Centre has been designed to address the most important
needs of administrators, teachers, support staff, parents, students, and
clerical personnel. However, it also adds many components not typically found in
student information systems. Consider the following:
Student screens that include all the critical information necessary for
reports and decision-making can be accessed with a point and click. Any
information important to your school or district can be collected with custom
fields that can be setup by district administration. Students can be searched
for based on custom information and reports can be run on students with certain
custom information.
Students can be searched by not only gender, ethnicity, grade level, etc.,
but also by their schedule, activities, absences, eligibility, grades, GPA, and
class rank, where appropriate.
Centre has been designed to address the most
important needs of administrators, teachers, support staff, parents, students,
and clerical personnel. However, it also adds many components not typically
found in student information systems. Consider the following:
Student screens that include all the critical information necessary for
reports and decision-making can be accessed with a point and click. Any
information important to your school or district can be collected with custom
fields that can be setup by district administration. Students can be searched
for based on custom information and reports can be run on students with certain
custom information.
Students can be searched by not only gender, ethnicity, grade level, etc.,
but also by their schedule, activities, absences, eligibility, grades, GPA, and
class rank, where appropriate.
Form letters can also be printed based on the same search criteria and
custom fields. Additionally, mailing labels can be printed on the top of each
letter. These mailing labels appear convieniently in the window of a windowed
envelope when the letter is folded into thirds. Mailing labels can also be
printed on any other printed reports such as report cards, schedules, and
progress reports.
Employee screens that not only provide quick access to demographic
information, but also assign email addresses, admittance to the system,
passwords, and more.
A comprehensive grade book that allows teachers to establish grade ranges,
weight assignments, track assignments, and issue quarterly and semester grades
as well as progress reports. Report card and transcripts are also available.
Furthermore, report cards and transcripts can be configured to display grades
for any or all of your schoolÌs marking periods Ò on the fly.
Attendance can be taken electronically by teachers and submitted to the
office instantly. Also, office staff can modify attendance reports based on
information not available at the time roll was taken. The attendance component
further provides report capabilities to identify average daily attendance, to
provide daily attendance summaries, and to track attendance each day.
Middle grade and high school educators will appreciate the eligibility
feature of Centre. No longer will paper or spreadsheets have to be used to
report what students are eligible for athletic or academic activities; instead,
the grade book will determine electronically if a student is passing or not. The
teacher then merely verifies the information and sends it through the
system.
Scheduler in Centre allows the scheduling of entire classes or groups as
well as the scheduling of a single student. Revisions to a studentÌs schedule
can be performed quickly. Scheduling based on a studentÌs requests is extremely
efficient. Running the scheduler on an entire high school takes minutes instead
of hours. So, the scheduler can be run several times a day Ò allowing you to
scheduler more thoroughly. Also, each time you save a studentÌs requests, the
scheduler is run under test mode for the student Ò allowing you to resolve
conflicts as you have the student in front of you.
Courses can be added easily to include weights, instructional assignments,
and periods. As well, you can determine if each course requires attendance,
affects the honor roll and class rank, and/or has any restrictions. Of course,
scheduling reports can be generated through this application also.
A calendar is included that details events, activities and student
assignments.
A school set-up screen is used to establish marking periods, the grade
levels in the building, and the number of periods scheduled each day. School
demographic information (e.g., name, address, phone numbers, etc.) is entered on
this same screen. Your schools can have any number of marking periods in three
tiers. For instance, a school could use the conventional two semesters, four
quarters, four progress periods model, or a school could establish its only
system of marking periods with 3 semesters, 18 quarters, and 36 progress
periods. Everything is completely customizable.
Parents and students can login to view student demographic information,
grades, attendance, assignment due dates, the school calendar, and other
information.
You will find Centre to be a full-featured student information
system that facilitates your decision-making, provides data necessary for
reports to the federal or state governments as well as local boards, and affords
convenient access to all of the stakeholders in your building or district. And,
because it is web-based, the system can be logged into from any Internet
connection.
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