 Benefits to your school
 School Administrators
Board Members
School Public Relations Officials
Technology Directors
Parents & Community
Stakeholders from every facet of your school system can experience the benefits that SchoolSpan affords. See how our solution is helping your contemporaries around the country.
School Administrators
- Facilitates collaboration among students and staff
- Increases the frequency and quality of useful information shared with parents and your community at-large.
Your print newsletters may only reach the public 3-4 times a year, but our dynamic web newsletter can deliver
information in real time
- Increased parental involvement by giving parents access to up-to-date information
- Easy to implement and manage, so you won't have to allocate more staff resources to enhance your web site
- Supports your district's goals through improved communication. Any of your strategic goals always include a communication component, and SchoolSpan helps you effectively incorporate electronic communication into those plans
- Providing the most requested information means fewer phone calls for your district and building staff. People can more easily find the information they want online, and proactive emails for news and special announcements helps inform the public during adverse situations
Board Members
- Provides a more technically-savvy image for your district. Districts spend $300-600 per pupil annually for technology, but a poor web site can persuade your community to question the effectiveness of your technology program. A solid web site helps reinforce your efforts to gain community support
- Increases the frequency and quality of useful information shared with your community.
Your print newsletters only reach the public a few times a year and provide stories months old.
But our dynamic web newsletter can deliver information in real time
- Community members can subscribe to get weekly or monthly news and events, keeping them in the know
- Supports your district's goals through improved communication. Any of your strategic goals always include a communication component, and SchoolSpan helps you effectively incorporate electronic communication into those plans
- Gives your district a polished look for less than the cost of a dedicated web staff member. Our tools are user-friendly, so a non-technical person can manage your entire web site, saving you money to recruit and retain costly technical experts
School Public Relations Officials
- Provides a more technically-savvy image for your district. Districts spend $300-600 per pupil annually for technology, but a poor web site can persuade your community to question the effectiveness of your technology program. A solid web site helps reinforce your efforts to gain community support
- Increases the frequency and quality of useful information shared with your community.
Your print newsletters only reach the public a few times a year and provide stories months old.
But our dynamic web newsletter can deliver information in real time
- Our system automatically compiles and distributes electronic newsletters. Community members can
subscribe to get weekly or monthly news and events, and they can customize what news and information they receive. You get the benefit of providing electronic newsletters without doing any extra work
- Supports your district's goals through improved communication. Any of your strategic goals always include a communication component, and SchoolSpan helps you effectively incorporate electronic communication into those plans
- Eliminate reliance on the IT department for your web site. School communication experts should be in charge
of the web site, but often IT departments are assigned the duty because it's "too technical." Our tools are user-friendly,
so a non-technical person can manage your entire web site, giving you the ability to control your web site
and make updates when you want to
Technology Directors
- Provide a stable technology platform for your district. Recruiting and retaining qualified staff that can manage your web site, our ASP solutions can empower non-technical people to manage the site. SchoolSpan districts don't have to worry about staff changes to keep their site operational
- SchoolSpan takes less than an hour to learn. If they are familiar using Microsoft Office applications and a web browser, they can master our applications
- Eliminate concern over passwords and publishing to the web site. By offering four levels of publishing permission, you can assign appropriate levels of publishing to staff and even students. Certain levels require prior approval before going live to the web site
- Eliminate the burden to the IT department for the web site. You have high priority technology issues that need immediate attention, and you can't always get to the web site to post the latest information. By making the web site easy to manage, non-technical people can assume that responsibility.
- Easy integration with other web-based applications. SchoolSpan makes it simple to integrate all of your web-based applications (email, student information, course management, district intranet) through a common gateway.
Parents & Community
- Get access to more real-time information that you want. Information from calendars, school lunch menus, latest news and even homework assignments is just a click away using our suite of applications
- Be able to share ideas and opinions. Our online survey tool gives the public a chance to give their thoughts about budgets, referendums and new programs during the planning stages
- Community members can subscribe to get weekly or monthly news and events, keeping them in the know
- Emergency communication features send messages to peoples' cell phones and pagers, helping to inform them during any adverse conditions
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