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I think that it was an interesting webinar, but you never seem to manage to pin them down to what is coming and when. The SOCS integration will be really good for activities management, which is a nightmare currently, and if eduFocus are going to have writeback too then a lot of the current Out of School manual work that we are seeing will be reduced. Curriculum Manager seems to have completely pivoted and turned into Gradebooks, which we don't use and is therefore annoying as I would like to be able to streamline the course management work in terms of timetable/teaching sets/activities etc. (although SOCS should simplify activities!). We have the portal in test at the moment. There's work to be done and enhancements to make, but I do think in general it's an improvement. The rate of development will inevitably dictate how quickly we take it live though.

Hi Tom, I think this is a great idea! We're in tentative stages of getting Power BI up and running, we've had some reporting set up around results for SLT which predates me in this role, but we want to use it further around other modules and with a wider audience. I'd also be interested to know how much others are using some of the more admin features in iSAMS such as the Daily Bulletin, News, Calendar etc or if people are relying more heavily on integrations. I'm hoping to talk to our office staff soon on efficiencies as we do a lot of this kind of thing outside of iSAMS but in very manual ways and I want to try and make that easier for all! I'm the Data Analyst at Bedford Girls' School, UK