A boon to busy teachers, KAMAR assists schools in day-to-day recording and reporting of student information.

KAMAR is the result, a student management system (SMS) developed specifically for the New Zealand school market and, as a Ministry of Education accredited solution, totally tailored to support the NZ Qualifications Authority and our NCEA educational standards. As other educators started using it, additional features were added. I’ve built more than a few rocking Access applications through the years, but most of that went by the wayside as the world moved away from client-server applications and towards web-based LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL, PHP) solutions to data collection and reporting.When Kent Lendrum, a Kiwi secondary school computer studies teacher, created a FileMaker database in 1999 to help run his classes at Mt Maunganui College, little did he imagine that a decade later he'd be supplying hundreds of New Zealand schools with his comprehensive FileMaker-based school administration package.Īt first, his database was a just a mark-book with reporting. Access was (and still is) quite powerful, but getting it hooked into the web, especially with built-in tools, wasn’t exactly an elegant process.

There are so many turnkey solutions on the market, from free and open source to expensive and proprietary, it hardly seems necessary, right? A long, long time ago, I made my living programming Microsoft Access front ends for clinical trial data collection tools. Why would you possibly develop your own student information system, special education management system, library information system, school financial system, or other data collection and reporting tools? Asks Christopher Dawson for ZDNet.

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