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| Pinnacle Plus from Excelsior Software brings the instructional and administrative sides of education together in one centralized data base system. |
Now, state standards and benchmarks, grades, attendance, demographics, and other data can be customized, tracked, aggregated, and viewed by teachers, administrators, students and parents effortlessly, without additional data entry.
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| The only proven product to be endorsed by ASCD’s What Works in Schools program, Pinnacle Plus is a multi-platform, multi-networked client/server application designed to help instructors and administrators answer their state’s growing demands for higher standards and accountability. |
| Intuitive and easy to use, Pinnacle Plus takes the power and success of Excelsior’s Pinnacle System, and adds Objectives Manager—a comprehensive, standards-based tool for tracking student progress and achievement throughout the year. |
| Pinnacle Plus’ Objectives Manager works right along with the teachers’gradebook, and allows teachers and administrators to: |
- assess student performance in relation to state and national mandates and tests
- identify students who need remediation or additional challenges
- chart the progress of individuals, groups, classes, and schools
- automatically distribute required reports to district and state agencies
- strengthen and enhance the school-to-home connection by informing and involving students and parents
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PINNACLE PLUS.
Accurate, consistent, comprehensive measurement of student progress and achievement |
| At last, you can have a system that fully integrates standards with grade and administrative data and delivers it in real time, on demand to instructors, administrators and decision-makers at the school, district and state level. |
| Feature for feature, nothing compares with the power of Pinnacle Plus: |
- Assess student performance with multiple grading methods and weighting schemes — letter, number, mastery level, and date performed — and simultaneously link their performance to appropriate standards and benchmarks, proficiency levels or scoring rubrics, including Dr. Robert Marzano’s “Power Law” or“Learning Trend Formula”.
- Track and analyze student performance at the individual, class and school level.
- Import and export all data at all menu levels.
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- Input a virtually unlimited number of students, grades, outcomes, categories and other data elements .Define individual assignments and align up to 10 student performance standards, objectives or benchmarks to the curriculum.
- Record comments on each student and track progress or significant changes with electronic notepads.
- Customize grade, performance, attendance and discipline reports to students, parents and administrators.
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| We’re Behind You All the Way |
| Excelsior Software offers onsite and offsite training and certification, as well as remote technical support when you need it. Complete documentation is available online as well as in printed matter. |
| Other product support features include: |
- Automatic file backup with three levels of password protection
- Real-time synchronization of gradebook files with your school administrative system
- Full network support
- Built-in Class File Integrity
- 100% compatibility between Windows or Macintosh platforms
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| About the Pinnacle System |
| Pinnacle Plus is an upgrade of the Pinnacle System — a collection of software products designed to integrate classroom and administrative data needs, while simplifying data entry and reporting processes. Pinnacle saves instructors and administrators time while enhancing and standardizing student records. It’s the system you can trust to make student information accessible, secure and accurate. |
| All aspects of installation, configuration, inner connectivity with other software, staff training, data and system management are included with the Pinnacle solution. |
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| System Requirements |
| The Pinnacle System is SQL-based, making it an Open Architecture System solution that allows for seamless integration of Excelsior’s or other third party gradebooks, administrative systems or student courseware. Pinnacle software works with all network protocols and file servers. |
| Network OS: |
- Novell Netware®4.x, 5.x or higher
- Windows NT®4.0 (Service Pack 4,6 or 6a)
- Windows®2000 Pro (if no Macintosh workstations—Service Pack 3)
- Windows®2000 Server (if Macintosh workstations are used—Service Pack 3)
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| Pinnacle Server (Distributed Model): |
| COMPONENT |
MINIMUM |
OPTIMAL |
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Windows®2000 Pro, 2000/2003 Server |
Windows®Server 2003 |
| CPU |
Pentium 4 or higher
Celeron processor or higher |
Pentium 4 or higher at 2+GHz |
| Memory |
512 MB RAM |
512 MB or higher |
| Hard Disk |
10 GB |
60 GB (SCSI a plus for optimal performance.) |
| Backup |
Writable CD |
Tape or DVD+RW |
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| Pinnacle Server (Centralized Model): |
| COMPONENT |
MINIMUM |
OPTIMAL |
| Operating System* |
Windows®2000/2003 Server with Terminal Services |
Windows®2003 Server with Terminal Services |
| CPU |
Pentium 4 processor or higher at 2+GHz /256K cache, with optional 2nd processor |
Pentium 4 processor or higher at2+GHz /256K cache, plus 2nd, 3rd, or 4thprocessor of equal capability |
| Memory |
300 MB per school session |
500 MB per school session |
| Hard Disk |
40 GB for system, 3 x 60 GB RAID 5 for data |
40 GB for system, 3 x 80 GB RAID 5 for data |
| Backup |
Writable CD |
Tape or DVD+RW |
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* Macintosh clients require Windows 2000/2003 Server with Macintosh services. The latest service packs and updates are recommended.
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| Contact Excelsior Software or your local Excelsior representative to find out more about the Excelsior Pinnacle System and installing it in your school today! |
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