ePraise

[bjohnny42]

Are there any users of ePraise https://www.epraise.co.uk/ out there? We are looking at it for enabling browser based lesson and session attendance for writing back to SIMS among other things, so if there is anyone using it for this among the rest of it's features i'd be really interested to know your experience?

[kevin_lane]

We use Epraise, mainly as a reward system, we have it integrated with our firefly and sims.net

 

Seems to work quite well, was their anything in particular you wanted to know ?

[bjohnny42]

Updates returning to SIMS pretty quick so if we were using it for our attendance, would it be upto date? And do you write back to behaviour and achievement?

[Steve21]

We're finding it no use for writing back attendance currently. We have on-going issues going back to late September, where it's randomly failing to write back lessons/attendance. ePraise raised this with Wonde, Wonde blame Scomis and Scomis say it's Wonde. Repeated for months, with no real progress or answers.

 

Now this can be random failures, massive delays etc, no logic or repitition as to when it happens or what lesson/teachers. e.g. 30 mins on one, 6 hours on another, some just total failures that never complete. Yet 10 between those write back fine in 30 seconds.

 

Not had any fixed still from Wonde side, so basically we can't rely on the writeback - Generally the only ones who use it currently are PE staff who need to do it on mobile devices and just re-submit it if it fails (As a note, even in ePraise own documentation in their tech guide states not to rely on it - "Writeback is a complicated and intensive process, so we do not offer guarantees of writeback timings or reliability, given its reliance on so many variables outside of our control.")

 

The fact that ePraise themselves state the above, kind of suggests that it's never going to be fully supported and is more a "nice to have" option

 

Steve

Edited March 22, 2023 by Steve21

[Icarus94]

At the previous school I worked at we used Epraise for rewards and syncing pupil timetables to their accounts. Using it for attendance was discussed but never took off. It was a few years ago for me, but I remember when student timetable changes were made in Nova T6 to remove the student from a class group to an alternative subject "alternative provision" for that period. it did upset Epraise. As it was a few years ago I would like to say they have resolved that issue.