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Re: [LUG] Schools Computing - what have they got?

 

Rob Beard wrote:
> On 20/01/2009 16:06, Tom Potts wrote:
>   
>> I've finally managed to corner my daughters primary school headmaster and he
>> wants to look at setting up password accessed records for the kids+parents
>> etc and I was under the impression that the schools network provided by the
>> government should have at least some of the capabilities to do this.
>> He says everytime he tries anything it says 'server not available' so it
>> sounds like  he's on the MS network alright!
>> Is there anywhere I can find out what capabilities are on offer and how to get
>> at them?
>> Tom te tom te tom
>>    
>>     
> Records of what?
>
> Might be worth looking at Moodle or Karoshi.  Something like that should 
> be accessible over the web so students can access their work online etc.
>
> Rob
>
>   
All schools are being required to provide kids & parents  access to 
records such as achievement and attendance as part of the Gov' education 
'strategy' so the county may have provided a means to do this via some 
online app (I know CCC is touting Merlin for it's primary schools - not 
sure if this will allow access to records etc) - the 'server not 
available' may well be where this app is going to be accessed.

The biggest problem with primaries is that most of them pay the county 
for support and if the county is committed to the M$ way than trying to 
get anything else in there is a real headache as it will probably not be 
supported.

Having spoken to a couple of primary schools on the subject - moodle is 
seen as overkill (remember the network is normally managed by the main 
teacher of ICT - they are paid to teach not run networks!)
Karoshi - well I know one of the schools that is using it  - they have 
WinXP PC's - all the same local logon, windows workgroup - no domain 
with no need for a DC so they are only using it as a file server which 
is a real shame as Karoshi does pretty much everything you would need on 
a primary school network.





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