Covalent for Further Education
Covalent FE helps you manage performance better by giving you balanced visibility of college-wide performance against plan, with the ability to take action where progress is behind target.
“We bought Covalent to draw together a myriad of action plans, and to enhance the efficiency with which these can be monitored and analysed. We believe this will drive quality forward and at the same time make self assessment and strategic planning more refined.”
Lynne Craig, Vice Principal Curriculum and Quality, Gloucestershire College of Arts & Technology (GLOSCAT)
“Covalent is a very practical and sensible system that allows us to monitor, predict and report on key aspects of college performance. It enables staff at all levels to monitor retention, achievement and success in a very easy and user friendly way. Covalent also makes the tracking and reporting of risk assessment simple”
Ms Gerry Billington, Assistant Principal Quality, Braintree College
Colleges now need to be able to demonstrate how they have been performing relative to priorities.
They need to do detailed self-assessments against the key questions in the Common Inspection Framework.
They need to produce and maintain development action plans detailing of areas for improvement will be
addressed. And all this evidence of progress must be consolidated for review by inspectors.
Covalent FE is specifically designed to meet all these requirements and more.
A simple way to track key performance metrics. The system is preloaded with a library of College PIs (Performance Indicators) and Risks; you can add as many of your own as you want.
A Documents Vault to consolidate evidence in one place. whatever the document type. This can be made easily accessible to inspectors, possibly remotely as all they need is a login and internet connection.
Personalised views - Home page, Snapshots, Reports - so all your team can easily view just information that's relevant for them. Views specific to Governors can be easily created to report on overall college performance.
Scorecards are intuitive, visual way of tracking performance against priorities that organise performance information in a hierarchical tree, with traffic-lighting to indicate status on each element in the scorecard. Covalent also allows colleges to undertake self-assessments and to provide an indication of how they are likely to be rated against the criteria used in an inspection.
