Room Booking Systems

[Cevans]

Can anyone recommend a good Room Booking Software for a school with 6 IT rooms please?

[richmackie]

If you're after something free and basic but functional and easy to use, have a look at Teamup (http://www.teamup.com). It's free for up to 8 calendars. I've set it up for one of my schools and they love it. Doesn't integrate with SIMS or anything clever like that but teachers find it easy to use.

[webman]

Hi! Slightly biased, but I'm the author of classroombookings I don't have SIMS or AD integrations at the moment, but it's open source and freely available. It supports as many rooms/users as you want, as well as multi-week timetables if that's your thing.

 

The other popular choices people on here will recommend are RoomBookingSystem which does have more integrations, and MRBS which is another open source project.

[richmackie]

Your system does look very impressive. We did used to have something written in-house but it's gone now and I've been asked if I can bring it back. SIMS integration is a deal-breaker for me but if your system ever offers that I'll be interested.

[fiza]

We use https://www.roombookingsystem.co.uk/

[webman]

Your system does look very impressive. We did used to have something written in-house but it's gone now and I've been asked if I can bring it back. SIMS integration is a deal-breaker for me but if your system ever offers that I'll be interested.

 

Thanks! I know, it is for a lot of people. It's something I'm keen to add at some point as I appreciate it makes things a lot easier! There is only so much a team of one person with limited time can do

[Garacesh]

Hi! Slightly biased, but I'm the author of classroombookings I don't have SIMS or AD integrations at the moment, but it's open source and freely available. It supports as many rooms/users as you want, as well as multi-week timetables if that's your thing.

 

+1 for it, for those where SIMS/AD integration isn't essential.

We'll be moving to EduLink soon as part of a large-scale refresh, but it's served us well for over 5 years and if we weren't swapping I'd be happy to continue it.

[richmackie]

Edulink One looks pretty awesome. Can't believe I'd never heard of that before.

[saggu]

Edulink One looks pretty awesome. Can't believe I'd never heard of that before.

 

Hi is Edulink free?

[richmackie]

Hi is Edulink free?

It is not. If the website is to be believed though, it looks like it does a lot for the money.

[Moohorse]

I wrote one for in-house a couple of years ago that links to SIMS, and displays what the current lesson or booking is on an iPad outside each of the computer rooms.

[Ditto]

Nice - but that must have cost a fair bit?

[Moohorse]

The iPads were iPad mini 1s from 2013 that were slightly damaged in some way (like a headphone socket or rocker switch) or that we couldn't remove from DEP. We just put them to work as displays instead of disposing of them.

[Ditto]

Even better! Recycling, or should I say 'upcycling' nowadays.

[limawhiskey]

That's really impressive @Moohorse.

 

Do you plan to publish the code / app?

[eduman99]

We use MRBS, it does the job and we use NTFS security on IIS to stop students booking - https://mrbs.sourceforge.io/