Nicola, my CPD management system has, since February 1987 consisted of a hand written learning log - currently four lever arch files, 1480 entries and a around a million words.
In my experience the 'system' cannot be organisation-led, it must be driven by the efforts, commitment and desire of individuals.
No some sort of software, we have used excel in the past. We currently use a cloud based system but it isn't agile enough so I have been tasked with finding an alternative. I just mean something to manage the admin, tally the budget and generate reports for inspection.
Thanks Andrew but I don't mean individual CPD, its for the school and fab though excel is there are too many demands on the information for it to be good enough!
So (apologies, I'm a little ignorant of how this works in schools) when you say "CPD" I always think this is led by the individual (as Andrew assumed, too). Are you talking about recording teacher attendance at 'best practice' / training sessions, which is more about checking you are compliant as a school, etc.
Some 'meat on the bones' of your question would be useful, Nicola.
We have 250 ish staff, support and teachers, the training attended varies from 4 day residential IB courses in Rome, year long NQT mentoring to one hour online Prevent training which is compulsory for all staff. We need to be able to monitor who has done what from both a statutory inspection point of view and from a development framework. We currently use CPD genie but it isn't agile enough, I have been looking at schoolip as it is supposed to integrate with our HRMIS but thought I would ask for others experiences before I go any further. I will make sure any further questions I post are sufficiently meaty and I am sorry for any confusion :)
Hi Nicola, some options to consider for other potential replies:
- posting this same question onto the discussion forum for Training Zone for other suggestions (www.trainingzone.co.uk)
- checking the Personnel Today website for their software buyers guide
(www.personneltoday.com/buyers-guides/hr-software)
- there is an annual HR software exhibition every June which you may want to consider, however I do acknowledge you may need an answer more quickly (events.cipd.co.uk/.../)
Following this thread with interest - I'm reviewing this as part of looking for a system to use for performance management more broadly (including appraisal too) and am currently looking at Lessons Learned (lessonslearned.com/.../) but haven't made a decision as yet.
