School Maestro III 3.056

School Maestro is a comprehensive teacher productivity tool. The included gradebook program is the most advanced program available and supports a wide variety of different grading methods. The program is suitable for use by individual instructors or entire school systems. Single, group and network licenses are available. In addition to the gradebook features, the program also tracks attendance, does seating charts, records subjective grades such as conduct and citizenship, creates reusable lesson plans, report cards, honor rolls, gpas, and transcripts. The program also tracks discipline, appointments, and maintains contact information. The program can be used to produce fully formatted form letters which may include a customizable letterhead with logo. Form letters may also be emailed. The reports may also be posted to the Internet. Students may access their reports using any computer and browser. School Maestro is highly customizable and allows you to add your own database fields and create your own queries. Extensive import and export features are provided. The program supports 4 types of users - master users, teacher users, secretary users and counselor users. All user access is controlled by passwords. System administrators are also allowed direct access to the database. The database used is a SQL Server 2005 database. System administrators may create their own custom input forms, stored procedures, reports, tables, etc., and use all the features of the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and Microsoft Access and other programs such as Word or Excel to create custom reports. However, customization is usually not required since the program includes a large number of various types of reports that are user configurable.