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'Record pupil data anytime, anywhere and instantly!' Record and track pupil attendance, grades, behaviour and log parental communications from your mobile device using PARS Connect Mobile.

PARS Connect Mobile can be used on various mobile technologies with internet access including: tablet, iPhone, Blackberry, HTC or other smartphone. Connect Mobile is simple to use and designed to access PARS data as you would expect with easy drop down menus. The data is recorded back to SIMS instantly.

Key Features of PARS Connect Mobile:

Take registers

Log behaviour

Record grades

Complete assessments

Text messaging to parents

Record on-report data

Extra class registers and detention registers

Quick access to pupil information screen

Record latecomers on the door

A Where-Is function to show where a pupil is

Automated notices and texts to staff, pupils and parents for missed detentions

Timeout to automatically sign teachers out of mobile devices, to ensure pupil data is protected if PARS Connect is left open and not being used for a number of minutes

Benefits:

Record and access pupil data instantly and easily during lessons, whether onsite or off school premises

Data records back to SIMS MIS in realtime, instantly

No software installs or updates required therefore, no valuable memory or storage is used on mobiles

Use on as many devices as you wish and there is no individual licence cost per mobile, which helps schools to save on cost.

Further information is available at: http://www.tascsoftware.com/web/products/pars/pars.aspx

Date: Friday 15th June 2012

Venue: Cheltenham Racecourse, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 4SH

Times: 9.00am - 5.30pm

TASC Software will be demonstrating its software solutions at the exhibition and showing how they can be used to help support the various school roles in their management and tracking of pupil data across the school to raise achievement and improve progress. Through easy and instant access to all the relevant pupil information in one place helps schools to save administrative time, paper costs and printing costs.

PARS Pupil Management Software: managing, sharing and tracking pupil information in one teacher friendly solution. Records data back to Sims instantly.

INSIGHT Realtime Access online: Share your SIMS pupil data online with parents, pupils and teachers choosing the areas and depth of pupil data you wish to share.

SMyLE Support My Learning Experience Software: Captures pupil perceptions of their learning in a secure and controlled environment. Staff use the feedback to see who is engaging well with their learning and which lessons were most successful.

We look forward to meeting you at the exhibition!

Come and visit TASC on our stand at the ICT Conference

On: 22nd March 2012

Location: William Brookes School, Much Wenlock, Shropshire, TF13 6NB

Time: 8.45am to 4pm

Come along and see our new SMyLE Software which supports learning by capturing and reacting to pupils perceptions. Also showcasing INSIGHT Software that allows access to your SIMS pupil data online for parents, pupils and teachers on various mobile devices.

We hope to see you at the conference!

The TASC Team would like to thank all who visited us on our stand at the BETT Show!

TASC had another busy and successful show at BETT 2012. Staff were pleased to meet existing clients who came on the stand to explore the new features made available to them.

Users of PARS software were impressed to see the new mobile version of PARS Connect which will give staff the benefit of accessing their pupil data on mobile technology with internet access including an: iPhone, tablet, HTC, Blackberry or Smartphone without having to worry about their internal mobile storage being used up.

Moreover, TASC Software's new SMyLE Software gained a high level of interest at the show. Following demonstrations of the pupil feedback tool, heads from various schools were positive about new software product with comments including how helpful the tool would be in trying to improve the effectiveness of teaching within their school; most saying it would help test various teaching methods with pupils and inform what works best!

A big thank you to Michael Cousins, who joined us from Sacred Heart High School who explained how they were using our products and the difference they had made to raising achievement in the school.

TASC Software will be showing its new SMyLE Support My Learning Software at BETT 2012 on Stand F75 to schools and how it can help teachers support learning by letting them know how well their lessons are being received by pupils and which pupils are engaging well in their learning and which lessons were most successful. This is done through pupils logging into Smyle and providing feedback through reflecting and commenting upon their learning.

Michael Cousins, Assistant Headteacher at Sacred Heart High School, explains, "Its a student telling a teacher, in an objective way that this lesson does or doesn't work for me. You think you know when something went really well then you find that just three of four of the students were really taking part, and the rest weren't very engaged at all. Helping a teacher to improve is a long, hard path, but I think if you have this system of regular feedback, you can see incremental progress and help the coaching process. We said to staff that we understood if some didn't want to do it, but that we think it's a good tool for professional development. As it is, they can opt into it and they control who sees the results. One of the secrets of our success is that we use SMyLE to take us beyond simply listening to students and valuing them. SMyLE enables teachers to analyse what actually works best for each student and then modify their teaching to bring out the best in each and every one."

With personalised teaching and learning at the high interest of education, Smyle also helps teachers to personalise their lessons by using the feedback from pupils and knowing what has worked. For example, Catherine, Year 10 Student at Sacred Heart High School said, "My teachers have already started adapting the lessons as a result of knowing what my strengths and weaknesses are." Charlotte, Year 11 Student at Sacred Heart High School explains how being involved in this feedback process and being heard in a meaningful way has helped, "Being able to tell teachers what works for you makes you more part of the lesson." Pupils become more responsible, committed and motivated in class.

"The TASC team are very excited about its new software development and look forward to showcasing the tool to schools at the show. You are most welcome to come and meet the team and take a look at our new development on Stand F75 at BETT 2012!" - Peter Rushton, Marketing Director at TASC Software.

For further information, please call 01902 824281 or email sales@tascsoftware.co.uk. To see Smyle at BETT 2012, please visit TASC on Stand F75.

We are pleased to finally release our new look website, with a new design, more content and many more features on the customer website for the use of TASC customers.

As another year draws to a close...

The TASC Team would like to thank all our valued customers for their support this year which is very much appreciated and look forward to working with you in the forthcoming New Year 2012!

Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year 2012!

Best Wishes from

TASC Team

TASC Software is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the contract by Warwickshire Local Authority to supply its 'parent, pupil and teacher access online software' to all secondary schools in the authority.

Insight software will provide parents, teachers and the pupils themselves with secure access to pupil data in the school's SIMS MIS, from attendance and behavior and homework through to school reports. The online access solution will provide real benefits to parents, teachers, pupils and also save costs, time and resources for the school. Parents will have the ability to see their child's data in realtime online and always have the most up to date information. Pupils will also be able to login to see information on their progress in school and teachers too can login to Insight to see clear and concise student information.

E-Learning Adviser at Warwickshire Local Authority, John Pinkney feels that, 'Insight will add value to a VLE. Increasingly, schools, often with leadership from the local authority, are using learning platforms, or virtual learning environments (VLE). Used effectively, a VLE is the hub of all learning and teaching activities in the school. Many of these schools realise that if they give parents log-in access to agreed parts of the VLE they'll be able to see the work their children are doing, and the assignments they've been set, and become much more engaged with their learning. It makes sense to include access to MIS data at the same time, and one way of doing this is to add Insight to the package that's offered to parents, with a single log-in from the school website. So in Warwickshire, for example, all 33 secondary schools will have RM's Kaleidos VLE together with Insight, both accessible on the same log-in. that if a school has Insight as a separate, though complementary product, they can stay with it if they change learning platforms, which schools often do. Customer service from TASC was also major factor that helped to convince schools to take on Insight. When we show it to head teachers, we also show them a list of requests that were made by the pilot schools, and are now in the product. We're not always in a position to do that. It's usually a matter of saying. 'I've asked for these changes and they're under development'.