Hi there Paul,
Sims is a modular school management system developed by Capita Systems. It
contains all the pupil information, including their pictures and timetable.
When I sya modular, I mean that there are several bolt-ons to the main
program. The module used for pupil information is called Midas (I think).
There are also modules for staff cover, attendance, finance, and
timetabling. Our SIMS manager has a lot more icons on his screen as well.
Not sure what they are.
I have not heard of Scomis.
Alice is a library system as you correctly put it. I originally set it up in
our school before passing complete control to our librarian. It is developed
by Softlink - www.softlink.co.uk. It isn't a bad piece of software once you
get used the way it does things. We find that half of the menu options do
not get used. It does need an interface re-design, but I cannot see Softlink
changing something with works okay. I would prefer a web interface - and
that reminds we, you can run an Alice Network Server which allows the query
of books online.
Hope some of this helps, I am at home now so access to information is
none,...
Regards
Gareth Edmondson
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From: "psutton"
Hi
Regarding killer school apps, what are the following
SIMS and scomis,
I know that ALICE is a library management application, I am not sure about the other two, it seems that if we had open source versions of the above, then we could really move forward in terms of getting open source into schools. However not being sure of what these are or what they do makes looking for or helping to develop alternatives difficult..
Paul
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