NotSoFast

Isn't all the data in your MIS anyway? If not you can easily export the grades from each series to a spreadsheet.

I'm not aware of one. You'd think it would be ideal for the elastic compute requirements of timetabling though. Maybe Keith Johnson is planning to migrate to Azure!

I've cancelled my PC Pro subscription and now get it through Readly. It's a tiny bit more each month but there are loads of other mags on there (plus all the back issues) that I also read. I miss paper, but not that much.

You could also look at Pupil Asset.

There are full manuals available for every module via support. I agree that training is vital for some of them though.

4Matrix will give you a free trial, I'm sure. Pop your results in and see what you think! All you do is paste in a spreadsheet (or do a direct import in the case of Sims, ie press a button). If you do, pm me and mention our school as I think we get a few months free if you like it!

Or maybe Firebase, looking at the options. Anyway, thread hijack over!

Yes, but there's no block for that in App Inventor. I'll have to look at tinywebdb.

I don't use Sims, but I'd say a product like Sisra or 4Matrix will pay for itself pretty quickly if you plan to do any amount of assessment analysis. I resisted for years, but when I did accept the inevitable I must admit using 4Matrix saved me days of work. For example, GCSE results used to take about a day and a half to pull together in Excel. We now do it in less than an hour in 4Matrix.

Well that jinxed it. Google are shutting down Fusion Tables in a year. Brilliant.

Worth knowing that sheets has a cell limit (2 million I think). I have hit this with a year of signing in and out so now the sheet only pulls the last 500 records from Fusion Tables.

The GSuite route would be easier I think. I set up our visitor sign in system using App Inventor and Fusion Tables. They work really well together and you can then show the data in Sheets etc quite easily if you just want to use Fusion Tables as the back end.

We're still happy with Progresso (on the whole!). Not sure how well it would work in primary though.

I had the same experience. Saw a few things I was tempted by, Googled and found them cheaper, with warranty, largely from Amazon. (Then realised I really didn't need a cheap drone, cardboard robot, proprietary CCTV system, micro HDMI cable etc etc).

Amazfit Bip. It's about £50 and is a basic smartwatch with notifications, step count, GPS, heart rate and (drum roll) the battery lasts about a month between charges. I replaced my Pebble with it.

It would be a bit of a pain to share. The setting up of fusion tables, service user account, hard coding these into the AI file... The office staff view who is in school via a Google sheet, which pulls data (using Apps Script)from the fusion table and formats it nicely. Easy to print, but also viewable on any device if they don't have time. I've had to fix things a couple of times (for example an Android update changed the format the current time was reported in!). I accept that for my own school, but couldn't undertake to support others. Touch wood it's just been sitting there for several months now with no issues, but you never know! If there is anyone who is fairly competent with App Inventor and Apps Script I'd be happy to share, but you'd be on your own!

I used Inventry when I visited a school the other day. I was surprised at how similar it was to mine!

ZX81 and 48k Speccy were my introduction to computers. Anyone else remember Poke 35899,0 on Jet Set Willy?

I just made ours with App Inventor and Fusion Tables. It's not as swish (no badge printing, for example) as a commercial one but you can't beat the price.

We've left. Funnily enough we suddenly started getting offers of an on site support visit, 6 months free etc last week, but it was too late.

I asked Plickers about this back in September and chased today. Got a response straight back: Hi Simon, Thanks for writing in. We are well aware of how important your students' privacy is to you and your community. We are also aware that the EU will be enacting a stricter privacy policy in May, 2018. As such, we are currently updating our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, as well as completing the Student Privacy Pledge. Please stay tuned, as we will release a statement when we complete the processes. And just for your information, Plickers does not record or store any identifiable information about students on our servers (this is outlined in our Privacy Policy: https://plickers.com/privacy). Furthermore, Plickers definitely does not store any images or video from your mobile device on our servers. When you scan student responses, the processing gets conducted locally on your mobile device. No images are ever stored or kept on your device beyond the initial "reading" or scanning; only the student answer choice is derived. Do not hesitate to let me know if you have more specific questions about student privacy. Thank you, Richard Meyers

I think access to the information in an emergency trumps data security here. Paper all the way! I like the idea of initials (I'd probably leave first names though).

I do think there's an argument for decent brakes, so if you convert a bike that's a consideration. I've been glad of my disc brakes a couple of times.

I asked that question. Basically, 95% of it is just a normal bike (brakes, gears etc) and a normal bike shop can service it. The motor is a sealed unit and "doesn't go wrong". The battery is specific to the manufacturer, and quite expensive to replace, but it's not a specialist job, it just slides in and out.

I was wondering about getting a GTECH so went to the local bike shop to try any old electric bike just to get a feel for it. I had a ride on a Volt Pulse and fell in love. It was stupidly expensive but it's brilliant. I now make everyone have a go and badger them to get one. It's made me enjoy cycling and not worry if I'll feel too tired to get home.