SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS
The Systems and Data Processing unit is responsible for supporting the Muscogee County School
District Wide-Area-Network (WAN) and Local-Area-Network (LAN) Infrastructures and
mainframe operations. The district uses Directory Services provided by
Novell. Novell's ZenWorks is used for application delivery, desktop
security and inventory. BorderManager is used for Internet proxy services.
DNS and DHCP are also provided for each location.
The district's WAN is composed of
a network of frame relay circuits providing connectivity from the school
and administrative locations to the Columbus Roberts Center. The WAN is
used for Internet access, email, Directory Services, application support,
mainframe access, and network management. The WAN uses DS-1 circuits
(1.5Mbps) at each location. School sites converge on a 45Mbps DS-3 and
Administrative sites converge on a 12Mbps fractional DS-3 to the Columbus
Roberts Center. Internet access is scaled across one 9Mbps fractional
DS-3, one 12Mbps fractional DS-3, one 12Mbps ATM, and three 1.5Mpbs DS-1's.
All school district computers
have Internet content filtering in place to meet the requirements of the
Children Internet Protection Act (CIPA) legislation. This is accomplished
by centrally installed hardware and software.
An IBM 7060-H30 enterprise server using the VSE/ESA
Operating System supports all central mainframe functions. Database
services are provided by IBM's DB2 database. All in-house program
development is written using COBOL and CSP. There is an ongoing project to
convert all CSP applications to IBM's Visual-Age Generator.
Enterprise Server Applications
The Muscogee County School
District uses the IBM Enterprise Server to run financial, personnel, payroll,
and student applications.
FAMIS, purchased from KPMG Peat-Marwick,
runs the financial applications: accounts payable, vendor payment, etc.
The language code has been customized by the programming unit for use
by MCSD.
i-Trust, from Integral
Systems is used for processing personnel and payroll.
CSP and VisualAge Generator
applications have been written by the programming unit to support student
services (FTE, testing, attendance, discipline, special education, and
psychological services), fixed assets, state reporting, warehouse, and
employee leave tracking. Data transmissions to the Georgia Department of
Education
include CPI and salary/travel.
PC-Based Applications
The Applications Support Unit is
responsible for the following applications: SASIxp, InteGrade, CAFS,
WinSnap,
Trapeze, and Clarity.
In the 2003-04 school
year, OSIRIS was replaced by SASIxp. SASIxp is a database system
located at individual schools and is used primarily for handling student
information data. This data will be uploaded and downloaded from SASIxp to the district's enterprise
server, which will serve as a warehouse for all
student data. The areas of student information data that SASIxp uses
include course scheduling, attendance tracking, grade reporting, and
discipline reporting. Data transmissions to the Georgia Department of
Education include FTE and Student Record. In
addition, secondary schools use a program called Core Stars to report Hope Grant
eligibility.
InteGrade is an electronic grade
book that is compatible with SASIxp. It is used by all schools. Classxp, a
component of SASIxp, is used by teachers to report student attendance.
CAFS is in the process of being
converted to WinSnap. CAFS is a system used by all
school cafeterias to record daily meal counts and money transactions. Each
school transmits daily reports to a centralized location and this information is
reported to GDOE on a monthly basis.
Trapeze is a system used for bus
transportation. It functions to generate bus routes, map school
boundaries, and make yearly school assignments.
Clarity is the Special Education
student tracking and IEP system.
Information Technology
Technology Services
