Case Studies

Here you can find a selection of independant Users' Perspectives of their experiences with Bromcom and its range of products, services and solutions.

Teacher's WebFolder at Middlesbrough Council

Background – requirement for teacher access to SIMS
In Middlesbrough there are 42 primary schools, 4 large secondary schools, 4 ‘through-phase’ Special Schools, 3 Pupil Referral Units, and 3 large secondary Academy Schools.

A major problem is that the Capita SIMS Desktop (SIMS.net) is too cumbersome and complicated for classroom teachers to use. Approximately 80% of the functionality in SIMS is never used by classroom teachers....
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Bromcom MIS at South Shields Community School

“We tried the rest and have now chosen the best”- the Management team, South Shields Community School.

South Shields Community School previously used Serco Facility MIS for 4 years before we considered moving to another service provider...
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Bromcom in Colleges

The Senior Leadership Team were in search of a multi-purpose system that firstly helped to monitor the important data required by the UK Border Agency, and also helped to improve their pupil database management and to provide better reports more efficiently.

The college requires quick and easy access to important pupil data. Teacher data entry and data viewing was a big bonus that was not initially expected...
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Ashcroft Technology Academy - MyChildAtSchool

MyChildAtSchool.com at Ashcroft Technology Academy

Ashcroft Technology Academy was in search of a system which could enable students’ parents to keep up to date with their child’s academic performance - their marks, timetable and attendance - as regularly as required. Mike Smith, the Deputy Principal of the Academy explains:

"As SIMS is our MIS we naturally considered SIMS Learning Gateway (SLG). However we found SLG is far from offering the ‘parent-friendliness’ that MyChildAtSchool.com does. Besides not being user-friendly, we found SLG cumbersome, awkward to use and offering a user experience that suits more technical people"...
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Saffron Walden County High School - e-Diploma

e-Awards at Saffron Walden County High School

Since 2005 Saffron Walden County High School has been implementing a Diploma scheme where pupils are being accredited for a broad range of experiences and achievements. Bromcom's e-Awards is a web-based system used by Years 9, 10 and 11 recording student achievement throughout their school life. ...
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Further Case Studies

Bromcom MIS at Leasowes Community College
We were unhappy with our Management Information System which we found inefficient and time consuming. When we heard that Bromcom had a full MIS available...

Bromcom MIS versus SIMS.net
The following is an account of a typical demonstration of the Bromcom MIS to a prospective user school considering changing their MIS from SIMS with I-Behave. We urge you to see for yourself by booking a demonstration to see how the Bromcom solution can transform your MIS within and outside of school

e-Assessment at St John Fisher Catholic School
e-Assessment has been designed from the ground up to help schools to efficiently collect and track student assessment grades via a web browser. Originally used at the school only to monitor pupils exam, homework and classwork grades e-Assessment has now been extended to track mock examination results as well.

Bromcom in Blackpool
Blackpool is unique in e-Registration in that most of its schools do not make use of a school-based server PC. Instead they have opted for Bromcom's Application Service Provider (ASP) model. They all connect to one powerful server via a high speed Intranet link that connects all schools in the Blackpool Unitary Authority.

"How we turned our laptops PCs into school-wide administration tools"
Bromcom help Sawtry College get the most from their Anytime Anywhere Learning infrastructure.

Upgrading to e-College at York College
York College upgraded their Bromcom system from e-School to e-College, an e-Registration system designed with a 'time based' timetable rather than 'period' based time table. Keith Davis, the college's Assistant CIS Officer, says he is delighted with the new system.