Re: [school-discuss] Easy-to-use gradebook softwarehello,

[Gerald Logan <glogan@mail.telusplanet.net>]

SASI is a student information system, just one of many.

>please, what is SASI ?
>
>mike eschman, etc...
>"Not just an afterthought...
>
>
>On Wednesday 03 April 2002 07:03 am, you wrote:
>>  On 2 Apr 2002 at 16:39, Kevin Godby wrote:
>>  > Hello.
>>  >
>>  > After looking at a large number of gradebook and school
>>
>>  information system
>>
>>  > packages, I've yet to find one that's easy to use.
>>  >
>>  > Many teachers would like to use the computerised gradebook
>>
>>  programs as
>>
>>  > easily as they would their dead-tree gradebooks.  The user
>>
>>  interfaces of
>>
>>  > many of the programs I've encountered make this a difficult
task.
>>  >
>>  > Does anyone here have any recommendations of existing software

>>
>>  that they've
>>
>>  > used and liked?  Does anyone else have similar feelings to the

>>
>>  teachers that
>>
>>  > I work with?  (Am I the only one?)
>>
>>  Have you looked at PowerSchool? Several of us tech coordinators
from
>>
>>  around the state (Kansas) were talking about student info
systems.
>>  Most of us were complaining about ours. Somebody made the
comment
>>  "Everybody complains about what they've got." And three people
>>  immediately said "not me, we love ours." All three were running
>>  PowerSchool.
>>
>>  It's not free/open (far from it), but it is web-based, so even
your
>>  linux clients can access it (except the gradebook itself which
is
>>  Win/Mac, but they've said they'll have a web version out this
>>  calendar year). PowerSchool was bought by Apple a year or two
ago,
>>  but the server runs on either NT or a Mac. The Mac server has a
very
>>
>>  nice component to it, though:  the "home access" part (so
parents
>>  can
>>  check on assignments/grades/attendance, etc. from home) can use
a
>>  text-to-speech converter, so those without computers can call
and
>>  get
>>  the same info.
>>
>>  Sorry if I sound like an evangelist here - I have no affiliation

>  > with
>  > PowerSchool, but I'm sick and tired of SASI.


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