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OnCourse Systems for Education Recipient of Scholastic Administr@tor's Best in Tech Award

Posted on: Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 10:25 CDT

GIBBSTOWN, N.J., April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- OnCourse Systems for Education, a provider of award-winning, web-based tools that streamline and automate educational processes for public and private school districts, today announced that it had been awarded Scholastic Administr@tor Magazine's Best in Tech Award in 2008 for its web-based OnCourse Discipline Management System.

OnCourse's solution provides powerful tracking and automated alert features to enable schools to document, automate and communicate effectively with all educational stakeholders regarding disciplinary actions for individual students.

"The intuitiveness of the system is so that you are three clicks away from getting to exactly what you need. In a school system, that's huge," said Chris Samuels, systems administrator for Hopewell Crest School in Bridgeton, N.J. "You have people calling, and people coming in all the time, wanting to know the bus number or what class they're in. When a secretary can click a tab, do a search on a kid, and a demographic screen pops up within 15 seconds, it's just a godsend. The system has its own public portal, and when a teacher updates grades or a secretary enters discipline information, that data is available in real time."

"Receiving an award that is voted on by both knowledgeable editors and administrators that are actually in schools using the various technologies is a tremendous honor," said Georgia Gallicchio, chief marketing officer at OnCourse Systems. "Being able to more easily comply with regulations, document disciplinary incidents and communicate with students and their guardians makes discipline management and tracking much easier for teachers and administrators."

The Best in Tech products are selected by the editors of Scholastic Administr@tor from a large variety of new and compelling educational solutions. The products are then sent to a panel of district administrators for review. The winners are listed in the March/April 2009 issue of the magazine.

About OnCourse Systems for Education

OnCourse Systems for Education is a full-service provider of web-based tools that streamline and automate educational processes for teachers and administrators in public and private school districts. Its flagship product, OnCourse Lesson Planner, is a web-based tool that automates the creation, management and sharing of lesson plans with more than 100,000 users nationwide. In 2007, Lesson Planner received the Association of Educational Publishers' Distinguished Achievement Award and ComputED's Best Educational Software Awards (BESSIES). OnCourse also offers other web-based solutions including its Student Information System (SIS), OnCourse Grade Book, OnCourse Student Stats and OnCourse Discipline System. Founded in 2002, OnCourse is headquartered in Gibbstown, N.J. For more information on OnCourse Systems, visit www.oncoursesystems.com.

Contact: Karen Higgins Sagefrog Marketing (610) 831-5723 karenh@sagefrog.com

SOURCE OnCourse Systems for Education

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