Open Admin for Schools

It is entirely web based and can run from a centrally located division wide server or a single computer in a school. It is designed to support an entire division on one or more central computers but can also work just fine for a single school. Currently several school divisions use this approach and have 15+ schools on a single central server. This is because it is designed to be lightweight both in server resource requirements and in communication bandwidth.It is secure. Each school has two or more virtual websites and each is protected with password(s). One site, the 'admin' site, is used by the school office and another, the 'teacher' site, is used by teachers in the classroom. The teacher site also has password access for entering attendance by teachers and also uses cookies that expire in a short period, further limiting access. Another site, a parent/student site, is controlled by parent/student userid's and passwords. A fourth virtual site may be used by school liason officers from outside agencies to give them a slightly different access to school information. (Community Schools). A new version will support a single site using SSL to encrypt all traffic (like your bank).It is built entirely with freely available open source tools and comes with complete source code. The entire application is written in Perl and stores information in a MySQL SQL or PostgreSQL database. The perl programs, being interpreted, are readily accessible and can easily be changed to suit a school.

• Demographics
• Attendance
• Discipline
• Report Card System
• Online Gradebook 
• A Transcript System to print student transcripts
• A Fees System (along with Lunch program)
• Parent/Student Viewing scripts
• IEP (Special Needs) Site
• Export/Import Modules
• Saskatchewan SDS support for direct XML transfers of student demographic, subject and enrollment marks to provincial authorities.
• An Online Daybook to allow teachers to plan and view their lessons/days.
• Upc