[Busmanagers] Attendance

[Wilson, Sharyn J]

Well it seems I have opened a can of worms haven't I.  I agree with you
Ross and I am pushing for CASES 21 as this is what we use currently, but
only AM & PM attendance and we need to be able to monitor each period.
CASES 21 is capable of this, however convincing my timetabler to swap to
CASES 21 which is what we would have to do to record period by period is
another thing, hence the reason for my email yesterday, I am hoping to
find a school that does do it.  I am investigating a school in Bendigo
that I believe use both the period by period attendance recording and
the timetabling, so when I get the info I will forward it you all.

 

Sharyn Wilson

Business Manager

Heathmont College

Waters Grove 

Heathmont  3135

Ph:  039871.4888

Fax: 039879.4770

wilson.sharyn.j at edumail.vic.gov.au

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[mailto:busmanagers-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of McDonald, Ross
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Sent: Thursday, 20 July 2006 11:30 AM
To: Business Managers' Mailing List
Subject: [Busmanagers] Attendance

 

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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