At School :: Vantage Fusion™
Vantage Fusion™ (vFusion) is a robust full-featured school intelligence system, setting a new standard for school and district information management. Everything educators and administrators need to manage information can be accessed, reported upon, and managed through a single interface. Vantage Fusion™ can store, manage and report on all data relating to - students (robust student information system), parents, facilities, teachers, vendors, transportation, counseling, health/nursing, library information, HR/Finance, fee management, and district-wide learning management. Its modularity enables customers to choose a base system plus any additional optional modules as needed, allowing users to migrate cost-effectively and over time. Scalable to accommodate the needs of all K-12 enterprises, from single charter schools to the largest districts in the country, Vantage Fusion conforms to the most commonly implemented interoperability standards used in K-12 school districts today.
Vantage Fusion™ is comprised of the following core components/modules
Core Components
- Manage district and school hierarchy levels
- View and Manage school type, focus list, contact info, grade levels and operational status of your schools
- View and edit physical locations and facilities in the school; standard classrooms, gym or cafeteria
- Assign staff to various locations
- Student Personal - View and manage student/parent personal information including demographics, pictures, contacts, schedules, grades, and more
- Manage school enrollment of students
- Easily transfer students from one school to another
- Manage personal information relating to a staff member, teacher or a member of support services in the school or district
- Edit job functions and job classifications
- Edit user-based access control settings for individual users and Fusion modules
- Edit role-based access control settings for various user profiles and Fusion modules
- Edit access control settings for student, parent and teacher portals
- Single Sign On (SSO) capability to access other Vantage applications directly from Fusion
- Calendar - Edit calendar summary and calendar dates including teacher in-service days, holidays, period start-end times etc.
- Term - Create, view and edit term information including time span, scheduling, marking and attendance criteria
- Courses - Create and view courses, manage course information
- Sections - Create and view sections and manage section information
- Enroll students to various sections
- View, manage and edit behavior incidents. Include incident type, date, location, related people, offenders, victims and details of course of action taken by authorities
- Automated scheduler schedules students, staff, and facilities based on parameters and restrictions set by customers
- Enter assignments, grades, and notes via gradebook and/or teacher portal. This state-of-the-art fully web-based grade book application gives you the ease, comfort and usability of a desktop application
- Daily Attendance- Edit attendance information for a particular student in your school on a particular date
- Period Attendance -Enter attendance information by class period for a student in the context of a section
- Send new screen messages, e-mails and SMS. View, list and filter your outbox. Send messages to individuals or groups with one click
- Inbox - View, list and filter your messages
- Agenda - Organize your personal agenda, share your agenda with others, view important dates and events
- All teacher modules and information including grade book, attendance, messaging, schedule and agenda in one concise and customizable dashboard interface
- All student/parent modules and information including sections, grades, attendance, messages, announcements and agenda in one concise and customizable dashboard interface
- Parents with more than one child in a district can reach all information with single login
Optional Additional Modules
- Comprehensive student health information system
- Medical Cases - Manage visits, schedule and track student medications, view emergency contacts of students
- Administrations Tracking- View all scheduled and administered medications
- Screenings - Manage screenings
- Screening Registrations - Arrange schedules for planned screening activities
- Screening Results - View results of all scheduled screening activities
- Publications - Manage publications and inventory
- Transactions - Manage patron transactions, check outs, reserves and library fines
- Counseling- Manage cases and appointments. View case history, store case notes, session interview records and additional case related files
- Bus Routes - Manage bus routes, assign bus stops to bus routes
- Student Transportation Records - Seat students; assign them bus routes, origin and destination points and transfer points
- Student Contracts - Manage student contracts, discounts and payment plans
- Contract Transactions - Manage contract installment payments
- Employee Contracts - Define employee contracts, edit HR/payroll employee information, define employee pay cycles
- Wage Transactions - Process payment of employee wages
- Purchasing - Manage requisitions and purchase orders
- Transaction Amounts - View and edit details of your asset, revenue, liability and expense accounts
*These modules are optional and can be purchased with the core components of Fusion or implemented subsequently.