[Busmanagers] Attendance

[McDonald, Ross RL]

There seems to be a big push by APs to get something other than CASES to
run attendance.  We were rail roaded in to getting ID Attend.  It is
hard to get the message across that CASES still  has to be maintained
for student records and finance etc. and that all of the components of
CASES actually talk to each other.  ID Attend has not saved us any time
so far.  It may in the future.

 

We now have to amend up to 5 different packages when a student sneezes!
CASES, ID Attend, Timetabler, MarkBook, Student Tracker.  All of these
could be done on CASES.

 

Our APs are now trying to pay a third party to write some magic software
to make all of the peripheral packages talk to each other.

 

It is crazy!  Inefficient when a bit of work could be done on CASES to
make it more powerful.

 

 

Sorry about the grizzling, now my question.

 

 

Does Anyone use CASES Timetabler and / or Period Attendance?  Our prin
argues that CASES Timetabler won't handle the timetable blocking that we
run.  And no-one has really tried CASES period attendance.

 

 

Ross McDonald

Business Manager

Mooroopna Secondary College

ph 58 252 344    fx 58 253 747  mob 0422 844 038

 



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