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Analyse Multiple Abacuses
Analyse Multiple Abacuses
One of the powerful features of iAbacus is that it lets you see multiple abacuses in a single screen, for an overall view of performance and progress. This section explains the options available.
Add suggested helping and hindering factors
Create and Customise an Abacus Template » Add suggested helping and hindering factors
You have the option of adding suggested helping and hindering factors, to act as prompts for users. To do this, click on the Customise button at the top of the screen Click on the area for which you wish to add suggested helping and hindering factors. In the pop…
Choosing suggested helping and hindering factors
Additional Abacus Functionality » Choosing suggested helping and hindering factors
Your template may have suggested helping and hindering factors assigned to it. They may be standard on your template or you can add them to the abacus yourself in the customise option see 13.13 Add Suggested helping and hindering factors If suggested factors are…
Review, evidence, analyse and plan steps: disable or enable
Create and Customise an Abacus Template » Review, evidence, analyse and plan steps: disable or enable
The full iAbacus model includes five stages: Slide a bead to make a judgement Review relevant criteria or standards and amend the judgment if needed Provide evidence to support the judgement Analyse helping and hindering factors Develop an implement an action…
Add prompts and guidance
Create and Customise an Abacus Template » Add prompts and guidance
You have the option of adding prompts and written guidance for each of the steps: Review Criteria, Provide Evidence, Analyse Factors, Action Plan. To do this, click on the Customise button at the top of the screen. Click on the area for which you wish to add…
Analysis
Create and Complete an Abacus » Analysis
Once you have provided your evidence statement, the next screen allows you to pinpoint factors that help or hinder, currently or in the future, and to reorder them. To do this, click on the bead you wish to analyse, and click the Analysis button. Include the…
Update existing evidence, analysis and actions
Update and Maintain an Abacus » Update existing evidence, analysis and actions
You can go back to any of the screens at any time and add or change judgements, evidence and commentary. You can also update progress against items in your action plan. To do this, simply click on the relevant bead, and then click on the section you wish to amend or…
Provide evidence
Create and Complete an Abacus » Provide evidence
Once you have made your initial judgement, you can write an evidence statement to justify your judgement, attach files and include web links to other evidence. To do this, click on the bead you wish to provide evidence for, and then click the Provide Evidence button.…
Areas to review: edit text
Create and Customise an Abacus Template » Areas to review: edit text
To edit the text associated with the areas you are evaluating, first click on the Customise button at the top of the screen. Click on the area you want to edit. This will bring up a pop up box that lets you amend and add text associated with that area. By…
Plan actions
Create and Complete an Abacus » Plan actions
Once you have made your analysis of the helping and hindering factors, you can start to write your action plan. To do this, click on the bead you wish to create an action plan for, and then click the Actions button. On the Plan Actions screen, click the expand…
Converting an abacus to a template
Create and Customise an Abacus Template » Converting an abacus to a template
You may have created an abacus which you would like to make available as a template to all users on your licence code. You just need to let us know the id of the abacus which you would like converting and we can do this for you so that it appears in your new abacus…
Track progress over time
Update and Maintain an Abacus » Track progress over time
Your iAbacus can easily be used to track progress over time. Simply slide a second bead along the abacus, and a third and fourth. You can give each bead a name, or description, to differentiate them. When you slide an additional bead, a pop up box will appear asking…
Areas to review: add, delete and re-order
Create and Customise an Abacus Template » Areas to review: add, delete and re-order
To add, delete or re-order the areas for review listed on the left of your abacus, first click on the Customise button at the top of the screen. To add an area, go to the bottom of the list and click on the + Add area button. In the pop up box, type a name for your…
Add RAG rated statements
Create and Customise an Abacus Template » Add RAG rated statements
You have the option of adding statements to the Review Criteria screen that users can then rate Red, Amber, or Green (RAG). To do this, click on the Customise button at the top of the screen. Click on the area for which you wish to add RAG rated factors. In the…