By February the concept and practise had become well established. You do get some niggling but overall its surprising how commonplace and accepted the use of the folders has become and how quickly most staff can use the keyboard. Part time staff can be taught to use folders in a matter of minutes. New staff learn very quickly. Well, sometimes staff forgot to take the Computer Folder with them to the class, or didn t get around to using it until the end of the day or or even the day after.
Many staff still keep paper registers for their own use.
This caused problems - especially as they couldn t use their folders to transfer registers on the following day. Another irritant was the input of block absence. However, the latest College Software now provides such facilities, overcoming problems in the earlier versions. Mainly to do with reporting outputs. We started with the schools version of wNET last September.