Now is the time for your school to upgrade to Sonar Tracker
Making a change and upgrading something as integral to your school as your pupil progress platform, requires careful consideration. With that in mind, we’ve put together the following information to help you make the right decision for you and your school. We hope you find it beneficial.
First, a little background…
OTrack was originally created to give Primary School educators the assessment tracking tools needed to help you run your school successfully.
We know that your needs and requirements are continually evolving and so over the last two years, we’ve been developing a new pupil assessment platform, Sonar Tracker, that can flex and grow to support you both now and into the future.
Before developing Sonar Tracker, we reviewed each of the market-leading trackers in the Juniper family, (Target Tracker, OTrack, Pupil Asset and Classroom Monitor), with the ultimate goal of creating a single new assessment platform built from their successes, including all the best tried and tested functionality with some game-changing new unique features that will save you time and make it easier for you to ensure all your pupils reach their potential.
The result is Sonar Tracker.
What’s different?
Every feature, function and widget included has been carefully chosen and designed to help you spot opportunities to maximise the outcomes of all your pupils.
Sonar has been built using many of the features already present in OTrack, so moving to the new system will be straightforward. The reports and analysis have been completely redesigned, ensuring you still get the powerful insights into pupil attainment and progress, but in a more streamlined manner.
Sonar Tracker also has new and unique features that you won’t find in any other web based tracker, such as the curriculum view and opportunities functions which show you how your pupils are tracking against their objectives and highlight opportunities where extra support would be most beneficial
The benefits of upgrading from OTrack:.
- Quicker, more responsive and easier to use - Drawing on our existing trackers’ vast user experience knowledge, we have taken the assessment and reporting tools to the next level of design and function.
- More than just reports - You will find data reports are familiar but focussed, easier to use and include key performance data. They also include additional functionality to highlight opportunities proactively. No more manual number crunching!
- No more re-entering summative data - Sonar has a unique feature, we call effective assessment, that tracks summative assessments into the next term automatically. A game changer for teacher workload
- Flexible filters - Sonar Tracker uses a consistent filter and pupil group tool throughout the application so you can identify trends based on context group and prior attainment.
- Familiar but improved features
Powerful, easy to use, reports with actionable insights
Easy Summative Assessment
Powerful Formative Assessment
What’s involved in the upgrade?
Moving from OTrack to Sonar Tracker is very straightforward and we support you every step of the way.
Our onboarding team will:
- Set up an automatic sync with your MIS via Wonde (our third-party integration partner)
- Ask you to approve the connection with Wonde before the upgrade to Sonar Tracker begins
- Work with you to move your curriculum objectives over (by request)
- Send your log in details by email
- Share detail of online support and knowledge base articles available.
That’s it!
Good to know:
Transferring your assessment data
We will transfer your last four years of data for Primary, year groups 1-6. Early Years assessments will also be transferred for EYFS 20. This includes Test Scores and Summative but please be aware that we won’t transfer any Statement assessments at this stage.
We provide 2 options for migrating your Summative Data:
Option 1 - Based on the ARE you have set we can move you over to the recommended base PITA model.
| OTrack | Sonar Code |
| Assessed on a lower year curriculum (Red) | The Year + Below |
| Any Code still in the same year but below ARE (Yellow) | Below |
| Not used in conversion | Just At |
| Any Code set to Expected (Green) | Securely AT |
| Any Code still in the same year but Above Age Related (Purple) | Above |
| Assessed on a higher year curriculum (Purple) | The Year + Above |
If you are being setup with the Sonar Base model, please take the time to review this assessment approach before arranging your upgrade, detailed on the Entering Summative Assessments page.
Option 2 - We copy the codes you have over so you can continue to work in the same way. (This is not always possible due to the bespoke nature of OTrack so please discuss this with us and we will work with you to do what we can)
Curriculum objectives
Built into Sonar Tracker is the complete National Curriculum objective set which will enable you to gather a full picture of attainment and progress as your pupils move through the curriculum content.
How long does the set-up take?
Upgrades from OTrack to Sonar Tracker usually take around 10 days but the schedule will be tailored entirely to suit you.
Can I upgrade to Sonar Tracker at any time?
Yes. You can upgrade to Sonar Tracker at any point during your current OTrack subscription and there are no additional charges to pay. Once it’s time to renew your subscription, Sonar Tracker prices are comparable and terms are flexible.
Post upgrade access to OTrack
You will still be able to log in to OTrack should you need to for a short period of time after your upgrade. However, if you’d prefer to close your OTrack system sooner, we can arrange that for you.
All your regular reports will still be available, plus access to any other data you have recorded.
Not ready to upgrade yet?
No problem. If you have a few mins to let us know your reasons, we’d really appreciate the feedback.