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As part of our Learning offer in Lincolnshire, we deliver an ESFA funded 16-19 study programme for young people at risk of exclusion from education, training or employment. As with other learning, this provision is subject to Ofsted inspection, and judgments on the service are included within our annual Self Assessment Report. Building on the success of the Community Learning Benchmark Club then I am wondering if there is any merit, or any appetite, in developing a separate Benchmark...

The main highlight features of this release are: Automatically email D&P request A process has been added to email learners automatically when they are due to be asked about D&P. Blank Planning Spreadsheet An option has been added to the import planning screen to create an empty planning spreadsheet for inputting into. Email Priority Thread Notifications An option has been added to user records to only email notification of updates to threads marked High/Critical...

Did you know that several Councils have chosen our TERMS MIS to replace Service Birmingham IT’s Aqua platform, which is to be decommissioned next year?

As an Adult education Service that’s funded through a Government grant we are dependent on a robust and flexible Management Information System. Given the range of reporting were are required to undertake e.g. for Ofsted, the ESFA and for reporting to various committees in the Council TERMS has provided an excellent tool...

If any users take part in the annual Community Learning Benchmarking Club data submission, haven't filled their template spreadsheets in yet, and have access to SSRS reports we may be able to help. There are two ways to fill the template spreadsheet this year: from study data (as per last year's reports) or, new for this year, from a Single ILR file - this option has been put in for providers with sub-contractors who report their data by sending ILR's generated from other systems and...

The main highlight features of this release are: 18/19 Funding The procedures are in place to produce 18/19 ILR returns. Create Web Account Message The warning message to say a people account has an email but no web account can now be switched off if required. This is can either be set to do nothing or to create the missing web account automatically. The message can still be set to just warn if required. Master venue can be filtered on Master venues can now be filtered on in the...

This is a major update for GDPR compatibility via the creation of new learner accounts online and the confirmation of the opt-in contact preferences for existing learners. Please note that we will be issuing separate guidance upon the steps available for GDPR compliance once this release has been installed. The new GDPR opt-in questions can now be processed as part of the registrations of new Learners to the site. This does require a change to the HTML design of the web pages. ...

This release adds several new features to the system and includes updates required for GDPR compliance.

Please note that we will be issuing separate guidance upon the steps available for GDPR compliance once this release has been installed.

The main highlight features of this release are:

Activity Marketing Mode screen

A new screen allowing users to update just the marketing type information for a course e.g. web snippets, etc. can be accessed from the web interface as well as...

We asked the ESFA for clarification on the use of the new GDPR Contract Preference codes they recently announced, as it was not clear whether the new codes were to be used in the current year (17/18) ILR returns or just for next years ILR. The response we got was:- There is no change to 17/18 ILR specification or validation rules. It is too late in the year to make such changes. However the Appendix F has changes for 17/18, whilst building a software system for your customers you may...

This new release of TermsWeb introduces several major updates. The whole learner site is now fully responsive to different screen sizes, so it will alter its size to work on smartphones, tablets and monitors. A full suite of marketing analysis links have been added to the system for better ranking on search engines and for analytics via both Google and Facebook. The login and account creation processes have been completely rewritten with options for email validation, forgotten...

The latest version of TERMS is now available with several new features and important updates. The updated can be downloaded from the Community Area. This release makes a lot of changes required for the upcoming TermsWeb release. The main desktop areas are: Funding Import from FIS Google Snippets and Metadata Updated Postcode and IMD data