Online Registration & Managing Attendance for Schools
Online Registration
&
Managing Attendance
for Schools
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.
Why is
Pupil Attendance important?
Attendance & Attainment..
“The evidence shows that children with poor
attendance are unlikely to succeed
academically and they are more likely not to
be in education, employment or training (NEET)
when they leave school.
Attendance has been steadily improving in the
last few years, but there were still 57 million days
of school missed in 2009 to 2010!”
– (Source: http://www.education.gov.uk)
Attendance Problems?
Persistent
Absence
Poor attendance
Truancy Unauthorised
absence
Missing registration
marks
HOW can your school
improve pupil attendance and
increase attainment?
Answer...
PARS Connect
Pupil Data Management Software
What is PARS Connect?
A web-based teacher-friendly software
designed for schools to manage pupil data
including:
• attendance
• behaviour
• assessments
• parental
communications
How does PARS Connect work?
PARS Connect ...
• a web application
• installed onto an IIS
Server in the school
• available on the most
popular browsers
conforming to W3C
standards
• works on PC, Laptop,
iPad, Touchpad, Mobiles
Attendance
Management
Electronic Registers
• Teachers can view all
registers.
• Both session (AM & PM) and lesson registers can be taken.
Register
When taking a register, teachers can also view for pupils, any:
• Notices set
• Merits
• Demerits
• Detentions set
• On report
• Extra classes
• Class removal
Attendance View
Attendance Officers can select pupils and a date range, to see attendance marks and quickly identify:
• Absentees
• Truants/Post-registration truants
• Latecomers
• Pupils who have not attended school with no reason ‘N’
Parents can be contacted via SMS, phone or email regarding attendance concerns, thus gaining parental support in improving attendance.
Attendance Management
helps schools..
• Ensure attendance data is always kept up to date and accurate, with electronic registration
• Monitor pupil attendance more efficiently
• Retrieve data easily and quickly
• Reduces levels of truancy
• Record lesson by lesson registration efficiently
• Access an analysis of attendance data
Identify Missing Registers
Any missed or incomplete registers can
be identified. The relevant staff
member can be notified to complete
it.
Unexplained Marks
Quickly and easily identify unexplained marks in attendance data.
Contact the pupil’s tutor by sending a notice; or SMS text, email or send a letter to the parents to request a reason for the absence.
Update any unexplained marks once reasons have been
provided.
Exceptional Circumstances
Manage partial or full school closure, via
recording an exceptional
circumstance.
Given a reason for the closure, any
recorded attendance marks will be
overwritten by the selected code, ‘#’
or ‘Y’ for the date period selected.
Attendance Reports
To view pupil attendance, various attendance reports are available.
Pupil persistent absence:
See which pupils are in the PA band (<85% attendance).
Not only that, but also see their attendance over previous
weeks to see if PA pupils are improving or dropping.
Attendance Reports
Attendance Reports
Attendance Reports
Automate Attendance
Reports
Selected weekly reports can be automated directing the right report at the right time to specific members of staffs email.
E.g. All heads of year to
receive a report at 10 a.m.
on Mondays detailing any
pupils with less than 85%
attendance.
A great time saving feature
for Attendance Officers!
Custom Attendance Codes
Create custom attendance codes for
lessons, helping schools to get
additional information.
Attendance Overview
View the whole school’s attendance, in easy to understand
visual displays:
• Current session
• Whole school attendance
• Year to Date vs This week
• Pupils with the worst attendance level
• Overall attendance vs Change this week
PARS Connect
improved lesson attendance & Punctuality
at Wolstanton High School!
PARS Connect
for attendance monitoring at Newent
Community School..
We have been using PARS for two years. We now have a much
better picture on attendance. We know who is in, and the accuracy
is dependent upon the user and not the software. We didn't have
lesson registers until PARS, now we can quickly see who has
disappeared. Our Attendance Officers use it all the time and
attendance is now better than it was before. We also use the
messaging and notices facilities on PARS and find its
communications features very helpful – Steven Cleaver, ICT Manager, St. Peter’s RC School
PARS started to prove an essential tool and was expanded to all
lessons. It informed staff if a student had been missing from even one
lesson. This proved essential in a battle for attendance. Our
attendance to lessons improved significantly. Lateness to lessons was
reduced – Steve Wilkinson, Assistant Headteacher, Wolstanton High
School
Would you like to see a full demo?
For further information and to book a demo, please contact:
01902 824281
www.tascsoftware.com
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