Textbook Tracker

School District textbook expenditures are the third highest yearly expenditure, behind staff salaries and facility maintenance. According to recent audits conducted in school districts throughout the United States, average-sized school districts lose between $100,000 and $650,000 each year in lost and damaged textbooks; larger school districts lose well over $1,000,000 each year. According to these same audits, school districts can cut their textbook losses by half and gain back thousands of instructional hours by simply implementing effective textbook management and tracking software.

The iSIMS Textbook Tracker is a fully automated barcode system designed for the management and tracking of student textbooks throughout the school district. The iSIMS Textbook tracker works with a school district’s existing information systems by importing scheduling information pertaining to class, teacher and student schedules. Up to date schedule information and easy to use bar code technology make textbook check-out and check-in as simple as 1-2-3 reducing classroom check-out and check-in time by 70% to 80% while ensuring and documenting that all students have the proper textbooks.
 
Visibility, valid forecasting and student accountability are the means to textbook lost and damaged cost reduction. The iSIMS Textbook Tracker provides total visibility of textbook location and condition facilitating student accountability for lost or damaged textbooks and enabling valid forecasting for textbook requirements. Textbook Tracker simplifies the procedure for holding students accountable for lost or damaged textbooks by providing evaluation aids and automated processing of electronic and/or hard copy memorandums for past due notices and fines. Textbook Tracker also provides multi-level inquiries and reports on textbooks status that aid textbook lost and found resolution, textbook physical inventory audits and textbook procurement.

The iSIMS Textbook Tracker is straightforward and easy to implement and can also be used to simplify the management of non textbook items that are assigned to and returned from students on a recurring basis such as novels, sports equipment, band equipment, uniforms and laptops.