elloyd69 Posted September 7, 2009 Posted September 7, 2009 Is anyone else awaiting Uniservity..............???????
penfold_99 Posted September 8, 2009 Posted September 8, 2009 Is anyone else awaiting Uniservity..............??????? At my last school (secondary) uniservity was sold to the head the head bought it and it was never fully implemented as it was rubbish and we stayed using moodle. uniservity is great for primary schools but it just not up to it for the needs of secondary schools.
laserblazer Posted September 8, 2009 Posted September 8, 2009 How would you rate it for a Middle School (Y5-7)? It looks like uniservity is the way the pyramid is going and I won't get a say in it. To be honest, as long as it doesn't have too many technical issues, I'm past caring if it is educationally unsound. Not the right attitude I know
elloyd69 Posted September 8, 2009 Author Posted September 8, 2009 Well I'm in a middle school and still waiting for Uniservity to get back to us.........we've filled in all the forms and paid........but nothing yet!! Our pyramid is going for Uniservity too.........hopefully without too many issues.....
laserblazer Posted September 8, 2009 Posted September 8, 2009 We're not the same pyramid by any chance? I know that WCC is plugging Uniservity and the lovely Emma was pestering us to place orders months ago. ot heard much from them of late. They did a presentation at Finstall towards the end of last term but I didn't go.
u8dmtm Posted September 8, 2009 Posted September 8, 2009 Our LA bought Uniservity for all its schools last year. We, along with a number of other secondaries have not taken it up and have stuck with things like Moodle, Sharepoint and Kaleidos. Our assessment of the Uniservity offering was that it is fine for primaries or secondaries with nothing currently in place and little expertise but otherwise that it is certainly not technologically the best or educationally the best.
elloyd69 Posted September 8, 2009 Author Posted September 8, 2009 Haha.......I do think we are.....didnt go to the presentation but we have bought in and are awaiting a reply from Uniservity (we paid/completed forms, etc before summer hols)........I'll PM you laserblazer!!
lew_bob Posted September 18, 2009 Posted September 18, 2009 Good luck guys and gals it isnt shall we say,... 'quick' Trying to do a training session yesterday with only 10 teachers all on at the same time, I lost count of the amount of timeouts and 'uniservity has encountered a problem' messages popping up
laserblazer Posted September 24, 2009 Posted September 24, 2009 How does Uniservity handle parental access? This seems to be the biggest Bee in Bonnet at present!
Kentish_Woman Posted October 22, 2009 Posted October 22, 2009 I've read a lot of criticism on these blogs, but I have to say we've had Uniservity for three years. I found it very simple to use, and have trained other staff too. We've had very few problems - generally quickly rectified by the Helpdesk. Any platform is only as good or bad as the interest and commitment given to it.
u8dmtm Posted October 22, 2009 Posted October 22, 2009 Any platform is only as good or bad as the interest and commitment given to it. Sorry, but that is just fundamentally untrue as it implies that with equal 'interest and commitment' all platforms are equal when they are just not.
CyberNerd Posted October 22, 2009 Posted October 22, 2009 Any platform is only as good or bad as the interest and commitment given to it. I'd say it was partly true, but not for uniservity.
Edu-IT Posted October 22, 2009 Posted October 22, 2009 I found this product to be 'cobbled together' and that's partly what I think put people off using it to it's full potential.
laserblazer Posted November 10, 2009 Posted November 10, 2009 Anyone getting any further? Are there any special server requirements to run it. Cant think why but our Bursar is telling me we need a new admin and curriculum server but I'm also told we have no money.
Edu-IT Posted November 10, 2009 Posted November 10, 2009 Anyone getting any further? Are there any special server requirements to run it. Cant think why but our Bursar is telling me we need a new admin and curriculum server but I'm also told we have no money. It's a hosted solution?
lew_bob Posted November 12, 2009 Posted November 12, 2009 Indeed unreliable. It is useable to certain extents, for example it was good to be able to do an audit on a recent addition to ours for food tech and to be able to see kids accessing it outside of school to get the latest menu's/recipes... but god knows how utterly 'pished' if they are when they get the 'uniservity has encountered an error' page for 10mins+ at a time.
apoth0r Posted November 12, 2009 Posted November 12, 2009 Have these comments been made to someone in the LA, I know it's possibly too late for you guys but warning to other LA's may mean that others don't suffer the same fate? Northamptonshire went with LP+ for its solution and although quite a fair few opted out due to current resources in place, it has worked to an extent for schools without the facilities. There seems to be very few 'timeout' problems with LP+ and to be honest, that is what you would expect from the huge amounts they charge (whether it is via grants or top slicing budgets). I feel sorry that you have been forced into a decision without been given a proper trial, which we were lucky enough to have before the charges came in (I believe it was possibly a year!?!). I do hope you are given the resource you deserve and I'm sure there are plenty of open source solutions out there that you can run in house if it really really isn't what you are after. *cough*moodle is your friend*cough*
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