Schoolnet’s Outreach creates a platform for the educational community to share best practices and disseminate school and district information, and showcase student portfolios while fully integrated with Schoolnet’s Instructional Management Suite (IMS).
Importantly, Outreach provides districts and teachers with a venue for disclosure of public information for NCLB compliance, as well as a full range of day-to-day school news, announcements, and class materials.
Outreach’s easy-to-use content management tools allow schools and individual teachers to easily develop and maintain Web pages without support from district technical resources. Educators can create, permission and manage content pages, discussion forums, calendars, and polls.
With Outreach, districts can manage their communication and collaboration needs through a single, secure system with intuitive, flexible and fully customizable interfaces and administration tools. Outreach seamlessly extends the learning experience to the entire learning community – including teachers, principals, parents and students.
Teachers and instructional staff can:
- Provide a single, unified Web presence across the entire district
- Collaborate on and communicate general school or classroom information with peers, leadership, parents, students, and the community to share ideas and leading practices
- Communicate and share knowledge through discussion forums and Web pages
- Create, update, and view school and district-wide events, as well as individual schedules
- Disseminate information online throughout the community to encourage communication and keep constituents informed and involved
- Connect directly with other district users any time from virtually anywhere
Schoolnet’s Web-enabled, zero footprint applications are designed to industry standards:
- Open and interoperable
- Microsoft® .Net Framework
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0 and higher, Apple Safari 1.3 and higher, or Mozilla Firefox 1.0 and higher
- Microsoft® SQL Server 2005
"When schools, families, and communities work together to support learning, children tend to do better in school, stay in school longer, and like school more." *
With NCLB requiring that student data be readily available to parents and with research indicating that family and community involvement in the learning process positively impacts student performance, districts need solutions to foster open communication and collaboration. Parent Portal creates a platform for the educational community to involve parents and guardians in the learning process.
Importantly, Parent Portal gives parents a secure login to view their child’s education portfolio, including performance data, attendance, and teacher notes. Parent Portal’s easy-to-use content management tool allows schools and individual teachers to easily develop and maintain student-centric information for parents without support from district technical resources.
*http://www.nea.org/parents/research-parents.html
Educators can quickly create, permission, and manage content pages, calendars, and document lockers for parents and students to use. With Parent Portal, districts can manage their communication and collaboration needs through a single, secure system with intuitive, flexible and fully customizable interfaces and administration tools.
Teachers and instructional staff can:
- Provide a single, unified Web presence to parents
- Share key student performance data, attendance, homework, and teacher notes with parents
- Promote parental involvement in the learning process
- Comply with NCLB mandates
- Decrease the burden on IT staff
- Seamlessly integrate with Schoolnet’s IMS suite and benefit from having student data automatically updated to the system
Schoolnet’s Web-enabled, zero footprint applications are designed to industry standards:
- Open and interoperable
- Microsoft® .Net Framework
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0 and higher, Apple Safari 1.3 and higher, or Mozilla Firefox 1.0 and higher
- Microsoft® SQL Server 2005