This document provides information about openSIS, an open source student information system. It summarizes the core and premium features, integrations with Moodle, purchase options including a free community edition, and editions for schools and districts. It also discusses the company behind openSIS and their mission to provide affordable, high quality open source alternatives to commercial SIS software.

1. Welcome To
openSIS

2. Core Features
Student Demographic
Contact Information
Scheduling
Gradebook
Reports/Report Designer
Report Cards
Transcripts
Health Records
Attendance
Parent Portal
User Customizable Preferences
Security
End-of-the-Year Processing (Rollover)

3. Premium Features
Class Portal – Teacher Web Pages
Ripples – Twitter Like Micro-Blogging
Lesson Plan Library
Common Core Standards
Discipline
EasyCom - Integrated communication system
Library Services
Student Billing
State Reporting

4. Integrations
openSIS + Moodle
The two applications are integrated in the following areas:
Purchase Options
Option 1 : On premise installation. Download openSIS and the Moodle integrator
Option 2 : Affordable hosted solutions in the "cloud" for every budget

5. Community Edition (openSIS Lite)
Developed by Community volunteers and OS4Ed staff.
Continuously evolving. Totally FREE.
This edition of openSIS includes the core system only. Enough to
run any school properly. If you want extra features, upgrade to
School or District edition.
It includes the source code so you can always cutomize it for
your own use. If you develop something useful, please submit the
enhancements back to the community.
If you want to volunteer your time in developing openSIS please
join the community.

6. openSIS Lite can be implemented in three ways:
1. Download openSIS-CE and run it locally in your own server. It's a free download and you
will be on your own. You can get free community support from our forum.
2. Download openSIS-CE and run it locally on your own server but let OS4ed manage it
remotely. That way, OS4ED will be responsible for all upgrades, training, support and
business continuity. You will be responsible for the hardware and network.
3. The third and the most preferred way would be to sign up for our cloud hosted solution.
This option is of least hassle for you. You will get your own private virtual server running
openSIS. All upgrades are automatically performed. Seven day backup is also included. We
guarantee a 99% uptime. You focus on your core competency of teaching students while we
focus on ours.

7. School Edition (openSIS Pro)
Well tested, commercial grade edition with many extra features. Offered as a secured
hosted solution in the “cloud”. Suitable for small & medium schools seeking no hassle
solution.
We take the community edition and thoroughly test it. Then we add several extra features
that are useful for a school. Some of the extra features are:
Billing Module
Billing module is designed for simple financial accounting for private and public schools. It’s ideal for
tracking lunch money, library fees, yearbook fees, laboratory fees etc. When a student has an outstanding
balance, parents get notification in parent portal.
The module can be integrated with Paypal, Authorize.net or similar credit card processing networks for
credit card acceptance.

8. Discipline Module
Discipline module lets educators document and track disciplinary incidents, maintain related
records, notify parents of infractions, and produce reports and referral forms. It comes
with default fields and values that can be customized for each school. Custom fields can be
added without a single line of coding.
This module comes with impressive charts and graphs that help school administration in
decision making. Ideal for schools of all sizes and grade levels, the module is packed with
features that help you efficiently handle discipline-related tasks.
Library Module
Library module has been built from ground up and is part of openSIS Pro. It is not a third
party software that was integrated. Therefore, it provides greater performance and
uniform user experience. It supports Acquisition, Cataloging and Circulation. It can be used
to track books, CD/DVD/Software and equipments. Students, teachers and staff can
reserve books and equipments online and pick them up in person. Bar code support is
available. There are several useful reports that would help the school administration with
purchase decisions.
EasyCom Communication Module
School closing? Weather alert? Important announcements? Crisis situation? Quickly and easily
notify teachers, staff, parents and even students using our EasyCom module. Send email
messages to all subscribers, single users, a specific school, parents and custom groups easily
from our intuitive interface.

9. District Edition (openSIS Enterprise)
Current state analysis
Future state analysis
Gap reduction, system enhancement or customization
Implementation Methodology
How to buy District Edition

10. Compare Editions
Community Edition (openSIS LIte)
Developed by Community volunteers and OS4Ed staff. Continuously evolving. Totally FREE.
Suitable for small & medium schools with IT staff on board.
School Edition (openSIS Pro)
Well tested, commercial grade edition with many extra features. Offered as a secured
hosted solution in the “cloud”.
Suitable for small & medium schools seeking no hassle solution.
District Edition (openSIS Enterprise)
Commercial grade edition with State Reporting. Offered as a secured hosted solution in
the “cloud” or as on-premise school-server.
Suitable for large schools and school districts needing customization and integration with
existing applications.

11. Company
We are a small group of entrepreneurs who dream big and intend to change the way that
administrative software is sold and implemented in schools and districts today. For years
we have watched large commercial education software companies continue to provide poor
software that is proprietary and horribly expensive to a market that has little budget and
few choices. We have been witness to botched and failed implementations that waste
precious education budget dollars that should be going to the classroom and student
instruction. And we have decided to change all of that starting right now. How? By
providing quality alternatives to commercial software that are economical, easy to use and
completely open. We are giving our clients freedom and control over their software
solutions.
We have big dreams, a lot of passion about what we do and the personal willpower to get it
done. We aren’t working for venture capitalists or angel investors. We are working for the
good of education and more specifically, we are working for you, the individual educator.
We intend to change the business model of administrative education software and force
the large commercial companies to change with us. And in doing so, education wins and most
importantly, students win and that keeps us here day in and day out working for you.

12. Mission and Goals
Mission
To create the best open source Student Information System (SIS) that will be equal to or
better than the best commercially available SIS software in the market.
Goals
Keep it open source, always
Bring out 3 to 4 version upgrades each year
Release updates frequently
Get customers involved and co-create
Build a vibrant community that will spread the love

13. Community
If you have benefited from the openSIS product, please join the community and share
your knowledge; ask questions, give answers, help a fellow user, put in a feature request
etc. We would appreciate your participation.

15. We would like to thank you all for having patience with us.
Thank You