Replace costly traditional paper based student diaries by implementing DayMap’s Student Diary features. This is a simple and effective feature much like the existing teacher class notes system.
With the Student Diary students can now enter their own daily learning notes.
Please contact us for more information.
The new DayMap Parent Portal will provide real time information to parents about their children’s attendance, assessments, homework and more. It is a separate web application that provides a web interface tailored to parent’s requirements and also manages parent passwords. It works great with an iPad, and in future development could even have it’s own App.
Please contact us for an online demo or to find out more.
In the coming months we will be releasing the DayMap Support Portal which will provide schools with the ability to electronically lodge, monitor and communicate on support issues.
A community forum is included so schools will be able to share good practice and learn from others, creating a bank of knowledge.
So you accidently marked the wrong class out for an excursion last week, and you have only just realised? No problems. DayMap allows you to easily “undo” this task and reset attendance records, even allowing for all adjustments that have been made to any of the students attendance records since then.
It is important to know the difference between undoing an attendance action and removing absences, the key difference is that removing absences will not reinstate attendance records that were there prior. This is where the power of the “undo tool” comes into play.
This feature can be found at:
Attendance > Mark > Bulk Operations List
If you’re not using Student Groups, this feature is well worth exploring. Groups of students can be easily created and maintained, and then used for attendance, communications, assessment and reporting.
For example: choir, basketball, library monitors, students, at risk SRC, chess club.
Go to Find > Groups.
Create a new group, or manage an existing group. These groups will then appear in various search and filter modes throughout DayMap.
Teachers using a mobile device for marking the daily roll should ensure they are using the URL specific for this purpose.
Enter this URL:
http://YOUR-SCHOOL/daymap/staff/mobile/classpick.aspx
DayMap now has a YOUTUBE Channel.
http://www.youtube.com/user/loopsoftwaredaymap
On the Channel you will be able to watch “How To” videos and starting this month you can watch a series of videos
created by Caine Gillard, ICT Coordinator at Willunga High School, SA.
Caine has done a great job producing “How To” videos for the Virtual Classroom feature of DayMap.
If you have a video you’d like to contribute please send us the link!
With a long feature list DayMap is being used by schools around Australia as a genuine one-stop-shop. Feedback from schools indicates that their staff are making more efficient use of time by learning one system for a range of tasks. Staff induction procedures are being improved by the use of DayMap and as staff move between schools they are often already familiar with DayMap.
The list of DayMap features includes:
Anywhere-Anytime Learning
Real-time Reporting to Parents
Virtual Classrooms
Electronic Student Diary
Dedicated Parent Portal
Learning and Assessment Management
Student Management and Wellbeing
Custom Alerts and Notifications
Attendance
Traditional Reporting
Resource Booking
SMS and Email Communications
Direct Timetable Integration
The One Stop Shop Approach and Mental Health
According to Mind Matters, the national mental health initiative for secondary schools funded by the Australian Government and implemented by Principals Australia, concern about handling classroom management and staff satisfaction with the workplace are significant factors for people staying in the teaching role and feeling valued.
Feedback from school principals indicates that DayMap streamlines the processes involved in classroom, student and assessment management and reduces staff stress.
Feedback from new teachers indicates that DayMap is an easy to use tool and when they have participated in a sound induction process it will improve their mental health and wellbeing within their first years of teaching.
With over 90 schools using DayMap Australia-wide we have initiated the DayMap Quality Improvement Community, a forum for schools to meet and share their experience using DayMap.
Feedback
Through the DayMap Quality Improvement Community we seek to understand:
What is going well
What needs improving and how?
Users’ ideas, comments and questions
Our Aim
We aim to provide a forum for educational professionals to:
Identify and benefit from good practice
Identify shared PD opportunities
Make suggestions for improvement
Co-constructed with Educators
Recent Examples of DayMap development based on feedback:
Attendance Maps
Student Notes View
Reminders and Alerts
Linking of Class Notes and Homework
DataCopy
End of Term Reports
Results Analyser
Attendance Algorithm
Electronic Student Diary
Parent Portal
Assessment Scheduling
Upcoming Events
Stay tuned for a DayMap Quality Improvement Community Event in your area or attend one of the many meetings being organized by clusters of schools.
The NMC Horizon Project (www.nmc.org/horizon-project) charts the landscape of emerging technologies for teaching, learning, research, creative inquiry, and information management…
Abundance
The abundance of resources and relationships made easily accessible via the Internet is increasingly challenging us to revisit our roles as educators. This multi-year trend was again ranked very highly, indicating its continued influence. With personal access to the Internet from mobile devices on the rise, the growing set of resources available as open content, and a variety of reference and textbooks available electronically, students’ easy and pervasive access to information outside of formal campus resources continues to encourage educators to examine the ways we can best serve learners.
Anywhere Anytime
People expect to be able to work, learn, and study whenever and wherever they want. This highly ranked trend, also noted last year, continues to permeate all aspects of daily life. Mobiles contribute to this trend, where increased availability of the Internet feeds the expectation of access. Feelings of frustration are common when it is not available. Companies are starting to respond to consumer demand for access anywhere; for example several airlines have begun offering wireless network access in the air during flights.
Collaboration
The world of work is increasingly collaborative, giving rise to reflection about the way student projects are structured. This trend continues from 2010 and is being driven by the increasingly global and cooperative nature of business interactions facilitated by Internet technologies. The days of isolated desk jobs are disappearing, giving way to models in which teams work actively together to address issues too far-reaching or complex for a single worker to resolve alone. Market intelligence firm IDC notes that some one billion people fit the definition of mobile workers already, and projects that fully one-third of the global workforce — 1.2 billon workers — will perform their work from multiple locations by 2013.
The Cloud
The technologies we use are increasingly cloud-based, and our notions of IT support are decentralized. This trend, too, was noted in 2010 and continues to influence decisions about emerging technology adoption at educational institutions. As we turn to mobile applications for immediate access to many resources and tasks that once were performed on desktop computers, it makes sense to move data and services into the cloud. The challenges of privacy and control continue to affect adoption and deployment, but work continues on resolving the issues raised by increasingly networked information.
Johnson, L., Smith, R., Willis, H., Levine, A., and Haywood, K., (2011).
The 2011 Horizon Report.
Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.