Need Professional advice..

[liam newell]

Hi everyone I need your professional advice on managing student records. I am looking for suitable e-portal software that our school could use to take registration, record student reports etc. Something that every teacher could access from their classroom or even at home. If anyone has any experience at using such software i would appreciate the advice as we are currently looking to update and improve our current system.  

 

Many Thanks

Liam

[Fergal O'Neill]

Hi Liam,

Have you tried www.engrade.com? It ticks all the boxes for me.

Fergal O'Neill
Naas

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[liam newell]

Thanks fergal ill check it out now.

[liam newell]

Ok engrade looks great but can many users log on with the same log on details. In other words lets say we as a school open one account input all the class information for every year.Will every teacher be-able to simultaneously open that account whereever they are to input info.

[Fergal O'Neill]

Hi Liam,

Oh a whole school solution! No I don't think so. I thought you meant individual teachers having somewhere to store their class grades and attendance.

For whole school solutions see http://richtech.ca/openadmin/index.html which can cater for a school on a single computer or http://www.schooltool.org/ which has a much nice user interface.

Fergal O'Neill
Naas

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[DavidH]

Thanks Fergal

I watched the demo and this is exactly the type of application that
I've been looking for.

David

On Aug 27, 8:38 pm, "Fergal O'Neill" <fergal.one...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Liam,
>

> Have you triedwww.engrade.com?It ticks all the boxes for me.
>
> Fergal O'Neill
> Naas
>
> Email: fergal.one...@gmail.com

>
> On 27 August 2010 20:27, liam newell <liamnew...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone I need your professional advice on managing student records. I
> > am looking for suitable e-portal software that our school could use to
> > take registration, record student reports etc. Something that every teacher
> > could access from their classroom or even at home. If anyone has
> > any experience at using such software i would appreciate the advice as we
> > are currently looking to update and improve our current system.
>
> > Many Thanks
> > Liam
>
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[Fergal O'Neill]

No bother David!! Enjoy!

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[Clare Wallace]

Dear Liam

I did alot of research on this (with colleagues last year) for the school I worked in (which was overseas).

We looked at 

Engage - by doublefirst (which Fergal already flagged)

SIMS

Facilty/Secro

ISAMS

In the end we went with Engage because of its integration with the Accounts system, the promise that they will develop integration with Moodle and their support in our country (among other reasons) .But beware, this is not cheap software and the learning curve and training implications are not to be sniffed at. I missed all of that but reports from my colleague are that its been a fairly demanding implementation - though I have no doubt that it would have been the same regardless of the software. If you have a decent budget my experience is that any of those guys will be very accommodating in providing demos etc. We had a group of people working on it.

If the budget is not so healthy - you might be interested in looking at open source solutions

In July the Opensource schools site posted about a new free MIS called Scholar Pack

http://opensourceschools.org.uk/scholarpack-open-source-mis-schools.html 

there are 2 more mentioned in this fab site called FreeMis and SchoolTool - both of which you can find reviwed in the opensource site. I have not used them myself.......

I do hope all of this helps.

Clare

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[Conor P]

At lot of Irish schools (ours included) are using facility eportal.
That will allow multiple teachers to take a reg over a web based
interface.

On Aug 28, 4:04 pm, Clare Wallace <clareardma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Liam
>
> I did alot of research on this (with colleagues last year) for the school I
> worked in (which was overseas).
> We looked at
> Engage - by doublefirst (which Fergal already flagged)
> SIMS
> Facilty/Secro
> ISAMS
>
> In the end we went with Engage because of its integration with the Accounts
> system, the promise that they will develop integration with Moodle and their
> support in our country (among other reasons) .But beware, this is not cheap
> software and the learning curve and training implications are not to be
> sniffed at. I missed all of that but reports from my colleague are that its
> been a fairly demanding implementation - though I have no doubt that it
> would have been the same regardless of the software. If you have a decent
> budget my experience is that any of those guys will be very accommodating in
> providing demos etc. We had a group of people working on it.
>
> If the budget is not so healthy - you might be interested in looking at open
> source solutions
> In July the Opensource schools site posted about a new free MIS called

> Scholar Packhttp://opensourceschools.org.uk/scholarpack-open-source-mis-schools.html

> there are 2 more mentioned in this fab site called FreeMis and SchoolTool -
> both of which you can find reviwed in the opensource site. I have not used
> them myself.......
>
> I do hope all of this helps.
>
> Clare
>

> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:27 PM, liam newell <liamnew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone I need your professional advice on managing student records. I
> > am looking for suitable e-portal software that our school could use to
> > take registration, record student reports etc. Something that every teacher
> > could access from their classroom or even at home. If anyone has
> > any experience at using such software i would appreciate the advice as we
> > are currently looking to update and improve our current system.
>
> > Many Thanks
> > Liam
>
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[Fergal O'Neill]

We use ePortal and Serco Facility in our school and the cost of using it is huge. I would love to go back and think free!!!!!!!

Better to look at the freeware options if you're looking to start from scratch and are, as most schools are, bereft of any decent admin budget!

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[liam newell]

Thanks for all your comments and input guys, the information has really helped.

Liam.