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E v e r y S t u d e n t I s A P r o m i s e

ABOUT USWe are a small group of entrepreneurs who dream big and intend to change the way that administrative software is sold and implemented in schools and districts today. For years we have watched large commercial education software companies continue to provide poor software that is proprietary and horribly expensive to a market that has little budget and few choices. We have been witness to botched and failed implementations that waste precious education budget dollars that should be going to the classroom and student instruction. And we have decided to change all of that starting right now. How? By providing quality alternatives to commercial software that are economical, easy to use and completely open. We are giving our clients freedom and control over their software solutions.

We have big dreams, a lot of passion about what we do and the personal willpower to get it done. We aren’t working for venture capitalists or angel investors. We are working for the good of education and more specifically, we are working for you, the individual educator. We intend to change the business model of administrative education software and force the large commercial companies to change with us. And in doing so, education wins and most importantly, students win and that keeps us here day in and day out working for you.

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Our Mission & GoalMission : To create the best open source Student Information System (SIS) that will be equal to or better than the best commercially available SIS software in the market.

Goal : • Keep it open source, always.

• Bring out 3 to 4 version upgrades each year.

• Release updates frequently.

• Get customers involved and co-create.

• Build a vibrant community that will spread the love.


Our Product Features

Core Features :

This features include all necessary functionalities to run a school:

Demographics, Grade Book, Progress Report, Report Card, Transcript, Parent Portal, Attendence etc.


Student Demographic :openSIS enables the tracking of numerous student demographic attributes in a permanent record and across enrollments. Need something not included in the base installation? Use our custom categories and fields that allow you to easily create any number of custom fields to capture your specific data needs.

A student’s basic details are captured in this screen. You can add additional tabs /categories and unlimited Number of fields without a single line of coding, with just a few clicks.


Student Demographic:

Contact Information :Easily add contact information for parents, relatives and authorized individuals. Designate legal guardian, bus stops and associate parents with students enabling automatic access to the openSIS parent portal.

In one screen you have student’s home and mailing address as well as primary and secondary contact information. All important information is in one page. Also, you can add unlimited contacts for a student and define any relationships.


Contact Information:

Scheduling :openSIS includes a scheduler that allows you to easily input student requests and mass schedule students. You can make multiple schedule runs as you make adjustments and have multiple schedules within a school. View and print student schedules and class rosters with just a few clicks.

This is a schedule view of students. You can see it by marking periods or by an entire year.


Scheduling:

Grade Book :The built in grade book allows teachers to enter homework assignments, class tests and any other activity using weighted scales if desired. Automatic tallying of grades, reports to find erroneously entered grades and advanced ad hoc reporting is included. Entering final grades is as easy as a mouse click.

Comprehensive view of the grade book. A student can see complete details of each assignment and as well as rolled up view of the aggregated grade for the course.

Gradebook:


Reports/Report Designer :openSIS includes numerous standard reports and the ability to design custom reports using simple check boxes. Reports are output to PDF format for easy printing and viewing. Can’t produce the report you need? openSIS uses PostgreSQL, a relational database, and any industry standard reporting tool can be used to create custom reports.

openSIS includes numerous standard reports and the ability to design custom reports using simple check boxes. You can easily view or print reports with a variety of fields listed.

Reports/Report Designer:


Transcripts :openSIS includes the ability to print student transcripts. Create groups of students across numerous attributes and click a button. It doesn’t get any easier and openSIS is all about ease of use.

Creating transcripts for a group of students is just a click away. Select students and click on create transcripts for selected students, and your transcript is ready. Students and parents can also generate transcripts from their respective portals in one click.

Transcripts:


Health Records :Nurses visits, immunizations, physician contact information, allergies and more are all a part of our health records. Need something we don’t have? Easily add a new field to the health records to meet your specific needs without any programming. It’s easy!

Want to add health details for each student? Keeping Nurses visits, immunizations, physician contact innformation, allergies and more is very easy. Want to add a new field? Add it without knowing a single line of programming. It will meet your requirement in every step.

Health Records:


Attendance :By period, by day, with comments and all accomplished with a only a few clicks. Customize attendance codes to meet your specific needs. Easily check attendance by using our built-in reports. Student show up late and you need to change their record? Easily done if you have the access rights.

openSIS provide several key attendance related reports that are generated in one click.

Average daily attendance shown here is one of them.

Attendance:


Parent Portal :Are you paying for SASI Parent Connect? EdLine? Why? openSIS includes a parent portal that allows your parents to see their children, grades, attendance, discipline and more using the same intuitive web interface. And it is part of the base solution, which is free.

Worried about your children? Want to know how they are doing in exams or whether they are regular in school? The built in parent portal provide parents with in-depth view of their children’s grades, attendance, discipline, billing and more.

Parent Portal:



Premium Features :

Expanded functionalities like: Billing, Discipline, Library, EasyCom, State Reporting, Admissions, Effort Grade etc.


Class Portal – Teacher Web Pages :Teacher pages provide teachers an easy way of creating their own website to communicate with students and parents. These pages are teacher centric and captures class and teacher specific information that facilitate effective communication. Some common uses are About the Teacher, Teacher Contact, Supply List, Birthday List, Syllabus, Home Work Pages etc.

openSIS is a free student information system that rivals costly commercial alternatives in looks, functionality and ease of use and administration.

Class Portal – Teacher Web Pages:


Discipline :Discipline module lets educators document and track disciplinary incidents, maintain related records, notify parents of infractions, and produce reports and referral forms. It comes with default fields and values that can be customized for each school. Custom fields can be added without a single line of coding.


Discipline:


EasyCom - Integrated Communication System :Crisis situation? Quickly and easily notify teachers, staff, parents and even students using our EasyCom module. Send messages to all subscribers, single users, a specific school, parents and custom groups easily from our intuitive interface. Track messages using our built in audit trail.


EasyCom - Integrated Communication System:


Library Service :Library module has been built from ground up and is part of openSIS Pro. It is not a third party software that was integrated. Therefore, it provides greater performance and uniform user experience. It supports Acquisition, Cataloging and Circulation. It can be used to track books, CD/DVD/ Software and equipments.


Library Service:


Students Billing :Billing module is designed for simple financial accounting for private and public schools. It’s ideal for tracking lunch money, library fees, yearbook fees, laboratory fees etc. When a student has an outstanding balance, parents get notification in parent portal.


Students Billing:



Integrations :Sugar CRM, Moodle, Sakai, AD-LDAP, Quickbooks –Anything Else You Need


openSIS + Moodle :openSIS is bi-directionally integrated with Moodle LMS in the code level using REST-API specifications. It supports Moodle versions 1.9 thru 2.3.2

The Two Applications Are Integrated In The Following Areas:

When a new student, teacher or staff is created in openSIS ,they are automatically created in Moodle. For existing users, there is a check box option and when it is checked, the user gets created in Moodle.

Users »


openSIS courses are divided into three levels. Subject, Course and Course Period. We have provided the ability to synchronize each level into Moodle as it is created.

Course Manager »

In openSIS, when students are scheduled in a class period that also exist in Moodle,all students are automatically synchronized in Moodle with proper authentication. Students get access to that class and all its contents. The teacher who is teaching the class gets to see all those students enrolled in the Moodle course. The system even creates the calendar weeks in Moodle based on the begin and end dates of the marking period (in openSIS) in which the course period is offered.

Student Schedule »


When a Course period is created in openSIS with the option to create in Moodle, a default Assignment category called Moodle is created within the openSIS Grade book This category synchronizes Teacher activities from Moodle in the form of Assignments, Lessons and Quizzes. All grades given in Moodle gets automatically pulled into openSIS.

In openSIS, a Teacher can look at progress report that will show grades from openSIS and Moodle. When the final grades are created for report cards, there is an option to import grade book grades. When you do so, your Moodle grades get factored in. Therefore, if you are using Moodle for graded assignments, you can combine the grades in openSIS and Moodle to give the student a combined grade. Alternately, if a Teacher wants to exclude the grades from Moodle, he/she can put an asterisk (*) in the assignment to exclude it from the calculation.

Teacher Grade Book »


Product Edition :

Community Edition (openSIS Lite) :Developed by Community volunteers and OS4Ed staff. Continuously evolving. Totally FREE.

This edition of openSIS includes the core system only. Enough to run any school properly. If you want extra features, upgrade to School or District edition. It includes the source code so you can always cutomize it for your own use. If you develop something useful, please submit the enhancements back to the community.

If you want to volunteer your time in developing openSIS please join the community.


Product Edition :

School Edition (openSIS Pro) :Well tested, commercial grade edition with many extra features. Offered as a secured hosted solution in the “cloud”. Suitable for small & medium schools seeking no hassle solution.

We take the community edition and thoroughly test it. Then we add several extra features that are useful for a school. Some of the extra features are:


Product Edition :

District Edition (openSIS Enterprise) :Commercial grade edition with State Reporting. Offered as a secured hosted solution in the “cloud” or as on-premise school-server. Suitable for large schools and school districts needing customization and integration with existing applications.

This edition is targeted for school districts with multiple schools and multiple processes. We take the school edition and customize it to fit a district's need. We follow the following methodology:


Our Services

We used to provide two types of services.

Professional Services.

IT Consulting.


Professional ServicesopenSIS has a team of experienced consultants and implementation partners who provide turnkey solutions for implementing opnSIS and openIntel.

Our Methodology Include: Current State Analysis.

Future State Analysis.

Application Customization.

Data Conversation.

Application Integration.

User Training & Support.


We offers a range of professional services to make your SIS implementation successful, including:

Jumpstart Packages :

Jumpstart packages are designed to help new customers’ springboard their productivity through professional assistance with initial set-up, configuration and knowledge transfer. Our experience with previous customers suggest that you will see better results more rapidly by taking advantage of this service. You’ve made an important investment in the technology to enable your SIS needs, now get the professional assistance to help ensure you hit the ground running.


Data Migration:Data migration packages provide a seamless and cost effective way to transition to openSIS from your existing SIS or other applications like Excel or Access based systems.

On Demand Training & Support:This service is available if you need help with a particular functional or technical issue, or if you’re in need of best practice assistance about a particular openSIS capability.

If you have big plans to customize and extend openSIS extensively then our team of experts can assist you in a variety of ways, from workshops that yield tight definitions of project scope to customization assistance directly from the authors of openSIS itself. For more information contact us at: [email protected].


openSIS Productization:


IT Consulting :openSIS is run by visionararies and results driven technologists with outstanding records of delivering complex technology projects on-time and within budget. We are self-motivated, proactive & highly spirited individuals with strong problem solving skills and ability to overcome obstacles. All of us in openSIS take responsibility for our actions and we like to share the risks and rewards. We thrive on building long-term relationships based on trust, sincerity and integrity.

Our consultants are recognized as experts in full life cycle project planning and implementation. They are articulate, posess strong business acumen with the ability to conceive efficient solutions utilizing technology. They are industrious, troubleshooters and thrive on challenge. They work effectively with all levels and are highly ethical & loyal and maintain high degree of confidentiality.


OUR CLIENTS:

The Eastern Shore Hospital Center

Mother Caroline Academy & Education Center (MCAEC)

Georgia Christian University

Oasis, A Haven for Women and Children


OUR CLIENTS:

Florida Fund For Minority Teachers Inc. (FFMT)

First Baptist Church of Lake Orion

Nile Union Academy


Contact US

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We would like to thank you all for having patience with us.

As we said “Every Student Is Promise” it will always remain the same

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