The Focus Advantage.

	Training & Consulting Focus also offers customized solutions to schools, districts, and institutions of higher education. If you e looking to switch systems or databases or to transition to an E-Learning system, count on our seasoned consultants to provide everything from advice and detailed implementation plans to train-the-trainers or customized hands-on training. We specialize in assisting faculty with minimal experience in online environments with designing, developing, and delivering E-Learning courses on any platform to mimic the immediacy and intimacy of conventional face-to-face classrooms.

We built Focus around five principles to create the Focus beCAAUSe: Compatibility, Adaptability, Affordability, Usability, and Scalability.

Compatibility
To maximize its compatibility, we designed Focus to work with virtually any form of data as either inputs or outputs. We also fully integrated every aspect of Focus to ensure that no piece of data every needed to be entered more than once. Instead, users can manage every piece of data involved in every aspect of a student’s life on campus—from classroom to cafeteria—seamlessly within a single application.

Adaptability
Focus is an exclusively web-based, all-inclusive, fully-integrated system. Because Focus uses Open Source code, you can rely on the skills of existing IT staff already familiar with Open Source to make changes to your own version of Focus to accommodate growing and changing needs.

Affordability
Because Focus eliminates the need for the licensing fees for multiple systems, it also represents a highly affordable system for managing student information. And, with Focus aiming to become the preeminent provider of student information systems, our highly competitive pricing strategy ensures that Focus is the market’s most cost-effective solution.

Usability
A highly intuitive interface, customized to meet our clients’ needs ensures that anyone can begin using Focus within minutes—and that information is readily available to all stakeholders, from parents to support staff to faculty and administrators. Fine-grained permissions ensure secure access to data. And full integration with Moodle ensures teachers can manage courses, assignments, and grades without ever leaving Focus, which seamlessly records grades and generates transcripts based on Moodle courses. Of course, administrators and support staff can endlessly customize Focus to accommodate student and campus needs as they develop, adding fields in seconds as needs arise.

Scalability
Focus is also almost infinitely scalable, accommodating the needs of districts that anticipate rapid growth in their student populations, as well as increased demand for different kinds of data, including security and healthcare information.