Awesome Moodle Integration!

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Moodle integration is here! Nick and his team have coded their little fingers to the bone recently, and we’re proud to say we have released our Centre/SIS v4 with Moodle integration to beta testing. Using “REST” and XML-RPC, we’re able to add students to Moodle when they’re added to Centre/SIS. If you add a subject, course or course_period in Centre/SIS, it’s...

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Our Pootle server is back!

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Our Pootle server is back!

Ok, I know that most people wouldn’t necessarily be as thrilled to announce that their Pootle server is alive and well and available for some help. Chris Danik has great obstacles to get our Pootle server upgraded and working perfectly again. Pootle is an online translation management tool with translation interface…that is to say, we put all Centre/SIS’ vocabulary into our...

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Does Pearson own American Education?

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  Pearson is clearly a major force in American education. It is the dominant provider of testing and textbooks. It owns the GED. It owns Connections Academy, which runs for-profit virtual schools. It owns a teacher evaluation program being marketed to states and districts. It partners with the agates Foundation to develop online curriculum for the Common Core standards. This article tries...

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Centre/SIS v.4.00

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Version 4 awesomeness!  We’re smack in the middle of our beta test for Centre/SIS v.4.00.  We’re pretty excited as this is our first version on a new database engine, MySQL. Our current database, PostgreSQL, offers industrial strength power, takes a bit more training and knowledge  to run successfully, and as such, is offered less often by webhosts. MySQL is faster under a lower user...

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Online Learning surges

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  As a strong support of Online Learning, Centre/SIS encourages schools and colleges to take a determined look at online learning, including, naturally, Centre/SIS and Moodle LMS, with our outstanding integration. LSU’s Jenkins urges online learning push Colleges will have to fully embrace online education to keep up with students’ changing tastes or be left behind, the head of...

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School Reform Gets Cool!

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  Finally, there’s a conversation starting about school reform, more or less.  Not that Hollywood “buzz” will ever lead to anything productive, but if we can get younger Americans talking about the value and place of education in our society, it really can’t hurt. Maggie Gyllenhaal, the ultimate hipster actress, stars in “Won’t Back Down,” an education-reform drama...

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