1. What’s New in ProMonitor 9

2. Core EILP Appearance and Consistency Enhancements
Confidential Comments
Meetings Enhancements
Learner Badges
Home Page Enhancements

3. Improved Appearance and Consistency
The appearance of SMART Target, Enrichment and Comments pages have been improved and made more consistent

4. Consistent Functionality
Changes have been made to make using SMART Targets & Comments more intuitive and consistent across the system
Functionality for creating new items has been improved
Item filtering is now separated and styled to be more obvious
One control is now used across all pages - consistent functionality
SMART Target & Comments - Improved Filtering

5. Confidential Comments
Security Layers:
Comments are encrypted within the database table
Comments can only be viewed by staff with permission
Multiple Safeguarding / confidentiality levels can be configured
Before viewing the Comment, a warning popup message is displayed

6. Meetings Meetings Overhaul Circulation List
List of people involved in the Meeting. E.g. Student, Organiser, Witness, Parent, Personal Tutor
Option to restrict the contents of the Meeting to only those in the Circulation List
Meetings Overhaul

7. Meetings Meetings Overhaul Linked Documents
(ICT will need to evaluate and test this before any planned implementation)
Provides the functionality to upload documents against a Meeting
Documents stored within the ProMonitor database
Print Reports
Export the Meeting Details to a word document in one or more customisable formats.
Similar to Comments ‘Send To Word’ functionality.
Meetings Overhaul

8. Learner Badges
Assign up to 6 badges to students to extend the learner status
Shown next to the Student Photo- in ILP, Student Group and Tutor Group
Can provide feedback to students through ProPortal
Can use the new Task Builder to automatically update badges after import is run or when user changes information in the website
Update badges via the ILP risk indicators page

9. Home Page - SMART Target & Comments
Clicking on a SMART Target from the Homepage or SMART Target Calendar will open the ILP page, filtering for the selected Target only
The same is true for Comments

10. Home Page - Read Comments
SMART Target & Comments - Improved Filtering
Comments can now be marked as ‘Read’ by a member of staff
This allows Staff members to remove read comments from their homepage view
Open the help document – from here

11. Home Page - Read Comments Filter Settings
SMART Target & Comments - Improved Filtering
Open the help document – from here

12. Markbook Integrated Assignments Quick Task Creation
Hide Markbook Columns

13. Integrated Assessments
Create an assessment that can span multiple tasks across units

14. Creating Tasks Quickly
Enter a Prefix and a Range (from and to) then press the Populate Tasks button

15. Markbook – Hide Columns
New option to hide certain columns of the markbook using the Student Group Type
(This is performed in the Admin Utility by an Administrator)

16. Markbook – Hide Columns
Unit Markbook
Markbook Configuration – The First Step!

17. Markbook – Hide Columns
Assessment Markbook

18. OTHER THINGS… Progress Report Processing Automated Tasks
Achievements On Entry
New Study Programmes Page

19. Bulk Actions - Progress Reports
Bulk completion is available on the Student / Tutor Group pages
May allow us to process reports without the need to use the “Admin Utility” on 2X
New Task Builder Module (Triggers and Actions)
Not to be confused with Markbook tasks!
A tool to automate certain actions within ProMonitor
Send notifications for new SMART Targets, Meetings, Comments, Assessments etc.
Achievements On Entry Page
Not new but a realistic option to now activate and configure use for next year with data from EBS
New Study Programmes Page

20. Achievements On Entry

21. Study Programmes
New data imports – mainly focussed on importing ‘hours’ Reflects changes to MIS – separating ‘qual’ and ‘non-qual’ activity Enrichment and work experience pages improved in their own right Colleges can decide what to import and which hours to add in the calculation All brought together in a new overall Study Programme page This page also contains a review function College management have yet to evaluate this feature and decide if and how it might be used in 13-14

22. Enrolment import can now list hours
Configurable text
Course table specifies either ‘qual’…….
………or ‘non-qual’
Enrolment import can now list hours
target can be default or specific for student
figure to show additional hours required

23. And show how many hours are still required to meet the target
We then add in details of hours already captured elsewhere
And show how many hours are still required to meet the target

24. Lower section then presents qualifications on entry and a table where reviews can be recorded by staff

25. Thank You Please don’t forget that:
Some things may still change – the software has not yet been released!
Some things may still need to be configured
Some things may not be used in 13-14
Thank You