ClaSS
ClaSS is a comprehensive classroom information assistant and
school management system. ClaSS extends the reach of traditional
systems by using modern web-application methodologies to include
the whole school community. The application aims to be the ubiquitous
classroom information assistant for schools.
The software takes a classroom-first approach to
collecting and disseminating information in the most dynamic of
ways.
Features include:
- InfoBook - look up and/or change information on a student
at your school
- Search facility for individual and student groups
- Single-page student profile provides a snapshot and a
point of entry to all of an individual student's information
- Generic tables for customised supplementary information
such as prizes, activities, background circumstances etc
- Dedicated section for students with special educational
needs (SEN)
- Parental contact information and addresses ordered by
priority and with links to siblings
- Extensive supporting information including first and
second languages, nationality, etc
- Area for posting staff comments (or referrals) to
record praise and concerns, organised by categories
- Area for recording incidents with automatic generation
of email
alerts to the responsible staff
- Access to an archive of printed reports for each
student
- Tracking table of academic assessment grades provides a
snapsot of current cross-curricular performance
- Register - for staff to record attendance and punctuality
of students either one form group or one teaching class at a time
- MarkBook
- Personalised view of teaching classes and class-lists
- Alternate views by subject or course for the staff
with relevant responsibilities
- Spreadsheet-style display of marks and grades for
individual or multiple classes of students
- Simple set of functions to operate on columns
including averaging, summing, levelling, ranking and copying
- Export marks to csv files for importing into a
spreadsheet when more sophisticated analysis is needed
- Simple but sophisticated hide/show tool to manage the
display of large numbers of mark columns
- Core set of grading schemes and mark-types predefined
by each curriculum pack
- Tools to construct user-defined mark-types, grading
schemes and levelling boundaries
- One-click short-cut to view cross-curricular tracking
assessments for an individual student
- Flagging of SEN students and one-click access to their
individual profile
- Highlighting of students with recent concerns and
one-click posting of new comments and incidents
- Linking of mark columns to predefined assessment
grades for tracking and reporting
- Special columns for editing and viewing subject
reports to parents
- ReportBook
- Auto-generation of columns in the MarkBook for
assessment grades and subject reports
- Overviews of assessment grades for students grouped by
year or form
- Averaging and statistics for assessment grades by
subject or type of assessment
- Bank of customisable report templates for formating
the the presentation of subject reports to parents
- Collate and print subject reports to parents
individually, by form-group, or by course
- Collate and print comments and incidents during a
chosen period, again by subject, by form-group or by year-group
- Manage Reports - intended for users with administrators
access or for staff with course responsibilities
- Admin - allows administrators to assign responsibilities
to teachers, assign students to groups and view statistical information
- EntryBook - area for administrators to enter new students,
teachers and contacts admissions
- Special Educational Needs
- MedBook - view and edit medical information for students
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