Providing secure data on a flexible platform for districts of any size.
Technology
Architecture & Hosting
Focus School Software licenses systems to provide school districts with a scalable and flexible solution that meets not only the information demands of today, but also the future. Our clients range in size from a few hundred students to over two hundred thousand (200,000) students, all running on a SQL relational database on either customer owned servers or remote Focus servers.
With an open architecture platform, Focus School Software provides our customers with a system that can meet the ever-changing demands of student information reporting and analysis.
3-Tier Architecture
Focus Systems are built on a 3-tier architecture using industry-standard technologies and security at each level. This 3-tier architecture was designed in this century, and mimics platforms used by technology companies around the world to power million-user websites.
- Tier 1: Database
- Tier 2: Business Logic
- Tier 3: Presentation
Cloud Hosting
Focus offers cloud hosted solutions at a minimal cost to the District. Allowing Focus to host your system alleviates the District’s cost and burden of maintaining network and server hardware, software, and associated licenses.
Focus recommends a tried-and-true technology platform for running all of our solutions. This includes partnering with industry leading cloud hosting providers for the most reliable and secure systems.
Focus is an Amazon-certified “Well architected solution” and an official AWS Partner Network (APN) partner in good standing.
Automatic Backups
Focus automatically creates backups of your entire system in the cloud to ensure you don’t lose data.
3 Tier Architecture
Focus Systems are built on a 3-tier architecture using industry-standard technologies and security at each level. This 3-tier architecture was designed in this century, and mimics platforms used by technology companies around the world to power million user websites.
- Tier 1: Database
- Tier 2: Business Logic
- Tier 3: Presentation
Cloud Hosting
Focus offers cloud hosted solutions, at a minimum cost to the district. Allowing Focus to host your system alleviates the District’s cost and burden of maintaining network and server hardware, software, and associated licenses.
Focus recommends a tried-and-true technology platform for running all of our solutions. This includes partnering with industry leading cloud hosting providers for the most reliable and secure systems.
Focus is an Amazon-certified “Well architected solution” and an official AWS Partner Network (APN) partner in good standing.
Automatic Backups
Focus automatically creates backups of your entire system in the cloud to ensure you don’t lose data.
Integrations
Focus has built-in Manage Integrations tools, supports API calls, is OneRoster and EdFi certified, and provides secure FTP file and batch processing to offer multiple methods for seamless integrations with countless third-party systems.
Curriculum Support
- Microsoft OneNote
- Think Central: Go Math!
- FCAT Explorer
- Imagine It!
- Renaissance Place
- Schoolology
- Edsby
- Classworks
- My Big Campus
- Core K12
- Achieve3000
- Canvas
- Google Apps for Education
- Edusoft
- DataDirector
- Blackboard
- SuccessMaker
- All In Learning
Special Student Services
- SEAS
- A3 Education Software
- EasyIEP
- Excent Enrich
- PEER
- IEPWriter
Transportation
- Versatrans
- Trapeze Mapnet
- EDULOG
Library
- Follett Destiny Library Manager
- Follett Destiny Textbook Manager
Food Service
- NUTRIKIDS
- eTrition
- PCS-NOW
- WinSNAP
- Horizon
- LunchTime
Alert Systems
- CallingPost
- Connect-ED
- SchoolReach
- Connect 5
- Alert Now
- One Call Now
Other
- LobbyGuard
- Performance Matters
- MTS
- Accelify
- Clever
- ClassLink
Curriculum Support
- Microsoft OneNote
- Think Central: Go Math!
- FCAT Explorer
- Imagine It!
- Renaissance Place
- Schoolology
- Classworks
- My Big Campus
- Core K12
- Achieve3000
- Canvas
- Google Apps for Education
- Edusoft
- DataDirector
- Blackboard
- SuccessMaker
- All In Learning
- Edsby
Special Education
- SEAS
- A3 Education Software
- EasyIEP
- Excent Enrich
- PEER
- IEPWriter
Transportation
- Versatrans
- Trapeze Mapnet
- EDULOG
Library
- Follett Destiny Library Manager
- Follett Destiny Textbook Manager
Food Service
- NUTRIKIDS
- eTrition
- PCS-NOW
- WinSNAP
- Horizon
- LunchTime
Alert Systems
- CallingPost
- Connect-ED
- SchoolReach
- Connect 5
- Alert Now
- One Call Now
Other
- LobbyGuard
- Performance Matters
- MTS
- Accelify
- Clever
- ClassLink
Security & SSO
Focus includes many security features to help your district keep data safe and HIPAA/FERPA compliant including: multi-factor authentication, encryption at rest and during transit, field-based security, and features to hide student information for high profile students.
Mobile App & Responsive UI
In our mobile development, we leverage native apps that run on iOS, Android, and Windows. Our Mobile Community App, which is available from both the Google Play and Apple App stores, provides administrators, teachers, students, and parents a streamlined way to access student information.
