Author: derepreports

School Report Writing tools have been around for a while now. Automated systems allowing teachers to insert pre-written sentences into text-areas forming the basis of a report. This blog looks at a variety of different tools available from basic to advanced products.

School Report Writing Tools

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Up to four times a year teachers are handed a monumental task of creating reports that are to leave an accurate record of their students’ performance in the classroom without making anybody cry. As a teacher, it is their duty to be truthful, but they also need to be tactful.
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This coupled with general assessments, class planning, marking and more doesn’t leave much spare time in a teachers life. So it is no surprise to anyone that over the past 5-10 years there have been an array of tools pop up here and there to assist in this mountainous task of report writing.
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Report-writing software generally allows teachers to pick from a bank of subject-specific comments, some of which may be included as part of the package and some of which the teacher, or other teachers in the school, will have added. The teacher then assigns a selection of these comments to individual students to form a report.

Here are a list of the more standard school report writing tools:

These tool are fairly standard these days and are quite prone to errors. Inserting the wrong name or pronoun at the wrong point easily results in badly formed reports. These systems require the teacher to read through lists and lists or comments picking out the one they want to use on any one particular student. Couple these lists with impatience leads to the wrong comment being used for a student rendering the over all report untrue.

One tool that has just been released which appears to have covered all bases is:

  • http://www.derep.net  DeRep works the differently to all the other systems I have seen to date. DeRep as a school report writing tool asks the teacher to assess their students against a list of attributes, such as ‘level of effort’ and ‘homework quality’. DeRep then uses these assessments in conjunction with either its own bank of comments, the teachers/ teachers friends, or even the schools to produce the bases of a report. The system then goes one step further, it allows the teacher to use these assessments and recycled very specific comments that do not fit very well in comment banks.

( Food for thought: http://webconfiguration.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/other-school-report-writing-reviews.html )