ADMINISTRATIVE SOFTWARE: PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE

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ADMINISTRATIVE SOFTWARE PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE
MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

• Tamesha Cary Mbange Ngaaje

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Administrative Software

• Administrative software is software that assists
  an educator in accomplishing the administrative,
  professional, and management tasks associated
  with the profession.
• It is important for educators to know how to
  select and use the best software packages that
  are available for their use in the classroom.
• Administrative software includes the following
  
• - Productivity software
• - Classroom management support software

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Productivity Software

• Productivity software is typically generic
  business-application software that educators can
  use and adapt for the administrative and
  professional tasks they must address. Examples
  of productivity software would be word
  processing, spreadsheet and database management.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE TASKS
• - Under administrative tasks, educators can
  prepare memos, letters, reports, and budgets.
• PROFESSIONAL TASKS
• - The software can also help educators in
  tracking student information, computing grades,
  and preparing lesson plans and IEPs
  (Individualized Educational Programs).
• TEACHING AND LEARNING TASKS
• - The software can also aid instructors in
  creating student activity sheets,
  transparencies, grade reports, and parent
  letters.
• The use of software in education is fast
  becoming a trend, so it is important that
  educators are able to identify and use the right
  software.

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Types of Software

• Administrative software can be bought as the
  following
• - off-the-shelf commercial packages
• - programs can be tailor made to fit specific
  schools and school districts
• - freeware can be obtained at no cost
• - shareware can be obtained for a limited
  amount of time and/or a small fee, but payment
  is due after the educator has tried the software
  and decided that it is useful to them.
• Other than paying for shareware and other
  software, educators need to remember that there
  are
• other costs such as the cost to maintain the
  software, the cost to learn how to use the
  software
• (including time), and also the cost to upgrade
  the machines that run the software. Software
• changes quite often, hence the machines need to
  be updated to accommodate the new software
• that have been and will be manufactured.

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References

• Teaching and Learning With Technology by
  Lever-Duffy, McDonald and Mizell
• Course Website on the internet

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Productivity Software

• Word Processing this helps educators in
  preparing letters to parents, memos, reports,
  flyers, rubrics, lesson plans, newsletters,
  forms, etc.
• Electronic Spreadsheets educators can use this
  to prepare budgets, grade and attendance sheets,
  to compute grades, etc.
• Database Management Systems helps organize and
  track student and other professional data
  prepare inventories, mailing lists, and reports.
  
• Presentation Software this helps educators in
  creating presentations for workshops,
  conferences, and meetings.