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I just started doing database and training work for a school district that has been using Infinite Campus (https://www.infinitecampus.com/ https://www.infinitec
by mutagen 11y ago
I just started doing database and training work for a school district that has been using Infinite Campus (https://www.infinitecampus.com/ https://www.infinitecampus.com/) for the last 5 years. Infinite Campus sounds like it is another package that would accomplish your goals.
Some positives:
- Browser based, modern browsers supported
- Permissions galore to minimize data exposure and to support external policies (FERPA, etc)
- Fulfills the brief requirements you outlined
- Iterative development, they drop releases faster than we're comfortable taking them
- Data is exportable, we're doing custom transcripts for the state college, custom exports for Clever, etc.
Some negatives:
- Proprietary
- UX doesn't seem to be a priority, it isn't horrible in most cases but it isn't great. To be fair, some of that may be due to feature creep in our installation / district ("Oh, you can develop custom fields and tabs? Great, lets make all of them"). There's already some workflows I've automated with AHK (again, our district policies are at least partially to blame).
Other notes
- Our installation is JSP / MSSQL, not sure if other databases are supported.
- Some reporting functionality built in, we've developed some external reporting around it to fill holes
- Custom development costs $$$ (not going to get this for free anywhere though)
- Old versions of IE have been left behind (I view this as a positive, IT departments might want to hold on to their IE 9 deployments)
- We used to use SASi, I don't know the reasons behind migrating away from it
I'd suggest evaluating Infinite Campus alongside some of the alternatives. I'd also see what other districts in NY are using and compare notes on the various state and district level customizations they've done. Discuss pain points alongside what just works and what shows up on the "I wish we could ..." list.
Contact me if you'd like more information.