Online Parental Booking System

[robknowles]

Hello,

The Head and Assistant Head in charge in Assessment are keen in introducing an electronic system for managing the parents evening bookings to get rid of the old fashioned paper-based system.

I thought maybe we could one better and have a web-based solution that will allow parents to make bookings with the student's teachers all online and therefore avoid the issues that usually arise with double-bookings/students forgetting (or deliberately in some cases) not booking appointments.

I've had a look already on the site and can't see any relevant and just wondering what programs/solutions other schools used.

Thanks in advance,

Rob

[kiran]

I have been thinking about this for a long time and we decided to go ahead with the following:

Schools can create a tutor group based templates with aspects for appointment times in SIMS Assessment Manager for each tutor/teacher. Therefore each tutor/teacher makes individual appoinments with each student and they are centrally avaliable to both teaching staff [as each member of staff has access to AM/SIMS through their own laptop as we use Lesson Register for eReg; Profiles for Reports and AM for termly tracking]. Changes by parents to appointments would be made by ringing the Admin Asst directly who has access to all templates on Assessment Manager.

Appointment postcards/letters can easily be created using AM's individual report functionaility and in SIMS.net Reporting. All info can be exported/imported!!.

If you have SIMS webparts for the Learning Gateways or Eportal then you can publish them there quite easily.! [although i haven't got it]

[deano]

We dont use SIMS for registration here. We use Bromcom, so the web based version sounds good to me. I'm currently working on a web based app to use for students e-mentoring. It could be adapted quite easily for the parental booking

If anybody would like to help me work on this, then drop me a PM

[Toby.Belfield]

SIMS also provides NOVA-P - which is a specific Parents' Evening Scheduler program.

It enables letters of appointments to be produced, as well as timetabling the whole event - even providing functionality for "separated parents" (who want to remain separate on parents evening) and parents with multiple children at the same parents evening (for timetabling together).

A full timetable will be produced - as well as individual appointment schedules for each teacher.

It is not currently web-based - but does do the job.

Regards,

Toby Belfield
Capita

[WithoutMotive]

I've heard rumours that NOVA-P is to be phased out fairly soon.
Is there any truth in this?