Hey folks in K-12 land (especially to the ones in small independent schools):
A quick update on the current status of CiviSchool:
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We are rolling out an online form process where parents can maintain and update information on their kid (household, emergency, medical, releases etc). A detailed blog post and screenshots is here: http://civicrm.org/blogs/lobo/civischool-online-forms-update-student-fam...
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We've figured out a way to sync CiviCRM and PowerSchool (via autocomm). We'll use it to also load all the family information collected by Drupal/CiviCRM into PowerSchool
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Our extended care management, attendance and billing system worked really well this spring semester. It is part of the CiviSchool module
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The Parent Teacher Conference system worked great and saved a lot of phone calls / manual process.
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Ideal school of manhattan (http://www.theidealschool.org/) is contributing an application form process to CiviSchool
Detailed blog post on various features of CiviSchool here: http://civicrm.org/taxonomy/term/26
Documentation on installing CiviSchool (on top of Drupal and CiviCRM here): http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviSchool
We currently have 3 other schools in various stages of installing it. There are still a few pieces which are specific to SFS (The San Francisco School), but we do hope to eliminate and generalize things as the module gets deployed in other schools
We also have a mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/civischool for discussion on the module
lobo