School OpenCheck status can now be updated by text.
Schools that subscribe to AutoText and have message credits available can now update their OpenCheck status by text message.
The person making the change needs to have a mobile phone registered to their USO account and must also have the appropriate permissions enabled in their account profile. Users that meet these criteria can then simply text the school’s status message to the specified number. If the status change is successful, a confirmation message gets sent to the sender’s mobile. This costs one credit. If the status change fails no charge is made.
Full details of how this works can be found here.
We now have a profile bit that can be allocated to any USO account that will allow the person to modify the state of Open Check for their school.
This profile bit can be allocated by any person from ITcontact and above and takes immediate effect.
Further details of the options available can be found in the help manual here.
Over the past 10 days we have made a number of changes to the OpenCheck system. It’s now possible for users with the profile bit ‘Site Managers’ to update the status of OpenCheck for schools.
The front end of the web site has been changed to encouridge users to select from two drop down lists for the LA and the school which then tells the user the state of the school. After this the user may click to draw the map usign Google technology.
We have made this change to reduce the overall load on the systems so as to ensure consisitant delivery of the service in times of great demand.
On 8 May 2009 · Comments Off
OpenCheck will now allow for free text messages to be configured by each school in your LA.
The system still allows for the selection for a standard set of messages which now include a number that cover holidays and weekends.
In addition Head Teachers, Deputy Heads, Bursars and IT contacts can now set the status of schools.
Configure your schools settings in the support site at
Home : Resources : School OpenCheck
On 5 May 2009 · Comments Off
We have added another slight tweak to the way OpenCheck works as a response to end user requests.
If you select a school from the pull down list in the map report page you will see that the selected school is highlighted by a flashing icon rather than a solid one.
Here is an example page for a London LA
Select a school from the drop down menu on the left to see the effect.
On 1 May 2009 · Comments Off
OpenCheck status options
Since the World Health Organisation recently raised the Epidemic Alert to Level 5, signalling a belief that a pandemic is imminent, and urged countries to implement their pandemic plans we have made a small modification to the school OpenCheck service which is part of Atomwide’s USO service.
A wider range of options for the school status has been provided to the system allowing school ITmanagers to select the date at which the school will re-open from a pull down list.
Configuration of your schools status is made in the support site at
Home:Resources:School OpenCheck
This service is available to schools and LA that have purchased full versions of USO
The service can be accessed here
On 10 February 2009 · Comments Off
OpenCheck service is now available allowing you to publish the status of your school to the Internet.
The service can be accessed here
Details of how to embed the data into your own web site can be found here
Configuration of your schools status is made in the support site at
Home:Resources:School OpenCheck
This service is available to schools and LA that have purchased full versions of USO
