Mint class?

[mrbios]

Anyone use this here?

 

Our SLT are looking at it, the bursar is worried that it's more expensive than what the website portrays it to be worth in terms of what it does, just looking for some clarification on the various things it does, and whether schools using it feel it's worth the price they charge?

[Arreks]

When it comes to software used in education, they can charge as much as they want because they know some schools will still buy it. I've never heard of it but taking a glance, it doesn't seem like it's worth it (the teachers here probably wouldn't even use it).

[mrbios]

When it comes to software used in education, they can charge as much as they want because they know some schools will still buy it. I've never heard of it but taking a glance, it doesn't seem like it's worth it (the teachers here probably wouldn't even use it).

 

That was my impression too, £4k for 3 years for a glorified sims linked seating planner seems a touch crazy to me...seems like they're trying to find a solution to a problem nobodies having. Still, will wait and see if anyone here has any first hand experiences that can tell me different

[Seb1780]

Our teachers love it, our SLT love it and I like the fact that we have one place to put current performance, intervention data and SEN strategies that is available to the teacher in a device agnostic manner.

 

It's highly configurable and the support has been excellent.

 

I do not work for the developers!

[woody]

We have looked at this. It fell down for us because we wanted teachers to be able to do everything they needed to in the same place. For instance, an obvious thing for us was to be able to take your class register in MINT class. But it currently has no write back to SIMS. I think they said they were looking at it but no timescale. However, the bits it already has are done well enough.

 

We currently use PARS Connect and I was pleasantly surprised to see that they now have a seating plan layout showing students and their data in a similar way to MINT Class. As we were already licensed for it, it was an obvious solution. All teachers have now set up their seating plans and they can also take their registers from here, as well as add merits/demerits and comment on behaviour. All this get's written back into SIMS in real time.

 

Some areas are not as slick, but it gets the job done.

 

[Edit] I forgot to say. Pricing is for us somewhere between £1,500 and £2,000 per annum for about 800 students. If you use the whole package, then its well worth it. But I wouldn't say it was worth it if you were only going to use the seating plan bit on its own.

Edited November 26, 2014 by woody
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