Test results for School term dates - find them
Here is the table of test results for this task. The score on each row is out of a possible total of 20, and the importance column is a rating of 1-5 according to how important testers considered being able to complete this task was.
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Council | Navigation | A-Z | Site search | Score | Tests | Importance | |
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Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 15 | 5 | |
Birmingham City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Birmingham City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Easy | Very easy | 18 | 3 | |
Birmingham City Council | Easy | Easy | Very easy | Gave up | 8 | 3 | |
Birmingham City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Birmingham City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 5 | 3 | |
Bracknell Forest Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Bradford Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 10 | 0 | |
Brent Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 10 | 3 | |
Carlisle City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Cheshire East Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Cheshire East Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Cheshire East Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Cheshire East Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Cheshire East Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Coventry City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 15 | 3 | |
Coventry City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
Coventry City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 15 | 3 | |
Coventry City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 10 | 1 | |
Coventry City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 0 | |
Coventry City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 0 | |
Cumbria County Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 5 | 0 | |
Cumbria County Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 5 | 0 | |
Derbyshire County Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 15 | 3 | |
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | Difficult | Very easy | Very easy | Easy | 4 | 3 | |
East Northamptonshire Council | Gave up | Gave up | Difficult | Difficult | -4 | 3 | |
Great Yarmouth Borough Council | Gave up | Gave up | Very easy | Gave up | -4 | 3 | |
Harrow Council | Easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 8 | 3 | |
Harrow Council | Easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 13 | 5 | |
Kingston Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 15 | 0 | |
Lambeth Council | Very easy | Gave up | Very easy | Very easy | 12 | 3 | |
Leeds City Council | Difficult | Easy | Difficult | Easy | 8 | 3 | |
Liverpool City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 5 | |
Liverpool City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 20 | 3 | |
London Borough of Bexley | Easy | Easy | Easy | Easy | 12 | 1 | |
London Borough of Lewisham | Easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 18 | 0 | |
London Borough of Waltham Forest | Easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 13 | 3 | |
Manchester City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 10 | 3 | |
Manchester City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 15 | 3 | |
Newcastle City Council | Very easy | Easy | Very easy | Very easy | 18 | 0 | |
Northamptonshire County Council | Difficult | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 16 | 3 | |
Northumberland County Council | Very easy | Easy | Very easy | Very easy | 18 | 3 | |
Plymouth City Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 15 | 3 | |
Reading Borough Council | Easy | Gave up | Very easy | Very easy | 10 | 3 | |
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 15 | 5 | |
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | Very easy | 15 | 3 | |
South Lakeland District Council | Gave up | Very easy | Very easy | Gave up | -6 | 3 | |
South Tyneside Council | Difficult | Very easy | Very easy | Difficult | 2 | 3 | |
Wandsworth Council | Very easy | Very easy | Easy | Easy | 16 | 3 |
Specific comments made about this task
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council - 2014-06-30
Not sure why it's a pdf? looks messy with the red boxes on!
Birmingham City Council - 2013-12-16
Pop-up survey request was annoying - I'd prefer a survey request that attracts my attention but doesn't stop me continuing to do my task.
Birmingham City Council - 2014-02-05
To find the school term dates was very easy. Everything was organised very well and this is what made it easy to find this. However, for other people, the A-Z index service could be nearer to the top of the web page because at first, I wasn't sure to whether there was one or not until I scrolled right down.
Birmingham City Council - 2016-07-18
Very easy indeed to find the page, but the way it separates the dates of each half of a term is a bit confusing - it should just give the term start and end dates with the dates for half term in italics below
Carlisle City Council - 2014-04-14
Easy to follow, was first option which made it very straight forward.
Coventry City Council - 2014-02-04
The school term dates were realy easy to find. All four methods helped. To get onto the school term dates from the home page, all you had to do was go onto the 'School, Libraries and Learning' section and there will be some boxes including one that says 'Schools in Coventry' and at the bottom of the picture, it'll have a description that says that this is where you'd find the Contact details, term dates and school places. In the A-Z service, you had to search for 'School Term Dates' (under the letter 'S'). The school term date options were right at the top so you knew which ones were the relevant ones (and they wee relevant!). Overall, this page was really well organised.
Derbyshire County Council - 2014-10-10
search slow
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council - 2018-08-28
Term dates were listed in numerical order starting 2016. Parents will expect to see the current school year first (ie 2018/19)
Great Yarmouth Borough Council - 2014-09-04
Nothing on the borough web site
Lambeth Council - 2014-06-15
Very good apart from a to z
Leeds City Council - 2013-12-13
I don't think 'School calendar' is the most obvious terminology to use for school term dates.
External search had the top links being a different Leeds council site with the information in a .pdf document.
A-Z index entry was labelled School holidays rather than either School calendar or School term dates.
Liverpool City Council - 2015-01-15
Easy to find and well presented.
London Borough of Bexley - 2014-06-09
All routes worked well, layout of data was okay, but could do with a review to ensure that the table works well
London Borough of Waltham Forest - 2016-08-02
I think there is too much detail on the page before you actually get to the dates. I'd lost the will to live reading about the Deregulation Bill. Maybe all that information would sit better after the dates.
Manchester City Council - 2013-12-17
I found the actual presentation of the information confusing, but that may be subjective.
Reading Borough Council - 2014-03-17
Very easy apart from A-Z
South Lakeland District Council - 2020-04-17
By searching google I found out that Cumbria County Council deals the information about school term dates.
South Tyneside Council - 2016-07-21
Search results had several pages with the same name - it appeared they were the term dates for each individual school; do they differ from school to school? On the page I went to the first thing I saw was a big calendar which was quite confusing. Navigating from the home page was similarly difficult.