School districts are increasingly seeing the importance of its web site to disseminate and communicate information to all its constituencies such as students, parents, teachers, prospective employees, external agencies and the community as a whole. Schools typically have a lot of information to release to students, parents, and teachers. A few of the key considerations for a district web site are: consistency across the entire site, good navigation structures and fresh easily updateable, quality content.
ContentM-K12 allows school administrators to achieve these goals in the most cost effective manner while ensuring a quality, high end web presence.
Administrators maintain control over site look and feel, templates and style sheets while empowering a wide range of users such as teachers, parents, students, associations etc. to update content.
Permissions controls restrict media additions to authorized staff, and allow for pre-publish review. Administrators have full control over editing and publishing rights for individual teachers and groups of teachers.
District webmasters & administrators can use ContentM-K12 can use cafeteria menus, class cancellation information, other news or emergency messages, sign-up forms, athletic schedules and much more.
Teachers
ContentM-K12 allows teachers to connect to students and parents and extend the boundaries of the classroom.
Teacher Pages - Teachers can page is made easily maintain their own pages with information about themselves. The ability to choose from available templates and the use of a Word like editor ensures completes simplicity and ease of use.
Student Pages - Teachers may also allow students to publish their personal pages under her/his supervision by being the final authority before a student page is made LIVE. This feature can be enabled/disabled for every individual pupil.
Group Project Pages – Teachers can allow group project web pages that are accessible and editable by all group members. The teacher can check the page and approve, disaprove, delete, or make the page visible.
Class Pages – Since classroom pages have never been easier to post or to manage, teachers can posting syllabi, overviews, assignments, bulletin boards, calendars, quizzes, and resource folders, with practically no training.
All teacher sites are automatically linked to the faculty directory to be easily found by parents.
Parents, Alumni, and Community
CMK-12 makes it easy for parents to participate in and monitor their child’s learning.
Allows parents to rely on the web site for accurate information on upcoming school functions through online event calendar, lunch menus and allows instant access to classroom, guidance, district and school information.
Schools can now allow parent teacher and other parent associations to maintain their own set of web pages that adhere to the school/district’s standards.
