Your establishment’s Development Plan will have been created by the senior leadership team in collaboration with your iP system administrators.
The level of access you have to view or edit the Development Plan will depend on the user permissions assigned to you. For this training session, you have been granted permission to add or edit your establishment’s Priorities (the highest level in the plan’s structure), as well as to create and update Development Plan Objectives and Activities.
A word of caution: Development Plan Objectives are not the same as Performance Management Objectives. Development Plan Objectives focus on goals for the entire establishment, while Performance Management Objectives are set for individual members of staff.
Priorities are the key areas for improvement, identified either during a recent inspection or through self-evaluation.
You can review your establishment’s Priorities via the Settings menu.
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Each priority has a start and end date. If these dates fall outside your current academic year, they will not appear when the default date range is applied on the Improvement Plan pages.
The coloured squares next to the dates show how many activities have each status, with the colour representing the status type. Hover over a square to see its meaning.
The numbers in the column with the person icon indicate the number of staff members linked to objectives for that priority.
Drag and drop the three lines on the right side of a priority to change their order, and use the pencil icon on the far right to edit them.
You are advised that any changes made to a priority will also affect the objectives linked to it.
In most cases, only the administrator or headteacher can add or edit priorities, as any updates will impact the entire Development Plan.
The only option in the header is Save, but clicking it will return you to the priorities page, even if no changes have been made.