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 (“administrative”)
• 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 (“administrative”)
• 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 Managers

• 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.)

• 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