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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2">Hi Folks,</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"> <font face="tahoma">We wrote our own using PHP and MySQL. It has an infinite number of advantages such as:</font></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">1. No ongoing "usage" costs at a significant price per booking.
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">2. Fully customisable for remote access, permissions, validation, restrictions on booking numbers per student, per teacher etc.</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">3. Fully LDAP aware so no need to maintain user lists</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">4. Students and teachers print off their bookings and there is space for comments from each interview.</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">5. Teachers can block out unavailable times
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">6. Fully report customisable for analysis etc.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Kevork Krozian<br>
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<div><font face="tahoma" size="2"><a href="mailto:k.krozian@fhc.vic.edu.au">k.krozian@fhc.vic.edu.au</a><br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> vet-mm-bounces@edulists.com.au [vet-mm-bounces@edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Diane Peat [dpeat@firbank.vic.edu.au]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 6 May 2009 9:59 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> VET Multimedia Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [vet-mm] Solution to booking PT interviews<br>
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<div><font face="Calibri">Hello Tim<br>
We have implemented a system through Synergetic (I think it's through there anyway) and our community portal. Parents have a login and make their own bookings after staff block out any times where they don't want bookings (eg. dinner). The only trouble is that
parents now book for <i>every </i>subject even those that have never had interviews before!!
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This is our second year running it and it seems to work really well; no complaints from parents and the only teachers who complain are those who are not used to having lots of bookings.<br>
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Diane Peat<br>
Firbank Grammar School<br>
Brighton<br>
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Tim Kitchen wrote:
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<pre>Hi folks,
Can anyone recommend a good online solution to help manage parent teacher
interview bookings?
Ta
Tim Kitchen
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