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SIS interfaces continue to improve

I spent the day in training today with X2 Development Corporation, looking at course scheduling in their Aspen student information system. While we had just rolled out their SIS last year in time for student scheduling and the process went as well as could be expected (a new SIS,...

Tags: SiS, Student Information System, AJAX, Tools & Techniques, Performance Management, OpenOffice, Servers, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-03-11

Late night musings on student information systems

We're moving rapidly into the last month before we go live on our new student information system. This migration has been a long time coming and is a welcome move from an antiquated and overly-complicated product. We searched pretty extensively and evaluated several options, both client-server and web-based,...

Tags: Education Technology, Information Systems, Student information services

Blog posts 2007-06-17

Student information systems, revisited

It was a dark and stormy night and I was reviewing a recent dump of transcript data from our student information system. The more comma-separated values I read, the more my heart was gripped with icy fingers of dread. Duplicated records, failed imports, incorrect credit and grade calculations...It...

Tags: SiS, information system, student information system

Blog posts 2006-10-15

Pearson acquires Chancery, formerly No. 2 in SIS market

Coming on the heels of announcing that it acquired Apple Computer's PowerSchool, Pearson School Systems has bought Canadian student information systems provider Chancery Software Ltd. for an undisclosed sum, reports eSchool News. The aquisition makes Pearson the word's largest provider of student information systems SIS for the K-12...

Tags: Chancery Software Ltd., Pearson

Blog posts 2006-06-01

So about those student information systems...

So about those student information systems...Not much help, just agreement with the problemWe piloted software called Powerschool, it worked decent, we got in cheaply as Beta testers, and off we were, with a nifty app that did grades, student reports, class reports, district level reports, and would do attendance as...

Tags: student information system, attendance, Centre

Discussion threads 2006-05-22

So about those student information systems...

Earlier last week I read the article "Student data systems going south." I was struck by the similarity to my own post from a couple months ago (Scheduling enough said), in which I actually called for an open-source solution to these student data systems. For any of you...

Tags: information system

Blog posts 2006-05-21

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Students and the browser war

Note: I just want to quickly apologise for the lack of posts recently; moved into a new house and broadband won't be set up for a while, so had to resort to dial-up which is proving troublesome. I'll do my best, considering this is essentially my income,...

Tags: Web, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Firefox Library, Web Browsers, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-06

Google trying to take privacy seriously

This week was a very interesting week as far as Google and privacy goes. First, a burglary the same on that affected CNET earlier last month was confirmed to have affected all Google employees hired before December 31, 2005. There's nothing Google could have done about it, but it's...

Tags: Google Inc., Privacy, Social Security, Security, Government, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-07-05

July 4th, 2008: A trip down memory lane

A 1 question civics quiz Today American's celebrate the Declaration of Independence, the legal foundation of the USA and, after the failure of the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution of the United States. I revere the Constitution as a magnificent piece of political engineering. But it...

Tags: U.S., President, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-07-04

Smart HCCI cars talk to the pump

Researchers from the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society CITRIS are developing more efficient engines for cars. They are specifically working on Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignited HCCI engines. An HCCI engine 'combines the efficiency and versatility of diesel engines with the cleanliness of spark-ignition engines.' For...

Tags: University Of California At Berkeley, Engine, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-04

Stolen: Google employees' personal data

Stolen: Google employees' personal dataCould be worse...Having them stolen isn't as bad for reputation as losing them... yes, I'm looking at you, British Home Office...RE: Stolen: Google employees' personal dataWow, they can't even secure their own data yet they want you to trust them with your email, documents, and health...

Tags: Social Security, Operational accounting, Google Inc., Google Employee, personal data

Discussion threads 2008-07-04

The architecture of a flexible .NET file processing system -- Part 4

The first three parts of this series concentrated on the overall architecture of the .NET file processing system and how the messages get created and routed. In this installment, Zach Smith explains the role of the task specific processes and describes how to set up the system so that it...

Tags: Zach Smith, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software

Download resources 2008-07-04

Hard Disk Drive Data Recovery (exe)

Recover retrieve formatted fat 32 16 file system files folders corrupted logically damaged bad sector hard disk drive windows XP 2003 2000 me repair deleted master boot record MBR dos boot record DBR root directory software supports crashed IDE EIDE ATA SATA SCSI laptop desktop pc undelete unformat backup overwritten...

Tags: Hard Drive, Data Recovery, Data Recovery Software, Storage Management, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-07-04

Relatives (exe)

Relatives genealogical trees visualization software is intended for preparation and presentation of genealogic trees and storage of genealogic information in files. The distinctive features of the program arev complete support of the GEDCOM and genuine graphical concept. The genealogic tree can be scaled for viewing at any range, from a...

Tags: Tree, GenealogySoft, Storage, Tools & Techniques, Hardware, Management

Software downloads 2008-07-04

MyText TopSecurity (rar)

Encrypt your text or html file in the easiest way, just 3 or 4 clicks and your files will be in a top security and protection environment. You have just to choose a key and its done. MTTS encryption method is named "Confusing", in fact this utility confuse file information...

Tags: HTML, Key, IlyeSoft, MTTS

Software downloads 2008-07-04

Access Password (TSAP) (exe)

Access Password is MS Access database password recovery tool. With this tool you can recover your database password, user-level security records logins and passwords, users and groups ids. Recovered MS Access user-level security information can be used to re-create lost Workgroup information file, access user-level secured database, fix MS Access...

Tags: Security, Password, Microsoft Access, Thegrideon Software, Access Password, Microsoft Office, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-07-04

Shark FX for Windows (exe)

Punch! Shark FX is professional CAD software that provides modeling functionality beyond retail products, includes translators to enterprise CAD system such as CATIA and Pro-E and 2D dimensional constraint management methods for rapid design iterations. Includes precision 3D to 2D model to sheet tools based on our licensed CATIA V5...

Tags: Catia, 2D, Animation, Microsoft Windows, Modeling, Punch Software, Shark FX, CAD, Research & Development, Software, Business Operations

Software downloads 2008-07-04

HP Pavilion dv6915nr

We've long been fans of HP's Pavilion line of laptops, which combine an attractive design with media-friendly features at a fair price. By those criteria the Pavilion dv6915nr, a configuration available only in retail stores, is a no exception. It features the familiar glossy black case, light-touch media controls, and...

Tags: Desktops, HP Pavilion, dv6915nr, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Product reviews 2008-07-03

Dell 1525-122B

Note: This review is part of our Back to School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.As middle-of-the-road as a laptop gets, Dell's Inspiron 1525 is an excellent go-to choice for basic computing, especially if you take the time to configure a...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp., Intel Core 2 Duo, laptop computer

Product reviews 2008-07-03

2009 Acura TSX

Photo gallery:2009 Acura TSXBecause of its solid and comfortable everyday driver demeanor, buyers of the new 2009 Acura TSX will probably opt for the five-speed automatic transmission, for ease of driving in traffic and urban settings. And that's unfortunate, because to appreciate Honda's capability to build truly efficient engines that...

Tags: Acura, Acura TSX

Product reviews 2008-07-03