SIS is a  student information system that rivals costly commercial alternatives in looks, functionality and ease of use and administration. openSIS is the centerpiece of an evolving set of integrated open source education applications that support schools and districts. openSIS is a game changer and a new paradigm in administrative education software. Our founders have always said that if we can produce an open source package that is easy to use, looks great, has the same functionality as commercial alternatives and represents a TCO up to 75% less than comparable solutions, then the decision should be easy.


Base Product Features


Student Demographics
SIS enables the tracking of numerous student demographic attributes in a permanent record and across enrollments. Need something not included in the base installation? Use our custom categories and fields that allow you to easily create any number of custom fields to capture your specific data needs.

Contact Information
Easily add contact information for parents, relatives and authorized individuals. Designate legal guardian, bus stops and associate parents with students enabling automatic access to the SIS parent portal.

Scheduling
openSIS includes a scheduler that allows you to easily input student requests and mass schedule students. You can make multiple schedule runs as you make adjustments and have multiple schedules within a school. View and print student schedules and class rosters with just a few clicks.

Gradebook
The built in grade book allows teachers to enter homework assignments, class tests and any other activity using weighted scales if desired. Automatic tallying of grades, reports to find erroneously entered grades and advanced ad hoc reporting is included. Entering final grades is as easy as a mouse click.

Reports/Report Designer
SIS includes numerous standard reports and the ability to design custom reports using simple check boxes. Reports are output to PDF format for easy printing and viewing. Can’t produce the report you need? openSIS uses PostgreSQL, a relational database, and any industry standard reporting tool can be used to create custom reports.

Report Cards
Easily input final grades, create student report cards and calculate GPA’s and class rankings. Change a final grade that will affect GPA or class ranking? Simply recalculate GPA’s using the built in function in openSIS. Print one report card, all report cards or anywhere in between with the flexibility of openSIS.

Transcripts
openSIS includes the ability to print student transcripts. Create groups of students across numerous attributes and click a button. It doesn’t get any easier and openSIS is all about ease of use.

Health Records
Nurses visits, immunizations, physician contact information, allergies and more are all a part of our health records. Need something we don’t have? Easily add a new field to the health records to meet your specific needs without any programming. It’s easy!

Attendance
By period, by day, with comments and all accomplished with a only a few clicks. Customize attendance codes to meet your specific needs. Easily check attendance by using our built-in reports. Student show up late and you need to change their record? Easily done if you have the access rights.

Parent Portal
Are you paying for SASI Parent Connect? EdLine? Why? SIS includes a parent portal that allows your parents to see their children, grades, attendance, discipline and more using the same intuitive web interface. And it is part of the base solution, which is free.

User Customizable Preferences
Don’t like the color? Want to get rid of some fields that you don’t use? Easily customize your preferences to suit your needs and likes. It is all easily done with a few simple mouse clicks.

Security
SIS includes the ability to control user security at the field level. Customize the included roles and create your own to meet specific needs. No programming knowledge needed and only a few mouse clicks are required.



Additional Modules


Discipline
Track all aspects of discipline events using our discipline module. It is based on the NCES discipline model and uses NCES codes, which are common in state reporting. Built in standard reports enable fast and easy access to discipline

events for teachers and staff.

Email and SMS Text Messaging

School closing? Weather alert? Important announcements? Crisis situation? Quickly and easily notify teachers, staff, parents and even students using our EasyCom module. Send messages to all subscribers, single users, a specific school, parents and custom groups easily from our intuitive interface. Track messages using our built in audit trail. Subscriber message selection enables your users to choose which messages they want to receive and how.

Food Service
Easily manage student lunch accounts and lunchtime checkouts with our food service module. Automatically integrates with our student billing module. Sped up lunch room lines using the student number input device of your choice, including PIN, biometrics and staff touch screen.

Student Billing
Easily track student balances and payments with our student billing module. Create and track billing for multiple items easily in one simple interface. Integrates directly with the food service module.

State Reporting
The State Reporting module for openSIS continues to demonstrate our commitment to providing our clients with the best open source student information system in the market. The State Reporting module is a client specific module requiring a custom services engagement to customize the module to comply with your state’s specific reporting requirements. Specifically, the State Reporting module allows schools to:

Collect the required data to comply with state reporting requirements;
Easily generate data exports using the built-in openSIS data extraction tool;
Build data outputs for submission to state departments of education;
Generate validation reports for school administrators to review prior to file submission;
In addition to enabling schools to comply with state reporting, the State Reporting modules includes a robust Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) application that can be used to extract openSIS data and automatically load it into other programs such as Special Education applications, library applications, accounting applications and more.

The State Reporting module is included free in the custom services engagement and an additional annual maintenance fee is required. Annual maintenance that ensures you receive all upgrades and modifications free of charge and that changes made in reporting requirements are incorporated yearly. As with all of our modules, you receive all of the source code in the event that you would like to modify it yourself. openSIS modules are not provided under the GPL license.