School Student Timetabling Administration Reporting Tracking System
SSTARTS
Contents
What is it?
Sstarts is
a Windows based School Administration System which can operate as stand-alone
and on Novell, Windows NT and Windows 2000 servers.
Workstations
can be Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows7
and any combination of these.
Sstarts is
multi user.
Sstarts is
fully integrated.
Data is
readily exported to Excel and Access via text based files.
Data is
currently being exported to NSW Board of Studies, SM Marks and Motorised
Markbook.
What does it do?
The menu driven suite of programs performs all functions typically expected from a School Administration System e.g. recording of student, family, teacher, school, room etc details.
Using this database, users can:
- Create “Lined or Blocked Timetables” driven by student choice and limited facilities groups. Classes can be fixed in position and the rest fitted around them. New grids fit around existing grids.
- “Traditional Timetable” creation. A new module in Sstarts now allows for unequal subject time allocation timetable creation.
- Create Reports to Parents reporting at the outcome/competency level
- Select from over 70 data items to appear on Reports Home to Parents
- Create unlimited school designed and school changeable “Reports to Parents” layouts
- Track full student history (academic, attendance etc)
- Record and report student attendance (homeroom, half/full day and period by period including subject details for the absence)
- Rapidly enter data for attendance, student results and student subject selections via Optical Mark Readers.
- Record and manage Student Incident Information (SIM) to allow letter to parents generation, student behaviour management reports etc.
- Generate Board of Studies notification letters (using SIM)
- Casual Teacher allocation module to allow the distributing of classes needing to be covered due to teacher absences. This also includes non teaching duties like bus and yard duties etc.
- Maintain security at the program level
- Student ID card printing and swipe in swipe out student recording.
- Teacher results input via Flash Drives
- Student late arrival-early leaver permission slips with photos via receipt printers
- Text Messaging to parents
- State and Federal Government Reporting to Parents Compliance
New Features
Full compliance with new State and Federal Reporting to Parents requirements (Extra Curricula Activities and student cohort grade breakdowns)
Text Messaging to parents for student attendance and notification (for example) of Student Reports going home
“Traditional Timetable” creation. This new module allows for subjects with unequal time allocation. It allows the user to build their timetable “block by block” providing all the essential information required at the press of a keystroke.
The user can see immediately what the options are for placing a block of classes for every period of the cycle. When “things become tight”, the information needed to make compromise decisions is instantly available.
This includes;
1. Clashing Teachers
2. Clashing Rooms
3. Over subscribed “limited facilities” (e.g. you are attempting to schedule a 3rd Woodwork class when you have said you only have 2 workshops)
4. Unavailable teachers on cycle days (part time teachers)
One of the big advantages is that very little “extra information” must be entered to commence the timetabling process because almost all of the data required is part of the normal database.
Also, there are no “downloading problems” at the completion of the process. The final products are individual student, teacher and room timetables printed from other modules within Sstarts.
Student ID card printing with barcodes. Early Leavers, late arrivals recording via swipe barcode reading of the ID cards. Also other ID can be applied to the cards e.g. library borrowing ID’s.
Teacher results entry via Flash Drives. Enter results at school or do them at home via data/programs stored on Flash Drives.
Sstarts is constantly improving and having new features added as a result of user requests and suggestions.
Downloads
Not
used
Contact Information
E-mail address
Web address
www.sstarts.com
Office phones and fax
(07) 4939 7676 (Phone).
(07) 4939 7656 (Fax)
0417 857881 (mobile)
Last revised 25 October 2011