On Sunday 09 January 2005 09:11, Chris Puttick wrote:
SchoolTool has been actively pursued by schools from other countries, and as such is not ready for UK use. However, handling the data input from SIMS would be childs play - all that is needed is to request the primary schools or LEA to output the transfer as CSV or some other open format, writing a script to input that into SchoolTool (or some other school MIS system).
I have been struggling with dorlrn (www.dotlrn.org based on OpenACS) which looks promising as a SIMS replacement but I have yet to get it to work for me on SuSE or RedHat. Has anyone had success with this?
It would not take a lot of input to move SchoolTool towards UK readiness. The backing of an LEA would be nice, that of a trail-blazing school district possibly even better. Having it support Cymraeg would be very little work...
-----Original Message----- From: Gareth Edmondson [mailto:gareth@indigo-cube.co.uk] Sent: Sat 1/8/2005 7:22 PM To: ian.lynch@zmsl.com Cc: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] SchoolTool
Hi,
I usually lurk on this list, but I have just read a mail where Ian Lynch mentions School Tool. Our school uses SIMS.Net - and we have had tremendous bad luck with it since it was implemented several weeks ago. Unfortunately, even though I am the Head of ICT, and the Network Infrastructure manager, I have no input into the admin side of things. Shame.
My question is simple - does anyone here use School Tool, or has anyone managed to convince their SMT to adopt this open source installation? I could push all I want in my school, but unless it was able to import from SIMS, which is still used by our feeder primaries, I cannot see our school move.
Best wishes
Gareth Edmondson Head of ICT Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr Swansea
-- De omnibus dubitandum