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

[Travis Parker]

Thanks Andrew,

 

We have just implemented Synergetic mid last year, however we use it for
the attendance, behavioural tracking, emailing students etc (i.e.
Teacher stuff). We also have a moodle for the student side, timetabler
for the daily org and bookit for resource bookings!

 

Ideally we are looking at somewhere that would have secure access for
students and have all of their resources (Incl. textbooks) on there -
Has anyone used Synergetic for student access, or is it really just
designed for staff?

 

Thanks again

 

Trav

 

 

 

From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of WEIR Andrew
Sent: Friday, 18 February 2011 7:48 AM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] School Apps for students [Slightly OT]

 

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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