Aspen: How It Works

A complete solution that works for you

Aspen delivers streamlined communication between the front office, classroom and the home. As a result, operations are significantly improved, no matter what the size of your school or district. A browser-based system, Aspen provides both high-level and detailed views of school and student data, enabling easy access to reports, data collection and analysis.

The system is built to seamlessly meet the diverse needs of everyone in your district, providing everything you need to run your schools.

System Administration

Aspen helps you set up a safe, secure and highly functional digital environment for your student and school information.

Create your ideal protection strategy using multiple layers of data transmission security and more than 20 predefined, customizable roles.
Store and quickly access essential district-wide and school-specific information with the Aspen Data Dictionary.
Personalize your Aspen experience at the district level, while giving individual schools the freedom to tailor the system to their specific needs.

Learn more about Aspen's System Administration

Master Schedule Builder

The power and flexibility of Aspen’s scheduling engine enables you to build your master schedule using user-friendly, simple patterns and easy-to-understand rules.

Manage course requests for incoming students and determine the precise number of teachers and classrooms you need for a specific subject.
Build virtually any type of schedule, whether it’s a two-day, four-period block schedule or a more traditional six-day, seven-period rotation.
Tweak multiple master schedule scenarios as much or as little as you’d like until you achieve the desired results.

Learn more about Aspen Scheduling

Teacher Gradebook

Transform your grading process from an administrative obligation to a seamless extension of your teaching style. With Aspen, you access student records in real-time and never have to synchronize data.

Use Aspen’s flexible, intuitive interface that supports the precise way you prefer to input and maintain student grades.
Post end-of-term grades and complete other grading tasks with fewer steps than you thought possible.
Build individual professional development plans (IPDPs) right from your Aspen Gradebook.

Learn about Aspen's Gradebook

Parent and Student Portals

Enable your administrators, parents and students to make informed decisions about student behavior, support and performance.

Eliminate time-consuming, ineffective mass mailings by giving families read-only access to their own demographic data.
Make a wide range of student data—including attendance, assignments, conduct incidents, grades, progress reports and report cards—available for parental review.
Give each student real-time access to his or her own academic and activity information.

Learn about Aspen's Parent and Student Portals

Manage even more school and student data

Additional Aspen features ensure that every bit of your school and student data is accessible and connected, for greater administrative efficiencies and better decision making. Other Aspen functionality includes:

State and local reporting
Health management
Attendance and conduct records
Professional development
Special education
Graduation requirements
And more

Learn about Aspen's Scalability Requirements

Get started quickly with the best implementation and support

Migrating to a new SIS platform is inherently a learning process, so our implementation process reflects that reality: You will learn how to use and deploy Aspen’s robust functionality while your Follett Software Company project manager learns the specifics of your administrative processes. This ensures that the deployment meets everyone’s needs.

We will customize the “core” reports and procedures your school district needs, including a report card format, progress report format, official school transcript, and attendance bulletin. And we will convert all your student information, including historical and archive files. The services we offer can complement the technical expertise of your own staff.

Follett Software Company also offers onsite training, eLearnings, workshops and professional learning to ensure ease of adoption among all your stakeholders.

Learn more about Follett Software's professional learning philosophy

Hosting solutions save time and money

Follett Software Company’s hosting solution utilizes all the benefits of the system architecture along with a state-of-the-art data center to provide fast, reliable and secure data access. Our hosting solution is constantly monitored for performance and is upgraded regularly to ensure that our districts have the best possible experience using Aspen. External hosting also frees your IT staff from having to manage another application on yet another server.

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