There are all sorts of educational applications which schools already have. Licences bought and paid for, in some cases the publisher went out of business years ago.
Teaching staff, especially the less IT literate, can be very conservative and may insist on sticking with the application they have used for the last 5 years.
Five years? Up to eighteen years here. We're still making considerable use of BBC Basic, of Impression, Squirrel, Pipedream, !Edit, !Draw and many others. Indeed, one of the schools' central applications, the Noticeboard system, is still running on one of the original BBC machines for which it was written in 1984. It is also available (new code, old data) on the Web, on WAP and on X terminals too. Our timetable this year is still mastered on Pipedream, then imported to an SQL database from which, through PHP, any Web browser can access it. The "less IT literate", indeed. Our wap.felsted.org site carries information generated by two different BBC systems. Dynamic information too. If it works, the only reason to junk it is if there's something better. -- Christopher Dawkins, Felsted School, Dunmow, Essex CM6 3JG 01371-822698, mobile 07816 821659 cchd@felsted.essex.sch.uk