Zespół Szkół Nr 1 w Lubinie ecom4s2p Name of the tool: Internet based e-learning platform, providing easy to use tools for learning and collaboration online. This is Complete Solution for Students, Teachers, Parents and School Administration. Country of observation: Poland Address of a school using the product: Liceum Ogólnokształcące nr XV we Wrocławiu (Wrocław, Poland) Company and website: Fronter is an international Company and has over 2 million users worldwide. It was acquired by Pearson, joining the world’s leading education company. Available in 24 languages. Fronter Poland - ul. Gabrieli Zapolskiej 1/202 ­ Wrocław Other information: This tool is not free for school (1000 € per year). But parents do not pay

The Fronter Platform includes a wide range of tools, grouped into 5 functional areas: Learning and Teaching Personal work&Portfolio Collaboration&Communication Publishing Setup&Administration. Where schools are making use of the relevant Fronter tools, the information can be made available to parents. With a unique username and password, parents or guardians of students can login to Fronter and access specified areas, tools and information. This access is decided by the school, and can include the following: Parents can access their child ‟ s portfolio and absence records, to better monitor their childs progress, participation and behaviour at school. Parents can also access different rooms, where they can take part in discussions, access school information, and complete school surveys and tests.

In the Fronter several group of users have the benefits Parents can: access to child portfolio and learning plan, see grades and attendance records, receive information from the school The teacher can: publish learning content, make individual learning plan, see the work of students The student can: access learning content, take test, hand-in home work.

Main features: Fronter is a virtual school building, structured into rooms. Each room is has the tools required to empower the collaboration and learning activity in that room. The room owner invites members and gives them rights to see and do what they need as a learner, teacher, parents or administrator. Fronter contens a wide range of easy-to-use tools for learning and collaboration online. There about 100 different tools in Fronter. Some of the tools available in this platform: E- mail - My contacts - My calendar - My resources – online contact -statistic 1. can be sent directly from within Fronter, and is integrated with the contact database.

2. My contacts - Personal contacts and friends All users can generate their own private contact list within Fronter 3. My calendar - personal appointments and meetings All users in Fronter have their own personal calendar. The calendar is available in their personal toolbar, and can be shared with other users 4. My resources - Personal content folder functioning as a network-based hard drive. All users have a My resources tool in their personal room where they can store various types of documents and files 5. Sticky in Fronter as an alternative to , we can use Stickies and internal messaging tool to individuals and groups.

6. Message is one most used tools in Fronter. In many situations Message can replace as information to groups including when it comes to file attachment. 7. The Resource tool – it is probably the most important tool in the room Resource s

8. Hand-in - folder for submission of assignments and evaluation In the hand-in folder teachers can upload assignments where students hand in their work individually or as a group. The teacher can then correct, comment and assign grades. Hand-in

9. Portfolio - overview of learning process and work progress The portfolio gathers a students complete body of work, showing the contributions, progress and results, in a room or connected to specified learning goal. Parents have access their child’s portfolio. 10. Parental Log-in Unique log-in for parents Parents can access their child ‟ s portfolio and absence records, grades, beheviour. Parents can also access different rooms, where they can take part in discussions, access school information, and complete school surveys and tests.

11. Absence and gradebook - recording behaviour, absence and grades. With the Absence and gradebook module: Teachers, parents and students can have access to up to date and accurate information – enabling more informed decision making. Reports are easily created and e- mailed or printed to send to parents or carers. Absence, behaviour and grades information is stored and viewed as part of the Portfolio and Individual Learning Plan (ILP) tools. Absence and gradebook is a Fronter PlusPack

Accessibility proposed and information provided: Where schools are making use of the relevant Fronter tools, the information can be made available to parents. It will provide them with information about homework that has been set; the results from recent course work submitted via the Hand-in tool, and details on their child’s targets and progress. Fronter will provide a solution that not only enables schools to provide data, but enhance the communication and relationship between home and school. Every user has a personal login and password. Technical equipment needed: Learning Platform is sold together with the maintenance on the servers of the supplier. After purchasing a license school receives a set of access codes for all their students, teachers and administrative staff. Fronter is centraly hosted, hosting centre deals with upgrades, backups, virus scans. References and links: Video

International Collaboration We can speaking with other Fronter schools in countries : Austria, Australia,Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Norway Poland, Spain, Sweden, Netherlands Fronter Schools from these countries sharing ideas through this new project, and joining couldn’t be simpler Our school Zespol Szkol Nr 1 w Lubinie currently introduces Fronter