LINC - ED Tracking - ConnectED 2017

Tracking Priority Learners Easily

Presenter: Glenys Williams

Glenys Williams is a Senior Education Consultant at LINC-ED. She is passionate about digitally connecting teachers, students and parents to build partnerships for learning. She works with school leadership teams to implement LINC-ED and maximise the use of its features.

Description

Glenys talked about her experiences how schools are using tools built in to LINC-Ed to target and track different groups of learners/ students within a school or classroom and communicate their learning and progress to different audiences. Glenys demonstrated how Linc-Ed can be used to share snapshots

of learning for "priority learners using different apps (google docs, videos of student reflections using chatterpix, thinglink)

Today I learnt how to create "specific groups" by using Auto groups tool. You can share groups and add target flags. So for example I can track my Māori students and follow their progress in reading, writing and maths and so on. 
Progress of students can be communicated to other teachers to comment on 
or to parents. You can track a range of patterns and trends. Follow national standards progress over time. Parents can continue to follow their child's progress even when they move to a new school as long as the new school is 
a LINC-ED school. Digital reporting is the way to go ending a paper reporting. However you can still print off information should it be required.
I now know that in the menu

red locks are for internal information only and green locks are for parents to view. Also in menu you can check out visitors to see who has been visiting your classroom site. 

New information is being added continually to LINC-ED site. Help section is very quick in responding to questions. I recommend the site as user friendly.