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Normal Logon Secure Logon Which logon should I use? Need help Logging On?   About eTAP Overview Curriculum Planning Assessment Reports to Caregivers Student Administration Attendance/Absentees Guidance/Pastoral Care Upgrading to eTAP Upgrading to eTAP Training eTAP Coaching Customer Support Recommendation FAQ Publications	About eTAP eTAP was originally developed as an assessment and planning tool for primary and intermediate schools. Over the past few years it has evolved into a complete SMS, bringing the power and convenience of the web to the core features of a student administration package; including student database, attendance, behavioural and medical information. Unique Features Teacher planning and assessment eTAP is an incredibly powerful tool for helping teachers match teaching plans to student assessment. Using eTAP, teachers can create simple or complex plans that can be cross-curriculum and at multiple levels. eTAP generates automatic markbooks against the plans for easy student assessment. eTAP planning and assessment includes:     All standardised tests for New Zealand Primary and Intermediate schools     Full New Zealand curriculum objectives     Ability to attach SLO's to teacher plans     Automatically generated mark books     The Maori curriculum (if required)     Te Reo version of eTAP     The ability for teachers to make their plans available to the rest of the school     The ability to create and use plans as a syndicate or group of teachers Managing unexplained absence eTAP includes the ability to manage unexplained absence within the school, including the ability to automatically send text messages and emails to parents or truancy officers informing them of child absence. The school has complete control over the management of these features. Reporting to caregivers eTAP includes the ability to manage unexplained absence within the school, including the ability to automatically send text messages and emails to parents or truancy officers informing them of child absence. The school has complete control over the management of these features. Features 1. Student Administration     Record and access student information simply and easily     Accurately measure student information as per Ministry of Education requirements     Automatically lets the user know what information is missing and what needs to be collected to meet Ministry requirements 2. Attendance/Absentees     Record student attendance easily and accurately     Link to other modules and analyse absence information against other factors     Automatically generate letters to caregivers with detailed breakdowns of attendance 3. Curriculum Delivery Planning     Develop unit/teaching plans     Create learning outcomes for New Zealand (or Maori) curriculum achievement objectives     Automatically create mark books for teachers to assess against unit plans 4. Assessment     Complete intergration with eTAP Curriculum Delivery Planning     Assess against learning objectives     Flow-through of student assessment results directly to parent/board reports     SLO Manager       Unpack achievement objectives and add specific school-based selected learning outcomes (SLO's) for assessment     School-Wide Analysis Tools       Wide variety of up-to -date statistical information       School-wide strengths/weaknesses     Barriers to Learning/Pupil Targets       Define targets for individual pupils and monitor the targets 5. Reports to Caregivers     Produce comprehensive, accurate reports based on curriculum activities     'Best fit' and other valid progress indicators automatically generated from entered data     Up-to-date reports can be generated at any time.     Make caregiver reports available online via the 'Our School' website 6. Student Guidance/Pastoral Care     Identify students at risk     Create detailed student history which is important when dealing with incidents     Includes templates of behavioural management procedures that accommodate individual school policies     Keep track of extra support given to individual students