Education Management Solutions

Now in our fourth year of operation in EMS360, we continue to explore further what the program can offer Damascus College. The ACE, Leave, PD and PPD application and approval process have allowed us to seamlessly manage and have overall view of student activities, staff leave and absence and professional development. Staff have certainly responded well since its introduction, and its use is now ingrained as a standard practice.

Educational Management Systems has modernised the College's management of staff leave, professional development and events/activities. In addition, implementing Educational Management Systems has improved efficiency and record keeping. The implementation and ongoing support has been of the highest quality. I would recommend this software to all schools looking for efficiency and compliance in this area.

Years ago I dreamt of a program that would take care of all the administrative hack work that accompanied professional learning opportunities for our staff. My dreams materialised when we adopted a very new StaffPD developed by Educational Management Solutions (EMS). They have succeeded where others have failed by providing an active consultation with stakeholders process and incorporating elements that are adaptable and customisable to suit a variety of educational settings.

The EMS 360 program has been used for many years to organise our professional development needs. As an administrative tool for the allocation and tracking of PD requests, it has worked seamlessly with our School processes. The teaching staff use it for tracking their own professional development experiences and for the recording of goals and collation of their evidence of professional growth as part of their annual review.