Paperless SchoolAlan Richards

Twitter: arichards_SarukBlog: www.edutechnow.com

Why ?

• 1.5 million sheets of paper a

year

• Printing costs for letters,

reports

• Postage costs for letters,

reports

• Admin time

• Increase availability of data

• Data analysis

- Easier than paper

- Export to Excel

Academic Review Day

• Drop down day for students

• All students, along with parents, attend interview with teacher

• Fill in an online form• Form is emailed to

student and parent• Data is all saved to

SharePoint 2010

How Did We Do It

• Create lists on our SharePoint farm

• Office InfoPath 2010 to create the form

• SharePoint Designer 2010 to create the workflows

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Getting At The Data

• Links to pages in the navigation of the Learning Gateway

• Page uses a filter to show only the relevant data

A Constant Reminder

• Student are emailed a live copy of the form for their records

• Their targets are on the main page of the Learning gateway