Product Roadmap

Overview:

This article should not be viewed as 'Static' and will change throughout the year as estimates are updated and feedback from our steering committee is added to our development pipeline. 

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Strategic goal:

PCSchool is entering the final 18 months of its transition to Spider (Web hosted platform.) It is our expectation that this will form the 'bulk' of our development work ensuring new modules are made available as soon as possible.

In addition to the migration to spider we are more than half way through the FACTS integration piece which will offer schools a single solution for both a SIS and Receivable platform.

We are also in the process of reviewing feedback from our 6 workshops this year and are assessing both the priority (Steering Committee) of enhancement requests as well as what business changes we can make to better service our customer base.

Roadmap:

Business Changes:

• Additional resources to expediate development changes
• Additional resources to assist with help desk support (Both in Rockhampton and Melbourne)
• Implementation of ZenDesk - A single self-service platform for News, Updates, Knowledge Base, Community Discussion and Support Tickets.

Development:

• Modules yet to be 'Ported to Spider' 
  • (Q3 2020)  -  Finance: Debtors, GL, GST
  • (Q1 2021)  -  Enquiries & Marketing
  • (Q1 2021)  -  Shop POS
  • (Q4 2019)  -  Asset Register
  • (Q2 2020)  -  Creditors / Accounts Payable
  • (Q4 2020)  -  Timetable
  • (Q4 2019)  -  Payroll
  • (Q3 2019)  -  Foundation & Alumni
    
    
• Steering Committee Prioritised Enhancement list (To be Confirmed)
  • (Q3 20219  -  Medical - full overhaul with additional fields. Required for duty of care compliance. Record medication plans and expiry. Asthma plans etc. Automated alerts. (Completed)
    
    
  • (Q1 2021)  -  Eforms - setup is complex, navigation is difficult, look and feel is awful. Want to feed back more information into database areas (eg absent note creates absent record), drag and drop option, needs more development. (Branding & Log out completed)
    
    
  • (Q2 2020)  -  Making less clunky. More sensitive to period reporting (eg reports by period rather than date, able to process to prior year better). More consistency with modern accounting methods - review of accounting practices.
    
    
  • (Q1 2020)  -  VSR/VSN is not working, does not seem to generate / pull back the students VSN. Generates errors and have to call to get the number. Students are not recognised until they have been roll marked
    
    
  • (Q3 2019)  -  Split families in Freedom - with communication is not as easy as it could be in regards to recognizing the structure regarding things like court orders. Schools are still having to create fields that identify how a family should be communicated with. (completed)