About School Archive
Introduction
School Archive is the leading information system for music schools in Iceland. The
system is web based and works both for PC and Macintosh in common web browsers such
as Internet Explorer or Firefox. School Archive is suitable for all art schools
whether small or large.
Features
The School Archive system has the following features
- Admissions (online)
- Students information
- Parents information
- Teachers information
- Private lessons and groups
- School fees, surcharges and payments
- Classroom management
- Instrument hire
- Timetables of students, teachers and rooms
- Student attendance
- Examinations and evaluations
- Teaching materials, projects and performances
- Unlimted users
- Special teacher access
- All screens can be printed out in the browser in a printer friendly way
- 119 predefined queries
- 44 predefined reports
- Exporting of data to Excel and XML
- E-mails to persons and groups
- Photo attached to persons
- User interface in English or Spanish
- Access to daily restore on a server in a separate location
Manuals
Manuals are included with the system explaining the main operations step by step.
A separate manual is available for teachers. The manuals can be opened from the
system.
Security
The web site is secured
with SSL, the
url is with https instead of normal http.
The database is backed up daily. Data can be restored by request if it is accidentally
deleted.
Database is also backed up and restored on a server in a separate location. Users
can have access to the daily restore where all operations can be performed including
printing of reports. The daily restore can be used for the training of new users.
User passwords are protected with a one way cryptographic hash function.
Microsoft technology
The system is developed with technology from Microsoft. The web module is written
in ASP.NET from Microsoft with Visual Studio 2008. The database is Microsoft SQL
Server 2008. Reports are written in
Reporting Services for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Live demo
To see the system in action send e-mail to sveinn@eythorsson.com
and you will receive a username and password.
Milestones
2008 School Archive for the Internet
2004 School Archive for Microsoft Access 2003
2000 School Archive for Microsoft Access 2000
1989 School Archive for HyperCard