Audience

Value Proposition

Students

• Creates a digital environment for students to engage in their learning
• Allows students access to work anyplace and anytime (school, home, etc.)
• Uses tools with which students are familiar and comfortable
• Provides students with improved feedback and communication
• Encourages students to learn skills required for 21st century workplace

School Executive
(Principals, Deputies, Business Managers
& the School Board)

• Access to multiple sources of data and information in one location
• Increased productivity and efficiency over business related areas (“administrive”)
• Improved and aligned communication with all stakeholders including parents
• Collaboration tool to support Professional Learning Communities
• Maximize return on investment
• Increase ability to support students academically, behaviourally and socially (duty of care)
• Greater satisfaction amongst the parent community
• Assistance with provincial and federal compliancy. – there is some of this i.e. portfolio, grad requirements; distributed learning

Curriculum Managers
(Department Heads, Deputies, and
Senior Teach Staff)

• Access to multiple sources of data and information in one location
• Increased productivity and efficiency over business related areas (“administrive”)
• Improved and aligned communication with all stakeholders including parents
• Collaboration tool to support Professional Learning Communities
• Maximize return on investment
• Increase ability to support students academically, behaviourally and socially (duty of care)
• Greater satisfaction amongst the parent community
• Assistance with provincial and federal compliancy. – there is some of this i.e. portfolio, grad requirements; distributed learning

Curriculum Managers
(Department Heads, Deputies, and
Senior Teach Staff)

• Alignment of school, department and teaching goals
• Structure to support Professional Learning Communities (collaboration and sharing)
• Easier sharing and re-use of digital assets and learning resources
• Improved student assessment and reporting. (summative and formative)
• Better communications, collaboration and information sharing with all stakeholders
• Individualized learning support. Ability to differentiate / personalize learning for students and groups of students

Teachers

• Improves efficiency of business related tasks (“administrivia”)
• Supports the effectiveness of teaching tasks
• Promotes 21st century learning and teaching
• Reduces workload through efficient shared planning, resources and communication
• Productivity tools increase available free time
• Streamlines teacher / student interactions and content management.
• Supports improved assessment and reporting (formative and summative)
• Allows teachers to efficiently personalize and differentiate lessons

IT Managerseachers

• Compatible with existing Microsoft platform
• Aligns with IT staff existing skill sets (typical)
• Consistent with security and data retention policies
• Efficient installation, support, maintenance & training
• Budget friendly – help justify ICT spend
• Compliments and doesn’t place onerous demands on existing infrastructure
• Focused on future potential and growth (scalable) and built on new technology to grow and adapt to changing district need

School District Executives
(Decisions makers responsible for entire school District’s care about the same things as individual schools, plus the following)

• Maximizes impact of available budgets
• Supports system wide data aggregation and reporting
• Offers state of the art platform for the future (Web 2.0)
• Utilizes existing investments to get better teaching and learning outcomes
• Opportunity for cost containment
• In line with common long term policies/plans
• Meets the requirements of a true enterprise grade application
• Product is very attractive to schools and easy to “adopt”
• Provides a safe and innovative digital environment for teaching and learning