We empower the people who manage the school choice process.

GeoAuthor® or GeoAuthorGT™,GeoSchools© and GeoChoice®, designed to serve, bring the ease-of-use offered by Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to those who manage the school choice process.

ICW brings you a GIS solution designed for school choice while offering the ability to integrate with existing GIS and interoperate with existing school management systems.

Multi-User With Security

Solutions based upon tried and true methods and tools, proven with end-user success represent the basis of the application we want to introduce into your office. Capabilities such as:

Multi-user with three levels of access and progressive functionality. Parameter driven to allow adaptability for districts with varying needs. Uses a street dictionary derived from the GIS to pre-edit data entry. Wait list management and lottery pool maintenance alternatives. Student records and Choice status available for telephone response. District, Zone and Geographic maps including but not limited to:

Elementary School Boundaries Middle School Boundaries High School Boundaries Walk Zones Attendance Districts

Urban Geography Suburban Geography Rural Geography Zoned or Open Choice Regions Priority Zones

Easy-to-use Mapping

Designed for ease-of-use and parameter driven flexibility, GeoChoice® as a multi-user application offers three levels of user access managed by the Administrator. Each level has increasing functionality including data-entry, report generation, parameter control and access to student information including web access for parental inquiries.

Integrated Data Sets

Pupil Assignment Before and After GeoChoice®

Before		After
1.	Do not offer School Choice.	1.	Open GeoSchools© and TIGERUS©.
2.	Attempt to conduct choice manually.	2.	GeoCode your students.
3.	Solicit the assistance of the PTA.	3.	Define your geographic areas.
4.	Request your MIS Department to develop a choice program.	4.	Do the best you can and purchase GeoChoice® from International Computer Works, Inc.
5.	Purchase a legacy application from?	5.	Have Clerks 1 and 2 enter the applications for choice
6.	Struggle to train your staff and the attending households to accept your approach.	6.	Run choice and send out your offers.
7.	Do the best you can and purchase GeoChoice® from International Computer Works, Inc.	7.	Maintain either an applicant pool and or a wait list.

Reporting and Analysis

Following is a list of the items on the pull down menu for the Administrator. Included is an illustration of the pull down menu and a brief overview of the functionality for each option.

1.	File	Is the first pull down menu option from the GeoChoice® main menu. From this pull down the Administrator may execute the Create Project function, which will be performed for each academic year. All users may access the Open Project function which will open the project designated through the Setup›Project command sequence by the Administrator. The Export Choice function will save a copy of the choice students table to a location specified by the Administrator. The Printer Setup and Print functions assist the user in managing printing tasks.
2.	Edit	Provides the Administrator with access to discrete functions contained in the Edit pull down menu. Access to a single record for editing can be accomplished through the Record option. The Import Dictionary function permits the Administrator the ability to bring in a new dictionary generated from the GeoSchools application. The Import Students function updates the student database with the most current listing of students in the district database.
3.	Report	Provides the Administrator with a list of standard reports that can be selected from the pull down menu option.
4.	Parameters	Represents the key feature of GeoChoice® to meet the divergent needs of communities over time. The expanded pull down menu for Parameters is illustrated below. Access to a single record for editing can be accomplished through the Record option. The Import Dictionary function permits the Administrator the ability to bring in a new dictionary generated from the GeoSchools application. The Import Students function updates the student database with the most current listing of students in the district database.
5.	Setup	Through the menu options contained in the Setup pull down menu the Administrator can control user names and privileges for each of the three categories of application user (i.e. Clerk1, Clerk2 and Administrator). Additionally, the Administrator can point all of the users to the current project.
6.	Help	From the Help menu the user can access the About function illustrated in Figure 9. The About option contains information pertaining to the currently installed version of GeoChoice®.

Call ICW for additional details about GeoChoice®.