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We have developed our Advanced Features for Connecting Steps to summarise key assessments that have been achieved, summarise key next steps and write reports.

Click the button below to download our guide on how to use Generative AI within Connecting Steps to reduce teacher workload. It explains how, within Connecting Steps, we use Microsoft’s private ChatGPT through Azure OpenAI services for privacy and security, and gives step by step instructions on how to summarise key achievements, summarise next steps and create a lesson plan using our Advanced Features.

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How does Advanced Features work?

Our Advanced Features utilises the information you have provided in Connecting Steps to generate comprehensive reports. To accomplish this, we leverage the power of AI and Microsoft’s private ChatGPT hosted on our web app. By sending the data, we receive a prompt response from ChatGPT, which we then refine and present to you as the final report within seconds.

So, what information do we actually send? When you request a report using Advanced Features, we transmit the specified achievements and additional contextual data to ChatGPT. To protect student privacy, the pupil’s real name is replaced with a fictional name (for example, Fred or Mary, based on gender) before it is sent.

The details we send to ChatGPT include the student’s age, reading age, framework, subject, level, next level, topic, resources, achievements and language, so that ChatGPT can generate accurate and personalised responses tailored to each student’s unique needs.

Rest assured, our utmost priority is maintaining the privacy and security of student data while harnessing the power of AI to enhance our reporting capabilities.

Just £1 per pupil per year

Existing Connecting Steps users can access Advanced Features for a small fee of £1 per pupil, per year.

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What do the progress summaries look like?

When you generate a progress summary it can be easily copied and pasted into where you need it, or saved as a PDF, to help make report writing easier.

Here is an example we created for Edward, a student working on our Primary Curriculum framework.

About Edward – summarised for his parents

“Edward has made good progress in mastering writing numbers to 10, matching numerals to 20, and comparing two groups using counting. He is gaining skills and understanding in identifying and representing numbers using objects, pictorial representations, and the number line, as well as consistently comparing numbers to 20. However, he has not started describing the position of objects using ordinal numbers or matching ordinal numbers to cardinal numbers. He also needs to work on naming a digit as the ‘tens’ or ‘units’ in a number to 20, estimating where to place a number on a number line to 20, and making sensible estimates using non-standard measures.”

About Edward – summarised for Edward

“Good job, Edward! You’re getting really good at writing numbers up to 10, matching numbers up to 20, and counting to compare groups of things. You can now tell how many things there are by looking at pictures and you’re really good at comparing things that have numbers up to 20. We can keep working on using words like ‘first’ or ‘second’ to talk about where things are and matching those words with the right numbers. It would also be helpful to practice saying which number is in the ‘tens’ or ‘ones’ place in numbers up to 20, guessing where a number goes on a number line up to 20, and making good guesses using blocks or other objects. Keep up the good work, Edward!”