SharpSchool Web Hosting Service
Product ID: SharpSchool
SharpSchool's webhosting service provides many features including content management, online classrooms, gradebooks, blogs, discussion forums, and even live chat. Post school events on the noticeboard or dynamic calendar to ensure great turnouts at sporting events and art fairs. SharpSchool provides many standard and unique features for your school or district to enhance education through communication and technology.
Content Management^$SharpSchool allows administrators to stop relying on overworked IT staff to make every minor website modification and update. SharpSchool's WYSIWYG editor (what you see is what you get) empowers users to create unique website content themselves with no HTML experience. Conduct teaching and administration tasks easily over the web!^#Learning Management^$Create a space where teachers can conduct online classes, make powerpoint presentations, share resources with other teachers or students, or post assignments.^#Online Gradebooks^$Utilize SharpSchool's internal gradebook system and allow parents and students to view grades online. SharpSchool's gradebook also lets parents be proactive about their children's education by allowing automatic emails to be sent to them if their child's grades slip below a certain level. SharpSchool also integrates with many popular third party gradebooks.^#Calendar^$Dynamic calendar feature allows students and teachers to post individual tasks and events like homework deadlines, while still allowing for the flexibility to allow teachers and administrators to post school wide events that appear on everyone's calendar. ^#Threaded Discussion Forums & Blogs^$Students can interact with each other and with their teacher to discuss lectures and assignments, homework, and field trips. Users can create topics, reply to other users, or quote sections of text in a reply. Teachers can moderate the forums and create approval settings for forum posts. Teachers, principals, and district staff can bridge the communication gap with parents and the community by writing about current events around the school and beyond. Students can keep a personal journal or use their blogs for writing assignments.^#