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Enhancement introduced recently
School2000 follow
a policy of continuos development working with partner schools who wish
to work with us, participate and guide us. Some of the following enhancements
were introduced in the recent past. Some enhancement are presently being
introduced. We would like to keep on improving School2000 and keep
introducing new modules. We invite interested schools to participate as
partners. Text in black are enhancements
already installed and working. Text in blue (below) are under development,
some under installation
- Behaviour2000
is a module that allows teachers to enter merits and concerns about
the students during period/subject registration. Teachers can also see
merits and concerns entered by other teachers. More than 80 reports
are provided for analyses.
We
developed Consortium2000 on the
request of Isleworth & Syon school, Hounslow, London. You may contact
Linda Simms, Deputy Head for further information.
This project was funded by the Learning Skills
Council. Seven schools in their consortium
share students with each others. Attendance of shared students entered
on consortium schools appear on the attendance in the main school of
each student. The update takes place over the Internet.
A gateway server is used for communication between schools. It works over each school's firewall and proxy servers without any configuration changes.
Headline
Figures was added to Assessment Analysis to identify student's performance not just based on the external examinations but on class test as well. Each class teacher can flag any test/column on a mark sheet and it will calculate the Head line figures based on each teacher's selection.
Homework2000
was introduced on the request of Manchester Mesivta School (formerly
Manchester Jewish Grammar school). Mr. Phaivish Pink, Headmaster,
wanted parents to have access to their children's homework over the
Telephone/Internet in English and Hebrew. School2000 now allows homework
assignments to be recorded by teachers from any PC or telephone extension
in the schools or from telephone outside the school, so parents (and
students) can listen to homework assignments by dialling School2000
from any telephone
Telecall2000
was introduced to support telephone interface for parents who do not
have/like/want/use Internet. Telecall2000 is not suited where
there is a lot of interaction. It is a however a good way to deliver
attendance, grades and homework over telephones in different languages
- Canteen2000 is a system that manages sales from the school's canteen.
- Supports
multiple and distributed terminals over the schools network
- Shares
the database with School2000, SIMS and CMIS
- Each
terminal contains a touch screen monitor, fingerprint reader for
student identification and an optional barcode reader
- Parents
can access their children's purchases on the Internet
- Parents
can deny items that contains beef, port, nuts, allergens and excess
salt or sugar. When students try to purchase items that are denied
by their parents, the terminal initiates a warning, an alert is
sent to their parents
- Cash can be loaded to the system using a Money Loader or can be entered manually by an admin staff.
- School/Parent can specify how much a student can spend per day. Free meal cap can also be specified.
The following
are developed and are being installed.
It will be ready for installation and commercial use in the near future
- Accounts2000
is a subsystem that manages the school's accounts
- Budgets,
Carry-forward from the previous year can be integrated
- Financial
transaction can be entered fro any networked PC by authorised
users
- As
transactions are completed the system updates budgets, ledgers,
sub-ledgers and balance available
- Alerts
inform appropriate staff when expenses/balances exceed alert-levels
- Teachers2000
is a module that teachers can use to manage their lesson plans
- Teachers
can import lesson plans from the Internet and other teachers,
modify and store them
- Teachers
can also enter Class-tests and Homework in advance, which are
released on planned dates
- Optionally
parents and students can be given access to lesson-plans over
the Internet, for self preparation
- E-Learning2000
is a subsystem that provides supplementary/independent learning
- Students
can register and learn lessons over the Internet
- Students
learn one lesson at a time and participate in on-line tests, which
determine their understanding.
- Parents
can access how their children are learning and access the test
results for analysis
- Parts
of this technique was funded by the Learning Skills Council when
we taught foreign languages over the Internet
- We
propose to offer this in different languages so students who are
not familiar with English can learn the lesson in their preferred
language and after understanding the lesson, learn it again in
English
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