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I am currently looking at the demo, it appears to be a mammoth. I don't like is the user interface which seems to be outdated and too much Microsoft-ish. Resembles good old Microsoft Access 2007! Anyhow this is not very important, although it gives you and idea of the age when the UI was designed. What I am shocked more than anything else, is the cost which gradually soars as soon as you add modules, and the complete lack of adaptations, since the Italian SIS market is out of scope. Our school district manages multiple curriculums, international and local, the latter with compliance restrictions which is challenging. If I may ask, what would be your MIS choice, if it was only up to you?

Nice! I'll seek for your tips should we get on the iSAMS bandwagon :-)

That's great, this way you can create real complex queries!

From what I undesrtand, with SSRS you are basically using SQL syntax to build reports? This adds a huge flexibility as long as you have some SQL logic knowledge. I wonder if you can customise your report layout without asking an iSAMS technician to do so. For us, both option would be easypeasy to manage

Wow! Do you mean that reports are only updateable on their end? That's quite bad! We're interested in: Admissions Teachers covering system Payments and invoicing system Integration with third party utilities such as Schoolcloud Club and Events and Parents Evenings

Hello, would be nice to know what are the major likes and dislikes within the iSAMS users community, to get a glimpse from real worlds users. What are the best and worst features? Daunting tasks? What do you regret from your previous MIS?

Thanks for adding this to discussion.How many years ago they were acquired from another firm?

Thank you for taking me to that chart! According to Schoolbase representatives, 240 schools are using their MIS. Is the provided chart showing a subset of schools?

Apparently no one is using shcoolbase over here

As the subject states, what are your plus and minuses about schoolbase? Advices?

Anyone using one of the mentioned systems? Pros and cons? Bromcom has a host of features, Schoolbase is nice and has some interesting features, maybe it lacks the analytics offered by Bromcom which are running through PowerBI. Any thoughts appreciated!

We've just started a strong review and comparison of MISes for our district. Evaluating Gradelink, Rediker, iSAMS,WCBS, Classe365, BromCom, SchoolBase, Engage, MySchool Unfortunately, as an international school, we're not entitled to get Arbour, who focuses only on British state schools. On paper, Bromocom and iSAMS look like the strong contenders, particularly on features and interoperability with other tools & brands. Bromcom UX very strong. Classe365 and WCBS, neat user interface, but below the leaders as for features. Will update while we go through

We're looking for a new SIS for our school. The school is going to embrace IB programme in highschool from September onwards. Is manageBac really required or are there any IB programme compliant MIS which make ManageBac useless? We'd rather be using only one MIS for all, pre-school, primary & secondary, including IB in highschool

How is Engage MIS working in your school?

Since what age pupils could use the system? Did this cause queues at the entrance/exit?

Hello, anyone using an access control system with is bound or interconnected with your SIS? For instance Iris Biostore

Yesterday I have watched a 20 mins. demo about Ed:gen. Pretty much the same iSAMS user interface (which I don't like very much, you still get that horrible MS Access UI taste). What is exactly the difference between the two platforms?

Not sure why, but HUBMis seems to be underrated. Is anyone using this platform?

Will read about bringmoredata blog. Interesting! I'm adding a link to the stats: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfRzyuoh02BawlaYgnM3hJpDfFUvVPO2dxgb5K3Ou2wMWi12w/viewanalytics The form automatically updates MIS list, once a missing MIS is added through the form (right now Engage was automatically added to the list). Classeviva is a total crap. Arcaic UI, last year they've lost our data which required a new input. I've never seen such a convoluted platform, that's why we want to switch. We want a modern UI, flexible, fast and reliable platform. REST API mandatory since we want to exchange data with our accounting platform

Ladies and Gents, while struggling to get an idea of the right MIS for our school, I have thought that it could be handy to create a small survey to get an idea about the most popular systems, currently adopted by K12 schools in the UK and within International Schools. It's very hard and time consuming to get the correct picture of this huge world. Feel free to suggest any addition to the form, which is available here. As a treat, you get stats, which will be gathered and made publicly available in this spreadhseet Share your thoughts?

Well known (bad sites) are blacklisted by default within the majority of content filtering systems and firewalls, even if they sound nice like hellokitty.com What these systems are lacking is searches, such as "melons and bananas", which can easily be used in proxied Google, bypassing safesearch enforcements

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Are you using any web filtering appliance for your students?

I have no problems with scripting :-) While I am very thankful for the suggested links, it looks like they fall into the "abandonware" category. Would you use any of these tools which are not being supported anymore?

Hello! Although we have a firewall/router which is blacklisting well known offensive sites, there's high percentage of websites which are not blacklisted and can be accessed by students. Not to mention free proxies, that can easily bypass any blacklisted site. In my opinion, the best option would be to catch keywords in URLs, however I was told this is a tough task, requiring certificates on devices. We could think about a specific device on site (faster than cloud solutions) and/or providing Chromebooks and laptops with a device specific app which can handle this. Something like Smoothwall or Webtitan........., however these products are expensive. The school is very small (250 students) and low and budget