With school budgets tighter than ever, you’re probably fed up of people advising you on how and where to save money. But your assessment system is one area that rarely gets questioned. It’s so central to how schools analyse student performance that most take it as a given. Yet even small primary schools are spending upwards of £1,500 on third-party tools when a capable assessment system should be part of their MIS.
As well as not having to fork out for an additional system alongside your MIS, integrated assessment systems unlock opportunities for considerable time savings. Your staff won’t have to waste time managing two sets of data and keeping assessment records synchronised, or juggle multiple logins. Everything is conveniently in one place.
Analysing assessment data is easier and quicker, too, when it’s directly integrated into your MIS. You can see grades alongside a student’s attendance, behaviour, and safeguarding data, giving you instant context on their performance and, if intervention is needed, the ability to make fast decisions off the back of it.
As great as this all sounds, I get that an integrated assessment module probably isn’t enough of a draw to make you cut ties with your current MIS provider. What might make you consider it, however, is the cumulative cost and time savings you can find by ditching all your bolt-ons. Think parent apps, safeguarding, behaviour. They all carry the same issues as an assessment bolt-on: multiple logins, duplicated data, time lost to admin. In fact, we estimate that by switching to Bromcom MIS and getting rid of all your bolt-ons, a primaries could save up to £6,500 per year and secondaries could save up to £13,000.
You might be thinking: the savings sound good, but is it worth the disruption? Switching to an MIS like Bromcom is actually more straightforward than you might expect. We’ll support you throughout the process, from migrating your data from your previous MIS and third-party apps to getting your team confident in the new system. Our assessment module is fully configurable, so we can rebuild your current assessment model in Bromcom, and import your historical records to keep your full pupil history intact.
To find out more about our assessment system and our one-stop shop MIS, book a 15-minute discovery call with our team.
