About Pendulum
Pendulum is a records of visit system that provides an innovative and time/cost saving solution to an LAs continuing challenge of effectively monitoring the interaction with their schools.
Local Authority advisers can:
- Set up initial visit details
- Complete visit reports (against pre-loaded or adhoc visit templates)
- Send reports to Head Teachers
- Receive feedback from Head Teachers
- Finalise reports
Head Teachers can:
- View draft reports (through web-based Perspective or Perspective Lite)
- Provide feedback
- View finalised reports
Local Authority managers can:
- View draft reports
- Audit trails
- Analyse and report upon progress
- Track progress of visits
- Export all data for further analysis click here to see example files
Integrated within the NCER’s NEXUS data portal, Pendulum also benefits from the wealth of information that is fed into NEXUS by other users within the LA.
School Improvement Teams have struggled for years to implement efficient, centralised processes that manage their visits to schools and the reports that are produced. Often visits are arranged over the phone and written up and distributed using Microsoft Word and email. This method cannot be audited, the versions cannot be controlled and it is not good practice in terms of security.
Pendulum is deployed within the Nexus portal which allows stakeholders visiting schools to have access to data to support the visit, such as attainment data, maps, statistics, trends etc. As this data is already held in the Nexus system, the work required by data teams to produce reports for advisers and managers prior to a visit is dramatically reduced. Furthermore, LA personnel are able to access real time reports and data at any time without adding to the data team workload.
Configurable exports can be downloaded by managers in need of reports; filters can be applied such as term, school and so on, which means that data needed can be accessed quickly and easily by anyone with the correct permissions.