Piota Schools vs Evisense (UK)

Welcome to Piota Schools for iPhone and iPad. Piota Schools, is the most direct way for your school or nursery to provide you with rich, timely and relevant information. You can read it there and then, browse it later, respond if necessary, or simply use it as a reference source when out and about. All straight from your iPhone or iPad, making life simpler. News Important summaries from Blogs, website news, newsletters and Twitter are all curated in one place in a format that is bite sized and looks great on your iPhone or iPad. Share the best bits with your parents! Events Calendar Consistently a favourite feature, our event calendar is a lot more accessible than the one pinned to the fridge at home and it is more accurate too as it’s automatically updated. Use filters to narrow down the entries to ones of most interest to you, and you can add priority events to the personal calendar on your iPhone or iPad. Alerts Push notifications or Alerts reach you as quickly as a text but can contain richer content like video, pictures and documents as well as words. Opt-in to whichever groups you most want to hear from to personalise reminders, late bus announcements, forms, accounts of the day, weekly newsletters and much more. You are in control and won't be bombarded with everything or feel left out of the loop. Photos and Video Pictures paint a thousand words, photos a million and our support for videos lets you see the school musical, highlights from the school day, or the latest updates from your child's class. Share these with social media accounts and other services by tapping the Action button in the app on your iPhone or iPad . Key Information Menus, price lists, contact details, timetables, uniform requirements, key dates, who’s who, packing lists, legal policies, procedures documents, handbooks - not necessarily the reading material of choice but if you do need to refer to some or all from time to time it's best have them handy, easily accessible and all in one place. Forms and surveys No more need for paper or emailed forms which are such a bore to fill out and return. Now you can reply directly on the app in 10 seconds if you’re in a hurry or at more length if not. Snap surveys are shorter and more to the point than online ones and equally easy to fill out and volley back. This app is designed so that you will not share any personal data or manufacturer or network unique device identifiers with us when you download it. There is no advertising on the app. We do not use cookies to track you before or after you have left the app. We will never sell or share any data about users of this app with any commercial third parties. For full details, see the listing details below for links to our Privacy and Data policies.

The latest version of Evisense is a complete rebuild from the ground up. We have added over 50 new features to make Evisense even more powerful and more will follow. Evisense is now more than just an evidence system, it is now a school-parent communication hub with more than 15 different post types. These include evidence, home school diary, reading diary, wow moments, pupil voice and class blogs. For those who have used Evisense before, here are the BIG new features: - Improved performance - Easier to use interface - Use multiple photos and videos in a post, you are no longer limited to 1 photo or video. - Photo blurring so that you can blur out faces of children in the background - Camera roll access in the Evisense app These are the most requested new features, but there are so many more! If you have never used Evisense before, or you used it previously. There is lots here to make Evisense work for your school, to help show progress, evidence achievements and share all of this and more with parents. Check out the Evisense support site to find all our training and support resources including a FREE online, self-paced training course for school staff. This app requires an active Evisense subscription. What is Evisense? - Engage parents with their child’s learning by sharing information in an easy-to-use social media style interface. - Use online home school diaries, reading diaries and more to boost parental engagement. - Capture photos, videos and audio to show evidence of learning. - Link evidence to B Squared’s assessment content. - Flexible, granular privacy controls, so that school staff, parents and students only access the right content. - Use the timeline feature to look at the progress pupils have made. - Powerful filtering controls to look at posts across the school, group or pupil that could be linked to different aspects like the 4 purposes, GIRFEC4 Broad Areas of Need and more. - One app for school staff, parents, students and external professionals. - Security and Safeguarding features keep your school and your data safe. Who is Evisense for? - Primary Settings - Secondary Settings - Specialist Settings - Colleges - Alternative Resource Provisions - Resource Bases - Independent Settings - Support and Therapy Providers FREE assessment content you can use with Evisense - Pre-Key Stage Standards (England) - Development Matters (England) - Primary Curriculum (England) - Phonics for Pupils with SEN - SQA Nationals 1 – 6 (Scotland) - Developmental Pathways (Wales) - Literacy, Numeracy & Digital Competencies (Wales) The following Assessment content require an active Connecting Steps Subscription and to purchase the content. - Progression Steps (Replaces P and NC Levels for pupils with SEND in secondary and specialist settings) - Primary Steps (Replaces P and NC Levels for pupils with SEND in primary settings) - Engagement Steps (Engagement Model) - Early Steps (Development Matters for pupils with SEND) - Communication & Interaction - Autism Progress (autism profiling tool) - Steps for Life (Academic, Employability and Life Skills for KS4/Post 16) - Curriculum for Excellence (Scotland) - Milestones (Scotland) - Curriculum for Wales - Routes for Learning (Wales) All data is stored within the UK and follows the UK GDPR data protection principles (This version of the app is for all countries apart from Australia and New Zealand). “We like that it links to assessments. We like that it distinguishes between TAs and Teachers, for editing purposes. For us, the fact that it links to Connecting Steps V5 and is specific to the new Curriculum for Wales has been the most significant factor.” Jayne Whittington, Lead Teacher, Overmonnow and Deri View Primary Schools