Your school’s website is more important than ever. Your community demands current, reliable information. Your teachers increasingly see the website as a communication tool. Parents now expect to find current information about their students on-line. But you may not have the time, expertise, or resources for this type of project. How do you give teachers the tools they need to maintain web pages – and retain the policy control you require? How do you give parents and students access to the information they want, while maintaining FERPA, HIPAA, and CIPA compliance? Above all, how do you use the web to make everyone’s job easier and more efficient, while producing more accurate results? SchoolOne has experience helping schools use information systems and the Internet to be more effective, manage data, and connect to their communities. Our experience, coupled with our certification as a Microsoft Gold Partner, has shown us that SharePoint is a solution worth considering in a variety of education settings. For schools still using their websites strictly as "brochureware," SharePoint might be more solution than necessary. The fact is that there are cheaper and more flexible content management systems. However, most schools now desire more comprehensive performance from their websites.

 SharePoint can be a very successful solution for schools that want:                                

Staff’s work available within the school or district through internal shared systems, while protecting it from unwelcome external eyes Automatic routing of that work through standard approval and sign-off processes Automatic posting of approved work directly to the external website on attractive, pre-templated pages Application forms, event registrations, surveys, and other information captured automatically in internal databases or spreadsheets for use in other ways, such as mailing lists, demographic studies, or reporting Centralized access to information pulled from different systems, either to provide "dashboards" or to create "smart forms" and processes, such as a parent view to course grades and attendance from the student information system, or to extracurricular events and calendars from coaches’ spreadsheets, and allows the parent to automatically notify all parties of a child’s planned absence Personalized log-ins that create different levels of access for different users, such as parents, students, teachers, and administrators