Administrators need to do more with less
SchoolBrief sets the standard for making it easy to share, organize, find, and understand important information.
It ties together in a comprehensive, highly intuitive way all members of a school system's key groups: administrators, teachers, parents, students, and sports/extra curricular activity leaders.
Having to do (much) more, for less, is just a fact of life in today's schools; SchoolBrief was developed to meet this challenge—now, and into the future.
All encompassing management system allows you to do more things for less money:
- Emergency (and routine) communication made extremely easy through multiple communication channels simultaneously
- Administrators can remotely monitor real-time school and staff activity
- One password, one login to see the entire system-all schools in a district, if desired
- Comprehensive record keeping and statistic archiving
- Grading and homework assignments easily uploaded by teachers
- Individual and class attendance viewable by day, week, month, and semester
- Seamless integration with most schools' existing Student Information Systems (SIS)
Cost-effective per student, per year pricing includes:
- Website design/set up/customization/hosting
- Generous messaging allowances
- Training
- Support
- Maintenance
- Upgrades
- Data backup
- Security
Enhances parental involvement through:
- Unique messaging system which sends to parents emergency information to multiple communication devices simultaneously; auto alerts about failing grades and poor attendance; brief reminders about PTA meetings, parent/teacher conferences, school events, extracurricular activities, etc.
- Parents can choose for themselves the most efficient and convenient way(s) to be contacted with emergency and routine school information
- Details about all of a specific child's school and extracurricular activities are located on one personalized web page for their parents to use. From that same page, parents can access info for each of their children even if they are in different schools within the district
- Parents are easily connected to their child's teachers, administrators, coaches, club advisors, school board members, and more
Improved teacher accountability and productivity:
- Easy to upload homework assignments, schedules, grades, attendance, and more
- Administrators can easily monitor teacher lesson plans, homework assignments, messaging activity, class blogs, etc
- Realistically opens more channels of communication between teacher and parents
- Parents can access information online 24/7 about their child instead of having to contact teachers for forms, documents, attendance, grades, etc.
Backbone of any emergency plan—peace of mind:
- An emergency situation is not the time to start thinking about an emergency communication plan and being able to contact parents quickly
- Having a foolproof communication plan already in place allows school personnel to be able to concentrate on other matters when minutes count
Easy to use-even for less tech-savvy staff and parents:
- SchoolBrief is highly intuitive and user-friendly
- User instructions, if needed, are embedded on every page
- Onsite and online training and phone support are available
Web-based means no hardware or software to buy or maintain-now or in the future:
- SchoolBrief is a web-portal subscription service; no extra burden is placed on in-house IT staff as SchoolBrief takes care of installation, customization, maintenance, upgrades, data backup, and security