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Student Management System - Advice Needed

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    Hi,

    The Student Information System our school have been implementing has numerous limitations and disadvantages, especially in the reports and data analysis fields.We are now considering changing the System and would like to receive advice and suggestions from other schools who are satisfied with their system, a user-friendly, ‘smart’ data analysis interface that converts raw data into a management well-informed decisions tool.

    In addition to the regular enrolment, attendance and grading data, we are looking for a system that does the following:

    1. Smart attendance absconding reports: a report that highlights missing students from a specific class (ditching)

    2. Grades’ Analysis: a statistical report on grades by subject, grade, teachers, …. Including averages per class, deviation, ….

    3.Enrolment for the coming year: our present system does not allow us to enrol students for the coming year until we ‘roll-over’ our present students – which only happens end of June.

    At present, we have had high recommendations for Integris and Pearson Powerschool; can you please send me a brief about the system your school is using, your advice onto what factors to consider, and your recommendation?

     

     

     

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     Hi there,
    I had read all your quries and I think I have something for you.
    Thanks.
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    J2ME Tutoria

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     Hi there,

     Curious as to your eventual solution, as your requirements  somewhat match mine.

     Cheers,

     Stewart

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    Hi, I hope it's not too late for you, but stay away from PowerSchool. That's based on experience at an international school. Here's why: - counter-intuitive menus - pain to enter data (too much clicking through pages to get to the right spot every time) - pain to correct erroneous data - easy to loose data accidentally - crazy construction of database - for instance you have to enter your classroom list TWICE! On the everyday PS side and then again in PowerScheduler. - impossible to get a schedule built, confirmed at an intensive PSUniversity workshop. It will only build a flat schedule! - no support for manual building of the schedule or for manual loading students into classes. - did I say everything about it is expensive? That is: to buy, to maintain the server, to get training. - useless on-line tech support (they're likely to tell you to start over again without really looking at your problem) - and so on, and so forth, overall - a real nightmare, many days and nights of time wasted. To be fair I should say that PS may be useful for huge US schools which need specific reports for their state depts, but for us it's been a nightmare to deal with. So we're looking for suggestions on what SIS works at your school.
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    I've come across Integris and also CMIS but thought that most schools used Capita - SIMS is this not so then?

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     Hello

    We offer a solution here - click on 'Request Trial' for a free tral period.  If you email us your enquiry we would be happy to help.

     

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     In about 85% of Secondary schools SIMS is the MIS.  This is to a large extent due to tendering processes that LAs had to undergo to purchase MIS systems centrally which would give schools very large discounts on the full costs.  All schools who have become Academies in our LA have decided to purchase SIMS themselves as currently it best meets their needs.  However the new versions of both Serco Progresso and RM Integris, the next bifggest MIS, are both 100% webbased versions, which could be interesting for schools in terms of lower hardware and maintenance costs.  Some LAs host SIMS centrally effectively making a it a web-accessed application.

     What does your LA recommend?  They will have to have gone through a detailed tendering process at some stage and will have needed to show due dilligence in examining the merits and faults of each product.

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