Independent School MIS

[CeriFoster]

Hi, 

 

What MIS systems are Independent schools using? Especially any which can handling the complexities of boarding? 

 

Thanks

[Danp]

isams across our 8 schools. It's good, not perfect, some areas are a little dated, but it works.

[FloraDora]

We use iSAMS [4 years in current school] and I've been a user since the early days. As Danp says it's not perfect but some of that is down to our "non standard" way of doing things and not actually system or design issues.

 

We are a boarding school with some day pupils and we can manage most of what we need via iSAMS with integration for other applications for specific functions e.g. Evolve, SOCS, Toucantech etc

 

Student Registers are in my opinion, a great asset to the system as it allows you create "mini" modules for any of the school specific things we do to be recorded and viewable in other modules. This has helped us greatly in keeping our "core" data in one system. We have created registers for recording CEM data, Interview records, external GCSE results, and scholarship registers etc

 

The downside is the admissions portal as that doesn't do everything we would like and hasn't seen any real development lately, so we don't use that but the portal forms can be embedded into a website so at least we have online applications.

 

We don't use Central as we have our own dashboards and if you get access to the DB (write only sadly) you can create your own reports and subscriptions etc

 

I've seen quite a few different systems over the years and I believe iSAMS suits independent schools best but it's all down to what you as a school want/need. There are other systems trying to break into the market but I wouldn't look at anything else unless they do better than iSAMS and can manage UK exams!

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