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Have a look at this step by step guide http://www.redbridge-iae.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=141

@Moodledan is trying to put together a teachmeet meeting dedicated to moodle, to continue the success of the moodle moot uk. Please register you interest in either presenting or attending as this will be a good meet to attend for all the folks that missed moodle moot. The location and other details are yet to be confirm, so put your ideas forward here teachmeetmoodle [licensed for non-commercial use only] / TeachMeetMoodle

Yes all booked up.

AFAIK only the keynotes are being videoed.

We're presenting in the moodle showcase on tuesday morning all about parnetal engagement.

Hi phil, Thanks, are third parties able to pay the same charge? We are developing a sif based product, but need to show changes that need to be applied to aspects in our manual.

I was wondering if anyone new what type of licence you need to from captia so you can get an installation of SIMS green abbey database? I would like to create some training manuals for a future product as they require changes to course categories and creation of aspects. I dont need any technical or business objects documentation.

Hi Robert What objects are Pearson implementing for phoenix? Do you have a test system inplace to allow third parties to test there agents against youra?

It a two way communication triangle. Parents that get involved with be able to better support there children, but the guidelines only stipulate that theres a school to parent communication instead of insisting the inclusion of a facility for better parent to school communication.

To use SIF, you will need a MIS agent, a zone integration server. Then you will be able to start developing a SIF agent. There ADK (agent developer kits) about which are about £1000+ or write your own. You will need to implement the SIF UK specification the details are here SIF Implementation Specification (United Kingdom) 1.2

That is the million pound question and the answer is the majority of schools don't. Schools are relying on supplier to implement the vision, but as the guidance is grey, suppliers are sticking to what jim knight said, but even the isn't clear as how do you define progress? The term Parental Engagement should be Parental Involvement. As you wan the parents involved not just engaged. As involved parents we help student learning at home. Most Parental engagement systems, miss the learning link as this give a context to all the data held on a student. As most parents have know idea what a 5a is but will understand the feedback a teacher give a student on a piece of work. The bare minimum you could offer is online access to a pdf of a printed report. This is so true and there is the possibility of schools wasting lots of money on poor parental engagement systems, just like when LAs purchased a county wide platform and it wasn't adopted by secondaries as it wasn't as good as moodle.

Groupcall SIF agent supports multiple MIS. Groupcall - Partners @MattMitchell Our SIF agent uses the most SIF objects and requests large amount of student,teacher and parent data and it doesn't come to gigabytes. The first setup is always going to be the largest, but then only update messages get sent.

We have a winner. The tickets have now gone.

Plus your not allow to say anything bad but true about capita.

These tickets are available.

What link are you using to get it? i know the developer so once i know i will prod them for a fix

Well these tickets might be up for grabs again as grumbledook, has had to pull out. I have offered the tickets to a friend just waiting to hear back. so these tickets may have gone. If they haven't ( i will let you know asap ) The game restarts who ever shouts first and wanted them they are there as long as my mate doesn't have them. Details are all in the first post about when and where.

Does it have the hub phone with it?

We have a winner.

Hi All, I have 2 tickets spare from the 6 i won from RussDev. If you are free on friday 26th and can be at pinewood studios at 6pm you can have them. Due to short time i will offer them on a shotgun rule, who shouts first wins.

Hi Alan, I have had a look at your website and checked out the information about Interoperability and SIFA, and i found that some of it is inacurate. SIFA stands for Systems Interoperability Framework Association (formally Schools Interoperability Framework Association) not Suppliers Interoperability Framework Association. SIFA in not an idea being developed by Becta, Becta is one member in a community of over 50 government bodies, LA's, Schools and suppliers. SIF has been adopted by many suppliers and is being used by Schools and LAs currently and is working so you warning statement is completely wrong. Please come along to next SIFA conference so you can see how SIF is being implemented. During your secondment to Becta, you should have been aware that the term of "real-time online reporting" has been droped and replaced with "online reporting". Hope you take my comments as constrcutive criticism, as im trying to ensure correct information about SIF and online reporting as differring information with confuse schools.

There are products avalaible that will allow you to import class data and groups from SIMS and link them to users in LDAP. The key is to have a unique identifier in active directory that moodle can use to associate the users to their course/group/timetable information.

The documentation is bound by an agreement with capita, so can't be shared. To be frank you have more information here plus the /? output of command reported than the documentation contains.

If you a sims user this is possible in assesment managet then your not having to kepp exprting data. You can use the MAX function and then state 1 to 8 so you can generate the capped scorce. This also allows you to create a capped 8 from your current attainment

There also is groupcall messenger, which can send Text, Email and voice messages.