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Any views on this?

 

Are Ramsys doing the IT or will it be Capita?

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Its Ramesys - but I just asked our Deputy to confirm -hes been in all the meetings for the last 2 years and he says he can't remember; so that bodes well then.

 

Oh well, here we go.....

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Sadly it also looks like the end of your Novell network

 

Looks like it. Hopefully when term starts we should have more info on how it directly affects us. I don't know whether we'll still be based at our schools or if we'll be more mobile.

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Should imagine you'll stay onsite until your new build is completed as they will need your Novell skills sets until the new kit is in situe.

 

Might speak to my contacts in Manchester where Ramesys won the IT contract.

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Inspired Spaces have bid with a variety of ICT providers....

 

Right now, Carillion are building wave 3 BSF schools in County Durham. Their original bid included ICT supplied by Morse but this was switched to Carillion IT Services (CITS) very late in the bidding process.

 

However, in July 2009 CITS was acquired by Capita....

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Meeting next week (16th) to be briefed on Managed Service for Rochdale Techies

 

Just to expand on that, everyone has been given a time slot as to when to attend the meeting. If you haven't got the e-mail yet for what ever reason PM me with your address and i will forward it on.

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So what did everyone think of the meeting on friday. i thought meeting the people who are going to improve the school ict system was very good and i look forward to hear about the plans in the future. i wished i would of got to see the whole presention but was rushed though due to time.

 

any one feel the same or do others have concerns

Look forward to hearing your views if you have any :)

 

 

Rgds

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So what did everyone think of the meeting on friday. i thought meeting the people who are going to improve the school ict system was very good and i look forward to hear about the plans in the future. i wished i would of got to see the whole presention but was rushed though due to time.

 

any one feel the same or do others have concerns

Look forward to hearing your views if you have any :)

 

 

Rgds

HTC

 

All seemed abit rushed. The majority of the stuff they want to put it we already have anyway.

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Alreet guys, have any of you actually gone through the process yet? we are due to go across in feb 2011 but have not heard from Ramesys yet about anything. They won't speak to us untill feb next year but are also slow on the equipment side and what there plans actually are for the school. Times ticking away and the time scales they have set are beginnign to worry us. Any of this ring true with anyone else?
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Alreet guys, have any of you actually gone through the process yet? we are due to go across in feb 2011 but have not heard from Ramesys yet about anything. They won't speak to us untill feb next year but are also slow on the equipment side and what there plans actually are for the school. Times ticking away and the time scales they have set are beginnign to worry us. Any of this ring true with anyone else?

 

Ramesys only do the VLE the managed service is provided by Capita. PM me with your e-mail address and i will send you an e-mail address of someone who might be able to help.

 

Z

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Ramesys only do the VLE the managed service is provided by Capita. PM me with your e-mail address and i will send you an e-mail address of someone who might be able to help.

 

Z

 

No their not!!! Heads and LEA not happy with Assimilate and looks like they will have to look elsewhere (Uniservity anyone?)

 

Can't beleive we got to the signing on stage before we the customer got to see Assimilate only to find out that it dosn't do what the output specification asked for :mad:

 

Good job a key decision maker is retiring, how their alowed to get away with this is beyond me :censored:

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Two key features were missing from Assimilate; Parental Access and e-portfolios.

There were a lot of other gaps in what this Learning Platform offered. No Mark Book, no ability for peer review, no learning journal, a very poor wizard for setting up courses (I think I counted 8-9 steps), the calendar only gave you the date, if you wanted the diary function you had to use Outlook (not integrated into Assimilate). There is a long list of stuff which I won't go into here, and I don't feel that if they started from scratch to incorporate all these features they'd have something fully tested and running by September 2010.

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For those who are interested. At the meeting it was said that no actual contract with Carillion was signed, today this was completed. Construction work on Siddal Moor and Hollingworth starts in a months time.
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Any views on this?

 

Are Ramsys doing the IT or will it be Capita?

 

My cousin lives in Rochdale. I'm from Bacup originally.

 

Nothing to do with the convo - but thought everyone might like to know that important bit of information. :D

 

GJE

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