart is available to display this data. With schools reporting assessment data in INSIGHT, parents can login to see their child’s assessments and also view subject reports with the functionality of saving and printing these. Examination data, including exam entries, exam results and exam coursework, exam timetable and key stage results can also be viewed. If parents have new personal details to inform the school about, the new details can be sent to the school in INSIGHT. The personal details will be updated, once approved by the school... a quick, easy and convenient way for parents. A list of contacts associated with the child is available for parents, allowing them to instantly and conveniently contact a staff member regarding any issues or concerns regarding their child. For schools that hold school events, the ‘Ticket and Seat booking’ feature is a great time saving online tool allowing parents to book their seats and tickets online. General information such as: weather, RSS Feeds, school details, school announcements, user-defined pages, newsletters and school dinners can also be viewed.

1. INSIGHT Software
for
Parents, Pupils & Staff

2. Company Profile
• Established in 1991
• Developers of pupil data management
software products for schools and LAs
• Supplying to education establishments all
over the country
• Premier Partner of Capita CS..
• Allows TASC Software products to link
directly to the SIMS MIS in the school - no
transfer of data is required.

3. Why is
Parental Engagement
important?

4. Parental Engagement...
“Engaging parents is a powerful lever for raising
a child's achievement through continual
support and encouragement.
Having the ability to share
pupil data and interact
dynamically with parents
builds on the achievements
in school and drives school
improvement.”

5. With effective use of ICT in achieving parental
engagement:
• Pupil information is presented in a meaningful and
timely way to parents
• A communication channel is created between
parents and staff, including the ‘hard to reach’
parents
• An increase in pupil achievement will result due to
improved dialogue between parents and their
children.
Using ICT in Parental Engagement

6. Using ICT in Parental Engagement
Learner
SchoolParent
Partnership
Timely
ManageableMeaningful
Source: Becta, (2009) ‘Exploiting ICT to improve parental engagement, moving towards online reporting’, Coventry,: Becta Publications.

7. HOW can your school engage
Parents in their child’s education?
Answer...
INSIGHT Software
for Parents, Pupils & Staff

8. INSIGHT Software...
The portal can be used
collaboratively, thus creating a
3-way communication, instantly
and regularly.
An effective way of managing a
pupil’s behaviour, attendance,
progress and more...
A web-based solution, designed for:
• Parents
• Pupils
• Staff
..to login and view pupil data, held in the school’s SIMS MIS.

9. How does INSIGHT work?
INSIGHT is...
• a web application
• hosted in school on an IIS
Server using standard
Microsoft technologies
• available on the most
popular browsers conforming
to W3C standards
• available on mobile
devices.

10. Why INSIGHT.. for online reporting?
Involves parents in their child’s learning
By having instant access to their child’s
data, anytime and anywhere in real-time.
Pupils become more engaged in their progress
With access to an online tool to view, track and
improve their progress at school. Pupils can
also view their homework set and upload
evidence for homework completed.
Saves on costs and time
By reporting pupil data and reports online, schools
can save on printing and posting. Having all the
relevant information in one place and instantly
accessible online, helps save time.

11. Why INSIGHT.. for online reporting?
Parents can...
View their child’s attendance, behaviour, assessments and subject
reports online
Contact staff directly
Report their child’s absence
Update their personal details
Book their seats and tickets online for any school events
Participate in Forums
Give feedback on Surveys
Teachers can..
Select a pupil to see their data
Record and issue homework to pupils
Download any homework evidence
Access their SIMS Marksheets and enter grades online
View Parents Evenings Appointments, selecting from a
range of reports

12. Why INSIGHT.. for online reporting?
Easy access via mobile devices
available on iPhone, iPad and
standard mobile phone devices.
Links with other systems
Cashless catering Systems to show school dinners
VLEs
Reports from other systems external to SIMS

13. What data can Parents and Staff view online?
INSIGHT Software is a very flexible
solution and the school decides
what data to allow the different
roles to see: Parents, Pupils and
Staff.

14. Snapshot
A quick overview of the child’s: attendance for today, alerts, behaviour summary with the most
recent rolling behaviours, homework set.

15. Parents can see their child’s timetable with subject name, tutor,
timetabled room and session times.
Timetable

16. General Information
• Notices – school notices can be viewed
by parents
• Gallery – to display images of a pupils’
work
• School details & school calendar
• User defined page – display useful
information for parents, newsletters or a
webpage
• RSS Feeds – i.e. BBC Education News
• Weather

17. Book Parents’ Evening Appointments
Parents can book themselves appointments for parents’ evenings online and remove
themselves from an appointment. An appointment list can be printed also.

18. Attendance Summary
Parents can keep up to date with their child’s attendance for: today, week by week
summary provided with overall percentages, attendance by session, code summary, Lesson
Summary and a career attendance for their whole time in school. An attendance
comparison chart displays the child’s attendance compared with class and the year group.

19. Behaviour
Behaviour incidents
can be tracked by
parents including
positive and negative
behaviour points,
outcomes and the
recorder.
Parents can view any
detentions set, the
reason and if it was
served.
The Cash-In feature
allows pupil’s positive
behaviour points to be
traded in for physical
rewards.

20. Assessments
Assessment grades can be
viewed along with the results,
result date for the Aspects and
Result sets.
Assessment data can also be
viewed in chart format allowing
parents to see progress made at
a glance..

21. Examinations
Examination entries, Examination Coursework, Examination Timetable and
Examination results can be viewed including board Level, exam, result,
status, forecast and Points.

22. Reports Reports from Sims linked documents, Assessment Manager,
PARS Software or Profiles can be viewed online. Parents
can also save a copy of the report and print it.

23. Optional Extras available..
Pupil login
for pupils to login and view
their data
Parents’ Evening Booking System
Allows parents to book
appointments for themselves and
also remove appointments.
Surveys – allows staff to design
surveys for feedback from parents

24. Optional Extras available..
Options Offer – to allow parents/pupils
to select GCSE options online, writing
back to Sims.
Marksheets – for teachers to see their
marksheets from sims and access their
grading from home.
API (Application Program Interface) –
allows data to be viewed in other external
applications

25. Why Schools, Parents, & Pupils like Insight?

26. Why Schools, Parents, & Pupils like Insight?

27. The reaction from parents on the Insight product has been second to none! With
continual updates, ease of use and speed, parents really have found the
communication between the school and home has been improved on the back of
that product being introduced into the school. Insight has a far greater level of
functionality than any of the other products that we have seen out there. - Luke
Nicolaou, IT Director, Sunbury Manor School, Surrey
We have found INSIGHT excellent, we also found setting up students to access
INSIGHT extremely beneficial as they can access various information including Time
tables, Exams info, Homework, which has been useful saving staff admin time.
Students and parents become more involved in discussing Progress, Behaviour etc as
they can keep up to date with this info. - Steven Cleaver, Network Manager, Lode
Heath School, Solihull
My son is year 9 and a typical lad, not telling me much when he gets home! If I see any
CQs and can ask what he has done and also encourage him with any rewards given. I
can check and see what lessons he has today so I can ask how he got on. INSIGHT has
opened up really good conversations and his behaviour has improved. I find the
software easy to user, nice and simple, easily categorised. - Year 9 Parent Newent School,
Gloucester

28. Would you like to see a full demo?
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sales@tascsoftware.co.uk
01902 824281
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