openSIS 4.8 Released

Just wanted to pass along that Open Solutions for Education (OS4Ed) has just announced the release of openSIS 4.8. This keeps in line with their goal of quarterly product updates. Here are some notes on the release from the website:

New Features

• Secondary teacher added to course periods. Now you can have a substitute teacher perform all functions of the main teacher.
• School, Subject and Course Period filtration has been added to Teacher login. Now it will be easier for a teacher who is teaching. several classes in to be able to find the right class.
• Improved pagination has been added. Now you can select a few students in one page, skip to another page and select some. more students and both you selections will be there.
• Student name will now take apostrophe.
• Teachers can now access the course manager.
• Pagination has been added to User list and also "back to list" function.
• System preference settings created to manage preferences.
• Ability to put openSIS in maintenance mode.
• Student advanced search options added.
• Several security features and validations added.

Defects Fixed

• Visible Between dates are auto initialize in new portal notes if we do not set Visible Between date.
• All field of new Add User were filled with '1'.
• Students showing up as inactive when their status is shown but also displayed in an active student list.
• Course Creation with blank spaces in title accepted the creation of course.
• Attendance report showed all schools.
• Student Info record print did not show dates from medical records.

openSIS continues to flourish and thrive and is a serious contender to replace existing proprietary SIS solutions from commercial vendors. OS4Ed offers a cloud-based version that can be setup in a matter of minutes. Take some time and check out the openSIS solution at http://opensis.com.