[sims] Looking for recommendation: Work experience management

[wing045]

I'm looking for recommendations about management of work experience placements. Either a process for how SIMS might be used to handle this natively or with the additional of an additional module or third party tool that links with SIMS.

 

We have an extensive work experience program that involves all students from year 10 through to year 13. We assist students with finding placements. We have ongoing relationships with companies that provide placements. At the moment we have a Google Form which students use to submit preferences for which field(s) they're interested in working with and we then match students to potential placements in specific companies and then we have a staff member who manually tries to match students to placements. I'm looking for a tool that will help with this by either automating the processing of matching students to placements or at least making the manual process of doing this easier than copy/pasting students names across various different sheets in a spreadsheet to try and find an optimal solution.

 

My initial idea was to use SIMS Options we already use for subject options choices as it seems that would do a lot of what we need, but after some experimentation I'm sure we can make it work.

 

Has anybody else had experience of doing this either using SIMS or third party tools?

Edited February 11, 2020 by wing045