Schooloscope

We’ve focused on two main areas for our July release: improving the information in Schooloscope, and adding easy and fun ways of sharing the information you find on Schooloscope with your friends.

Most noticeably: we’ve added a more tangible way to share your schools’ information: as a cut-out-and-keep model! You’ll find a perforated corner on a school page, which will let you download a PDF of your model – all that remains is to print it out and stick it together.

Also, it’s now easy to share school pages and comparison pages on Twitter and Facebook. We’ve added a little pair of links at the bottom of each type of page. If you want to share Schooloscope information on Facebook, you’ll be asked to let us post to your wall. There’s nothing to worry about here – all we’ll be adding is a little link in your activity stream that looks a bit like this:

or this:

What have we done to improve our information?

Firstly, we’ve brought our OFSTED reports right up-to-date. Several of you commented that some of the reports on Schooloscope were now out of date, and that was something we wanted to address. We’ve added over 4000 new reports to the site and, of course, updated all the school pages to match – so your school might have new information available.

We’ve also done some behind-the-scenes work on how DCSF tables are stored and utilised. There’s no new information here, so you shouldn’t notice any difference for now – but the next release should build on this in a much more visible way.

That’s all the headline news for July; we hope you continue to enjoy using Schooloscope, and as ever, we’re always interested in your feedback. Get in touch via feedback@schooloscope.com, or find us as @schooloscope on Twitter.