Centre School Information System 2.10
Centre is an open-source, web-based student information system. Centre has been designed to address the most important needs of administrators, teachers, support staff, parents, students, and clerical personnel. However, it also adds many components not typically found in student information systems. Consider the following:
- Student screens that include all the critical information necessary for
reports and decision-making can be accessed with a point and click.
Several customizable features are also included that allow you to gather
data important to your school or district. - Employee screens that not only provide quick access to demographic
information, but also assign email addresses, admittance to the system,
passwords, and more. - Students can be searched by not only gender, ethnicity, grade level, etc.,
but also by their schedule, activities, absences, eligibility, grades,
GPA, and class rank, where appropriate. - A comprehensive grade book that allows teachers to establish grade ranges,
weight assignments, track assignments, and issue quarterly and semester
grades as well as progress reports. Report card and transcripts are also
available. Furthermore, report cards and transcripts can be configured
to display grades for any or all of your school’s marking periods ‑ on
the fly. - Attendance can be taken electronically by teachers and submitted to the
office almost instantly. Also, office staff can modify attendance
reports based on information not available at the time roll was taken.
The attendance component further provides report capabilities to
identify average daily attendance, to provide daily attendance
summaries, and to track attendance each day. - Middle grade and high school educators will appreciate the eligibility
feature of Centre. No longer will paper or spreadsheets have to be used
to report what students are eligible for athletic or academic
activities; instead, the grade book will determine electronically if a
student is passing or not. The teacher then merely verifies the
information and sends it through the system. - Scheduler in Centre allows the scheduling of entire classes or groups as
well as the scheduling of a single student. Revisions to a student’s
schedule can be performed quickly. Scheduling based on a student’s
requests is extremely efficient. Running the scheduler on an entire
high school takes minutes instead of hours. So, the scheduler can be
run several times a day ‑ allowing you to scheduler more thoroughly.
Also, each time you save a student’s requests, the scheduler is run
under test mode for the student ‑ allowing you to resolve conflicts as
you have the student in front of you. - Courses can be added easily to include weights, instructional assignments,
and periods. As well, you can determine if each course requires
attendance, affects the honor roll and class rank, and/or has any
restrictions. Of course, scheduling reports can be generated through
this application also. - A calendar is included that details events, activities and student
assignments. - A school set-up screen is used to establish marking periods, the grade
levels in the building, and the number of periods scheduled each day.
School demographic information (e.g., name, address, phone numbers,
etc.) is entered on this same screen. Your schools can have any number
of marking periods in three tiers. For instance, a school could use the
conventional two semesters, four quarters, four progress periods model,
or a school could establish its only system of marking periods with 3
semesters, 18 quarters, and 36 progress periods. Everything is
completely customizable.
You will find Centre to be a full-featured student information system that
facilitates your decision-making, provides data necessary for reports to the
federal or state governments as well as local boards, and affords convenient
access to all of the stakeholders in your building or district. And, because it
is web-based, the system can be logged into from any Internet connection."