One record, infinite possibilities
Te Rito captures education information so when learners arrive at your school, they’re understood and are off to the best start. It’s the starting point needed when they move from one school to the next.
Check out the Te Rito for Educators video for an overview of how it works.
[Background music]
[Text on screen: Te Rito for Educators]
[Ministry of Education logo on screen]
[Harakeke flax leaves unfold on screen as voiceover starts]
Te Rito is a secure, cloud-based platform connecting education systems with a unique learning record for every kura and school-enrolled student in New Zealand.
[Multiple systems appear on screen, all displaying different types of information and content]
Currently learning information is captured by schools and the Ministry in different ways using different systems.
[A young student walking on screen, panning out to show a series of coloured dots – representing data – following her]
And until now, there has been no way to easily consolidate it and ensure it travels safely with students as they move through their education journey.
Te Rito changes that. It brings it all together into one record, for access by those involved in a student’s learning.
An up-to-date digital record that follows a student throughout their education is what Te Rito is all about.
[The scene zooms into one of the dots, then back out again to show the student standing on a map of inter-connected schools, with another student standing next to one surrounded by their own coloured dots]
When students move between kura and schools, their record transfers with them for other connected kura and schools to access.
[The first student jumps from one school to the next, and her dots follow her]
Over time, as each record builds with valuable learning information, you’ll see a complete, reliable, up-to-date profile that includes what makes each student unique, their strengths, and what they need to achieve.
[The scene zooms in and out again, to show a larger group of students, all with their own dots, specific to them, connected to and following them]
[One student is spinning a basketball as others in the group mix and chat]
Te Rito is a rich source of information that you, with just a few mouse clicks, can use to focus your planning, teaching and learning to support your students.
[The scene focuses on one of the students, with his coloured dots spinning, changing size and forming patterns]
You can also use Te Rito’s data and dashboards to understand data-driven insights for your kura or school, or across others in your community. They also make it easier for kura and school leaders to present data to their boards.
[The scene changes to another student, with her coloured dots also spinning, changing size and forming patterns]
[The scene pans out to show a school, then zooms through an office window, where a principal or teacher is at a desk working on a computer. The scene keeps zooming in until you can see what’s on their screen]
[A calendar of school terms is shown, which transitions to a visual of one school, then multiple schools]
With that understanding you can better plan and collaborate to support your students – whether they arrive at the beginning of term, or part-way through the school year, or attend just your school, or multiple schools.
[Harakeke flax leaves unfold on screen]
Here’s how it works.
[The scene pans back out from the office scene to show a sign up button]
[Multiple coloured dots are shown above the school streaming upwards into a cloud]
Your kura or school’s tumuaki or principal signs up to Te Rito, and your SMS is connected so your data flows into the platform.
[The coloured dots are shown moving to the right, out of the cloud]
Every 24 hours, Te Rito is updated with your SMS data plus data from other systems.
[The scene transitions back to the principal or teacher at their computer. The Te Rito log in screen is shown, followed by different parts of Te Rito’s dashboards]
Each day when you log in, you’ll see updated records for your students, and dashboards for your kura or school.
The home page shows information about your kura or school, and other schools you might be working with.
Access to dashboards is through the navigation menu. The dashboards are designed to help reduce information-gathering and improve analysing and reporting.
Your own kura or school's dashboards are more detailed, and allow you to drill down, while high level information – or aggregated data – is available for broader groups of schools.
As well as seeing information about your students, their whānau, and things that might affect their learning, you can access data-driven insights about what’s happening in your kura or school.
[A teacher is shown, concentrating on juggling multiple coloured dots. The scene zooms into each of the dots, then pans out to show the teacher catching all of them]
With all your student data in one place, there’s less time needed to find and sort information, especially at busy times of the year – enrolments, school and classroom planning and reporting, roll returns, transitions and exams.
[Padlock icons appear on each of the dots, which are cradled in the teacher’s arms]
And note, the information held in Te Rito can only be accessed and used by authorised users.
[The scene transitions to show the teacher in a classroom setting, taking a group of students through calculations on a whiteboard]
Te Rito is designed to give you back the time you need to focus on what matters most.
[The scene pans back out to show the student from the first scene walking along with the coloured dots following behind her – she gradually grows in size]
Imagine all the possibilities if information could follow students throughout their education. Te Rito is making it happen.
[Te Rito’s whakatauāki text on screen: Me tiaki te mana o te tamaiti me tōna whānau. Protect the mana of the child and their family]
Me tiaki te mana o te tamaiti me tōna whānau.
Protect the mana of the child and their family
[Te Rito wordmark, Ministry of Education and All of Government logos on screen]
See terito.govt.nz for details.
Sharing Te Rito across the motu
When you start with an understanding, tumuaki, principals, teachers and kaimahi are better able to know who learners are, what makes them unique, and what they need to achieve.
Te Rito now has:
- Nearly 880 schools signed up, and over 420 have connected their SMS.
- Over 825,000 learner records, and as more schools connect, the records increase.
- More than 24,500 school staff connected, plus students at pilot schools, and hundreds more signing up for access and use.
- New data from Ministry and other systems continuously added - and now has a record for every student; NCEA records (including co-requisites) for all current students; and more student health, language, identity and Ministry-funded supports information.
- Enhanced dashboards, plus inter-school collaboration and pre-enrolment functionality.
- An approved Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) validating the extremely high standard to which information is protected.
- Full IT Certification and Accreditation (C&A) and Safer Technologies for Schools (ST4S) badging.
