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There are some online school
management services that offer much the same benefits as
TaskMaster offers. Being online, they also allow you to:
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Access your
information from work, home, or anywhere in the world. Do
you need this benefit enough to pay a minimum of $50 USD a
month to use it?
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Let them backup
your data. TaskMaster makes automatic on-site backups, if
desired, off-site automatic backups may be set up with free
online backup websites.
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Grant instructors, students, and parents limited online
access to the data. If desired, TaskMaster allows
you easily to place the cycle attendance form online for
students to view.
However, there are problems
with using an online service:
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Number one is that it is expensive. The minimum monthly charge
for an online service is at
least $50 USD. This monthly charge continues for as long as
you use the service. Even for a user with less than 50-100
students, this is $600 USD a year, every year. In
comparison, for 100 students, TaskMaster has a one-time
cost of $300 USD, for up to 25 students its cost is only
$100 USD.
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You do not
have total control of your data. No matter how secure
the online service’s servers are, all your data is stored in
a remote location and it is accessible by unknown persons.
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If you decide
to stop using the service, how will you transfer your data
to a different school management system. Although the
TaskMaster file that stores school data is password
protected, a licensed owner is provided with the password,
which permits the file to be opened, viewed, and accessed by
any software application that can access data in a Microsoft
Access database.
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