Student Management System Project

Would you like to participate? Click here to sign up for a focus group

Have a suggestion? Click here to send your idea to the Project Manager

Preliminary Requirements

Check this page periodically as focus groups make the list better!

Report Cards and Grading

 

 

  • Elementary Report Cards
  • Customizable Report Card layout
  • Flexible grading rules
  • Management of historical grades
  • Precise grade computing
  • Accurate course weighting, averages and GPA's
  • Ability to print a variety of grade reports as needed for all grade levels by student, course, teacher, counselor etc
  • Ability for teachers to input grading information more efficiently
  • Grade book program for daily input
  • Teacher ability to upload grades into Report Card module
  • Better connectivity between the 2 utilities
  • Easily finalize and verify grades

Top of Page

School to Parent Communication

 

  • Online access to grades
  • Online access to homework assignments
  • Online access to Progress Report
  • Effective communication between teachers and parents

Top of Page

Student Demographic Information

 

  • link families and siblings together regardless of address, custodial parent etc
  • Customizable address format
  • Easily track and manage contact info
  • Legal alerts
  • Confidentiality of certain personal data
  • Ability to track and manage locker combinations
  • Pictures
  • Customizable Student ID formats with ability to assign Alternate ID's
  • Group students by team, program, etc
  • Easily manage historical records of inactive students

Top of Page

Scheduling/Guidance

 

  • Summer school scheduling and grading
  • Accommodate ESM's current block scheduling schemas
  • Should be able to mesh with the rest of the system and easily print onto grade reports and transcripts
  • Counselors/Staff should be able to hit a key and produce whatever you want
  • Student schedule, report card, transcript, attendance, parent information, phone numbers, parents work, past years schedules and report cards and attendance, test scores (including SAT,ACT, regents, rct, etc.)
  • Strong Degree Audit/Graduation Planning

Top of Page

Attendance

 

  • Daily and Period attendance structures are similar
  • Same codes
  • Daily and period reports
  • Variety of reports available
  • Quick access to attendance calculations
  • Totals and summaries display on reports
  • Student cumulative reports
  • Teachers easily manage their class's attendance
  • Variety of attendance reports for teachers' use

Top of Page

Enrollment

 

  • Central Registration
  • Enroll in ESM School or Out of District School
  • Manage historical data without deleting or archiving to a different location
  • Previous year records available with current year records

Top of Page

Discipline

 

  • 1. Name of student
  • 2. Grade
  • 3. Infraction
  • 4. Consequence - Disposition
  • 5. Date of infraction
  • 6. Name of Teacher
  • 7. Name of Administrator dealing with the incident
  • 8. Block
  • 9. Notification of Parents
  • 10. VDIR information – report should match the VDIR report that is sent to the NYS Ed Dept each year.  The new report should list items exactly as it appears on the VDIR Report.  When that report is due we should simply run the report off our Student Information Report. 
  • 11. Number the referrals 00001-5000 to keep track of total referrals each year.

Top of Page

Health Office/Medical Data Collection

 

  • Efficiently view and manage information about health room visits
  • Tracking of health incidents and resolutions
  • Immunization history
  • Secure Data/Confidential
  • Built-in compliance logic
  • Meet FERPA and HIPPA regulations
  • Robust reporting
  • Alerts

Census

 

  • Ability to maintain a separate database or area for students who do not attend a school, but ESM is Responsible for
  • Wide range of CENSUS reports available
  • SA 129
  • BEDS
  • Private school tracking
  • Out of District tracking
  • Easy management of family/student information for census verification

Top of Page

Reporting

 
  • Wide range of reports and reporting capability
  • Ability to customize reports
  • State-wide reporting (datawarehouse)
  • Extraction of data
  • Preview data on the fly
  • Quickly identify errors
  • Reports for Building Administrators and District Administrators
  • Demographic and enrollment analysis

Top of Page

Integration with Companion Systems

 
  • Elimination of duplicate data entry
  • ID Cards
  • Transportation System
  • Cafeteria

Top of Page

Security and System Structure

 
  • User accounts/system access
  • Auditing
  • Technical structure

Top of Page

< Back to Technology

©2008 ESM Schools  |  407 Fremont Road, East Syracuse, NY 13057  |  Phone  |  Site Map  |  Log In