LJBMS Posted March 16, 2017 Posted March 16, 2017 Hello.I am currently looking for a booking system for Secondary School parents evening. Please could I have any recommendations for a tried and tested system. TIA
pickman Posted March 16, 2017 Posted March 16, 2017 Parents Evening System - Online Parents Evening Booking Software Is the one we use. My office staff like it and its easy to use. dont have any issues that they call me for anyway :-)
AJWhite1970 Posted March 16, 2017 Posted March 16, 2017 The one that ships with TASC Insight is very good and has revolutionised the scraps of paper in the bottom of the PE bag system we used to run for the last 100 years....
hardtailstar Posted March 16, 2017 Posted March 16, 2017 we use Parents Evening System - Online Parents Evening Booking Software Not had any issues I know of.
jmak Posted March 16, 2017 Posted March 16, 2017 Parents Evening System - Online Parents Evening Booking Software Is the one we use. My office staff like it and its easy to use. dont have any issues that they call me for anyway :-) we use Parents Evening System - Online Parents Evening Booking Software Not had any issues I know of. Starting to see a pattern? Guess what we use? And the local secondary that my kids attend. Works well as a parent, admin and teacher. Great product, great support, nice people.
rad Posted March 16, 2017 Posted March 16, 2017 We use PES too, we have a PE tonight too! As an admin it is easy to use providing your classes are set up right and your data in SIMs is accurate. For parents to log in they need to match their child's name and DOB as it appears in the MIS. Issues for us came when the DOB is wrong, parents can't login or when the surname is incorrect. A recent one for me had two spaces in a double surname....took some testing that. The system can be set so parents have to have a gap between appointments, the downside to the system is when teachers overrun or don't see people in order....it means everything falls out of place.
zag Posted March 24, 2017 Posted March 24, 2017 We use TASC but if I did it again I would use PES. The TASC system is always breaking or missing functionality in the parents evening bit. The rest is great. Also it requires popups for some parent evening reports which isn't great design.
FragglePete Posted March 24, 2017 Posted March 24, 2017 We use PES here too. Superb bit of software with really good support. Feedback from Parents is very positive too. Also feeds into Schoolcomms so you can text parents their first appointment details. Pete
vikpaw Posted March 25, 2017 Posted March 25, 2017 Our MIS (Engage) has a booking system built in, but otherwise another +1 for PES
sparkeh Posted March 25, 2017 Posted March 25, 2017 PES - really good, we all love it. It took us a couple of evenings to get things ironed out with the sims data (really highlighted some issues with data entry accuracy!) but no issues after that.
eddyc Posted March 25, 2017 Posted March 25, 2017 We use PES here too. It just works. Admin staff here do the management and I've never had to get involved with it
nicholab Posted March 25, 2017 Posted March 25, 2017 We use PES here too. It just works. Admin staff here do the management and I've never had to get involved with it Do they do the export as well?
GREED Posted March 25, 2017 Posted March 25, 2017 Parents Evening Booking System is the big alternative, from NetMedia. Worth checking out as well.
eddyc Posted March 25, 2017 Posted March 25, 2017 Do they do the export as well? Yes they do. We install the client on a couple of the admin machines and they have full control over the folder to update it, etc. Works really well and one less think to worry about
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