openSIS - A portal that is must for the educational system

1. Welcome To openSIS

2. Core Features Student Demographic Contact Information Scheduling Gradebook Reports/Report Designer Report Cards Transcripts Health Records Attendance Parent Portal User Customizable Preferences Security End-of-the-Year Processing (Rollover)

3. Premium Features Class Portal – Teacher Web Pages Ripples – Twitter Like Micro-Blogging Lesson Plan Library Common Core Standards Discipline EasyCom - Integrated communication system Library Services Student Billing State Reporting

4. Integrations openSIS + Moodle The two applications are integrated in the following areas: Purchase Options Option 1 : On premise installation. Download openSIS and the Moodle integrator Option 2 : Affordable hosted solutions in the "cloud" for every budget

5. Community Edition (openSIS Lite) Developed by Community volunteers and OS4Ed staff. Continuously evolving. Totally FREE. This edition of openSIS includes the core system only. Enough to run any school properly. If you want extra features, upgrade to School or District edition. It includes the source code so you can always cutomize it for your own use. If you develop something useful, please submit the enhancements back to the community. If you want to volunteer your time in developing openSIS please join the community.

6. openSIS Lite can be implemented in three ways: Download openSIS-CE and run it locally in your own server. It's a free download and you will be on your own. You can get free community support from our forum. 2. Download openSIS-CE and run it locally on your own server but let OS4ed manage it remotely. That way, OS4ED will be responsible for all upgrades, training, support and business continuity. You will be responsible for the hardware and network. 3. The third and the most preferred way would be to sign up for our cloud hosted solution. This option is of least hassle for you. You will get your own private virtual server running openSIS. All upgrades are automatically performed. Seven day backup is also included. We guarantee a 99% uptime. You focus on your core competency of teaching students while we focus on ours.

7. School Edition (openSIS Pro) Well tested, commercial grade edition with many extra features. Offered as a secured hosted solution in the “cloud”. Suitable for small & medium schools seeking no hassle solution. We take the community edition and thoroughly test it. Then we add several extra features that are useful for a school. Some of the extra features are: Billing Module Billing module is designed for simple financial accounting for private and public schools. It’s ideal for tracking lunch money, library fees, yearbook fees, laboratory fees etc. When a student has an outstanding balance, parents get notification in parent portal. The module can be integrated with Paypal, Authorize.net or similar credit card processing networks for credit card acceptance.

8. Discipline Module Library Module Library module has been built from ground up and is part of openSIS Pro. It is not a third party software that was integrated. Therefore, it provides greater performance and uniform user experience.  It supports Acquisition, Cataloging and Circulation. It can be used to track books, CD/DVD/Software and equipments. Students, teachers and staff can reserve books and equipments online and pick them up in person. Bar code support is available. There are several useful reports that would help the school administration with purchase decisions. Discipline module lets educators document and track disciplinary incidents, maintain related records, notify parents of infractions, and produce reports and referral forms. It comes with default fields and values that can be customized for each school. Custom fields can be added without a single line of coding. This module comes with impressive charts and graphs that help school administration in decision making. Ideal for schools of all sizes and grade levels, the module is packed with features that help you efficiently handle discipline-related tasks. EasyCom Communication Module School closing? Weather alert? Important announcements? Crisis situation? Quickly and easily notify teachers, staff, parents and even students using our EasyCom module. Send email messages to all subscribers, single users, a specific school, parents and custom groups easily from our intuitive interface.

9. District Edition (openSIS Enterprise) Current state analysis Future state analysis Gap reduction, system enhancement or customization Implementation Methodology How to buy District Edition

10. Compare Editions Community Edition (openSIS LIte) Developed by Community volunteers and OS4Ed staff. Continuously evolving. Totally FREE. Suitable for small & medium schools with IT staff on board. School Edition (openSIS Pro) Well tested, commercial grade edition with many extra features. Offered as a secured hosted solution in the “cloud”. Suitable for small & medium schools seeking no hassle solution. District Edition (openSIS Enterprise) Commercial grade edition with State Reporting. Offered as a secured hosted solution in the “cloud” or as on-premise school-server. Suitable for large schools and school districts needing customization and integration with existing applications.

11. Company We are a small group of entrepreneurs who dream big and intend to change the way that administrative software is sold and implemented in schools and districts today. For years we have watched large commercial education software companies continue to provide poor software that is proprietary and horribly expensive to a market that has little budget and few choices. We have been witness to botched and failed implementations that waste precious education budget dollars that should be going to the classroom and student instruction. And we have decided to change all of that starting right now. How? By providing quality alternatives to commercial software that are economical, easy to use and completely open. We are giving our clients freedom and control over their software solutions. We have big dreams, a lot of passion about what we do and the personal willpower to get it done. We aren’t working for venture capitalists or angel investors. We are working for the good of education and more specifically, we are working for you, the individual educator. We intend to change the business model of administrative education software and force the large commercial companies to change with us. And in doing so, education wins and most importantly, students win and that keeps us here day in and day out working for you.

12. Mission To create the best open source Student Information System (SIS) that will be equal to or better than the best commercially available SIS software in the market. Goals Mission and Goals Keep it open source, always Bring out 3 to 4 version upgrades each year Release updates frequently Get customers involved and co-create Build a vibrant community that will spread the love

13. Community If you have benefited from the openSIS product, please join the community and share your knowledge; ask questions, give answers, help a fellow user, put in a feature request etc. We would appreciate your participation.

15. We would like to thank you all for having patience with us. Thank You