School MATRIX® Teacher's Assistant
School MATRIX Teachers Assistant (TA)
has been developed to assist teachers and school administrators
using Palm handheld devices with the daily task of keeping
track of student enrollment and Subject classes.
School MATRIXTM TA is fully integrated with the Student, Staff and School (SSS)*. This means that once a teacher has marked a roll and synchronized the Palm the data is written to the relevant tables. Likewise, student, teacher and class details are imported onto the Palm handheld at HotSync.
Key Features
- Multiple Roll Classes on each PDA device
- Roll class attendance including unexplained absences.
- Lesson attendance including unexplained absences.
- Assign reason and part of day to student absences.
- View student's Parent/Guardian details.
- HotSync® from remote terminals.
- Password protected.
- Data Encryption of critical files.
- Database deleted if a HotSync® operation is not performed within a set number of days.
- Windows based application enables staff to enter Daily Notices from any Admin networked location within the school.
Daily Notices available after HotSync®.
Benefits
- Student roll and lesson absences are written directly back to School MATRIX SSS.
- Release valuable administration staff to concentrate on other duties.
- Reduces staff time for roll class and lesson absence data entry.
- Provide teachers portable access to student information and contact details.
- Enable teachers to manage truancy leading to better student attendance.
- Reduce paperwork.
Encourage teachers to track lesson absences.
Minimum System Requirements
- Student roll and lesson absences are written directly back to School MATRIX SSS.
- Release valuable administration staff to concentrate on other duties.
- Reduces staff time for roll class and lesson absence data entry.
- Provide teachers portable access to student information and contact details.
- Enable teachers to manage truancy leading to better student attendance.
- Reduce paperwork.
- Encourage teachers to track lesson absences.
Palm Handheld Devices
The application has been tested and is running with the following PDA devices. Any device running Palm OS 4.0 or higher will run with this product
- Palm m105(Discontinued)
- Palm m125(Standard: USB Connection)
- Palm m515(Standard: USB Connection)
- Palm Vx (Discontinued)
- Acer s55(Standard: USB Connection)
- Acer s65(Standard: USB Connection)
- Tungsten E (Standard: USB Mini Connection)
PC System Requirements
- Pentium III or higher
- 64Mb RAM (128Mb / 256Mb Preferred)
- Windows Compatible Mouse or other Pointing Device
- Operating Systems
- Windows NT Workstation / Windows 2000 Pro have both been tested extensively with the TA for Palm Handheld application.
- While Windows 9x systems are also valid these do not meet DECS requirements for attachment to School Admin Networks
- Other Issues with Windows 9x are related to command and batch file calls.
- Hard Drive Space: Minimum of 20Mb (This allows for the creation of Palm User Folders and storage of user data)
- Palm Desktop Software (V4.0.1 or greater)
- Palm HotSync Cradle
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