Managing Student Information

Developments in information management

Paul Shoesmith, Director, Technical Strategy, Becta

Karen Crowston, Business Services Manager, Service Birmingham

BETT 08Friday, 11 January 2008

Some key data challenges facing schools today

• Culture change

• Learner centric v institution centric

• Out of the office and into the classroom and beyond

• Interrogating data across functional areas

• Interoperability – context of collaboration

Some key data challenges facing schools today

• Building Schools for the Future context

• Real-time reporting

• Support for schools

• System issues – workforce issues

The wider ecosystem

Why interoperability?

• Reduce burdens

•Give teachers more time to teach and enable them to teach better

• Schools, local authorities and DCSF will spend less effort on collecting data

• Supports choice and flexibility

• Cut down on the time schools spend on vertical reporting

• Allows horizontal reporting within schools between applications

• Allows seamless integration of applications

• Reduce integration burden with other agencies(eg ContactPoint)

Why interoperability?

What is SIF?

Schools Interoperability Framework

It is not:

- A product

- An application

- A software package

Schools Interoperability Framework

It is:

An international specification consisting of:

-a recognised data model

-a robust, flexible and secure transport mechanism

What is SIF?

Vertical integration? Horizontal reporting??

Just run that by me again please…

Components working togetherHorizontal interoperability

Network Account

H.R. &Finance

Learning platform

SEN

Library Automation

Learner information

Assessment

Catering

“SIF Zone”

- Zone Integration Server (ZIS)

- SIF Agents

- Applications

- SIF Data Objects

Learner information

Catering

Library

SEN

Transport

AssessmentVirtual learning

environment

HR& finance

DirectoryServices

Network& email Application “islands”

Duplicated data entry

Manual synchronization

Data locked in “tombs”

Costly reporting

"Before"

Learner information

Catering

Library

SEN

Transport

AssessmentVirtual learningenvironment

HR& finance

DirectoryServices

Network& email

One-time data entry

Perfect, real-time

synchronisation

Accurate cross-

application reporting

Reliability and security

“After"

Components working togetherVertical interoperability

LALALA

Government

Making it Real; the UK Proof of Concept (Birmingham)

•Becta

•DCSF

•Capita

•Serco

•Netmedia

•Arete

•Link2ICT

•Birmingham Local Authority

James Brindley School

Administrative Community Technology

Ninestiles Community Techonology College

Kings Norton Boys’ School

Longwill Primary School for Deaf Children

Castle Vale School and Specialist Performing Arts College    

Whitehouse Common Primary School

Gossey Lane J1 & Nursery School

English Martyrs’ Catholic Primary School

DfESDarlington

Collect

Agent

Birmingham LA ZIS

SchoolsSerco

SchoolsCapita

DfES ZIS

Birmingham LA MIS Arête

Agent

Agent

Agent

Agent

QA Process

NetmediaLearningPlatform

Agent

New Student

New Student

Key Data

Key Data

Key Data

Key DataKey Data

Key Data

NewStudentRecords

Birmingham ‘choreography’

The benefits of SIF

From a school’s perspective

Cashless canteens

• Finger scanning

• Swipe cards

• Currently data is exported from MIS

• Healthy eating

Library systems

• Loans

• Lates

•Returns

•Reminders

Student information

• The end of the CTF?

• The end of schools census?

• The end of results checking (many times)

• Improved accuracy of data

Migration

• 600 new entrants on our system

•Mid-year moves

•Students leavers

Access systems

• Fobs

• Turnstiles

•Swipe cards

SEN

•Stages

•Reviews

•Behavioural plans

•Education plans

Resource support

•PDF

•Email accounts

Student accounts

•Email

• Learning platform

•Home drives

ECM – Personalised learning

•Out of date information

•Assessment information

•SEN information

•Moving data between teachers

Teachers

•Different software packages

•Planning

•Reporting

• The whole picture…

Parents

Access to assessments, data, reports, timetables, behavioural incidents, attendance etc

Summary

• Time

•Energy

•Money

•Results

• 21st Century

Next steps

•National SIF pathfinder project Birmingham

•Data model development and alignment

•Working with other national programmes eg MIAP

•Cross sector working (system wide)

Questions?