LSIM vs SEN Master

LSIM is a web application for managing student records linked to Individual Education Plans and Student Learning Plans. Learning Support Coordinators, teachers, and Educational Assistants can view or enter plan information. IEP records may contain goals, objectives, strategies, evaluation criteria, daily progress levels, and related logs. Student Learning Plans track campus-specific details and activity logs for students needing assistance, while schools can customize adaptations, assessments, and plan fields by campus. Reports include IEPs, SLPs, monthly IEP progress, term IEP reports, and activity logs. Active Directory integration provides access control and single sign-on through network credentials. LSIM can receive periodic read-only updates from a school’s master student database; a PowerSchool solution is already in place. Communications are encrypted, and access is restricted by student assignment and role permissions. Major browsers supported include Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari. Listed hosting requirements are Microsoft SQL Server 2014 or higher and Microsoft IIS 8.5 or higher on Windows Server 2012 R2 or higher. Pricing is by annual school subscription and requires a quote.

SEN Master is hosted software for schools tracking Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) and special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) provision. Its annual-review tools track stages, calculate milestone dates and collect input from staff, parents and professionals. A SENCO dashboard flags overdue or missing targets, strategies and EHCP obligations across cohorts or filtered groups. Schools can create reusable questionnaires and view or export responses. Student profiles provide teachers with live targets and strategies, while assessment matrices and group comparisons support progress monitoring and PDF report exports. The product includes hundreds of preloaded SMART targets and strategies organised by SEN area; schools can personalize them or create their own. Intervention tools cover student enrolment, attendance and progress measurement using custom assessment scales. Automatic student-data syncing is supported for SIMS, Arbor, Bromcom and ScholarPack. SEN Master runs in a browser without installation. The paid annual school licence is available by quote, and the site offers a 42-day trial. Each school licence is for that school's employees, and fewer authorised users do not reduce the fee.