GCSE ICT/ICT in Schools

Schools use ICT for: Administration Schools have to keep information about all the pupils and staff. The Schooltool project is developing an open source solution for this problem and has a detailed analysis of what is needed in all sorts of schools. Proprietary solutions include CCM's product CMIS and Capita's SIMS. Schools need to store information on: Individual Pupils: Name Name and Addresses of parent(s) and/or guardian(s) Subjects that a pupil is doing Past Examination Results Photographs Attendance records Groups of Pupils: Teaching Groups Pastoral Groups Clubs, Societies, Teams, etc. Previous pupils of the school Teachers Names and addresses Groups they teach Salary information A subject and a teaching tool Schools also teach ICT and/or computing as a subject and often have networks for pupils to store their work on and to access eductional resources. The types of applications that the pupils will use will include: Standard Office Tools Word Processors Spreadsheets Presentation Graphics Database Management Systems Specific Teaching Tools Circuit Simulators Mathematical models of specific systems (e.g. prey/predator relationships) Drill programs Information Resources These would include both specific and general resources.