OMaR9000 For Teachers
OMaR9000 helps teachers drive student performance by saving them time spent on administrative work and giving them access to data to inform instruction.
Saving Teachers Time
Mandates from the federal government, states, and local school districts are requiring teachers to use data to drive their instruction. But gathering that data is tedious and time consuming, adding a burden onto already overworked teachers. Other scanning systems help, but they only give teachers data every few months, and sometimes they require teachers to transcribe answers from test booklets onto forms that the scanner can read.
OMaR9000 helps by letting teachers scan and grade any assessment right from their home scanner, including district mandated concept assessments and those they create themselves. The scanning engine is easy to use, easy to train, and works right over the internet, so teachers don’t have to worry about learning new software. And less time spent grading means more time spent with students.
Data Driven Instruction
Teaching without student data is like running a business without bookkeeping. You can still make decisions, but they aren’t as strong with. Most evaluation systems only give teachers feedback a few times during the school year, limiting the amount of time teachers have to react. By making it easy for teachers to use weekly assessments, they’re able to react in near real time to gaps in their students learning, leading to stronger progress for students in their classes.
The data in OMaR9000 is richer than what you’d find in a gradebook. Teachers have access to data at the individual question level, allowing for a depth of analysis previously only available through manual data entry or expensive software packages. Features like tagging also let teachers dig into the data in ways they never thought possible, analyzing not just which questions their students got wrong, but also how their answers deviated from the correct choice, and how they perform on the same types of questions over time.
OMaR9000 is also simple to use, designed around the most common use cases of elementary school teachers. Teachers can quickly access reports to identify strengths and weaknesses in their class, their students, and examine trends over time.
Why does OMaR9000 have so many tools for teachers? Because that’s why we originally made it – to help teachers teach better. You can find out more by reading OMaR’s story.