Who has any experience with school administration systems.

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A program in which learners personal details are logged, from which class lists are printed, in which you enter test and exam marks and then have it generate report cards, etc.

I am tentatively looking around to maybe switch from our current program.
 
Did I mention ease of use. I'm an idiot and the two secretaries we have aren't that bright either. The problem I have with our current custom program is that it is impossibly complex and the user interface is nowhere near intuitive.
 
Picard said:
Did I mention ease of use. I'm an idiot and the two secretaries we have aren't that bright either. The problem I have with our current custom program is that it is impossibly complex and the user interface is nowhere near intuitive.
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The obvious thing to do would be to read the manual.

Failing that, Access is really not that hard to learn if you're the IT guy. Create a few tables and queries linked to few forms that are visible to the end user, and Bob's your aunty.
 
Picard said:
A program in which learners personal details are logged, from which class lists are printed, in which you enter test and exam marks and then have it generate report cards, etc.

I am tentatively looking around to maybe switch from our current program.
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SAMS? I feel for you if you're using SAMS :)
Though that wouldn't be a custom proggie I guess.

Catch 22. I say it's prolly better to get something developed for you - low cost, keep it simple and to the point. Don't develop a system that does everything that opens and shuts.

Depending on your own skills, consider MS Access with a SQL DB or consider looking into Lightswitch
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/lightswitch

Next Q, who developed it and what components does it use?
 
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I dont know too much about it, but a few of the schools i help out use a package called Pencilbox -www.pencilbox.co.za
It is a local package i think, might work.
 
ramar said:
I dont know too much about it, but a few of the schools i help out use a package called Pencilbox -www.pencilbox.co.za
It is a local package i think, might work.
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It is a local package. I rolled it out during my time as School IT admin. Teachers liked it and it didn't give me any issues.
 
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