Management System Checklist
This checklist of critical management features can be used to help evaluate instructional technology support for the classroom.
You may want to copy and use it as part of your instructional technology review process.
SuccessMaker has all of these features:
Management
- Capability to select themes, sequence of material and instructional approach in some courses.
- A dynamic tool for forecasting each student's time needed to reach an achievement goal based on individual learning rate.
- Capability to perform all management operations from any station at any time.
- Capability to enroll students and report on third party software.
- Same management system on stand-alone system, small network, large network, Macintosh and Windows.
Individualisation
- Initial placement strategy to find appropriate learning level
- Individualised instruction across a range of skills and learning strategies
- Automatic, individualised review of remediation, retention and review of unmastered content.
- Automatic adjustment of instruction to focus on areas on which the student is weak.
Reports of Student Progress
- Administrative summary reports in graphic format, showing the relationship of time and gain
- Easy to read narrative parent reports with current performance data. Reports that show individual student performance, group data, total time on task and instructional gains.
- Computer-based management of student portfolios, with comment files.
