2develop for Schools

2develop for Schools is our online training needs analysis tool initially developed under the name Identifit.

This online system is being used extensively throughout the country by schools and Local Authorities to assist with performance management, school improvement planning, OfSTED reporting, continuous professional development (CPD) and more. It includes questionnaires against support staff qualifications and roles, teacher standards and roles, quality standards including Investors in People, online action planning and CPD log.

Identifit was created following feedback from schools and LA's on the difficulty they were having in meeting the national school agenda targets. Following research the School Support Staff Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) – now named the Schools Workforce Partnership (SWP) decided that an online training needs analysis tool would assist to meet the needs highlighted by the research.

Due to technological advances Identifit has recently been replaced by 2develop for Schools and is fully endorsed by the new Schools Workforce Partnership as their recommended system for schools.

2develop for Schools - Benefits Over Identifit

• Administration - Brand new user management tools allowing you to create, delete, search and manage users with ease.
• Reporting - Ability to compare Training Needs Analysis and Role Analysis/Job Description report data for initial and latest responses at both user and administrator level, while administrators can also view skills gap reports.
• About You Questionnaire - Re-designed questionnaire offering a far simpler and more convenient interface allowing a user to partially complete the questionnaire and return at a later time.
• Query Building - Based on the questions in the About You questionnaire, build queries to filter down to an extremely focused group of individuals.
• Identify Qualifications - The About You questionnaire data can be queried to identify who requires a CRB check, NVQ Level 2 maths and numeracy for example.
• Group Registration - You can now create a simple group login account and disseminate the details to your users. Once users login, they will be able to create their own user accounts, removing this process away from the administrator.
• Additional Administrator Account - Provide access, either full or limited, to additional administrators. Several administrator accounts can now be created, with different levels of access.
• Events System - Advertise events to your school workforce including a simple booking system.
• Message System - Not got email? Co-ordinate with staff using the built in messaging system.

“We see Identifit as an essential tool for workforce planning. It will enable the authority and its schools to uncover the strengths and development needs of our current workforce and to deliver targeted CPD.
It will help us ensure that we have a workforce with the necessary skills, knowledge and future experience to deliver on programmes such as Building Schools for the Future, 14-19 curriculum and Extended schools.
Blackburn with Darwen are currently working with STAR/2develop on a number of projects- we have found them to be a forward thinking organisation, who understand our needs and respond to them well. Always a pleasure to work with!”
Sue Nevinson, Blackburn with Darwen Local Authority

"The Identifit TNA tool is simple to administrate and user friendly. It yields an analysis of skills thus providing a firm basis for a performance management dialogue. STAR/2develop provide excellent training along with a high level of after-sales support."
Val Gaskell, Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council

"I have been very impressed with the willingness of the STAR/2develop team to take on board our suggestions for the customising of the Identifit website package to fit Wirral needs.
There has been an extremely positive response from all of the 90 schools that have received the rollout training in the summer and autumn terms 2008 and I am already seeing schools making good use of the analysis data that has been generated to provide bespoke training for individuals and cohorts of staff."
Donald Williamson, Wirral Local Authority

"Medway Council are proud to be piloting the Identifit programme with our schools and believe it will be a useful tool in the performance management and continuous professional development of teachers and support staff alike.
No problem is too big for the staff at STAR/2develop and it is a pleasure to work with them."
Elaine Hunt, Medway Council

"With a mobile workforce all over the world we needed a simple tracking system. The initial purpose of tracking has grown into an improved performance management process linked to objectives and training."
Alison Iveson, Ministry of Defence (MOD)

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