Scheduling
- Focus/SIS handles setting up subject and courses
- Walk-in scheduling
- Mass adding and deleting courses
- Elementary package scheduling
- Supports rolling over master schedule
- Extensive scheduling reports
- District course catalog
- Requests can be entered by students or administrator
- Includes a master schedule builder and loader
- Builds and loads a 2,000 student high school in under 5 minutes
Finance, Accounting, HR, Payroll
- Online purchasing, fixed assets, warehousing, HR, and payroll
- PO Approvals are handled through a workflow driven by email
- Built around the specifications of the Redbook in Florida & NCES for school districts in the U.S.
- Paystubs & HR information available to staff online
- Fully-integrated with the SIS
Assessment System
- Built for Race to the Top and Common Core
- Incredibly fast interface for building tests & items
- Preview tests & items as you build them
- Students can take tests online or with scantron
- Online tests and printed tests print without blurry images, formulas, or text
- Integrated with Focus’ longitudinal assessment reporting
- Integrated with the gradebook
Reports
- Drag and drop ad hoc report builder
- Built in custom reports
- Publish reports to users by profile
- All reports can be exported to Excel or PDF
- Built in scheduling, grade distribution, attendance, discipline and teacher completion reports
Report Cards/Transcripts
- Custom report card and transcript templates
- Standards based report cards
- Save paper by publishing report cards to the parent portal
- Pull progress reports at anytime using gradebook grades
Portal
- 100% web-based for teachers, parents, students administrators
- System generated alerts and customizable workflow alerts
- Single sign-on to other access systems
- Easy navigation to historical data
Health
- Daily Visit Log – tracks student clinic visits
- Medication administration – tracks student medication distribution and administrations
- Immunization records – documents shot records
- Uploading health and physical forms – scan and upload medical records
- Medical Alert documentation and alert icon – documents health action plans and provides medical alert icons
- Health Services Report – summary report of medical treatments, nurse assessments, first aid and more
Full Teacher Gradebook
- Accessible by teachers from home or any computer.
- Saves automatically.
- Four tiers of built in security.
- Gradebook is accessible by administrators for progress monitoring throughout the marking period.
- High level of customization by teachers allows for accommodating nearly every type of grading method.
- Reports that provide in-depth analytics on missing grades, transferred students, grade distribution, and other reports.
- Ability to add comments with a spell check.
Discipline
- Easy to use teacher and administrator initiated referrals
- Customizable fields and validation rules
- Allows administrators to review and track student discipline with useful reports
- Reduced data entry for office staff by allowing administrators to directly take action on a referral within Focus
- Serious discipline incidents can be linked to multiple students for reporting purposes
- Powerful reports that allow administrators at a glance to spot trends in school discipline data
- Automatic generation of discipline letters
Performance Reports
- State Performance Report – 3 year trend on student assessment data
- At Risk Student Report – 3 year trend of at-risk cohort
- College Readiness Report – SAT, ACT, State College Readiness testing report
- School Status Report – Proficiency and learning gains report by teacher
- Available for teachers by class
- Available for administrators by school
- Integrates with Focus’ student testing and assessment tool
State Reporting
- Direct FTP upload/download to DOE
- DOE verification reports – correct data at the source before it is sent to the state
- State Pre-ID extracts – simple click to generate state required pre-id files
- Class size report – know class size numbers and sections over class size instantly
- Electronic records transmission
- FTE Detail Report – check individual student minutes
- FTE Summary Report – check school and district funding totals
- Direct Certification Process and Missing Children Report
