Perspective for Nursery Schools
What's new in Version 3 for Nursery Schools
We've been working hard on the new version of Perspective for over a year and are proud to bring you the following features
Collaboration
Work together with other users in your team. Work independently through a series of Bite Size Questions and then come together to compare and contrast your responses before agreeing on the outcomes.
Improved Development Plans
Perspective now allows you to choose which Targets (or Goals) you want to include within your Development Plan. Change the order in which they appear, include an introduction, conclusion. Report formatting has been enhanced plus you now have the ability to export or summary. The reports can now also be viewed in a number of common outputs including PDF and Word formats.
Enhanced Admin Section
New icon based admin section with additional screens to manage users, teams, change the language or terminology used within parts of Perspective, so you can personalise Perspective with the terms your staff are familiar with.
Enhanced Home Page
New and enhanced 'widgets' give users a dashboard interface with instant access to commonly used areas such as your SEF, Development Plans and your personalised To-Do list.
To-Do List
A simple, personalised, day to day list of things to-do. Actions in this list simply have a title, a deadline and whether they have been completed or not. These may contribute towards targets or goals, or might simply be reminders about your day-to-day activities.
Draft and Agreed SEF Versions
Perspective now provides you with the ability to have a work in progress SEF and a final agreed SEF, providing more scope for you to edit and manage the SEF on an ongoing basis, without losing your original text.
Language Preferences
You say Tomato I say Tomato... Perspective now allows you to personalise various terms used throughout the system, on screen and in reports. If you prefer School Development Plan rather than School Improvement Plan, no problem. Simply change the default term and this will be reflected throughout Perspective.
Enhanced User and Team Management
Enhanced functionality when creating users, plus, a wholly new feature, is the ability to create teams and assign individual or multiple users to a team. Work with permissions; decide whether individual users are required to complete a thorough or 'lite' review, or whether they are the leader of their Team.
Enhanced websites tab
The much loved websites tab has had additional websites added to it to give you further relevant sources to help evidence your evaluation. You can now access DCSF Performance Tables, Neighbourhood Statistics and your latest Ofsted reports where relevant, and use the information within Perspective.
Notes
New in Perspective v3 is the ability to allow users within your team to add their comments, or notes, on your finalised text in your self review evaluation. You may want to invite a 'critical friend' to make suggestions and provide thoughts on your current text, without giving them the facility to edit your hard work!
