Exams 2020

Exams 2020

Dan Sears, 28 August 2020

As I have mentioned before ‘These are strange times’. Having to wander round Tesco’s wearing a mask, finding myself comparing different types of hand gel and walking around with my invisible 2 metre force field...
Primary Tracker

Primary Tracker’s 2020 Evolution (so far)

Richard King, 14 August 2020

Many of you have been in touch about the Primary Tracker, so we thought it was time to give you an update on its progress and how much it has changed since we last featured it here on the Product Blog...
Digital Transformation

Schools Digital Transformation

Steve Smith, 07 August 2020

Not so many years ago, a school’s paper budget would have been significant as demands for test papers, worksheets and so on would have been a full-time job. Students handed in their homework in hard copy and...
Product Release Webinar

Product Release Webinar

Dan Sears, 31 July 2020

As schools draw to a close for the summer the agile development process here at Bromcom just keeps rolling.
Leadership

Leadership

Dan Sears, 24 July 2020

When as humans we reflect on the many achievements of leaders through the ages, we always find many supporters and detractors of their ideas and methodologies...

MAT User Group

Product Development Webinar

Dan Sears, 19 June 2020

The best part about my job is working with customers to make sure that our products meet, or more importantly, exceed their requirements. It’s all about YOU!

MAT User Group

MAT Vision User Group

Dan Sears, 11 June 2020

MAT Vision is the hub of a Trust’s Management Information System. More than just a warehouse for trust-wide data, MAT Vision is at the centre of the trust’s operations by facilitating the management and organisation of data across Bromcom CloudMIS. Powerful and highly flexible analytics allow a trust to understand school performance and target school improvement.

DfE Taking attendance

DFE guidance – how to record attendance and absence from next week

Customer Care Team, 31 May 2020

Please read Bromcom’s guidance on how to record attendance in the MIS, including using four NEW codes which will be available from Monday 1 June...
Distance Learning

Help! I've forgotten my training!

Dan Sears, 14 May 2020

I always feel invigorated when I leave a training session. I’ve ingested the knowledge of an expert and cannot wait to make my school better by applying it. I get back to my desk and try out a couple of new reports that I didn’t know about and ‘BOOM’ the information is flashing up on screen...
Distance Learning

Continued Updates

Dan Sears, 14 May 2020

As we all began to digest the Prime Minister’s announcement on Sunday night a number of documents began to land in my inbox. These were the details relating to the re-opening of schools when the government feels we can enter Stage 3 of the Covid unlocking process..
Distance Learning

Bromcom Education: Transition to Distance Learning

Dan Sears, 06 May 2020

If you have ever followed the day of a child in a school, you will soon realise that it’s hectic. It is likely to cover five different subjects, contain two breaks and lots of social interaction with peers and adults...
Distance Learning

What is the difference between Remote and Distance learning?

Dan Sears, 30 April 2020

As an educationalist we are in strange times. Following the initial government announcements regarding lockdown, we had limited time to change the way we support our young people. Not only from a learning and teaching perspective...
Distance Learning

Bromcom Insights: Bringing you Data at your Fingertips

Dan Sears, 16 April 2020

How many times in a school are you asked simple data questions that you know should be at the tip of your fingers, but with so much going on during the school day it’s completely escaped your mind...
Distance Learning

Top 10 reasons to choose Bromcom when deciding on a new cloud MIS provider

Damon Hatcher, 07 April 2020

As an MIS supplier, we’re often asked ‘Why Bromcom’? What is it that makes us stand out in the marketplace and why should a customer choose Bromcom over another MIS Provider...
School Closure Update

Bromcom Support for School Closure Update

Bromcom Customer Care Team, 02 April 2020

Yesterday the Government announced its free school meals voucher scheme...
School Closure Update

Bromcom Support for School Closure

Bromcom Customer Care Team, 24 March 2020

We are continuing to monitor the Government advice to ensure that our customers get everything they need from us during this difficult period...
Student Portal

Student Portal

Ben Mort, 20 March 2020

In these unprecedented and challenging times, the message from our customers is clear: Schools are not closing from today (23/03/2020). Closing is the wrong word, schools are CHANGING....
Communication Log

Using the Communication Log

Bromcom Customer Care Team, 23 March 2020

Here at Bromcom we understand the difficult circumstances that our schools are currently facing. Over the next few days we will continue to highlight features of our MIS system that...
School Closure Update

Support for School Closure

Dan Sears, 19 March 2020

We have created some short videos to help you through the difficult situation that schools are finding themselves in. In these videos we will show you how to do the following tasks...
OneStopShop

One-Stop-Shop

Damon Hatcher, 11 March 2020

Back in the decade of big hair, New Romantics and the Rubik’s cube, cars were rolling out of showrooms with cassette decks, proudly emitting the occupants’ music choices with a gerbil like quality that’s hard to forget...
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NEW UX: Global Search Tool

Ben Mort, 05 March 2020

As more and more of what is useful to us becomes digitised and embedded in the systems we use, the need to efficiently and effectively sift through the reams of information becomes ever more important....
PrimaryTracker2

Parent App: MyChildAtSchool

25 February 2020

Bromcom’s Parent App, MyChildAtSchool, gives schools a simple and convenient way of engaging with parents, while simultaneously reducing the school office’s workload...
PrimaryTracker2

BETT 2020 Newsletter

06 February 2020

BETT 2020 Newsletter
PrimaryTracker2

Bromcom's Finance Blog 4

Simon Lewin, 28 November 2019

Welcome to the fourth product blog for Bromcom’s Finance module. To coincide with release 8.1, I am exploring the methods of reporting and why Bromcom’s Reporting options are so great and outdoing the competition.
Product Blog

Product Blog

Richard King, 13 November 2019

It’s been a while since we updated the Product Blog, and I thought it was high time that I should share with you some of the recent MIS developments we’ve released, and what’s in the pipeline for the next couple of months.
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Bromcom Primary Tracker

Matt Bramley, 29 October 2019

Before joining the company early this year, I recalled hearing from schools that Bromcom was in constant development mode, pushing its products to their absolute limit...
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Bromcom's Finance

Simon Lewin, 2 October 2019

Welcome to the third product blog for Bromcom’s Finance module. So much has happened in the past few months; it has been a blur. We have had...
PrimaryTracker

A New Primary Tracker for Assessment

Richard King, 4 April 2019

The first main release of Bromcom’s MIS is almost due to go live. As I promised in my last blog in February, we’ll be introducing functionality for Clubs and Trips, so I thought I’d give you a bit more information about some of the options we have built into Clubs, bef...
BI-G

The Start of Something BI-g

Ed Cadwallader, 14 March 2019

Although the move to academies and multi academy trusts has been controversial, it is undeniable that we are seeing more innovation from MATs than was the case when schools were run by local authorities. This is unsurprising given that in MATs schools are united by vis...
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Product Blog

Richard King, 1 February 2019

Hello, and welcome to the Bromcom Product Blog. So far this year we have been busy continuing to make the improvements to the user interface that John mentioned in his blog post last year. This work is ongoing, and there is much more to come, but I wanted to share with...
Finance

Bromcom's Finance

Simon Lewin, 17 January 2019

Welcome to the second product blog for Bromcom’s Finance module and welcome to 2019. I hope you enjoyed your time-off with family and friends and wish you a successful year. 2019 is a milestone in the development of Bromcom Finance as it goes live and starts to reall...
MATVision

Bromcom's MAT Vision

Ed Cadwallader, 15 January 2019

Bromcom’s MAT Vision has removed a great barrier to efficiency many of our MAT customers faced as it means data flows automatically from Bromcom and SIMS MIS systems into a central warehouse and so they no longer need to manually chase schools for data and manually add...
BettShow2019

Visit Bromcom at The Bett Show 2019

Navina Cheema, 18 December 2018

Date: Wednesday 23rd January 2019 – Saturday 26th January 2019 / Location: Excel London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London, E16 1XL / Hall: N1-19 / Bromcom Stand: B320 / Bromcom has been the innovator of School Management Information Systems for 30 years. Bromcom is...
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Product Blog

John Condon, 13 December 2018

Welcome to the last product blog of the current year from the team here at Bromcom. Let me take the opportunity to wish you all a merry christmas, a happy new year, feliz navidad, season’s greetings, happy holidays and all that stuff. In the vein of looking forwards a...
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Bromcom's Finance

Simon Lewin, 20 November 2018

Welcome to the first product blog for Bromcom’s new Finance module. Being new, I will start by giving a brief walk through of its key facilities and put it in the context of Bromcom’s offering. Bromcom Finance is an optional suite of functions that extends the Bromcom...
Analytics

Bromcom Analytics

Ed Cadwallader, 26 October 2018

This Autumn we are proud to launch Bromcom Analytics, a set of Reports and Dashboards that combine metrics from across the MIS in one place, allowing you to take the pulse of your school’s performance in seconds and investigate troublesome indicators to get the story b...
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Product Blog

John Condon, 18 October 2018

Welcome to Bromcom’s product blog, this is going to be the first of an ongoing series of articles from the product management team covering a broad range of subjects from current best practice to upcoming developments and everything in between. They will be coming ever...