Homer

Seems to be slow on/off, reporting is deffo a bit slower than usual. I'm guessing it's where their systems are scaling back up now demand is back to peak?

Morning all Anyone with reports of slow downs with Bromcom this morning (now - 09:27) or is it just us? Would help before I go whinging Cheers

Yeah but I did hide it thanks to ESS... drop me a pm

Oh man. She is our SLT lead for it, I might give Bromcom a call in a bit because it's now got to be a decision between trying to wrangle this in to NT6 or do it in wT now. This wasn't on our radar when we booked our migration or we'd have mitigated the risks already

Option 2 seems like the best fit for us too but reading between the lines here it seems like that model in NT6 is going to need work to split it in to three from the current two? Thanks John this is what we're trying to get our head around, I think if we were on wT it may be easier? But we're trying to do this from NT6 (at the moment) We need some solid guidance here on what to do... I'm hoping our timetabler isn't going to get a heart attack...

Morning all We've put a ticket in with Bromcom but if anybody here has some advice for us it would be appreciated, we have not long come across to Bromcom from SIMS (start of June) and we've got an unexpected change that we need to implement - we're going from a fairly standard timetable to one that is split between KS3/KS4. Now I'm sure this is the case for a few schools... our timetable has been completed in NT6 (we're licensed until towards the end of the year, and it's what our timetabler knows at this point) but what type of period structure would we need to do, to accommodate it? Nova support advised us to do split periods/lunches, which we've done, but they overlap so I don't know how this can be put in to Bromcom?! Like I say we have a ticket open too but you can't beat community knowledge Thanks! Couple of screenshots attached..

The other schools in my trust are getting stuffed around by this, I am so glad we moved across to Bromcom at the start of June. Can anybody advise on the steps to disable the redirections? I can't find the place for the other schools!

Ahhh we're M365 or I would do this, I don't think we have scripting like that available in M365 for this type of use case.

Morning all Those on Bromcom, what are you doing for outbound email? The SMTP free limit is probably plentiful for a smaller primary school but we could blow through that with a few whole school emails. Are you paying the Bromcom rates or have you gone for another service like Amazon SES or Sendgrid etc? Just finding out what people are doing so I know the best route to look in to. Cheers

We're on Medical Tracker... seems to do the job. No paper stuff. Use your MIS if you can!

I sourced mine directly from Unifi - at the moment I've not managed to trigger the test one in the office with vaping (I tried - I hate it - I will need to get somebody else to test it) We did spray some body spray in the area of it though, no vape alarm but the other readings went waaaay high to show how crap it makes the air

Got 3 of them on site for testing... will report back how we find them

How are you finding it in general compared to NT6? I've never done timetabling before, it completely baffles me and whenever I have opened NT6 in the past it's scared the bejesus out of me and I ran away from it. Our timetabler has been working on next years TT in NT6 (we migrated to Bromcom this week) and that is the next thing to be worrying about now we're live. In fairness, everything else has gone REALLY well! I'm trying to expand my knowledge to be able to help her the best I can, and your feedback could be useful here for me!

If you could share more deets on this mate it would be good, not only in case of any Bromcom nonsense, but in general if all else fails we have up to date essentials without people needing to think about it. This happens every day for us but it's a manual job at the moment (SIMS) so if we could automate the sending and printing of these reports that would be super cool

Be interested in seeing what others say as we're doing the same now but all I will make sure to have is a report of all staff/students with their UPN/SIMS ID so I can always match them up after the fact if anything goes wrong. You'll need to know what custom reports, if any, are being used so they can be recreated in Bromcom.