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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Integration at its foundation
Full school management
Functionality for student performance analysis
International and multi-curricular functionality
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.
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