[Year 12 SofDev] School Apps for students [Slightly OT]

[WEIR Andrew]

Travis,
As a portal based solution for access to resources, I have seen a few options
Moodle is good and could be (Dare I say it Levied) to cover the  support cost.
We are using a CEO product called SIMON which has a lot more functionality including attendance, daily org, behavioural tracking and resource bookings. It also allows the tasks, homework and email to be done from the class area as well as forums hosted on site.
Scholaris, synergetic, eworksbase and edumate could also be looked at.



From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Travis Parker
Sent: Thursday, 17 February 2011 7:33 PM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] School Apps for students [Slightly OT]

Dear All,

Probably slightly off topic for a Year 12 Software Development forum, but pertinent to software developers so I thought this would be where to bring it up....

I was at my school's ICT Committee meeting last night and the Principal has asked me to research apps targeted at schools. The vision he is looking at is that in 3 years we won't have textbooks or paper, but each student will have their own personal web enabled device (In whatever incarnation they will be by then). He wants us to look into getting/creating a "School App" that is part of the students' fees at the start of each year, and once installed onto their device they will log into that each class and have their electronic textbook, class resources, tasks etc all on there in the one place. This is as opposed to buying textbooks and going to multiple places to access resources as is currently the custom.

I have already thought that it would need to run on multiple platforms (Android, Windows, etc) and also we currently we use a moodle as our CMS so would have to change completely because I'm not sure we could "sell" students a version of that as it's open source so we'd probably have to start from scratch.

Has anyone looked into this previously or had any thoughts on it? I told him I'd look to the best and brightest IT teachers in Australia so please respond if you have any ideas!

Many thanks

Trav


Travis Parker
Head of ICT
Beaconhills College Pakenham
* 03 5945 3016

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