Designed as a site-based Student Information System (SIS) for the Macintosh platform, Mac School automates the repetitive administrative tasks performed on a day-to-day basis. Whether you’re entering attendance, recording discipline, enrolling new students, generating report cards and transcripts, or creating master and student timetables, Mac School gives you the capabilities to get the job done quickly and easily.
Administrators and teachers can quickly and easily access complete student and teacher records, including:
- Demographics
- Discipline
- Attendance
- Grades
- Timetables
Importing and exporting student, teacher, and course information from other systems is seamless with Mac School’s ASCII Import/Export utility through the Universal Access module.
Powerful
Mac School gives you a wide variety of built-in reports as well as a Report Manager, which enables you to design custom reports, including:
- Report cards
- Student transcripts
- Honor roll
- Attendance summaries
- Letters
- Mailing labels
You can also create reports with a third-party application and link them to Mac School data through the Universal Access module.
Features
Available in single or multi-user versions, Mac School takes full advantage of a user-friendly graphic interface.
Student Demographics
Comprehensive student and teacher demographic information is stored on well-organized screens for quick entry and retrieval of information. Student files include address information, contacts, health, transportation and photographs. Almost all data can be printed on custom reports.
Conduct
Access an individual students complete conduct history. Conduct keeps you up-to-date on individual student conduct and disciplinary trends in your school.
Health & Immunization
Heath & Immunization assists your school in maintaining accurate, organized health records for your students, including complete immunization records, medical conditions, and medical examination results.
Teacher Gradebook
eClass® Grades is an electronic gradebook for use on the teacher desktop. With eClass® Grades teachers electronically record grades on individual assignments throughout the year. At the end of a term when report cards are due, consolidated grades are simply transferred from eClass® Grades to the Mac School Report Cards module, saving data entry time.
Report Cards & Transcripts
The Report Cards module consolidates demographics, attendance and grades to produce report cards for students. Grade point average, earned credit, honor roll and class rank can be calculated, viewed and printed at any time.
Scanning
Simplify data entry. Mac School is compatible with a wide range of scanners and scan forms.
Attendance
The Attendance module records students daily and period attendance and has powerful reporting capabilities. Attendance can be entered in minutes and reports can be generated immediately.
Classroom Attendance
An add-on for Mac School's Attendance module, classroom attendance allows teachers to record attendance electronically at their desk and provide the information to the school office instantaneously.
Scheduling
The Scheduler module is a powerful, comprehensive master timetable and student timetable builder. The advantage of the fully automated Mac School Scheduler is its unique ability to combine master and student scheduling into one process. Unlike many other scheduling systems, Mac School's scheduling algorithm reads not only the conflict matrix, but also available teacher and room resources to place each class in the best time-slot and to accommodate the highest number of student requests.
Query
Instant access to your school's information enables you to perform administrative functions easily and efficiently. The Query module is the ideal administrators tool. Within this single module, you have instant access to student demographics, discipline, attendance, timetables, grades and more!
Even with minimal knowledge of this system, anyone with password access can view a complete and up-to-date student or teacher record.
Report Manager
Design custom reports to meet the specific requirements of your school. Report Manager gives you the ability to combine data with text and graphics to produce professional quality reports. From mailing labels to report cards, you can access all of the information stored in Mac School.
Universal Access
Generate custom reports from you Mac School database using the most popular reporting applications on the market, including FileMaker Pro, ClarisWorks, Microsoft Excel and more. The Universal Access module provides schools with unlimited flexibility for generating custom reports from their Mac School data.
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