Progress & Performance
An ebs module to improve processes, communication, experience and data quality
Further Education involves balancing many needs.
Colleges need to have a system in place to support Ofsted's focus on progress.
Education providers must also prioritise accurate grading, regardless of the variety of courses they offer and how difficult this may be.
What's more, the safety and well-being of both adults and children involved in Further Education services are under scrutiny and of the utmost importance.
What happens if you don't meet these needs?
Reputational Damage
Poorly managed performance leads to poor outcomes, putting institutions at risk of reputational damage, including Ofsted and ESFA/OfS intervention. What's more, Poorly managed safeguarding practices can receive a damaging inspection grade even if the rest of your provision is good.
Missed intervention
When staff can't accurately assess student achievement, several issues arise. They may miss early intervention opportunities, leaving unrecognised gaps in a student’s performance. Without proper assessments, it's difficult to pinpoint specific struggles, hindering targeted support. Consequently, students may not achieve their desired grades.
Putting Students at Risk
Further education providers deal with a uniquely complex landscape, including learners at risk of modern slavery, gang violence, online exploitation, gaming and gambling addictions, and partner violence. Ultimately, not safeguarding your students correctly can have a huge impact on students' lives as well as their grades.
What can solve these issues?
Third-party systems often seem like a more robust solution because they offer standalone data, with each system dedicated to a specific function. However, this approach can lead to the separation of essential learner data, which creates a fragmented view of the situation.
For example, if a tutor does not have access to the safeguarding system, they may not be aware that a student missing class is vulnerable or that two students in the same seminar have a history of domestic disputes.
Additionally, some third-party systems are only updated daily or weekly, meaning that urgent notifications may be outdated by days in a fast-paced institution. Having the ability to review a comprehensive picture—such as a learner’s details, attendance, academic progress, and safeguarding or financial aid requests—allows institutions to make more informed decisions.
Owning your data is only part of the story. With reporting services, Tribal ebs offers good governance of your learner data. Insights including progress by study location, school of learning, or student type, can provide you with the clarity you need to improve outcomes and support better inspection, audit, and learning experience.
Your Solution:
Tribal’s ebs Progress and Performance
Tribal’s ebs Progress and Performance suite includes the following functional modules, all in a single mobile-ready system:
- Review progress and manage skills growth with the Individualised Learning Plan.
- Create bespoke reviews with questions and comments for staff and learners and schedule them based on the academic year, start date, or planned end date.
- Add targets with clear steps to layer habits and build confidence in learning.
- Make progress tracking easy, and build a feedback culture in your institution, with automation built in to add or remove staff and learners based on role, department, and enrolment status.
Education providers need to focus on accurate grading, regardless of the complexity or range of courses they deliver. You need a single solution that enables staff to record student achievement irrespective of the type of provision. The solution you need must:
- Complete marking and assessment efficiently with customisable grading schemes for formative and summative assessment.
- Lock marks down for verification, confirm resits, and see the learner's grades against their target or UCAS grade.
It is vital that every vulnerable child and adult in Further Education is kept safe.
You need a Safeguarding module built for the complexity of post-16 education, allowing you to:
- Build custom forms for data collection and ensure they are only distributed to the right staff.
- Collect mental health, wellbeing, financial aid, and first aid requests, record notes, or notify staff of a learner at risk, with urgent or bundled notifications.
- Enable self-service reporting for learners includes peer reporting to ensure a learner's community can access immediate support.
- Notifications for non-urgent incidents are bundled to ensure busy staff are only notified when necessary, and custom distribution lists, with optional lock-down, ensure sensitive messages remain confidential.
Utilising our Progress and Performance modules as part of your ebs system allows providers to streamline processes, enhance communication, personalise the learning experience, and improve data quality.
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City of Wolverhampton College
How they transformed student experience with Tribal's ebs and Engage
Lakes College West Cumbria
How they use ebs to track their progress and performance