Best MIS for customising forms and analysis?

[DanKellaway]

Hi,

 

I hope you can help. I am looking for a suitable MIS for our SEN school. We have 80 pupils and currently use School Pod as our MIS. We would like to move to a new MIS which allows us to create our own custom forms such as behaviour incidents, school trips, rewards etc. and allow us to design this ourselves with input boxes, selection boxes and preferably a body map for pupils which have been hurt in school.

 

I am also looking to get analysis in the MIS such as incident graphs, assessment progress graphs etc. We previously tried the MIS called Engage but unfortunately didn't provided the level of analysis we needed. The MIS would need to be very good in terms of the analysis it can provide.

 

Can you please recommend a suitable MIS for our SEN pupils?

 

Thank you

[Marci]

No UK MIS that I'm aware of will meet your criteria specified above (ie: ability to create bespoke forms with custom input and selection boxes, ability to create a body map). You will have no option but to combine 3rd party products with whatever MIS you choose.

[dmj]

No UK MIS that I'm aware of will meet your criteria specified above (ie: ability to create bespoke forms with custom input and selection boxes, ability to create a body map). You will have no option but to combine 3rd party products with whatever MIS you choose.

 

The takeaway from this is to choose the one with the best documented API.

[jthompson]

If you find that you're needing to roll your own solution, a decent platform for that is Google AppSheet..

[dhicks]

The MIS would need to be very good in terms of the analysis it can provide.

 

To add to the comments about choosing an MIS with a good API: for data analysis, it's probably going to be better to export the data you want from your MIS to a data analysis tool - Microsoft PowerBI might be a good place to start, although a third-party tool that already provides education-related analysis might save you some setup time / work. Getting data out of an MIS via an API is often a lot easier than getting it in, so exporting your data and hooking up an analysis tool should be the easier of the two operations.

[ASA-Simon]

From a demo I had of Compass it looked very flexible on creating forms and setting up things like notification/approval chains.