Open sis - benefits of student information system

OPENSIS
OPENSIS | Website : http://www.opensis.com | Contact : 1 – 281 – OPENSIS
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ABOUT US
We are a small group of entrepreneurs who dream big and intend to change the way that ad
ministrative 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.

Our Mission & Goal
Mission :
To create the best open source Student Information System
(SIS) that will be equal to or better than the best commerci
ally 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 for
mat 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.
functionality and ease of use
and administration.
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.
School closing? Weather alert? Important announcements?
information system that rivals
costly commercial alternatives in
looks, functionality and ease of
use and administration.
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.
information system that rivals
costly commercial alternatives in
looks, functionality and ease of
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.
functionality and ease of
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 open
SIS 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 school
s 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 Services
openSIS 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: info@os4ed.com.

openSIS Productization:

IT Consulting :
openSIS is run by visionararies and results driven technologists with outst
anding records of delivering complex technology projects on-time and wit
hin 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:
Adventist International Mission School.
American Tamil Academy.
Community College of Qatar (CCQ).
Cocheco Arts and Technology Academy.

OUR CLIENTS:
High Street Christian Academy.
CIA First International School, Cambodia.
Council of Community Colleges, Jamaica.

Contact US
For More Details
Please Call US : 1 – 281 – OPENSIS
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You Can Also Visit Our Website :
http://www.opensis.com

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
THANK YOU

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