Applications Services

  • CEnet’s Student Information System provides a centralised solution for school administration and a parent portal to enable access to their child’s attendance, wellbeing and assessment information.

    What is included?

    CEnet’s Student Information System includes the following modules:

    • Management & Reporting

    • Attendance & Wellbeing

    • Learning & Assessment

    • Communications, Payment & Consent

    • Schedule & Events

    • People & Onboarding

    Users of this service

    CEnet’s Student Information System is used by school administration staff and teachers within member Dioceses.

    The solution is also accessed by parents and carers, with a mobile application available for iOS and Android devices.

    Members are charged an quarterly subscription at the beginning of each calendar year.

  • The Financial Management System(FMS) is an element of the broader CEnet ONCE (One Network Catholic Education) Strategy and a companion to the SIS solution - CeSIS.

    The FMS provides financial and operational benefits for all schools and dioceses within the CEnet membership, being the central finance management tool of schools and central offices. Incorporating a standardised account structure, the FMS allows for greater accuracy of reporting and the ability to analyse financials across the membership where benefit can be gained.

    What is included?

    • Fees Management - accounts receivable

    • Treasury Management

    • Financial activities - including accounts payable, reconciliation and general ledger activities

    • Asset Management

    • Inventory Management

    • Facilities and Capital Projects Management (add on)

    • Financial and Supply Chain (add on)

    • Capital Planning and Development (add on)

    • FQ - Financial Questionnaire (via the Gold Master chart of accounts)

    Users of this service

    CEnet’s Financial Management System is used by school administration staff and central office finance staff within member Dioceses.

    FMS upfront configuration costs (one-off equally shared including overall program management costs)

    FMS Annual Fee (adjusted annually for CPI).

  • CEnet’s IT Service Management Platform (ITSM) provides tools to facilitate the tasks and workflows associated with the management and delivery of quality IT services. CEnet uses ServiceNow, a cloud based platform Software as a Service(SaaS) for managing it’s IT services provided to its members using the ITIL framework.

    ServiceNow ITSM aligns with ITIL standards to manage access and availability of services, fulfill service requests, and streamline service continuity.

    What is included?

    • Incident Management

    • Problem Management

    • Change Management

    • Request Management

    • Knowledge Bases

    • Reports and Dashboards

    • Asset and Cost Management

    • Configuration Management(CMDB)

    • Service Level Management

    • Surveys and Assessments

    • Portals

    Users of this service

    CEnet’s ITSM service is utilised by all member Dioceses for ticketing of the Enterprise Student Information System(CeSIS) and the Enterprise Financial Management System(CeFMS) projects. Furthermore a number of member Dioceses have implemented ServiceNow ITSM to manage their internal IT processes. All users at Dioceses can submit tickets through the Service.

    The costs associated with CEnet’s ITSM service are:

    based on the number of Diocese users who require a Resolver licence(ITIL licence) per year.

    A support charge is allocated by student number to cover the cost of CEnet usage of the tool to support all CEnet services.

  • CEnet’s Enterprise Collaboration Service is an integrated, extensible and collaborative suite of email, productivity, online collaboration and classroom management tools through G Suite.

    Integrated with CEnet’s Identity Management System (IMS), the Enterprise Collaboration Service can be fully customised to suit Dioceses’ requirements.

    What is included?

    The following functionality is included:

    • Email

    • Calendar

    • File storage

    • Web hosting

    • IM Chat

    • Office-like suite of tools

    • Email and doc archive

    Users of this service

    CEnet’s Collaboration service can be utilised by students, teachers and administration staff alike.

    Google’s G Suite is offered to CEnet members at no additional cost.

  • CEnet's Video Conferencing (VC) service provides members with an easy-to-use video, audio and webinar conferencing solution.

    Meeting participants can join, share and record content using all major client devices (Windows PC, Mac, iOS, Android) and physical room systems such as Zoom Rooms and legacy H.323/SIP devices.

    What is included?

    The following functionality is included:

    • High definition video, audio and webinar conferencing for up to 500 participants

    • Screen sharing and remote control

    • Video breakout rooms

    • Audio-only options for attendees

    • Recording, with unlimited cloud storage

    • End-to-end encryption

    • Optional room-based meeting device support

    Users of this service

    Members receiving CEnet’s VC service purchase a defined number of meeting host licenses, normally allocated to diocese staff. Users, including students, without a host license and access a free basic VC account that allows them to attend hosted meeting, or host their own meetings for up to 40 minutes (subject to security restrictions for students).

    Additional licenses are also available to extend meeting and webinar participant counts, and enable hardware-based meeting solutions.