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Best Practices.FastDirect Features
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Administrators
- One comprehensive, integrated, and real-time database:
- Student, Parent, and Staff demographics and information with an unlimited number of user defined fields
- Courses and Schedules
- One-time entry for all functions
- Recruitment, admissions, enrollment and scheduling processes
- Billing and tuition management including online payments
- Real-time Attendance
- Always know where your students are.
- Discipline tracking
- One click academic reports
- Sports eligibility report
While GradeBook
and Report Cards are useful tools (especially when posted online),
there are also many other reports that aid schools in fostering
academic success. One report in particular is the "Palmer Eligibility
Report," which shows the GradeBook computed average from any course
that is below the selected percent (70%).
- Honor roll report
- Missing assignments report
- Transcripts
- Previous year report cards
- Sports eligibility report
- Donor payments and tracking
- Full range of preformatted reports
- Create-your-own-report capabilities
The "Make Your
Own Report" tool provides Administrators flexible options for
reporting. It allows one to choose a desired combination of Student
Data or Parent Data such as name, address, date enrolled, grade level,
baptism dates, birthday dates, etc. Data can even be updated within
this report — a huge time-saver!
- Simply copy and paste to Word Processor or spreadsheet
- Generates labels
- State reports
- Create-your-own-report capabilities
- Security and password protection for granting rights to information
- Secure messaging with staff, parents, and students.
- Archived for your records
- E-mail notification
- Text alerts
- Attach documents to email, such as school calendar, newsletter, bulletins, progress reports, etc.
- Automatically provides group email lists
- Secure Web sites and Calendars for all staff
- Integrated with grade books to automatically publish assignments
- State reports
- Automatic updates data to telephone parent notification systems.
- One comprehensive, integrated, and real-time database:
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Teachers
- File and document storage
- Parent/student links to stored files
- Attach to assignments
- Attach to messages
- Post to web page
- Daily and/or period attendance in real-time.
- All staff know where students are.
- Full-function grade book
An incredible
means of communication between teachers and parents is the GradeBook.
When teachers commit to updating their GradeBook at specific intervals,
such as once per week, parents know to check FastDirect and see how
their child is progressing. GradeBook becomes a useful communications
tool! The school community can support each student…
- Record grades for assignments, tests and projects
- Choose several ways to average/weight grades
- Automatically posts assignments to:
- Student assignment calendars
- Teacher web page and calendar
- Automatically message students and parents about the assignments
- Add special instruction
- Attach documents or worksheets
- Provide links to helpful websites
- Feeds report cards
- Teacher can manually over-ride grades
- Parent access to grades and teacher comments
- Optional by grade level
- No need to produce and upload reports
- Full-function Report Cards
- 3 ways to enter grades
- Automatic loading from grade book
- Manual over-ride of grade average
- Manual entry
- Attendance data automatically entered
- Teacher comments
- 3 ways to enter grades
- Secure messaging to parents, students, and other staff
- Automatically archived
- E-mail or text notification
- Secure web site (integrated with grade books)
- Secure internet calendar (integrated with grade books)
- Tag items for parent, staff, or personal view
- A full library of home room or school wide reports available to teachers
- File and document storage
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Home
- One secure login for all information even if the family has several students with multiple teachers
- View student grades online including teacher comments
- One mouse click displays my grades from all teachers
- Grades displayed with teacher comments
- View assignments
- Unique assignment calendar displaying everything that was/will be graded
- Assignments on the teacher webpage
- Assignments on the teacher calendar
- Teacher messages with more guidance about assignments
- Assignment posting include links and attachments
- View list of missing assignments
- View all grades on one page
- One mouse click displays student grades from all my teachers
- Grades displayed with teacher comments
- View report cards
- Grades and teacher comments
- Student's attendance (also access to full attendance report by day)
- Student's GPA
- Message teachers and school staff
- View class schedule
- View all tuition, fee, activity and lunch accounts
- Pay online
- Signup and pay for activities
- Retrieve tx year printout of all transactions
- View parent/student directory (optional)
- Follow links to important web sites (i.e. Public library)
- View school documents (newsletters, manuals, forms, etc.)
- View lunch menus
- Order lunches online
- Update cell phone numbers, emergency contacts, etc for the school office
- View teacher/staff web pages and calendars
- Link to businesses that support the school
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Students
- View assignments
- Unique assignment calendar
- Assignments on the teacher webpage
- Assignments on the teacher calendar
- Teacher messages with more guidance about assignments
- Assignment posting include links and attachments
- View list of missing assignments
- View all grades on one page
- One mouse click displays my grades from all my teachers
- Grades displayed with teacher comments
- View report card including a GPA
- Message my teachers
- View class schedule
- Follow links to important web sites (i.e. Public library)
- View lunch menus
- View assignments
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Other School Staff
- Cafeteria management
- Publish menus and prices
- Track free and reduced confidentially
- Track student/family lunch accounts without tickets
- Supports bar code scanners and fingerprint scanning
- One click state reports
- Track all health related visits to the school office or clinic
- Track administration of medications
- Technology coordinators do not need to maintain secure or backup data
- No software to load
- No server needed
- Compatible with all operating systems and browsers
- FastDirect performs all system set up including report cards and teacher grade books
- All users have unlimited tech support directly to FastDirect
- Cafeteria management
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District Personnel
- Custom reports from multiple schools
