Focus/SIS - integrated flexibility
integrated flexibility

 

 

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parents
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Simplify Grading for Teachers. Increase Parent Accountability. Provide e-Learning to Students.

 

Focus/SIS is an open-source student information system that is more powerful and easier to use than any other.

Schools, districts, and administrators love Focus/SIS since it is:

  • Completely web-based
  • Integrated with e-Learning, formative assessment, accounting, cafeteria, and library management software
  • Easily integrated with almost any other system
  • Infinitely scalable
  • Accessible to parents & students
  • Built with the easiest state reporting system


Features

attendance
Attendance
  • Track attendance in real-time
  • Maintain both period-by-period attendance and daily attendance
  • Calculate aggregate attendance numbers (e.g. ADA) on the fly

 

scheduling
Scheduling
  • Schedule students' course requests in under 5 minutes
  • Students enroll in courses online or are enrolled by the office staff
  • Accommodate multiple calendars, block scheduling, custom days of the week


grading
Grading
  • Give teachers an online gradebook to use anytime from home, school, vacation, or wherever
  • Eliminate the need for teachers to calculate final term grades by hand
  • Design report cards & transcripts with student data, legends, school logo, etc
  • Produce report cards & transcripts instantly
  • Calculate GPA and class rank with ease
  • Track student completion of graduation requirements
  • Provide online degree auditing
billing
Billing
  • Monitor payments & fees
  • Create automated fees for courses, course credits, activities, cafeteria sales, library books, etc
  • Produce invoices with a single click
  • Accept online credit card & eCheck payments
  • Setup recurring payments and payment plans
  • Integrate with Quickbooks


student & user data
Student Data
  • Define the data your school or district needs to track
  • Search and manage all student data including user-created fields
  • Create special fields to track students who are applying for admission
discipline
Discipline
  • Setup the referral form to match the school's existing paperwork
  • Produce useful and attractive reports with graphs & charts by category, student field, and over periods of time


reporting
Reporting
  • Generate state reports with one click
  • Export any report to PDF or Excel
  • Design reports with any student data, plus school logos
state reporting
State Reporting
  • Ensure accuracy of required student data
  • Eliminate the hassle of completing state reports by hand
  • Keep up-to-date with changing state requirements automatically


user access
User Access
  • Give administrators and secretaries access to essential data in real time
  • Increase parent accountability
  • Facilitate communication among parents, students & staff
  • Replace or augment e-mail with an efficient messaging system
  • Allow students and parents to check grades & attendance in real-time
  • Make attendance and grading simple for teachers
  • Translate Focus/SIS to any language
course management
Course Management
  • Integrate Focus/SIS with the open-source course management package Moodle
  • Provide numerous course activities including forums, quizzes, assignments, and chats
  • Automate formative assessment
  • Create and grade paper exams with scanners
  • Facilitate communication and collaboration between teachers and students
  • Develop online lesson plans and monitor student online coursework


cafeteria
Cafeteria
  • Integrate Focus/SIS with the open source point-of-sale cafeteria package PSCafePOS
  • Track student lunch purchases with a point-of-sale installed in the cafeteria
  • Publish student lunch purchases and nutritional information online for parents
  • Track free/reduced lunch status
library
Library
  • Integrate Focus/SIS with the open-source library management package OpenBiblio
  • Keep track of library materials
  • View due dates for checked out books
  • Search an online card catalog


 

Contact Focus School Software for more information:

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(415) 839-9509
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