{"id":38688,"date":"2022-11-24T21:29:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T21:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/customer-stories\/imperial-society-of-teachers-of-dancing\/"},"modified":"2024-08-07T14:14:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T14:14:51","slug":"imperial-society-of-teachers-of-dancing","status":"publish","type":"customer-story","link":"https:\/\/staging.totara.fortyapp.com\/us\/customer-stories\/imperial-society-of-teachers-of-dancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing saves over \u00a315,000 a year with online assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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For more than 100 years, the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD) has provided training and examinations for dance teachers. With approximately 7,000 members in over 65 countries worldwide, ISTD conducts over 150,000 examinations each year. They have been listed by Ofqual as one of the 20 largest awarding organizations in England and are in the top five for delivery of performing arts examinations.<\/p>\n

The Challenge<\/h3>\n

For many years,\u00a0student teachers have submitted their work to the ISTD in the form of paper-based portfolios. This was posted to London via Royal Mail from the UK and Europe. It was fraught with issues in terms of cost and efficiency. The system was cumbersome, laborious and expensive with issues such as missing portfolios and late submissions.<\/p>\n

Assessors were required to attend the London headquarters to mark work four times a year for several days resulting in costs of over \u00a315,000. As an international organization, assessors flew in from Italy and Greece.<\/p>\n

It was time for change.<\/p>\n

Additionally, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, examinations were conducted in person where an examiner would watch a teacher delivering lessons. In the midst of COVID-19, health and safety risks and government restrictions around social distancing and travel meant that this was no longer possible.<\/p>\n

ISTD had to rapidly pivot to online examinations, and required a solution where dance teachers could record or live stream their lessons and upload to an assessment platform for marking. They needed an end-to-end video sharing solution integrated into their learning platform.<\/p>\n

The Solution<\/h3>\n

ISTD worked with Accipio to deliver\u00a0their new teaching qualification \u2013 the Diploma in Dance Education (DDE) \u2013 online with end-to-end assessment through a 21st-century Totara Learn\u00a0platform<\/a>. It also developed a sense of community for teachers and enabled Approved Dance Centers (ADCs) and tutors to easily access reports, the latest teaching resources\u00a0and guidance about how to structure learning.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Accipio digitalized many of ISTD’s manual processes (especially assessment), and integrated other platforms (e.g. a legacy Moodle system) into one Totara site.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Key features of the project included:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n