School PDA Software - Additional Details

Be Prepared for Emergencies

• Emergencies: In the event of an emergency, phone numbers and parent contact information are instantly available.
• Fire Drills: Quickly check the attendance status of any student during fire drills.

Choose Data from any Module

Choose any combination of Administrator’s Plus fields to use on a PDA:
Demographics | Student pictures | Schedules | Attendance | Grades

Improve School Security

• Photo Identification: Include staff and student pictures with data to let staff verify students' identities anywhere on campus. You can also link family pictures for increased security, particularly during after school pick-ups.
  Screenshot: Student pictures on a PDA
• Hall Monitors: Need to know where a student should be? Quickly access attendance and scheduling information anywhere on campus. Grid schedules highlight the class a student should be in at that time.

Access Information in an Emergency

• Coaches: Provides athletic staff with fast access to athletes' emergency and parental contact information.
• Field Trips: Lets field trip leaders take along emergency and parental contact information.

Safe Schools and NCLB Reporting

• Monitor discipline events for safe schools and NCLB reporting.
• Monitor discipline incidents: aggregate analyze and reports discipline incidents.
• Reduce problems areas in classrooms halls and restrooms.
• Enforce policies and procedures - reduce monitoring and staff costs.
• Focus costs on service delivery with the reduction of discipline costs.
• Identify habitual offenders.
• Target escalating events - control potential problems

Easy Synchronizing

• PDA Sync Manager Allows you to easily select the Administrator’s Plus data you want on your PDA. At the end of the day, users can return their devices to the cradle and watch as their handheld is automatically updated with new data. You'll love the easy to setup "profiles".

Student / Staff Database

• Choose any of Administrator's Plus’ database fields to transfer to your Windows® or Palm®* PDA device. (Please refer to Data Base Plus for details about the wide array of fields available to choose from.)

Schedules

• View schedules on PDAs in line or grid format.
• As an especially useful security feature, the grid schedule automatically highlights the class the student should be in during the current period.
• If you need more information about that course, simply select the highlighted block to display course details.
• Need to know where a student should be? Quickly access attendance and scheduling information anywhere on campus. Grid schedules highlight the class a student should be in at that time.

Discipline

• Discipline incidents appear on PDA devices the same as they appear in Administrator's Plus. Simply select an incident to view detailed information about that infraction. Access discipline data on PDAs from anywhere on campus.
• The module also allows you to enter information about disciplinary infractions directly into PDAs on the scene of incidents. Enter new incidents into a PDA using the same screen you use when entering incidents into Administrator's Plus.
• At the end of the day, discipline information can be synced back to Administrator's Plus and saved in the involved students' records.
  Screenshot: Enter incident details

Daily and Period Attendance

• Attendance information can be viewed on PDA devices in either Calendar View, Register Code View or Attendance Code View. Coming soon: Enter attendance directly into hand-held devices and transfer that attendance data back into Administrator's Plus later.
  Screenshot: Attendance on PDAs

Grades

• Users have the option to view all report card columns or individual columns from Report Cards Plus to PDA devices, as well as GPA information, if desired. Additionally, you have the option of viewing skills information and report card narratives.

Coming Soon

• Access data live on PDAs from a wireless network.
• Enter attendance directly into hand-held devices and transfer attendance data back into Administrator's Plus later.