We have recently created a ‘Quick Start Guide’ to help all of our existing, new and potential customers understand the basics of TERMS and some of its features. Through this easy step by step guide you can learn about some of the basic features of the Activities Menu, People Menu and the Reporting function which […]
The ILR Spec 18-19 defines the Learner Destination and Progression as ‘the destination of the learner when they have completed or withdrawn from the activities on their original learning agreement or plan’. It’s an important part of the ILR, and below we will outline its importance, what information is collected, and when it is collected. […]
Did you know that several Councils have chosen our TERMS MIS to replace Service Birmingham IT’s Aqua platform, which is to be decommissioned next year?
TERMS was first introduced in 1993 and is one of the main packages for “External Institutions”/Adult Education along with Aqua and Plus Business. The entire system has been designed with a view towards the needs of local authorities and smaller training providers rather than colleges. For example, venues may be spread around, tutor claims, courses […]
We have sent out detailed instructions to all user about preparations for GDPR within the TERMS MIS. This is a short article about the steps and changes that are necessary. Purging old data You are not allowed to retain data on individuals without good reason, such as for funding or audit purposes. Generally speaking you […]
Busy times for us as we have several large customers moving from TERMS on their own IT infrastructure to TERMS hosted by Westmarch. As well as the tasks of provisioning of many new servers in the Westmarch ‘server farm’ and getting them set up for Hosted TERMS this is also an opportunity for a ‘spring […]
Upon recommendations by our Marketing Consultant, Scott and I took a visit to the BETT Exhibition in London on Thursday 25th Jan with a view to exhibiting there in the future. We really weren’t sure of what to expect although Bett’s strapline of, “Creating a better future by transforming education” did make us envisage a […]
The first is changing to use the latest ONSPD data (November 2017) – as the ONSPD data changes over the year we have to identify what has changed and adjust the TERMS ONSPD import to match. As there are over 2.6 million post codes to process we will also be experimenting with ways to improve […]