Transcript LHRIC’s eChalk User Group Conference

LHRIC’s eChalk User
Group Conference
December 16th, 2008
Mary
Lynn Collins, LHRIC Model
Schools Coordinator
Jennifer Ozanne, Vice President,
eChalk
Adam Schneider, NY Project Manager,
eChalk
E Rate & Internet Safety
E Rate Application Procedure
 Technology Plans
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Last date to submit plans and an 09-10
budget - JUNE 15th, 2009
Internet Safety Bill Passed
School need to teach online safety, cyber
bulling, and knowledge of sexual predators.
 State wide Model Schools is addressing this
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eChalk New Offerings
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Most of the items will not affect LHRIC districts
in the sense that we are all renewals. Want our
districts to know that now there are other
offerings.
Districts can now request a “custom design” for
the site to be embeded into the application at
an additional cost.
SIS Integration offers a host of possibilities.
Multiple Onramps to Enter A
Village of Possibilities
Exploring the Ways to Work with eChalk
eChalkWebvantage
eChalkPLC
eChalkClassView
eChalkAnytime
eChalk Webvantage and PLC
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New offerings for new customers to start with a subset of the eChalk
application
eChalk Webvantage
 Provides consistent and professional looking websites for district and
schools or individual schools
 Enables districts to promote district vision & leadership competency
 Creates transparency for budget & BOE oversight
eChalk PLC
 Enables faculty & staff to build educational teams that can easily
collaborate and communicate with each other across a school / district
 Enables district administrators to connect with school members across
the district on important issues, new policies, standards & expectations,
etc.
 Gives school leaders a vehicle to communicate about ideas,
philosophies, best practices, etc.Provides consistent and professional
looking websites for district and schools or individual schools
NEW! Design Services
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Custom Sites For School Districts
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Custom homepage design allows a district to have a
completely unique look and feel that they can manage
and update with the eChalk software
Project includes: Requirements gathering, creation of
3 sample designs, modification of design based on
feedback, delivery of custom template
100 hours of design, consultation and implementation
services
Cost is around $15,000
Integration Services - Improved
Technologies
Data Transfer
Bulk Class/
Student
Roster
Load
eChalk
SFT
Data
Certification
eChalk
SFT - LDAP
SIF
Web
Services
Integration Services
Data Transfer
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Data Certification
 One time charge per district
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eChalk Data Specialist will provide the district with requirements for
data fields, format and processing necessary to complete transfer
process and will test data to provide certification
 If district lack experience or capacity to meet requirements, consulting
can be purchased to complete the certification process
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Data Transfer
 Annual charge per site
 Enables transfer from SIS, LDAP/Active Director, HR database or other
data source through the applicable transmission methods
 Exact service plan will be finalized during implementation process
Integration Services
Other Integration Services
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Grades and Attendance Transfer
Annual per site charge
 Available with eChalkAnytime only
 Adds grades and attendance information to
data transfer to allow students and/or parents
to access this information within eChalk
 Transmission must be via eChalkSFT, SIF or
Web Services
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eChalk’s Latest
Upgrades 8.5-9.1
Ability to add multiple images to RTE
 RSS - Subscription on District & School
Home Pages.
 Create a link to RSS feed - Resources
 Layout Manager available to ALL districts
and schools
 Parent registration for public classes
 Multiple Languages on home page
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eChalk’s Latest
Upgrades 8.5-9.1 Cont’d
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Google Analytics
Email Filter
My Applications
Storage Upgrade
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50 MB of file storage for every user
100 MB of email storage for every user
50 MB of School & 50 MB of District file storage
500 MB of hosting storage
Blogging for Admin, Teachers, Students
LHRIC eChalk Course Offerings
2009
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Webinar - Creating Blogs for Classroom
Instruction 1/20/2009
Layout Manager and Web Design - full day
course for web masters. 1/26/2009
Webinar -Google Analytics -tracking the data on
your website and using the information to
position content appropriately. 2/11/2009
Please visit www.lhric.org - Calendar Events
Sneak Peak at
New Developments
December 16, 2008
eChalk 10.0
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Charlene Noll - VP of eChalk Product
Design
Web Publishing Features in
Development
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New Themes
More publishing options
 Additional Color Choices
 Consistent Font Style and Size
 More Layout and Navigation Choices
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Announcements
 Highlight an announcement for selected members (e.g. all 12th grade students upon
login will see the announcement in a pop-up)
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Multimedia Tools
 Podcasts
 Photo Gallery
 Slideshow Creator
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Content Library - ability for user to access any resource from any area
(Groups, Class Pages, My Account Files, Hosting) and push it to any
content area.
Class Features in Development
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Multimedia Tools
 Podcasts
 Photo Gallery
 Slideshow Creator
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More publishing options
 Additional color choices - each school/district theme will have multiple publishing
templates for class pages.
 Layout options - teachers will be able to drag and drop components on the class page.
They will be able to hide componets they do not want live. (Similar to an iGoogle
interface)
 Rename all areas (I.e. change name of Work and Events etc.)
 Option to view class page without having to log out
 RSS capability
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Content Library
Class Features in Development
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2-Way Homework Drop Box Interaction 
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Upgraded Discussion Forum & Survey Tool
Site Level Grade & New Attendance Publishing
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provide for comments back and forth between student and teacher as well as the
ability to allow students to re-submit homework.
ability to sync from attendance and grades from SIS system within eChalk
Upgraded Feature Set
 Calendar: New scheduling options, timed events, shared events from other calendars
(pull events from all calendars). Will also have the option to create “units of work” and
archive within the system.
 Resources: Hierarchical folders and the ability to set start and end dates with
folders/resources. Archive resources.
 Announcement: Support for multiple announcements with start/end dates
Exciting new Email
Redesign in Progress…
(Beta version release within the next months)
New Email Web Client
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UI (looks more like Outlook)
Multiple active message windows
Multiple levels of hierarchy in email folders
Auto-completion of email addresses
Reading pane
Enhanced email attachment process
Automatic saving of draft messages
Updated design of Address Book
Upgraded Email Client: Inbox
Drag & Drop messages into folders
Support of multiple levels of folders
Reading Pane Options
Multiple Window Support
Open multiple emails & compose tabs at once
File Attachments
Enhanced file attachment and
download process
Address Messages
Auto-fill the address
bar as your typing
Beta Option