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Snapshot – Principal
At 5:45pm, Diane is still in her office. Like many
other principals, she is faced with too many tasks
and not enough time to do them all in. Part of the
problem used to be that the information she needed
was never to hand. But during the last few months,
the school’s IT Manager has been leading the rollout
of RM’s Kaleidos Learning Platform – and it has
really started to make a difference to how effective
she can be.
Diane has a school board meeting scheduled for
6:30pm and needs to prepare information about
student behaviour and attendance to demonstrate
her belief that there has been a recent improvement
in both. She finds the information quickly and easily
within Kaleidos, which is integrated with the school’s
management information system. She is able to
efficiently produce the figures and graphs she needs,
leaving her enough spare time to also tick another
task off her ‘to do’ list.
Having recently created and distributed a survey
for all the staff, Diane is interested to see who has
responded so far, so that she can nudge those who
haven’t. After all, it’s their working environment and
they should all have a say in what improvements are
made to the facilities. Only a few people haven’t yet
responded, so she sends them a friendly reminder.
Snapshot – Deputy Principal
Danielle is a Deputy Principal and is responsible for
assessment and intervention strategies. She’s a real
data person, and loves the fact that she can analyse
students’ progress throughout the year.
Thanks to the fully integrated information available
within the school’s RM Kaleidos Learning Platform,
she doesn’t have to wait for test results to spot that a
particular class or year group is starting to struggle.
She can view and assess the performance of whole
year groups or classes in Kaleidos at any time – and
from anywhere.
The learning platform benefits everyone as well as
making her own life at school a little easier. Now she
can spot and sort out all kinds of issues in a timely
fashion – before they become problems.
Snapshot – Secondary Student
It’s 7:10pm on Friday evening and Matthew’s keen to
get his homework out of the way so that he can really
enjoy his weekend. But he’s experiencing a bit of
writer’s block. While he is logged on to the school’s
RM Kaleidos Learning Platform, he spots that his
mentor, Stefan, is also online. So he instant messages
him to request some help with the assignment.
Matthew’s interested in becoming an engineer
and Stefan, a teaching assistant at TAFE, has been
assigned to help him achieve his goal. They discuss
the assignment and Stefan points Matthew to some
really useful curriculum content titles within the virtual
learning environment, which he found earlier.
Matthew thanks Stefan and continues on with the
assignment. When he has finished, he submits his
homework and starts thinking about the rest of his
weekend.
Snapshot – Teacher
Jon is outside, getting a breath of fresh air during his free period. He is using his
wireless connected laptop to prepare for lesson focusing on ‘The Sixties’, which
he is scheduled to deliver next week. It’s not an area he has taught before so he
searches the wide range of content, activities and lessons within the school’s RM
Kaleidos Learning Platform.
After reviewing several resources, he settles on some appropriate items in the VLE,
as well as some clips that his colleagues have successfully used in the past. It’s a
mixed ability class, but he’s happy that he can engage everyone with the content
he has found.
RM’s Vision of a Learning Platform
e-Portfolios
Learners and teachers
can organise, reflect upon
and publish work. Creates
a picture of pupils’ ability
as they progress through
their learning.
Connectivity
Anytime, anywhere access
to the learning platform
via a safe and secure
Internet connection.
Virtual Learning
Environment
Powerful content
management and delivery
solution. Supports learning
activities with additional
data, communication and
collaboration tools
within the portal.
Infrastructure
Access the learning
platform using any
Internet ready computer
from the school network,
teacher laptop or other
web-enabled
device.
Snapshot – Primary Student
Managing Change
Implementing a
learning platform requires a
significant investment in time
for planning, evaluation,
procurement, implementation
and embedding new
technologies.
DATA
MANAGEMENT
Sophisticated technology that
simplifies user management
and enables data from diverse
systems to be integrated and
presented via the portal.
Charlie is in Year 6 and like most other boys his age, he loves football. His teacher,
Mr Richardson, is delivering an integrated program of work on ‘Sport Throughout
the Ages’. Charlie has selected to do his research topic on AFL. Four other students
in his class are also doing their research projects on football and they have formed
an online interest group where they can use online chat and share documents and
resources they find.
Mr Richardson has set a series of tasks for all students to complete on their Sport
Throughout the Ages project as well as their usual homework assignments for
Mathematics and English. After school, Charlie goes home and logs on to the
Kaleidos Learning Platform. He clicks on his ‘To Do’ List. He realises that before he
starts work on his project, he has an online quiz to complete. He completes the short