Replacing student paper planners with an app

[chrisjako]

My head of 6th form have just asked me about replacing planners for 6th form with some sort of app

 

Currently we spend around £1k per annum on physical paper planners, with the school now heavily dependent on Office365 with SDS I was wondering if there is some for of integrated solution out there already available?

[mavhc]

What do you use them for? I'd just use the calendar app

[chrisjako]

He wants an app for immediate updates to individual timetables - messaging services etc.

 

Said he was very confident that it will massively improve communication between staff and students.

 

Student voice has clearly indicated that they are far more likely to interact and use a planner on their phone than on a piece of paper.

[Chaniel]

If you use SIMS, try EduLink One as the app for that is in sync with SIMS, has a messaging service, noticeboard etc. You'll find plenty of praise for it on this forum (https://www.overnetdata.com/edulinkone)

 

We also sync our students timetables up to their Google Calendar (you can do this to O365 too) using Salamander (https://www.salamandersoft.co.uk/) so that might be worth looking into. If you're heavy O365 then you could start to utilise Teams for students perhaps, the app for that will show your calendar etc.

Edited May 14, 2020 by Chaniel

[mavhc]

so google/ms calendar and messaging systems. If they really want an "app" then put a manifest.json file on your website so it can be "installed"

[chrisjako]

If you use SIMS, try EduLink One as the app for that is in sync with SIMS, has a messaging service, noticeboard etc. You'll find plenty of praise for it on this forum (https://www.overnetdata.com/edulinkone)

 

We also sync our students timetables up to their Google Calendar (you can do this to O365 too) using Salamander (https://www.salamandersoft.co.uk/) so that might be worth looking into. If you're heavy O365 then you could start to utilise Teams for students perhaps, the app for that will show your calendar etc.

 

Yes we use SIMS, had will take a look at edulink

 

I use SDS to export to office365, which salamander product is it that integrates calendars?

[mthomas08]

If you use SIMS, try EduLink One as the app for that is in sync with SIMS, has a messaging service, noticeboard etc. You'll find plenty of praise for it on this forum (https://www.overnetdata.com/edulinkone)

 

We also sync our students timetables up to their Google Calendar (you can do this to O365 too) using Salamander (https://www.salamandersoft.co.uk/) so that might be worth looking into. If you're heavy O365 then you could start to utilise Teams for students perhaps, the app for that will show your calendar etc.

 

+1 for Edulink and there is an App for it. Parents also have access to view their child info.

 

Our only issue is that we don't use SIMs calendar.. which means no EduLink calendar. Although there are other methods.

 

Things like Salamander is another annual cost though which is mainly a sync system. We found a cheaper one (don't have the link for it on me).