GREED

It looks like a quality street!

So you have three broadly similar solutions in place offering the same facilities?

Yer I have used @roombookingsystem in the past very good and simple solution!

If anyone can give them a nudge. I have to be honest, I was a little unimpressed with them at BETT when I tried to speak with them and basically because I said I wasn't a school their tone changed and just shoved me a call us card. Prior to that at the Academies Show, I tried to speak with them about the market they are entering, and they had no idea of any other MIS provider other than Capita... I was shocked... and horrified! It would be nice to see them interact with the market a bit...

Simple Thanks

James Grew. He said he would pass it on as appropriate. PM me if you have other ideas.

I had a long chat with some colleagues today about Moodle use these days, and I'm interested to hear feedback. Do you have Moodle in your school? How do you get on with it? Do your teachers engage with it well or not? Just really interested to hear general feedback.

Hosting on WordPress.com not self hosting I don't have a server and really not looking to pay any more than I am.now for thing change

I have realised how out of touch I am on this sort of thing. So I have a personal website on 1&1. I hate them BTW! I want to move the domain to a Wordpress site I will create (happy to ditch the old site and rebuild), I know I will need to keep 1&1 as the registrar thats OK. I want to move my email too, to Zolo which is free to have your own domain as the domain name, which I have. Once all is working I'll be cancelling my 1&1 subscription (less the registration). So what do I actually need to do to make these things happen and what is the order of play? I'm more frightened of the ends not matching up and I lose the domain or worse the email address, or I miss something meaning I can't close down 1&1 or something like that. All help greatly appreciated!

Their school numbers from the last census seem to concur with you there

You are a star elsiegee40 thank you, I will email out the remaining questionnaires tomorrow afternoon.

Got it elsiegee40. Thank you so much

I will be honest even though I have sent it to the MDs or key sales managers there will still be a test as to if they see the true value of what a reply will do for them as well as us.

If anyone has any sales contacts, or senior level contacts at Wauton Samuel, WCBS or SchoolPod then please PM me with them. These are the only outstanding MIS's I have not sent to today (and I don't want to send it to info@...) Lets see what we get back!!

It has been a while since I used SIMS, but is the checks panel the same as the contracts panel? If so, then no, if not, then it should be possible.

Corero is another choice (Now Civica)

The questionnaire is going out now! Well, to as many of the suppliers on the list as I have contact details for...

Presumably if you believe the blurb the same as everyone else... none

I hope so I moved everything to Dropbox because I had 50Gb free but thay will be ending end of the year. Moved from Google which was 6 quid a month. Not much but have to watch the pennies these days. It's my cloud backup

I have been careful to make the questions objective. There are some areas that I know some suppliers to do cover, but have tried to take that from as many as possible. This, while styled like one, is not a tender document. It is a survey designed to tease out as much info from suppliers and their products as possible, and for everyone to see so everyone is on a level playing field.

... oops Keep us all informed as to your progress on this and how it gets fixed

Right well, I was hoping the interest in asking suppliers key questions would have inspired more interaction from the masses, but never mind... I have gotten my bum in gear and finished the survey/questionnaire! I will be sending this to all suppliers end of this week. All instructions are included. For suppliers that have responded (thank you) to this thread, if you have anyone specific or contact details of where to send this I will action. As opposed to sending to the contact I have already through my work... if at all. Please PM with any details. Thank you to all those that helped with questions, in particular @matt40k for critiquing it! And thank you in advance to all suppliers who will see the value in what this will achieve and reply. Responses will be posted once collated, unsure yet where but I'm looking at a dedicated website to link to. This will be coupled with a hefty analysis document on MIS customer figures built on top of the census figures myself and @matt40k have researched. Fun times!

It's a weird paradoxial type issue, they are amazing most of the time for their CS but have questionable morals... Primark is another example I always go back to. If you want a cheap Tee for £1, yes it might be rubbish and sizes all over the place, but when you want it for digging up the garden... which is why my local one is always packed (might be because it is Portsmouth though!)

Ok I know they have questionable morals when it comes to their staff safety and also their tax.. But I have been waiting over 2 weeks for my XBox controller and Kinect mount, no tracking info (so some git has had it away), they without question just going to send me a replacement of both. So if I have an extra XBox controller for sale soon, you'll all know why! Gotta say not bad customer service!

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