1. Management Information Systems Introductions –Karen Crowston –Tim Riley –Bridget McGinley

2. What’s New? Communicating with Parents School Self Review Other MIS news What to look out for Reminders

3. Context Every Child Matters Harnessing Technology New Relationship with Schools

4. Parent Communication ePortal enables Teachers to have easy access to information in a school’s MIS Parental access to their child’s information –ePortal for Facility CMIS users –Learning Gateway for SIMS.net users

5. Parental access Child’s data Any documents attached to their child’s record via Document Storage functionality –e.g. End of year reports

6. Parental Communications Groupcall SMS Text and Voice Messaging Service Integrates and reads pupil & attendance information directly from CMIS & SIMS.net –Attendance issues –General parental communications Free Trial for Birmingham Schools

7. School Self Evaluation SIMS.net users – reports available Facility CMIS users – School Self Review –Not just a tool for SEF –Other reviews e.g. Teaching & Learning ICT

8. SSR contd…. Content – work in progress Development requirements identified and prioritised

9. MIS update…. PLASC/School Census very successful – well done! Primary & Special schools move to a termly School Census from January 2007 School Workforce Data Collection Pilot – still on hold!

10. MIS continued…. CMIS Reporting Pilot –Templates available –Training & Guidance will be available SIMS.net Profiles Module

11. MIS continued….. SEN –SIMS.net demo of IEP Writer at user group –Facility CMIS SEN working group requested developments. Arrangements will be made to demonstrate to SEN working Group before end of term. –Training will be available on SEN

12. Look out for… End of year and End of Key Stage seminars & guidance Transfer files of new admissions Data Quality workshops Upgrades via Website eTutorials

13. Reminders… Workshop on Parago ICT Audit software available to ‘try before you buy’. Groupcall SMS text & voice messaging ePortal & Learning Gateway –Ben Cutler & Mark Lovick Remote Backup service available

14. Thank you for listening