Assessment Planning & Progress Monitoring
B Squared – Connecting Steps
B Squared’s Connecting Steps is an innovative assessment tool tailored for educational institutions, supporting all students, especially those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). Its user-friendly interface allows educators to navigate effortlessly, minimising administrative tasks and enabling them to focus on teaching. The platform facilitates efficient data management, allowing for documentation of student achievements in various multimedia formats, providing a comprehensive view of development.
Connecting Steps is customisable, aligning with both national and global curricula, making it suitable for diverse educational settings. It promotes parental engagement through clear progress reports, encouraging collaboration in goal-setting. Inclusivity is central to its design, with accessibility features for learners with various needs.
The software ensures GDPR compliance, with robust data protection policies and secure logins, while implementing online safety measures to protect sensitive information. With extensive real-world evidence supporting its effectiveness, Connecting Steps is backed by comprehensive customer support, including training sessions and dedicated account managers.
Offering scalable pricing, the platform is cost-effective for schools of all sizes, improving student tracking and resource efficiency. Additionally, by transitioning to a digital platform, Connecting Steps helps reduce paper waste, contributing to environmental sustainability through energy-efficient hosting solutions.
Citizens – Citizens
Citizens is transforming the way schools assess students’ personal development and extracurricular achievements.
A ‘LinkedIn for Students,’ Citizens helps schools build detailed portfolios that go beyond exam results, providing a structured way to track non-examined skills such as leadership, creativity, and civic engagement. The platform’s Citizens Skills 360™ offers a customizable, research-backed tool that maps student achievements to global benchmarks like the UNSDGs, providing a clear view of each student’s holistic growth.
Developed through a co-design project with over 1,000 young people, Citizens addresses the needs of today’s students and schools, filling the gap between academic assessments and the broader skills needed for life and work. Citizens offers a sustainable, scalable, and innovative solution for modern assessment needs.
GamaLearn – SwiftAssess
SwiftAssess is at the forefront of transforming the assessment industry by integrating sustainability into education. This digital assessment platform is steering the sector towards a greener future by reducing the environmental footprint traditionally associated with assessments. For instance, Traditional assessments are notorious for their paper trail and associated transportation emissions.
In contrast, SwiftAssess leverages digital innovation to minimize these impacts, thereby revolutionizing exams. It fosters a culture of paperless exams, saving trees, and reducing reliance on non-renewable resources. This can be evident in the suite of digital tools that transform paper-intensive examinations into secure online assessments. This shift has tangible environmental benefits, such as reduced paper waste.
SwiftAssess’s digital transformation of assessments aligns with Microsoft’s Global Training Partner Program, which emphasizes innovation and technology in education as key factors for preparing students for the future. The program connects partners like GamaLearn with education leaders worldwide, helping them leverage technology for teaching and learning.
Through the partnership, SwiftAssess empowers educators and students with tools that support inclusivity and accessibility in the classroom. This is in line with Microsoft’s mission to ensure that technology increases sustainability and is inclusive and trusted.
We are proud to be awarded the Best Sustainable/Eco-friendly Product.
Juniper Education – Sisra Analytics
Over half of secondary schools in England use Juniper Education’s Progress and Outcomes Solution, Sisra Analytics. A web-based assessment and data analysis platform designed to support secondary school leaders in making informed decisions to drive student achievement. With a user-friendly interface and intuitive features, Sisra Analytics is a complete student precision intelligence tool, consolidating student progress, performance, and pastoral data across Key Stages 3, 4, and 5.
Sisra has been designed with secondary education in mind, including Independent and International Schools that offer the English curriculum. Additionally, Juniper Education offers MAT Dashboard, designed specifically for MATs. This service pulls school data directly from Sisra Analytics into one easy-to-use summary dashboard.
Sisra Analytics also allows schools to opt into Juniper’s Data Collaboration program, where key student data like gender, SEN status, and KS2 results are collected. This data is used to generate Attainment 8 estimates, helping schools calculate their Progress 8 score two months before official figures are released by the Department for Education. With over 1,500 schools participating in 2024, these early insights have become a major draw for schools.
Ultimately, Sisra Analytics enables early interventions and provides educators with the information needed to improve outcomes for all students.
Learning Ladders Education – Learning Ladders
Learning Ladders is a unique whole school system that provides a joined-up, consistent approach to curriculum design, progress tracking, reporting and remote learning.
Learning Ladders continue to innovate, adding even more unique functionality to their much-loved planning, assessment and progress monitoring platform.
Child-centric assessments against the school’s own bespoke curricula, using whatever assessment methodology the school chooses, is at the heart of the Learning Ladders approach.
Integrated data dashboards for teachers and SLT pinpoint areas for them to focus on with ease, and everything can be shared with parents to keep them engaged and in the loop.
But Learning Ladders goes further, with semi-automated Student Reports, and self-marking assignments, as well as online portfolios and 2-way chat with parents bringing learning to life outside the classroom as well as in it.
On top of that their extraordinary customer service and support means their schools are always on top of their planning, assessment and progress monitoring whilst reducing teacher workload.
Magic EfTech – MagicBox™
With over 45 publishers and 7 million global users, MagicBox™ is an AI-powered digital publishing platform designed to empower educational publishers and organizations through effective assessment and progress monitoring tools. Offering a customizable, multi-tenant solution, MagicBox™ integrates seamlessly into classroom teaching, supporting educators with comprehensive assessment capabilities, including formative and summative assessments, customizable quizzes, and gamified learning features.
The platform’s AI-driven assessment authoring tool simplifies the creation of tailored assessments, while its grading assistant ensures fast and accurate evaluation. MagicBox™ also provides robust data analytics and reporting to monitor student performance and make informed decisions that enhance learning outcomes.
With a focus on inclusivity, MagicBox™ adheres to accessibility standards and promotes parental engagement through easy access to progress reports. Additionally, its commitment to data privacy and security ensures compliance with regulations such as GDPR, FERPA, and COPPA.
By delivering innovative, secure, and learner-centric solutions, MagicBox™ continues to empower publishers and educators, fostering a collaborative and data-driven approach to education while enhancing the overall learning experience for millions of students worldwide.
PAGS – PAGS
PAGS (Profile, Assessment and Goal Setting) is a cutting-edge, cloud-based platform designed to support educators, parents, and specialists working with neurodiverse learners. With a focus on Special Educational Needs (SEN) and inclusion, PAGS provides comprehensive assessments in key developmental areas such as communication, social interaction, self-regulation, and cognition. The platform delivers tailored developmental targets and interventions, helping educators create individualised learning plans for students.
PAGS goes beyond assessment by offering a wide range of tools, including learner tracking, provision mapping, a comprehensive school dashboard, and features like SEN & behaviour scores, learner mood tracking, and grade tracking. With CSV import/export functionality and shared target banks, PAGS streamlines administrative tasks, saving educators hours of time each week.
Designed to drive meaningful progress in schools, PAGS enables clear reporting to meet OFSTED standards, EHCP requirements and even provides robust data for tribunals. With its user-friendly interface and emphasis on inclusion, PAGS is rapidly expanding across the UK and internationally, empowering schools to provide the best possible outcomes for neurodiverse learners.
Quizizz – Quizizz
Quizizz transforms educational assessment and progress monitoring with its innovative, all-in-one platform. Designed for primary, secondary, higher, and further education, Quizizz reimagines traditional testing into an engaging, data-driven experience. Its real-time analytics dashboard provides instant insights, enabling educators to make immediate instructional adjustments. Comprehensive reports offer detailed views of student progress, supporting informed decision-making at both classroom and institutional levels.
Quizizz’s adaptive technology personalises learning paths, ensuring every student is appropriately challenged. The platform’s gamification features boost engagement, reduce test anxiety, and increase motivation. Seamless integration with popular learning management systems streamlines workflows, while robust data protection measures guarantee GDPR compliance.
Beyond assessment, Quizizz fosters collaboration through its Professional Learning Communities feature, while the parent engagement portal strengthens home-school connections by involving families in the learning process. With its intuitive interface and accessibility features, Quizizz promotes inclusivity for all learners.
There’s a reason why over 1 million users in the UK have adopted Quizizz in 2024. By combining cutting-edge technology with pedagogical best practices, Quizizz empowers educators to create data-informed, student-centred learning environments. Our platform not only assesses learning but actively facilitates it, positioning Quizizz as a leader in the future of educational technology.
