Open Source Student Information System (SIS) - Focus

Open Source Student Information System (SIS) - Focus

by Will Muenchow -
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We have adopted Focus 2 (http://www.focus-sis.org) as our Student Information System and have been very impressed. While I had great results with Centre 2.5, the main reason for switching to Focus were the following:

1. Billing Module
    This module is found only in Focus and allows an administrator to post Fees, Payments, Mass Assign Fees, Mass Assign Payments, Student Balances, Statements, and daily transactions.

2. Input grades from legacy SIS
    Coming from an Access Database, we needed away to input our older grades into a SIS. Focus allows administration to easily transfer grades from our legacy SIS into our new system. This procedure is easy and pretty straight  forward.

3. Document Printing Templates
    Being able to change the look and feel of different documents without having to edit the code is great blessing!;)

4. Online Course Registration
    As many of our students live out of state, allowing them to register online is exactly what we were looking for; Focus provided this option for our students.

While Andrew (developer of FOCUS) has plans to develop integration between his SIS and Moodle, our college also has plans to develop Moodle integration with his SIS, including a single sign  procedure.

Anyways, I just thought I would give Focus some attention as its been a great system for our College and I'm looking forward to it excelling in the future.


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Re: Open Source Student Information System (SIS) - Focus

by Xavier Johnson -
Have you made any progress with the intergration of Focus with Moodle?
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by Marcos H.L. Carvalho -
Hi.
I´m a Computer Engineer at Brazil, working with MOODLE about 5 years, and working with OPEN SIS about 3 months.
Then i plan to integrated MOODLE and OPEN SIS.

If you or anyone can help or share codes or DB diagrams, that can help.

I plan to use with MOODLE 1.9.3 for a while.

THANKS.
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by Martín Langhoff -
Is anyone using Focus or Centre? I come back to it time and again, to see whether it has moved forward, but I rarely see any progress.

Focus SIS has been mired in v2.0-RC2 for half a year. Centre/SIS I can't really tell. I cannot really see their dev trees, so I don't know if the projects are alive or not...
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by Anthony Borrow -
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I too would be interested in these programs; however, they do not appear to be all that active which is a shame. I would love to see a good open source SIS develop.

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Re: Open Source Student Information System (SIS) - Focus

by Waithaka Ngigi -

Anthony,

Could this be the answer to your question? smile

Academia.A1.iO

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Re: Open Source Student Information System (SIS) - Focus

by Amiel Heyde -
Does anyone know how to contact the Focus developer...?

Martin, do you think Moodle and Focus once integrated would be ready for prime time for Victorian government schools?
(all of them!)
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by Eoghan Neligan -
Has there been any update regarding integration of Focus with Moodle!
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by Ron Wheeler -
We are also interested in Focus for a commercial application to help manage students from different affiliated organizations and to aggregate student progress from different LMS/Content providers.

The students will take courses on the in-house Moodle LMS as well as courses offered by other organizations using different LMSs.

We also need to organize students into job categories and automatically enroll them in courses based on their job.
There is hierarchy of administration required since the "boss/manager" needs to access to their employees progress and can add new employees or change job categories.

I would really prefer not to run 2 database systems.




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by sameer pal singh -
Hi Will,

Can you please let me know the procedure you followed for integrating the Focus with Moodle. Also would be glad if you can provide the code if available for download.

Thanks & Best Regards.
Sameer
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by Kevin Aleman -
I am currently developing an open source relationship management and alumni development system primarily for student recruitment and fundraising.

One of the things I have been researching is putting in hooks to pull constituent information from Moodles backend db.

I wanted to take a look at FOCUS/SIS to do the same but I haven't been able to find the source. Does anyway know where the source may be found. I visited the FOCUS/SIS website but couldn't find a link.

--
Kevin Aleman
https://rubycampus.org
Open Source Relationship Management & Alumni Development
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by Jesús Martín -
http://www.vortex-tech.com/blog/2008/03/27/download-focus-sis-here/

See you.
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Re: Open Source Student Information System (SIS) - Focus

by Anthony Borrow -
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Jesús - Thanks for sharing this link. It provides some of the focus/sis history. As I understand it, it was an open source project that has gone commercial. I'll try to post a version of 2.3 later today. Peace - Anthony

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by Anthony Borrow -
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OK, no guarantees that this is the most updated 2.3 but you should be able to find it at http://arborrow.org/focus_2.3.zip (if you have troubles let me know). This version was the latest that I had when I downloaded it using svn some time ago. Tantum quantum (use it in so far as it is helpful). Peace - Anthony
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by Zameer Ahmed -
How did you download Focus SISOpen SOurce S/w. I am not able to do it from website.. Pls let me know.
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by Jesús Martín -
Try with this link

http://www.lasalle.es/descargas/Focus_v2.2.zip

I'm looking for version 2.3
(I don't remember where it is sonrojado)
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by Verleshwar Singh -

somebody in the above thread has givem this link

: http://arborrow.org/focus_2.3.zip
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by James Tremblay - 
Hello everyone,
I am proud to announce the formation of the openSIS-MySQL
 project on Eduforge

https://eduforge.org/projects/opensismysql/
The aim of this project is to work on the last major
hurdle to getting the first version of my dream,
 to combine our products into an Education ERP
http://en.opensuse.org/Education_ERP
I will be handling installation and support questions
 since I am fairly familiar with the code.
We could certainly use suggestions, feedback and
assistance with the programming.
areas of need: LAMP , ADOdb, AJAX.
Please feel free to join our mailing list at 
http://www.opensis.com/subscribe_newsletter.php
or the forums at http://www.os4ed.com/forum/
james (at) os4ed.com
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by enrique javier oyaga barrera -
Hi all
Can you please let me know the procedure you followed for integrating the Focus with Moodle. Also would be glad if you can provide the code if available for download.

Thanks & Best Regards.
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by Larry Kreeger -
I just stumbled upon this. We are on Version 3 and have built plugins that hook to Moodle. However, version 4 has them built into Focus.
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by Hansruedi (Lori) Lorenz -

Oncourse is another open source student management system available that is worthwhile to have a look at. The feature list is almost endless. It is very user friendly and has an excellent user manual. Installation only took a few minutes and it can work on a laptop or can be installed on a server.

Currently there is no Moodle integration available, but I am sure when the potential of oncourse is discovered by others, hopefully someone in the community will have a look at that too.


http://www.ish.com.au/oncourse

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Re: Open Source Student Information System (SIS) - Focus

by Waithaka Ngigi -

Anyone looking for a comprehensive open source student information system for higher education and is interested in colloborating to make it even better should have a look at A1 Academia

Already in use in a couple of Campuses and built from the ground up to be modular and easily extensible through the application dictionary.

Regards

Waithaka Ngigi

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