Grain Valley R-v

“Effectively Educating Every Student Every Day”

Profile

Grain Valley School District is a PK-12 school district located in Jackson County, MO. It consists of four elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school. Approximate 2009 enrollment for Grain Valley was 3,200 and has been increasing steadily for the past five years. Guided by the mission statement “Effectively Educating Every Student Every Day” and based on the district's fundamental beliefs about teaching and learning, they follow a Comprehensive School Improvement Plan.

Updated in 2009, this plan will continue to direct the district's foundation for allocating resources, developing policies and procedures, and selecting and implementing instructional programs designed to raise student achievement into the future.

Client Requirements

Grain Valley selected to work with AllofE Solutions to meet the technology demands of an ever-growing district. The district recognized the need for an innovative and meaningful website. The use of AllofE's ContentM website management system will allow the Grain Valley School District to design, create and maintain their district’s website as well as communicate more effectively with parents, staff, students, and the community.

ContentM

“A web based content management system designed to give institutions complete control over their site layout, look and feel, and content.”

Our Solution

• Allows an organization to manage multiple sites from one centralized interface.
• Includes a Rich Text Editor for easy content formatting and updating with no technical or html knowledge.
• Provides “edit in place” content management through a user intuitive interface.
• Automatically generates the menu, pages, site map, and search information as content is added and updated.
• Allows school districts to manage individual school sites, teacher and classroom portals and more.
• Manages separate home pages for classes, faculty, and staff.
• Gives teachers an easy to use web site builder that integrates their site with the district and school’s site.
• Features advanced security that lets you restrict site administrative access.
• Provides a global search and replace to make site wide updates more efficient.
• Allows you to spell check your entire site at the click of a button.
• Simplifies changing the overall look and feel through a stylesheet and template editor.
• Connects menu items to pages, other websites, documents, collections.
• Helps users create tables and insert images and links into pages.
• Creates menu structures with infinite sub menu levels.
• Ensures that links and images across your site are working through a link validator tool.

Effects

ContentM allowed Grain Valley School District to manage their district websites through one centralized location. The consistent look and feel across pages allowed visitors to quickly and easily access content across the site. ContentM’s extreme user-friendly features along with advanced security permissions allowed for site content responsibility to be dispersed across schools and users, allowing schools to manage their own home pages and departments to manage their own pages. The extreme simplification of the website management process through ContentM will allow the use to grow along with the district.