Ms_Kuk

Hi, Does anyone have experience of using the progress trackers or the programme of study features? What are the strengths and weaknesses of each system? To they talk to each other? Each of my departments has an assessment framework that runs across all year groups and I would like to set them up in SIMS so that students can be assessed against them in addition to summative assessment data. I'm a sims novice, so any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks, I wouldn't assume that you would have access to another MIS. I'm looking for a contact who was progresso based, who may have create the reports already as it is generating the reports to get the data out that is the issue!! I've already tried and failed with one of the simpler reports, for exclusions.

The sims chap yesterday said that facility to sims was fairly straight forward, sadly progresso is not! We met with the project manager yesterday, he didn't mention getting the reports from another school- its probably a breach of contract in some way. I will ask though.

Nope- we need to generate reports for attendance for the last 3 years!!

Our initial move to Progresso was based on a need for a cloud based solution which at the time was not offered by sims. However, the implementation and training for Progresso was very poor leading to bad staff buy in. Having no skilled ssrs writers has been a significant problem too. There are two of us are self taught, but are not speedy by any stretch of the imagination. We've now got a new principal who wants sims, and they now provide a hosted service and a teacher app. It was significantly cheaper than buying the internally hosted product. All admin staff expressed an interest in returning to sims. Personally I like Progresso, and its flexibility but to win people over is more effort than its worth. I'm happy to update this thread intermittently with our progress. We are due to go live for 2 schools for September- a mad rush! So tip number one- give yourself plenty of time! If you are going to move I would start the process in January- and not in May as we have!!

I'm about to move from Progresso to SIMS, and have been given a massive list of reports that need creating. Has anyone already done this and would be happy to share their reports? My limited skills in ssrs report writing are a major reason for leaving progresso in the first place! I need too collect the data by 5/6/17!! Any help appreciated

I'm currently looking at this. Capita have said they only provide 30 user licences for use of SIMs and the rest would be expected to use the app. Do you know if this works ok?

Thanks, my ICT manager isn't too keen on an RDS solution as its just another thing that would go wrong! In terms of issues, its both! There was no training when Progresso was introduced and we don't have an SSRS expert- I'm learning on the fly. Our data manager can handle the data we generate but it is done outside the MIS, Progresso does a lot of the first level analysis of data, so analysis isn't really a concern. Many of the issues come from the associate staff eg) SEN tracking, timetabling, behaviour etc. There hasn't been a joined up approach to information, and users have been given a free pass to by third party systems, such as class charts, CPomms, which further muddies the water. So now our database is in bits! I'm trying to figure out if its worth sticking with what we know, and trying to consolidate things or starting afresh with a new MIS.

I know this has probably been posted before but thanks in advanced for any guidance. My school is currently using Progresso (for 2 years) , and the general consensus amongst staff is fairly negative. School leadership is after a switch back to SIMs. Does anyone have a handy checklist/set of criteria I should be looking at? Or a comparison chart of these or other MIS systems. A bit of context- We're a secondary academy, part of a small MAT. Any decision we make would possibly have an impact on the other school in the trust. My only experience of SIMs was as a classroom teacher, and I remember moaning a lot about it at the time. With Progresso it has become clear we need an SSRS expert to really make it work, would we need a similar "in house" SIMs expert? The school also currently uses iOS as it main operating system, does that have any impact on our choices? TIA

Thanks

Did you go with this in the end? I've been asked to look consider it. Is there anything similar out there?

We're in a similar position. Can you summarise why you think Bromcom is the way forward?