My name is Nick Brown and I am the IT Strategy Manager of the Dwight School London. I have a mechanical engineering background and I support student administration. I am also a teacher of design technology and a SIMS manager.

Dwight School London is authorized as an International Baccalaureate (IB) Open World School. With a student body representing a range of individual academic abilities and talents, Dwight School aims to provide personalized programs that extend, challenge and support each student within the context of the International Baccalaureate Programmes. These programmes ensure personal academic excellence combined with leadership training and service learning.

'I had heard about Awesome Table and knew that it […] would help us with the management of our data.'

I wanted to find a practical way to display students grades and curriculum in a table. I had heard about Awesome Table and knew that this website application would help me create simple interactive tables from spreadsheets and thus, would help us with the management of our data. We have been using the simple Table views to meet our professional needs. We use Awesome Table to present filterable overviews of curriculum planning at school and to help us with the management of administrative tasks.

Before using Awesome Table, how did you use to display your data?

We did not use any kind of application to help us display our views; we simply used to have Word documents on a local area network. Consequently, we had to compile overviews manually and maintain them as separate documents. I must say that it was not convenient and very time-consuming!

We also use Hapara Teacher Dashboard, which is a program that integrates with the Google Apps suite. Hapara provides a nice tool for teachers, learners and administrators who wish to organize, manage and monitor learning with the help of technology. However, this website does not allow you to present and filter data in several specific ways. By contrast, Awesome Table offers a large range of possibilities that enable teachers to present and filter data as they want.

How has Awesome Table changed the way you build your website? Has it positively affected your organization?

Yes, it has. After using Awesome Table for more than six months, I can definitely say that this application has been a successful implementation and has considerably improved the way we manage our data.

Indeed, this application offers the possibility of using Google Apps for Education (GAFE) to organise, present and manage curriculum planning rather than having to buy specialist software. Additionally, Awesome Table allows the use of great GAFE features such as collaborative working to be built into teacher planning workflows. Tables allow the data that is gathered from the planning to be presented as overviews that can be used to monitor coverage by subject, topic, year and group.