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"We wanted to customize to our hearts content. One of the lessons we've learned is that going forward, the costs associated with maintaining a proprietary system that's been heavily customized is too expensive. That's what led us down the path with openSIS."
— Tim Brandt, Chief Technology Officer, Newpoint Schools
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Easily input final grades, create student report cards and calculate GPA’s and class rankings. Change a final grade that will affect GPA or class ranking? Simply recalculate GPA’s using the built in function in openSIS. Print one report card, all report cards or anywhere in between with the flexibility of openSIS |
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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. |
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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! |
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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. |
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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. |
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Don’t like the color? Want to get rid of some fields that you don’t use? Easily customize your preferences to suit your needs and likes. It is all easily done with a few simple mouse clicks. |
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openSIS includes the ability to control user security at the field level. Customize the included roles and create your own to meet specific needs. No programming knowledge needed and only a few mouse clicks are required. |
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.
This module comes with impressive charts and graphs that help school administration in decision making.
Ideal for schools of all sizes and grade levels, the module is packed with features that help you efficiently handle discipline-related tasks. Built in standard reports enable fast and easy access to discipline events for teachers and staff. |
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School closing? Weather alert? Important announcements? 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. Subscriber message selection enables your users to choose which messages they want to receive and how. |
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. Students, teachers and staff can reserve books and equipments online and pick them up in person. Bar code support is available. There are several useful reports that would help the school administration with purchase decisions.
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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.
The module can be integrated with Paypal, Authorize.net or similar credit card processing networks for credit card acceptance..
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The State Reporting module for openSIS continues to demonstrate our commitment to providing our clients with the best open source student information system in the market. The State Reporting module is a client specific module requiring a custom services engagement to customize the module to comply with your state’s specific reporting requirements. Specifically, the State Reporting module allows schools to:
- Collect the required data to comply with state reporting requirements;
- Easily generate data exports using the built-in openSIS data extraction tool;
- Build data outputs for submission to state departments of education;
- Generate validation reports for school administrators to review prior to file submission;
In addition to enabling schools to comply with state reporting, the State Reporting modules includes a robust Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) application that can be used to extract openSIS data and automatically load it into other programs such as Special Education applications, library applications, accounting applications and more.
The State Reporting module is included free in the custom services engagement and an additional annual maintenance fee is required. Annual maintenance that ensures you receive all upgrades and modifications free of charge and that changes made in reporting requirements are incorporated yearly. As with all of our modules, you receive all of the source code in the event that you would like to modify it yourself. openSIS modules are not provided under the GPL license. |
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OS4ED has been inundated with emails and phone calls from users seeking openSIS + Moodle integration to help them run their virtual schools or hybrid schools more efficiently. There is a growing trend in the education sector to provide eLearning facility to students and an integration of LMS with a SIS is a natural requirement.
We are glad to inform you that we have completed the integration work successfully. openSIS is integrated with Moodle 1.9 and the brand new Moodle 2.0.2. The integrated product is available now.
Our goal was to integrate both the applications with minimum changes to the code so that we do not become an island and face difficulties during upgrade. Even then, there were quite a bit of changes required in both sides of the application.
Phase 1 of integration - December 2010
For the first phase, we have integrated the following areas:
Users » 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.
Course Manager » 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.
Student Schedule » 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.
Teacher Grade Book » 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.
Overall, our goal for this phase was to cater to brick-an-mortar schools that wants to have eLearning facility to supplement their class room instructions and also for on-line schools that wants SIS capabilities to become a true Virtual School with complete student information features and functionalities.
We strongly believe that we have achieved our goals and we are looking forward to your feedback and suggestions to make this integration even better in future. Please follow us in Twitter to get real time updates: http://twitter.com/opensis.
So, here's the recap:
What goes from openSIS to Moodle?
- Student
- Teacher
- Staff
- Schedule
- Subject
- Course
- Course Period
What comes back to openSIS from Moodle?
- Assignment
- Lesson
- Quiz
- Grade
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| For those of you who are running Moodle on-site and would like to run openSIS on-premise also. We can either install the integration pack for you or can guide you to do this yourself. It’s your choice. |
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| No hassle option in the cloud. Always the latest code. We take care of all maintenance. All you need is a web browser. Peace of mind delivered.
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openSIS is built using matured and well tested open source tools like the following :
Ajax (shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a group of interrelated web development techniques used on the client-side to create interactive web applications. With Ajax, web applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. The use of Ajax techniques has led to an increase in interactive or dynamic interfaces on web pages.
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Linux is a generic term referring to Unix-like computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Their development is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed, both commercially and non-commercially.
Now you can enjoy our openSIS application on Linux platform. It's smooth, it's user friendly - use your way on your favourite Linux platform.
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The Apache HTTP Server is web server software notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web. In 2009 it became the first web server software to surpass the 100 million web site milestone. Apache was the first viable alternative to the Netscape Communications Corporation web server (currently known as Sun Java System Web Server), and has since evolved to rival other Unix-based web servers in terms of functionality and performance. The majority of web servers using Apache run a Linux operating system.
openSIS uses Apache server in a Linux operating system which promises a secure, efficient and extensible server providing HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.
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The MySQL database has become the world's most popular open source database because of its consistent fast performance, high reliability and ease of use. It's used on every continent -- Yes, even Antarctica! -- by individual Web developers as well as many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, business-critical systems and packaged software -- including industry leaders such as Yahoo!, Alcatel-Lucent, Google, Nokia, YouTube, and Zappos.com.
Not only is MySQL the world's most popular open source database, it's also become the database of choice for a new generation of applications built on the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python.) MySQL runs on more than 20 platforms including Linux, Windows, OS/X, HP-UX, AIX, Netware, giving you the kind of flexibility that puts you in control.
For the convenience of experiencing smooth and free flowing database storage and easy database management, openSIS uses MySQl which not only is comfortable to use as the backend storage but also the most reliable one. |
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PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
openSIS is embedded using php as the scripting making the application robust, platform independent and easy transfarrebility from one operating system to the other.
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