Supporting UK GCSE, AS, A-level and IB student assessment - iSAMS

Managing assessment data across GCSE, A Level and International Baccalaureate (IB) programmes can be complex, particularly for schools delivering multiple curricula across different year groups. Schools need efficient ways to record attainment, monitor student progress, analyse performance trends and communicate outcomes with students, parents and staff.

With increasing expectations around data-driven decision making, curriculum oversight and stakeholder reporting, having a centralised system for managing assessment information has never been more important.

iSAMS provides a range of tools that help schools streamline assessment processes, track student achievement over time and gain deeper insight into academic performance. From Gradebooks and reporting to examinations management and analytics, these tools help schools make informed decisions and support every student's learning journey.

iReport App

Our iTeacher App already offers teachers more than just taking the class register: teachers get access to all student profiles, timetables, cover availability, and can send important communications. With the iTeacher App schools then also have access to our iReport App. The iReport App empowers your teachers to write reports on the go from their mobile device or tablet. If they want to make additional notes or start a report from their mobile device, this will then be saved and appear in iSAMS for the next time they log in to the system via a desktop.

Key iReport features include:

• Write reports – Easily and conveniently write your school reports for various report types within the reports tab.
• Add assessment grades – Input assessment grades for your students using the assessment tab.
• View status of reports – See how many reports you have left to do by viewing the status of your reports.
• Ability to mark as a draft, incomplete or ready for proofreading – Mark the status of your reports as you go to keep on top of your report workload.
• View a student’s past grades and comments – Quickly and easily see a student’s past grades and associated comments.
• Dictate your reports using voice command – Use Siri or any virtual assistant to dictate your reports on the go.

Gradebooks

Our Gradebooks module, was designed from the ground up to enable teachers to enter marks, grades and test results throughout the year. Gradebooks is now complemented by Curriculum Manager, which acts as the central hub for gradebook template configuration and academic data management. With Curriculum Manager, schools build gradebook templates once and a fully configured Gradebook is generated automatically for every class — eliminating the manual rebuild at the start of each academic year. For schools managing GPA and university transcripts, Curriculum Manager handles these directly from live gradebook data. 

Key Gradebooks features include:

• Individual or Global – Assign a gradebook to an individual teacher or at a global level by subject or department heads.
• Multiple Column Types – Include numeric data, grade set from dropdown list selection, custom values, calculated columns and data from other gradebooks.
• Auto Set Changes – Assign sets to global gradebooks so that students can be entered automatically.
• Powerful Filters – Use filters to create specific views of the data and highlight under- and overachieving pupils.
• Reports Push & Sync – Export gradebook data to the reports system on individual teachers or at a global level.
• Excel Outputs & Inbuilt Reports – Export gradebook data to Excel and assign data to custom reporting services reports.
• Publish Results – Publish gradebook results directly to the Student and Parent Portals.

Tracking Manager

Our Tracking Manager module gives academic staff the ability to pull information such as grades, positions, results and test scores from other iSAMS modules, and then create models of performance data. This data can then be used to analyze the performance of individuals or groups of students over time, providing a particularly useful point of comparison for schools to measure the effects of the pandemic on student progress.

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If you would like to find out more about our Apps or modules to support your school please get in touch with your Customer Account Manager