Why Command School?

The market for Student Management Systems is a crowded one. Does the market place really need another one? We submit that the answer is YES. The market needs a student management system that is created BY the PEOPLE WHO WILL USE IT THE MOST, not some engineers in a big company somewhere. We are proud of the fact that EVERY feature in Command School was requested by educators and school professionals. In fact, if you want to get involved, join our mailing list , by clicking HERE.

Command School was built as the only student management system that had a unique main goal in mind: to foster communication between parents, teachers, and school administrators. We were not trying to have the most reports, the most features, the highest price, or any other desire that marketing kept pointing to. We felt that the market for student management systems had gotten so far off base, and so far removed from what a good student management system should do, we went to the source and asked the parents, teachers, and school administrators what it should do!

Teachers, Educators, and Parents kept coming back with these issues:

Find a way to facilitate discussions between all the parties involved in creating great schools. Command School became one of the first student management systems to offer a built in discussion forum.

Please take the burden off of school administrative professionals. Many student management packages would simply allow you to enter a student absent, or enter a discipline event. If you wanted to notify the parents, you needed to either write a letter, or send an email. Command School automatically notifies parents when you enter attendance, discipline, or grade data. No extra effort on your part!

Re-empower the school leaders. Most student management systems are so cumbersome and confusing, that the principal never touches the software. Instead, the principal must constantly bother their administrative people to run reports, look up student data, or any number of tasks. Command School realizes that by empowering the school leaders, they appear to be in touch and in control. Anyone who can use a web browser will easily find their way around Command School. Now your principal can do what he/she needs to do, and your administrative people can do their jobs. By having both groups do the jobs they are trained to do, you create greater strength in your schools.

Simple Installation and Maintenance. Since Command School is one of the few student management systems that is entirely web based, installing and upgrading is easy. You simply allow us to update the site on our end, or if you are running the software on your site, install the latest update on your web server. We can also update your web server if you have the update feature enabled with us.

Work With Any Client. We kept hearing from schools that had some Macintosh or Linux machines that they needed to swap them out for Windows, as their student management system vendor had made the decision to develop only on Windows. Once again, a student management system vendor telling YOU how to run YOUR schools, something you will never hear from us. Almost unanimously, we heard that Command School should run on any platform out there, and we adhere to that. Windows, mac, or Linux, you're all set with Command School.

Homework Assignments. Instead of a separate package to buy and maintain, Command School is one of the only student management systems to integrate homework assignments into the program. Teachers post homework assignments, and parents can login and make sure their children are getting their assignments. No more lost or forgotten homework.

Fully functional health module. Why should you have to pay extra just to manage and track your student's health issues? Things like allergies, immunizations and health office visits are extra charges in most Student Management Systems. Not with Command School.

WHY COMMAND SCHOOL?  Because your school has better things to do then spend a large amount of money on unfriendly and uncooperative software. Because your school has an eye toward the future, and you expect to utilize technology in managing your schools. Because you know that the only way to get to being a great school, is by involving staff, administrators, and parents in the education of youth. Command School puts the school back in the command of the people who can most influence it.

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