Selecting the best curriculum management system is a crucial step in ensuring your school operates efficiently while delivering a high-quality education. With the right software, you can streamline curriculum planning, enhance student performance tracking, and integrate essential school functions into one cohesive system.
From cloud-based technology and seamless integrations to international curriculum support, the ideal solution should go beyond just managing lesson plans. It should support your school’s broader goals, including administration, finance, student wellbeing, and more.
Explore the key factors to consider when choosing a curriculum management system, ensuring you find a solution that aligns with your school’s unique needs and future growth.
- Establish your curriculum and its goals
- Holistic solution to school management
- Software audit
- Key features and criteria
- iSAMS for full school management
Establish your curriculum and its goals
As with any planning process, you need to have a clear foundation to build upon. When searching for the best curriculum management system for your school, ensure you’re clear on your needs from the software.
This might mean securing your choice of curriculum offering, if you’re a new school, or taking note of your specific feature requirements to manage your current curriculum. For example, are there areas where your current software is lacking? Make a clear plan before you begin your search.
It’s also important to identify your wider goals and bear these in mind when entering discussions with a provider. Armed with a clear idea of what you’d like to achieve with a system, whether this is on a curriculum or overall school management level, you can better optimise your search and spend time working with solutions that have all the elements you need to support your operations.
Always keep your learners and their experience in mind when looking for curriculum management solutions. Ultimately, they are the group that benefits most from efficient curriculum delivery – and software that supports overall school life.
Holistic solution to school management
While your school needs software that supports its curriculum management, it’s important to think beyond that. Your systems aren’t only delivering your curriculum, but also keeping your school running efficiently for the entire community.
Consider more than just curriculum – where else can your software support your day-to-day management? The right systems will be holistic. Your software should demonstrate that it can support administration, academics, wellbeing, and perhaps even your finance department.
When the whole school runs on one solution, you can maximise efficiencies and provide the best learning and care experience for your students.
The iSAMS school management system provides solutions that support a range of school departments, including fee payment management, invoicing, wellbeing and pastoral, human resources, teaching, and more. Benefit from powerful reporting, driven by Power BI technology, to ensure all school teams are performing at their best.
Software audit
Similarly, the search for the right curriculum management system might provide the opportunity to take a look at your existing systems. Analyse your usage and consider whether you can optimise them or find a better solution.
Audit your current IT infrastructure to better understand which departments are using which software, how efficiently they’re using them, and discuss whether they’re happy with the available functionality. Are they receiving support with their system usage? Could teams work together with integrated solutions to be more efficient? These are all important elements to understand when assessing your chosen tech stack.
Software integration is a powerful solution to disparate systems in schools and the challenges they present. It can encourage teams to work together for ease of use and to improve efficiency throughout the school – by all working with one system or using one real-time database that works.
Key features and criteria
When considering a new curriculum management system, and potentially a wider school software, what do you need to look for? There are some key features that are critical for implementing a modern, scalable, and adaptable school solution.
Cloud-based technology
- Cloud technology is essential for schools to ensure both data security and accuracy
- A cloud-based system allows schools to evolve as your curriculum needs change
- Centralised data ensures consistency across systems and easy sharing with students, parents, and staff – including a full range of school departments
Integration at its foundation
- Systems built with integration in mind ensure maximum efficiency and scalability
- Curriculum management software should communicate seamlessly with wider school systems to ensure data can be harnessed by all departments where necessary
- Flexible integration reduces repetitive admin work across the school and enhances data accuracy
- The best suppliers are those that recognise the need to share data and build a secure integration or connection with other parties, including with LMS’ and SIS
Full school management
- Seek out software providers with expertise beyond curriculum management – there's so much more to daily school life and providing the best learning experience
- Integrated school systems should cover finance, admissions, teaching, and more, alongside curriculum management and planning
- A holistic tech stack improves operational efficiency across school departments as they drive towards school growth and continually improving performance
Functionality for student performance analysis
- Clear performance reporting is vital for teachers, students, and parents as they look to drive academic achievements
- There are a range of additional solutions that your chosen provider should offer to ensure you’re staying in touch with your students and their learning experience
- For example, integrated parent portals make report sharing quick and easy
- Tools like the iSAMS Reports Designer simplify report generation during busy periods
- Many schools already use a Power BI tool to identify trends in student performance and make key decisions to evolve their approaches
International and multi-curricular functionality
- Your software should support a range of curriculums - for example IB, UK, US, and more
- Consistent grading and reporting across multiple curriculums is essential for tracking student performance
- International schools might also have unique software needs that require specialised solutions, in additional to multi-curricular functionality
- The best providers should be able to offer case studies and testimonials that reflect the experience for schools using the system, across a range of curriculums and International-specific requirements
iSAMS for full school management
The iSAMS school management system is designed to meet the unique needs of International schools, providing the flexibility to support multiple curriculums, including UK, IB, and US. Our powerful Curriculum Manager module works in tandem with the comprehensive Management Information System to give you full control over sets, classes, and curriculum planning.
Be among the first to explore our highly anticipated new curriculum management module and request a full demonstration of our all-in-one school management system – including our range of supporting modules.
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