Inspections and surveys can be slow, pain-staking and built around paper forms, or they can be swift, consistent, and accurate through the use of hand-held PDA-style devices. Using The Technology Center For Teaching & Learning’s software, inspectors quickly gather data that can be easily accessed and processed to identify trends, gaps, and problem areas with a minimum of paperwork.

How it works
Inspectors or surveyors use the web to schedule surveys and notify sites via email. Surveyors sync their handheld devices to download any pre-inspection worksheets, background data, violation history, or previous survey results, directions to the site, and other relevant comments. Once at the site, surveyors record data via easy-to-use forms, adding photos, videos, or audio recordings where appropriate to support their findings.

When the inspection or survey is complete, surveyors sync the handheld devices, compile the results, and generate reports. Reports are made available on companion websites for review by survey participants, administrators, and others as necessary.

Benefits

• Inspections proceed rapidly and accurately, with useful data ready for nearly immediate posting.
• Surveyors can use photos, audio, or video to validate inspection findings.
• Surveyors can easily access historic data to inform current inspections.
• Paperwork is significantly reduced or eliminated.
• Inspection results are entered just once.
• Administrators easily track progress over a period of years to identify problem areas and trends.
• Handheld devices speed inspection/survey time: provide one-click input, allow cutting and pasting of repeated information, and permit data to be preloaded where appropriate.
• All data is centrally and securely located.
• Standardized forms and reports are easy to update across the board, eliminating version issues.

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