Commercially+Available+Solutions

COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE SOLUTIONS

STRENGTHS/WEAKNESSES || COST || - Provides the opportunity for teachers to record student absences; - Says it can be set up according to the needs of the school.
 * NAME OF PRODUCT || CAPACITY OF PRODUCT || PERCEIVED
 * [|RM Maze] || Student Admin Module, Timetabling, Calendar, Event Management, Academic Reporting Module. MarkBook Module. Payroll Module, Finance Module. Human Resource Module. Development Office Module || pulteney Grammar
 * Strengths:
 * Catholic schools in Adelaide currently using this system?? Would be good to visit one to see how it's set up. ||  ||
 * [|RM Learning Platform]

[|Civica] (has superseded RM LMS) || Online Learning - Blogs, Discussion Groups. Student Secure web page. Information sharing via integration with School Management system. Online content for teaching facility to personalise re individual needs. Disemination of Information thro online spaces for parents, students and interest groups. Distance Leaning

Integrated Launch Pad for a variety of modules. In particular Teacher Companion which acts as an SMS amongst other things. Maze based product so will readily interface with most recent releases of Maze Timetabling. Will have assessment and reporting module || * Is a component of RM Maze, but more related to Teaching & Learning. Solutions produced by Edval are better than manually constructed solutions, with better class spreads, better room allocation and better staffing. Edval’s clash free solutions take an enormous amount of hard work, time and expense out of the timetabling process. Fast response to change means you can perhaps lose a teacher or create a new class in January, yet still get a great timetable a day later, which incorporates your changes. || * Strengths: - live & up-to-date - enables student & Staff access - Sets up & coordinates Parent/teacher interviews for both teachers & parents - & everything written under 'Capacity of Product'! - makes coordinating reliefs, organising excursions, etc, easier as well!
 * Has the ability to create shared spaces, parent section that is separate from the rest of the platform
 * each student receives their own unique page with a section that would enable them to create an e portfolio
 * exporting of data from this system enabling students and staff to have copies of student work etc
 * automatically updated as maze and sas are updated
 * integrates with other systems
 * cost per student involved
 * easy to use for all parties involved
 * general administrators with the ability to give specific people permissions over specified areas
 * get rid of existing intranet and not pay licensing each year for it
 * get rid of outdated current calendar which was a solution a few years ago
 * web based accessible anywhere anytime, hence people can be at home creating and uploading content to it, do not have to be at school to do so
 * one of the easier end user solutions that I have seen
 * can purchase modules and add to it as we move along the path of becoming truly digital
 * parent portal can host newsletters (do not need to print them anymore, cost saving), notices sent home can be uploaded ready for parents to download and print, updates on sporting cancellations due to hot weather can be posted there
 * each extra curricular area can have their own section
 * student leaders could create their own pages to communicate to the school with specific permissions given to them
 * embed multimedia, excellent youtube educational function
 * closed chat rooms
 * forums
 * cloud hosted would not impact on the purchase of additional servers here at school, someone else would back up the data ||  ||
 * [|Concord] || Eliminates paper for all criteria-based assessment processes linking students, teachers, parents, assessment plans, criteria sheets (rubrics), grades and comments. Allows parents to review and monitor student progress via a digital portfolio gateway. Manage VET courses and competencies to AQTF compliance standards. Communicates, integrates and shares information centrally between teachers, students and parents. || * Seems to offer more benefits re: teaching & learning than systems management. ||  ||
 * Edva [|l] || Edval solves timetables completely by computer algorithms, which means better solutions are produced effortlessly within days, without user intervention.

Questions- will sit as a separate entity in a SMS and not readily interface ||  || [|First Class A+] ||  ||   ||   ||
 * [|Human Edge First Class] ||  || * looks good - would be good to find out if any catholic schools in Adelaide use it and hear their thoughts on it. Is this possible? ||   ||
 * [|Human Edge]