Managing Your Staff Professional Growth in the Digital Workspace
January 24, 2019
Managing Your Staff Professional Growth in the Digital Workspace
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Frontline Professional Growth
I have used Frontline Professional Growth since it was formerly MyLearningPlan. The main reason we went to this program was to be able to better track our staff professional development hours as well as digitize frequently used forms so that we mitigated paper copies and running them to individuals for signatures. Since we use many of Frontline's other services, such as Absence Management and Oasis Evaluation, this was easy to integrate since it pulled the information we already had in the system. Tracking professional development hours of all staff members is no easy task and this has helped us do that. I am in this platform daily, awarding hours, approving workshops, adding professional development opportunities, and submitting forms.
Pros
- Frontline includes a digital catalog, that you can use to enter all of your professional development workshops into, and track who is attending, print sign-in sheets, and tag professional hours.
- The digital routing of forms was a main goal of ours. Not too many applications can create custom routing procedures, and go from person to person as designated in the configuration of the form.
- The ability to take all of your commonly used forms and have they digital and available for teachers is useful.
- Teachers can track how many hours they have earned throughout the year (and years) in their digital portfolio.
Cons
- The configuration and startup of Frontline Professional Growth is time-consuming. I wish this was easier to get going.
- Creating forms is difficult and the form editor is hard to navigate and use. You cannot create a form yourself. That has to be created and entered into your system by Frontline, which takes more time, especially if it is an easy form you want to create.
- There needs to be a better way to save forms you are completing and being able to go right back to them at a later date. I have had teachers lose what they were doing when saving a draft and then have to start all over.
- Notifications on forms at individual levels only go out once a day, sometime around 2am. This should be instantaneous, notifying individuals as the form comes in.
- We have used a lot less paper over the past few years which leads to cost savings.
- The time it takes to submit a form and get approval has sped up since this is all digital.
- The time it takes to track and award professional development hours has sped up.
Frontline Professional Growth isn't an LMS. This is something more used on the back end to manage and track staff information regarding professional learning, workshops, and hours. This does a good job in a number of areas, but does have a learning curve and does take a good amount of time to get up and running. There are features that I wish were easier to use.
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