Open source school management system

• 1.Open-School v2.2http://www.open-school.org Open Source web based school managemenSystem : Php Yii Framework MySQL

2. Overview An interactive platform for all entities andstakeholders viz. Students, Parents, Teachers,Management, Administrators and Alumni of theschool Connects all departments of an institution and knitsthem into a complete whole 3. For Students Leverage the younger generations love of new technology and keep them more interested and involved with their own education. Open-School help students monitor their progress, stay organized, track assignments, and access class resources. Communication options with teachers and other students are expanded through class blogs and discussion groups. 4. For Parents Educators agree that parental involvement is a vital factor in student success. We give parents an easy way to be proactive in their childrens education and involved with the school community. Parents can update their personal account, including contact information, and fill in permission slips and other forms online, relieving significant management burdens for schools. They can sign up to volunteer for events, view their childrens commitmentsand assignments, communicate with teachers, and receive progress reports. 5. For Teachers Open-School make teachers lives simpler by automating routine tasks and give them powerful tools to make the education process more engaging for students. Our electronic Grade book should go beyond the standard with a blog, discussion board, and the ability to create and track assignments online. Open-School simplifies and encourages teachers communication with students and parents. 6. For Administrators Open-School give administrators unencumbered access to data in real time and simplifies its management. We give users ways to self- manage their own data and tasks, which relieves the burden on school administrators and IT personnel. From creating a conflict-free schedule to generating report cards, open-school eliminates redundant data entry and tasks by automating and expediting normally arduous processes. 7. Open-School Architecture 8. Open-School Architecture 9. FUNCTIONALITYAdministrative Financial FunctionsAcademic FunctionsFunctions Pre Admission and Fees Management Time Table Stock &admission management Stock & InventoryInventory Management Students Register Management HR, Attendance User Manager Payroll and Employee Examination and Mark Management Register Records Management sheet Management Teachers Register Purchase Assignment Messenger LibraryManagement Management Management Calendar Accounts Integration Lesson Planner News and Events Budget Management Notes Manager Important Notices School Magazine Message Board Health Record Management Reports Center Room Management Knowledge Center Clubs &Competitions Discipline 10. Modules 11. ADMISSIONS 12. Personalized electronic application from which youcan capture applicants information directly throughyour schools website. Grant prospective students personal School / Collegeaccounts from which they can manage, save, andcontinue their applications online. Keep applicants fully informed of their applicationstatus throughout the admissions process with anarray of communication options. Automatically enroll and schedule admitted studentsand manage their records from one location. Easily insert personal notes about a particularcandidate with information gathered from interviews,recommendations, and conversations with schoolstaff. 13. ASSESSMENTS 14. Tests and exams may be created using a variety of different items (question types) and organized into several sections if necessary. Instructions may be added to each section and to the entire test or exam. Authors can set the date and time when tests or exams become available to teachers and students. Authors can create, store and manage items, tests and exams in their private folders, or share them within a school, across multiple schools or globally. Items and assignments are organized by knowledge domain, subject, and may be searched by keywords or descriptions. 15. Items can be mapped to custom or state/countrystandards (performance objectives). Teachers andadministrators can analyze progress of students inrelation to each performance objective using data frommultiple assessments. Students can receive immediate feedback based on theirresponses and have access to their results in real timethrough the Schoolwork module. The results of a test or an exam can be analyzedinstantaneously in many different ways: By grade, by student, by section, by question, or byperformance objective (standard). Various preset graphs and charts can be displayedincluding the distribution of scores. In addition, various reports can be automaticallygenerated in the Reports module in PDF and other 16. ALUMNI Upon graduation, students remain electronicallyconnected to their schools through Our softwareaccounts. Alumni are kept up-to-date about schoolnews, events, and fundraising campaigns. Schools can track and retain importantinformation about alumni. 17. CALENDAR 18. Maintain several calendars, which can be synchronized within your school, allowing administrators, teachers, parents, and students to stay informed. Set up event reminders that can be received automatically by email or SMS text messages. Print clear and professional calendars in a daily, weekly, or monthly format. 19. COURSE MANAGEMENT 20. Enter and organize courses by subjects anddepartments. Assign teachers to classes and manage classrosters. View enrollment data for each student. Verify thatall students meet requirements for each term. Import state or country standards, or manageyour own academic and work and valuesstandards also known as performance objectivesor skills. Map standards to courses for standards-based report cards. 21. EMAIL 22. Open-School includes a powerful and very user- friendly email client which packs all standard and many new innovative features. Users can access and manage their School emails from smart phones and other email programs. Every users address book is pre-programmed with the entire school directory. Tell the system to send a message to all teachers in the middle school or all parents of third graders, and it will know exactly who should receive it. With Our software there is no need to enter addresses manually, create and update mailing lists, or manage bounced messages. -CONT- 23. - CONT - School administrators can terminate a users accessto the school directory when and if necessary. Schools choose which information is displayed in theschool directory. Members of the school community can send emailsto each other but their email addresses may remainprivate and not accessible from outside of the Open-School system which does not allow any anonymoususers. Parents may limit kids communication to themembers of the school community, expand it toinclude all Open-School members, or set norestrictions. Open-school displays no ads and does not indexmessages for this purpose. Open-school membersretain full control over the content of their messages 24. GRADEBOOK Track and manage grades and attendance,create assignments and tests from any locationwith our Web-based Grade book. Give assignments to the class or individualstudents. Students see only their ownassignments with teachers instructions andcomments. Define grading methods and scales, and recordscores as numbers, letter grades, or user-definedcodes and symbols. -CONT- 25. - CONT Send comments back to the students and/or parents.Automatically notify parents of attendance ordiscipline issues. Determine how final grades are calculated byspecifying weights of assignments, tests, exams andclass participation. Adjust final grades based onattendance records. Describe curriculum, create a blog and a discussionboard for each class, and share files with students. 26. MEDICAL RECORDS Track student and faculty healthrecords, immunization records, insurance data, healthcare providers, emergency contact information, andmore. Manage and log scheduled and unscheduled nursevisits. Generate a variety of standard reports or configurecustom reports with details related to visits andmedical dispensations. Keep records private by strictly limiting access tothose authorized to view sensitive medicalinformation. Provide support for electronic medical records andhealth forms, ensuring efficient interfacing between a 27. ONLINE LEARNING The module can be launched by students at home for online courses, homework assignments and practice tests, or in a controlled class environment. Both courses and tests may include video, audio, images, and richly formatted text. Tests and exams may be created using a variety of different items (question types) and organized into several sections if necessary. Instructions may be added to each section and to the entire test or exam. Authors can set the date and time when tests or exams become available to teachers and students. 28. Students can receive immediate feedback based on their responses and have access to their results in real time through the Schoolwork module. Completed assignments are automatically graded according to formulas set by teachers. The results of a test or an exam can be analyzed instantaneously in many different ways by teachers in their Gradebook module or by administrators in the Assessments module. 29. PARENT PORTAL 30. Parents can see a list of classes their childrenare enrolled in and familiarize with the curricula,faculty, and program requirements. Parents see due dates and can help their kidsstay on top of their assignments. Parents can monitor the academic progress oftheir children and their discipline andattendance records in real time. Report cards and transcripts can be accesseddirectly from the Parent Portal. Planned features include the ability to updatecontact information, pay bills online, see theaccount history, submit forms online, and signup for parent teacher conferences andvolunteer opportunities. 31. REPORT CARDS Process and publish professional reportcards, progress reports, transcripts, honor rollcertificates, and awards. Support any combination of gradingmethods, including letter or number grading, pass orfail, grade points, and class rank. Customize grading periods and inform faculty ofgrading deadlines. Enhance security: control access to sensitive gradeinformation by determining who can view grades andspecifying the grade level(s) to which each teacherhas access. Automatically tally and insert attendance figures forevery student. 32. REPORTS 33. Full support for federal and state reportingrequirements. Create, publish, and share reports coveringacademic, financial, and personal subjects. Filter and sort data fields according to a widevariety of specific criteria. View data in the format of your choice, includinggraphs and charts, in order to easily assesspatterns and trends. High-quality reports with text, charts, andgraphics ( flash / JavaScript ). 34. SCHEDULE (TIME TABLEMANAGEMENT) 35. Schedule lessons and create events linked to grades, sections, classes, teachers, students, par ents, or any combination thereof. Each new lesson and event is verified for scheduling conflicts based on participants and facilities involved. View schedules by grade, section, teacher, student, or facility. 36. Make changes to schedule and run conflict checks before publishing changes.Administrators, teachers and students see their own schedules in personal calendars with all published changes reflected in real time. Parents see schedules of their children.Events and classes may be scheduled for any time. Periods are also supported.School day can be cancelled or moved to another date. 37. STUDENT PORTAL 38. Use student profiles to capture and display contactsand family information, as well as other data trackedby the school. Maintain organized historical records of students asall data are preserved for each school year. Academic records include a students scholasticperformance, attendance, and disciplinary history. Allinformation is updated in real time as new scores,attendance and disciplinary events are created indifferent modules of the system. Various reports may be generated in the Reportsmodule using information managed in StudentRecords. 39. SCHOOLWORK Current and upcoming homework assignmentsappear on a students personal calendar at a dateset by his or her teacher. Students have the options of uploading theiranswers directly to the system, sending anattachment back to the teacher, or handing in ahard copy. Students have access to class blogs, discussionboards, course event listings, and class rosters. Students see their personal progressreports, attendance and discipline records. 40. LIBRARY ADMINISTRATION 41. -Library (contd.)- Entry of new books with Bar Coding facility. Issuance of books with Bar Coding. Comprehensive search of books through variouspermutation combinations. Late return fine. Library rules and regulations. Library card Generation. 42. HOSTEL MANAGEMENT 43. Comprehensive Building setup system Allotment of room type and no. of occupants ineach one of them. Allotment of rooms to the students 44. TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT 45. -Transport (contd.)- Excellent management of timings of bus stopsand bus routes according to the Institutionaltimings. Allotment of bus to the students and managingtheir Pick and Drop timings. Custom campus map ( On request ) 46. EXAMINATION MANAGEMENT 47. New Exam creation with Dates and timings. Allotment of room & invigilators. Result entry for all the students appearing for the exams and printing of their Report Cards. 48. OPENSCHOOL GROUPING Open school enables the schools to join and leave a group. The admin is responsiblefor the grouping Upon each setup each school is tagged with a number of attributes, starting from start of the school to school strength,type,syllabus etc.. 49. AIPE SYSTEM Artificial Intelligence based Programming Environment , Which will be implemented in our application shortly will make a revolution. The AIPE system , precisely analyzes each student. 50. Demo For Online demo Please visit,http://demo.open-school.org Please contact us at,[email protected] 51. THANK YOU !http://open-school.org