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Frequently Asked Questions
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General Questions
What is the technical platform of SinoConex School Management Systems?
SinoConex School Management Systems(it will be referred as SMS below.) runs on the popular LAMP platform. LAMP refers to:
- Linux, the operating system;
- Apache, the Web server;
- MySQL, the database management system (or database server);
- PHP, the scripting/programming language.
SMS supports web browser client of IE 6.x and Firefox 1.5x
What are functional modules in current SinoConex SMS release?
The current release comes with the following modules:
- Semester Manager: It provides school administrator(s) an easy-to-user interface to set up class schedule for the active semester.
- Tuition Manager: It enables school treasurer to manage account payment and refund for registration.
- Registration Manager: School administrator(s) can user this module to enroll waiting-list students, add additional registration for particular accounts, and to remove registration.
- Teacher Management: It allows school administrator(s) to manage teacher information for active semester.
- Online Registration: It allows parents and/or students to register classes and update registration online. It calculates tuition and fee, and displays payment information upon submission. It will also email the payment information to the user's email account automatically. It also dynamically displays current semester information and waiting list for each class.
- Parent On Duty: Only school administrator(s) can enter tasks on a calendar, while parents can sign on duty and receives reminders days before the tasks.
- Integrated Emailing System: School administrator(s) can easily send school-wide emails or email a particular group such as teachers, First Grade Chinese class, etc., without knowing individual email address.
- Advanced Web Communication: School administration(s) can post announcement over web based forums that are accessible to teachers and parents. Also when a user registers students for a certain class, s/he will automatically have access to the class forum where the teacher will post homework and exchange Q/A discussion with the parents. User also has the option to receive email alerts for a particular topic such as homework, class announcement, etc. An optional module is also available for schools that wish to enable private emailing among its teachers and student parents(or adult students).
How can schools develop web contents over SinoConex SMS?
SinoConex SMS comes with a fully-integrated web content management system (CMS ). School webmaster can rapidly develop school website using CMS modules such as dynamic manual link, front page design and news publishing.
How can I try out SinoConex SMS software?
we have setup an demo school site for you to experience your future school online registration and parent-on-duty software. Please visit our demonstration site myschool and manage registration/register class yourself. As a parent or a student, you can sign-up for a new account. To test school administrative modules, you can use either account "myadmin" or "mythreasurer" to log-in from the left side panel. The passwords for both two accounts are "password".
How to sign-up on a SinoConex SMS website?
It is pretty simple, just to click the sign-up button on the website for the school, and then follow the instruction to fill up the registration form. Afterward, you will receive a sign-up verification email to active your account.
How to input information about a teacher?
School administor(s) needs to go to 'Manage Teacher' page,
and click the 'Add or Remove Teacher' button. It will take you to portal user administration page, which has different use interface. You can then follow the steps here to add a teacher in the list. Keep in mind, you need web administrative privilege in order to add or remove a teacher from the website.
How to set up a semester?
You need to have school administrative privilege to access the 'Manage Semester' module. You need to take following steps from the main page to set up a semester successfully:
- Setup semester and registration time periods, and make current semester active;
- First, setup registration fee
- Setup class time
- Setup classroom
Please note the classroom size will determine how many students can be registered in a class taught in the classroom.
- Setup mange_textbook
- After above steps are completed successfully and assume that names of teachers are already entered, school administrator(s) can go to Mange Class page (see below)
You can enter new class or edit existing one. Please be aware that every class must have one lead teacher.
What is waiting-list priority?
When it reaches the maximum class size of student, a student will be put on waiting list with a priority number. A priority number 2 means s/he is the second in the waiting list. A student on waiting-list will be enrolled if the school lifts up the class size or school manually enroll her/him when student(s) drops off the class. The student on waiting-list will be a part of registration report, but the tuition will not be added to payment due amount, see
User can check current waiting priority for each class by clicking the 'Semester Information' menu.
How to register class after registration deadline?
If it has passed the registration deadline, you will only see the registration report. You need to contact a school administrator to add or update registration. School administrator(s) can manage registration by clicking on the menu item "Manage Registration".
To add a new account as an administrator, you will click "Add New Account" button, and if s/he need to add new registration or new student in an existing account, just click on the hyper-liked account ID, and it will link to the online registration page.
How to set up Parent-On-Duty?
Only school administrator can enter new parent duties. Click "parent on duty" button in "Parent Duty - Calendar View" screen
and then enter information about the new duty as shown blow.
To remove a duty, click on the duty name on the calendar view, you will be taken to the "Duty List" screen, click on the red-cross button to remove the duty.
How to sign up a parent duty?
If you are a parent, click on the parent duty on the calendar, you will be taken to the duty list view. Click the "Subscriptions" button, you will be taken to "Parent Duty Subscriptions" screen. All the duties you have signed up will be selected, click "Update" to finish the sign-up process. You will receive reminder emails days before and/or on the day of the duty.
How to use SinoConex Web Portal
The web portal provides the platform for SMS. It is role based, multi-language and feature rich content management system. The main modules include User signup and Management, Web Page Publisher, Menu Writer and School Forum, etc.
