Meet Curriculum Requirements
The Australian Curriculum for Science (Version 9) requires students to take an increasingly active role in considering safety and assessing risk in investigations as they progress from Year 7 to Year 12: recognising and managing risks from Year 7, developing and following risk assessments from Year 9 and conducting risk assessments in Years 11 and 12. Read more about Australian curriculum requirements.
Schools teaching the IB or extended investigations / depth studies are also required to conduct risk assessments for student-designed experiments.
Benefits for Students and Staff
Student RiskAssess helps students design their experiments more independently and become more aware of what they are doing rather than relying on the teacher to explain what to think about and to indicate the risks. At the same time, teachers can easily manage experiments and risk assessments, and laboratory technicians can efficiently compile order requests.
Student RiskAssess has a different login and password to RiskAssess for Staff, so that students do not have access to risk assessments created in RiskAssess for Staff by teachers and laboratory technicians.
Simple to Use
Student RiskAssess is user-friendly and includes online help screens. Students pick it up very quickly, and staff find it easy to use as it is so similar to Staff RiskAssess.
Tried and Tested
More than 550 schools are now using Student RiskAssess and over 480,000 risk assessments have been performed.
Manage Large Numbers of Pracs with Ease
The "Multiple Prac Management" system in Student RiskAssess allows teachers and laboratory technicians to efficiently review, provide feedback and sign off on large numbers of student pracs in one go. It is a huge time saver when managing large numbers of student pracs.
Classroom & Training Resources
Student RiskAssess includes a fast moving classroom video for introducing students to the system and doing risk assessments, plus a worksheet quiz (with answers for the teacher) and the option to do a Blooket for a more interactive review. There is also a more detailed step-by-step video with its own quiz. You can access the resources here.
Also there is a training video for staff, showing the tools built into the system for managing and reviewing student work.
Student Assessment
Student RiskAssess includes an optional PIN feature on each risk assessment. This allows a student to create a risk assessment that is PIN-protected and can only be viewed by staff and that particular student. This stops copying and allows student evaluation.
Unlimited Access from Classroom or Home
Unlimited numbers of students and staff can access Student RiskAssess at the same time. Student RiskAssess can be used in the classroom on laptops, iPads and smart phones. Students and staff can access Student RiskAssess from home or from any location with an internet connection.
