Before migrating each location to the new system, the IT department would hold an open house at the site to give users a preview of the new system and let them try it out, he said.

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The school, on the site of Castledown Foundation School, will imitate Wellington College's own house system and will offer places for boarders as well as day pupils.

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Halpern's in-house technologists built their own simple scheduling system, which America's Best added to its site early in 1999.

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