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We had very specific needs and had been working with another company to develop a solution to meet those needs”, recalls Anna Hu, Director of Information and Learning Technologies for both Scotch College and Presbyterian Ladies’ College. “Development was slower than expected, however, and when we saw the SEQTA Suite, it quickly became obvious that SEQTA not only met our needs, but had the potential to significantly reduce teachers’ workloads.

We share fees and billing to parents through the SEQTA Engage App and find that parents can log in more easily with the single sign on environment.

In order to achieve our goal of improved communication between students, parents and teachers we needed a learning management system to connect all stakeholders.

In some circumstances SEQTA is saving our teachers up to 10 hours per week in terms of their administration, meaning that they’re spending more time on curriculum development, more time with their students, more time on professional learning

We wanted to ensure that staff felt included in the process. By allowing them to be part of the decision-making, we created transparency and ownership around the change, which has made the implementation much smoother

Before we partnered with Education Horizons, we had around 16 different systems operating, none of which were natively integrated, and this doesn’t even count the apps staff were using. We needed a single source of truth for our data.

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…The commitment you and your staff have for the ‘whole child’ is commendable. Further, the priority placed on wellbeing whilst still maintaining high levels of academic excellence guided through creativity, has created conditions in which your students are thriving.

Previously, we used printed documents that ultimately ended up on gathering dust on teachers’ shelves. Keeping them up to date was a never-ending task. Now I simply keep the student plans up to date on SEQTA, and as teachers mark their rolls, they can see a green dot next to the students’ names. When they click on the green dot, the student plan is displayed. SEQTA has made it easy to put up-to-the minute information in teachers’ hands about the management of students’ special needs.

The key to successful implementation was ensuring that the work on process and procedures was done well before the implementation date. Teachers were trained and the administration staff were up-skilled well in advance of day one. SEQTA provided us with excellent support throughout – from assisting us with drafting policy through to putting a staff member on the ground during the first week of implementation. I don’t think any software implementation could be smoother.

In terms of what we’re looking at with pedagogy, we like to think about this in three key phases and SEQTA provides support for each of these. In the preparing for learning phase, it’s about knowing your students and being able to therefore differentiate effectively and design lessons to meet the needs of the students that are in your classroom. There are then the strategies for learning, using different approaches within the classroom and using variety in the classroom. One way SEQTA supports this is by providing the capacity to bring in blended learning to incorporate with their other practices. And the third crucial component is feedback, so the reflection on assessments, the release of feedback prior to results and those sorts of things that are really desirable in that context.

I would highly recommend SEQTA to any school wishing to improve the way that student information and learning is managed in this digital age.

The SEQTA LMS platform allows us to engage effectively with the students in a way that makes sense to them, the system is underpinned by good pedagogical practice.

SEQTA has changed our college practices in the way that we provide feedback to students and the visibility of that feedback to parents and caregivers.