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Hi all, Have you considered trialling EduLink One? We know to truly appreciate the benefits of EduLink One is to ‘use it in anger’, with your own data! We are offering your school the opportunity to sign up to our free no obligation 2-week trial programme, where you will have access to EduLink One, using your own MIS data. You can roll out access to as many users as you wish during this trial. EduLink One provides an integrated school platform drawing together data from a range of existing services within your school. With an engaging and informative user interface it allows teachers, parents and students to easily communicate, share and access information in one place. Key Benefits ​ Designed for all your staff, students and parents Accessible on any device via the web browser or app Insight into learner performance with easy access to MIS data on assessment, attendance, achievement and behaviour Improve student and parental engagement through 2-way messaging, timetable access and MIS data reporting Reduce administrative workload of staff with built-in write back tools for marking, assessment and registration on the go Parents and students can view cashless catering balances and transactions for budgetary and dietary monitoring Replace multiple existing IT systems - leading to cost savings Highly customisable to meet your needs For the full features of EduLink One click here. To register for this 2-week trial, click here. If you’ve not had a chance to read the EduLink One case studies, here are the links Hornsea School and Language College Uckfield Community Technology College (UCTC)

Hi everyone, Hornsea School and Language College is one of our earliest adopters of EduLink One, since its launch less than 5 months ago. EduLink One is a powerful whole-school platform for communication; sharing school data and providing easy access to a school’s MIS for deeper learner insight. EduLink One is accessible 24/7 via a web browser or app. Parental and student engagement is an important mission of Hornsea School and Language College, a school with 1,100 students on roll. For Rob Coles, the Network Manager at the school this has meant implementing effective measures for real time reporting, as well as messaging. Rob explains why they chose EduLink One as their preferred tool for ensuring student and parent participation is maximised. “Firstly, ‘keeping it simple’ has been my motto. If we can make access to various 3rd party tools and services easy, it is significantly more likely parents and students will use it. As EduLink One is a single unified platform that delivers several fundamental services that we want parents and students to interact with, a single login to access all of them is an attractive proposition. We previously used SchoolsComm and Emerge, but with EduLink One we could consolidate everything we needed within one solution, simplifying access. Even better, it saved the school money. EduLink One complements our Moodle Learning platform, sharing the same login, so we have a truly holistic approach to our digital services. Secondly for teachers, they can take registration electronically, which writes back to SIMS. As it runs on a smartphone, this is really useful for subjects like PE and drama, where you don’t want to be lugging round a cumbersome laptop or tablet. We can also use it on school trips. There is no limitation to how many staff can access EduLink One, which is really convenient and flexible.” To read the full case study click here. You can try out our demo site for free by clicking here (no registration is required). Please PM me if you have any questions.

Hi FN-GM, apologies for this. We are in the process of updating our website. Here is a link to directly download the brochure: https://www.dropbox.com/s/uyzkj3r1k3v298l/EduLink%20One%20Flyer.pdf?dl=0 ... and further information that can be found at: Introduction - Overnet Data You can try out the demo site without registering/ signing up at: https://www.edulinkone.com/#!/login Just click on DEMO and choose Employee, Parent or Student to see how EduLink One caters for each user type. Please feel free to PM me if you have any further questions. Reeza

Hi everyone, Uckfield Community Technology College (UCTC) is one of the very first schools to adopt EduLink One since its launch in January 2017. EduLink One is an integrated whole school platform for communication, sharing data and MIS access for all teachers, parents and students. EduLink One is accessible 24/7 via a web browser or app. Darren Jones, the Network Manager at UCTC explains why they have rolled out with EduLink One and what their ambitions are for using the platform across the school. “What immediately caught our attention when initially evaluating EduLink was the user interface, which was very refreshing, eye catching and engaging. More importantly it was simple to use. As the Network Manager, when you need to convince all the stakeholders within the school to use the technology, these aspects are really important. What we also really liked was that within one unified platform we had a single solution that would allow us to communicate, engage and share data with teachers, parents and students. This would help to bring the whole school community together. Deployment was a breeze, with the rollout to 1,500 Chromebooks taking a matter of minutes.” To read the full case study click here.

Hi everyone, here is our latest case study on Pate’s Grammar School and why they use Moodle. "Pate’s Grammar School in Cheltenham has just shy of 1,100 students and is a much-valued customer of Overnet Data. Geoff Worth’s role within the school’s IT team is looking after the database systems as an administrator, which includes SIMS and Moodle and everything that goes with it. For the best part of a decade, Pate’s Grammar School has been using Moodle. So why did they choose Moodle? Geoff explains. “The simple answer is that it’s free. And it’s pretty good for being a free product… really! And because it’s used globally, there are often other third parties who develop plugins to enhance its features, which is a win-win for us." For the full case study, click here. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to PM me.

Hi everyone, At the BETT Show this week we will be unveiling EduLink One, our new and powerful web and app-based (iOS and Android) solution for schools, which meets the day to day needs of staff, students and parents to effectively complete tasks, communicate and manage/ share school data. All through one integrated system the key features of EduLink One are: Access Anytime, Anywhere On Any Device Send Email, SMS and Push Notifications Take Registers Record Behaviour and Achievement Access Documents e.g. School Reports View Current and Past Homework Access Exam Timetable, Entries & Results Look up Cashless Catering Transactions & Balance MIS Write-Back Secure and Encrypted Multiple Authentication Sources incl. LDAP Single Sign On (SSO) capabilities, providing a gateway to other 3rd party services For further information on EduLink One, click here. If you are at BETT this week, why not drop by our stand C396 to see a demo, set up a trial or just to say hello! Otherwise drop me a PM or email [email protected] to discuss any questions you have and to arrange a demo. Best wishes Reeza

Hi all, here is our latest customer case study on Hertswood Academy and their use of Moodle. For a school with over 1,400 students split over two sites, what was the benefit of using Moodle? Steven Wainwright, Assistant Network Manager at Hertswood Academy explains; “It is a well-structured central point for managing student resources. And you’ve got the other stuff on top of that; the ability to assign or pull work from students and all the other plug-ins. But it really just boils down to having an easy and centrally-manageable system for providing resources for students that they can access from school or from home.” Read the full case study here. Please PM me or respond to this thread if you have any questions. Best wishes Reeza

Hi everyone, here is our latest case study on Queen Elizabeth School, who opted for our EduLink for Moodle service to integrate Moodle with SIMs. Jim Williams, is the Network Manager at the school who looks after the technical side of things explains how the move to Overnet Data came about: “The school had been using Moodle for several years and was previously using a county hosted Moodle site, but found that this required a lot of administration time to manage. A local school came in and gave us a demonstration of Overnet Data’s EduLink for Moodle service, which prompted us to look into them in more detail. The Overnet Data solution allowed the integration of our SIMS school management system with Moodle so that courses could be automatically populated with student’s details. The integration with our Active Directory allows pupils to sign into Moodle with a single set of credentials, which is great for access from home. The ability to have parental accounts, linked from SIMS, has enabled us to give parents secure access to their child’s tracker, timetable, and exam results. The implementation has improved whole school engagement with both parents and students.” Click here to read the full case study. Please PM me if you have any questions.

Hi, further to our announcement on our free Homework Block for Moodle, this is now available to download from the plugins directory at Moodle.org. Click here to download from Moodle.org. Best wishes Reeza

Hi gaz350b, we do have CMIS on the development roadmap for the Exam Module but as yet do not have a release date. If you would like to PM me with your contact details, I can ensure we let you know once we have a date for release. Best wishes Reeza

Overnet Data is pleased to announce it’s new Exam Details module that is available for schools with EduLink for Moodle. We have put exam-related data extracted from SIMS into a clear format that allows students, staff and parents to see the date, location and time of exams that students have been registered for. The functionality extends further and allows exam results to be displayed, with a variable embargo date to preserve Results Day. Key features and benefits Visibility of exam timetable – No excuses for students failing to attend Eliminate printed timetables – Reduce paper waste and print costs Parent visibility of timetable – Increase parental engagement Viewable by administrator only by default – Review the functionality before general release For further information on the Exam Module, click here.

Thanks secretlife, we would love to hear how you get on it. It is due to be released on Moodle.org's Plugins directory in a matter of weeks. If anyone is interested, a news piece on this plugin was published by Moodle News yesterday. Click here to read it.

Effective management of homework is a challenge faced by many schools and responding to this, Overnet Data has developed a free Moodle homework block. EduLink Homework streamlines the process of managing homework assignments, whilst helping your school record evidence of homework setting and feedback as detailed in the OFSTED framework. Using Edulink Homework, teachers can set homework ahead of time and upload all supporting documents that students will require to complete their homework. Students benefit from having all their homework deadlines, details and supporting documents centralised online, helping to make excuses about missed or forgotten homework a thing of the past. Hartshill School, who have been evaluating Edulink Homework, had this to say about it: “Edulink Homework is simple to use and provides access to all the homework information for pupils and teachers to view, which helps to make homework a more meaningful part of teaching and learning.” The Edulink Homework block is available for free which means that anyone with Moodle can benefit. Overnet Data customers can benefit from additional functionality by using EduLink for Moodle to integrate the homework block with the school’s MIS, accurately enrolling students, staff and parents on the correct courses, structuring courses by subject and year group, issuing homework notifications to parents and recording homework based behaviour and achievement records to the MIS. For further information on how Edulink Homework can help your homework management, visit our website, read the Hartshill School case study or go to this link to download the free plug-in. Full installation documentation for this free plugin is available from our website.

Hi Kennysarmy, we do have an MIS integration service for Moodle if you are interested in speaking to us. Here is further information: Integrate Moodle with school MIS - Edulink Moodle Also here is a link to a couple of customer case studies you might be interested in: School Case Studies | Overnet Data Best wishes Reeza

Hi all, we've just published our latest blog on Moodle and ePortfolios. Here is a link if you are interested in reading: Moodle and ePortfolios - a shop window for sharing student achievement - Overnet Data Best wishes Reeza