Idea #86 -- Enhance Web Efficiencies

Idea #86 – Enhance Web Efficiencies

Report Status: Fully Reviewed

Researched by: Meg Moriarty

Original Idea as Submitted

Explore additional ways to safely leverage web tools for non-academic efficiencies

Other ideas included in this report

• 87 – Improve the Student Info System as the central database from which other systems interact.

Idea intent

Improve the delivery of town services by adopting an improved Student Information System that is more user friendly for parents/caregivers of students in BPS.

Weighted Final Score: 37 (Financial Impact: 1, Operational Impact: 2, Time Scale: 3, Ease of Implementation: 4)

Background Information

There have been many complaints that the current Student Information System (SIS) – a system that provides access to student information, fees and bills, and used for activity registration – is not user friendly. For example, parents want a system that allows them to create one profile for a student that follows that student from K-12 rather than having to recreate profiles each time a student moves from one school to another.

Recommendations

• Gather feedback from parents/caregivers regarding the current SIS (to confirm there is a need for change) and what they would like to have in a SIS.

• Assess and improve the current SIS, explore alternatives that have been used successfully in other school districts and implement a new or improved SIS for Belmont Public Schools.