Overview
The Improvement Plan for your establishment will have been set up by the senior leadership of your establishment together with the administrators of your iP system.
The extent to which you can access and edit the Improvement Plan depends on the user rights you have been given. For the purposes of this training session you have been given the rights to add or edit your establishment Priorities (which are at the top of the structural hierarchy) as well as the rights to add and edit the Improvement Plan Objectives and Activities.
Instructions
A word of caution: Improvement Plan Objectives are different from Performance Management Objectives. The former are objectives for your establishment as a whole to achieve whereas the latter are for members of staff to achieve. We shall examine priorities in this section and objectives and activities in the following two sections.
Priorities are key areas for improvement which have been identified during a recent inspection or have been highlighted through self evaluation.
Your establishment Priorities are assessed via the Settings contents menu item.
Practical Task:
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Click the Settings contents item in the left area of your screen
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From the Improvement Plan Go dropdown select Priorities
The screen displayed will show all the priorities of your establishment including priorities which have now passed their end dates.
Your screen should look similar to this:
Notice:
In the first column some priorities have a padlock icon. This means they have been used in the system and therefore cannot be removed. Priorities without a padlock can be removed
Each priority has a start date and an end date. If the dates are outside your current academic year then they will not be visible with the default date range selected on the various Improvement Plan pages
The coloured squares to the right of the dates indicate indicate how many activities have the status indicated by the colour. Hovering over the square will reveal its meaning
The numbers in the column with the person icon indicate how many staff members are linked to objectives for the priority
The up and down arrows can be used for changing the order of the priorities
The pencil on the extreme right is used to edit the priority
Practical Task:
- Click the pencil next to a priority with a padlock
The screen which displays should look something like this:
Notice:
You are warned that any changes you make will impact on the objectives linked to this priority
Usually only the administrator or the head would have the ability to add or edit priorities as any updates will affect the whole of the Improvement Plan
The only option in the header is Save but you can click this button to return to the priorities page without making any change
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