1. Communicating Using Your Website

2. Communication How do we communicate electronically? ◦ News Manager  News postings on our homepage  Text messages concerning weather delays and cancellations  eBackpack – ‘green’ replacement for sending flyers home ◦ eNotify – email messages ◦ Page pops – attention getting ◦ Portals – online classroom environment

3. News Manager News is automatically published to the homepage with a headline and brief description. Can be set up to display as a list, or a slideshow. This same news feed can be replicated on other pages as well. This works great in the portals. No need to remember to post the same information to multiple places.

4. News Manager - Archive News is automatically published to the archive. Busy parents can browse through when they have time. Posts are date stamped Keyword searchable RSS Feed Parents & staff can subscribe to receive notification of new posts via email or text message

5. eNotify Messages Send out an eNotify message to multiple email lists (by sending only one message)

6. Page Pops Add a ‘Page Pop” to the District and school homepages

7. Calendar All school events and meetings are posted on the public calendar Calendar events can be filtered by the end user for a custom experience

8. Letter days are published on the calendar and are set to skip days when school is not in session Teachers use the same calendar tool for posting homework and classroom activities. Calendar

9. Calendar Details Calendar events can be detailed. Events with a lot of information become links to new pages. Subscribers can receive reminders via text or email. Postponed events are labeled and automatically republished on the new date.

10. Mobile Pages It is important to remember that many people will access your website using a smartphone. The more information you place on mobile pages, the more informed your end-users will be.

11. Portals Password protected Online Classroom environment Teachers, students and parents login to view and interact Students, Teachers and Parents have access to only their assigned classes School district can post notices and announcements inside the portal

12. Portals - Teachers Teachers can easily set up the web presence for their classes. Template driven – professional look Can share resources among all of their classes, can opt to share with other teachers Can have students submit homework electronically Customizable discussion boards – teachers use these to continue the lesson

13. Teacher Portal Teacher’s Classes Messages from the District to the Teachers Combined calendar for all of this Teacher’s Classes Resources for ALL teachers

14. Teacher’s Class Page Expanding Area for content Date & Time stamped bulletin board Organized Resource Folders (handouts, SMARTboard files, web links)

15. Teacher’s Class Page (continued) Calendar Discussion Boards Electronic Submission of work Media (photos, videos, audio) Members (only these people can see the class page)

16. Student Portal Students login once and are connected to all of their classes – no searching for teachers sites. Easily switch from class to class

17. Student Portal Students have one combined calendar showing all of their homework for all of their classes. Can be customized to display athletics, clubs, school events etc. Homework can be submitted electronically

18. Student Portal Students have a virtual “file locker” – no forgotten flash drives

19. Student Portal Discussion boards – interaction & collaboration between students Teachers have the option of approving posts before they are published.

20. Portals – Parents Parents login once and have access to the teacher pages for all of their children Parents can see homework assignments and teacher announcements

21. Portal - Parents Announcements and district news can be read in the portal.

22. Communicating Communicating electronically has become a quick, easy and efficient means of communicating with the community. The same information is placed on our homepage, inside the portal window and sent directly to parents, teachers and/or students, helping to ensure that our message has reached our audience.