Woodward I.T. Liberator MS

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Liberator MS (Middle School) was developed after it was found that Curriculum Liberator would not fit the needs of a middle school. The middle school structure is based around subjects with different teachers, and hence there was no continuity between students, teachers and reporting.

Read below to discover the other changes between Liberator MS and Curriculum Liberator.

Also see Curriculum Liberator, which covers the other aspects of planning and reporting. Curriculum Liberator is the junior school version of the software.

Subjects

In Liberator MS, discovery journeys are now called "Discovery Quests". This name change is used to signify that there are no longer designated tasks, instead there are subjects.

Each subject is unique in Liberator MS which allows multiple teachers to focus on their particular subject without overlap. For each subject, teachers can select the outcomes covered, and nominate the students undertaking the subject. Hence a subject can also be treated as an elective.

There are no criteria to write for a subject. Each subject's criteria and ultimate report card are fixed, saving middle school teachers a great deal of time in planning.

New Syllabuses

As well as the outcomes and elaborations for the 8 key learning areas, 5 middle school syllabuses are also available in the Outcomes Browser. All strand statements, level statements and elaborations are also included:

Agricultural Education
Business Education
Home Economics Education
Industrial Technology and Design Education
Information and Communication Technology Education

Marking and Criteria

Unlike Curriculum Liberator, marking in Liberator MS is performed on a 5 level scale. Marking is based around fixed criteria for each strand in the subject. The various marking levels are:

B - Working Below
P - Progressing Towards
A - Attainment
M - Mastery
E - Excelling

Comments Bank

One of the new features of Liberator MS is the inclusion of a Comments Bank. The Comments Bank is used to store preformatted comments that teachers can drag in when marking.

The Comments Bank saves teachers a lot of time whilst ensuring a degree of consistency across the report card.