Hi
"Chris Puttick"
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 thought SIMS had quite a large number of tables, each which would need to be transferred separately by CSV no? Would you not need to know the cross ref ID connections etc? Or would you say an import was just going to take basic data and redo all those tasks? How about the PLASC returns? Also the timetabling module is quite extensive. Hmm! Maybe I should have a look at SchoolTool first? I think some companies showing at BETT have licensed the SIMS.net API e.g. ProGrid with their Talmos their "Teaching and Learning Management System" that handles timetables from SIMS. They also sell ProCMS a server side CMS. It really is starting to hot up in this area for schools and despite SCORM/IMS and Shibboleth I think once a school buys into one companies CMS/LMS/VLE/MLE etc. etc. its going to be hard for them to consider change. -- Colin McQueen