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Improve learning environment, become a respected school, and win referrals
Schools are now putting up their own websites but they have yet to effectively utilize this technology to bring real benefits to their audience: students, parents, teachers, and school officials.
Features and benefits.
- School information (in built)
- Impress your target audience with your school’s history, mission, philosophy, achievements and future plans. Your school’s anthem in MP3 or WMA format for visitors and nostalgic alumni/alumna to hear. Location of the school and directions on how to get there from any direction using Google maps.
- Contact information. (in built)
- Provide a way for parents to contact teachers and school officials i.e. phone numbers or email addresses. It gives a good corporate impression if the teachers have addresses under the school’s domain name, e.g., This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
- School updates (+300,000)
- Keeping the school website fresh and updated is the hallmark of well-planned website.
- Updates can include UNEB results, intra and inter-school events, announcements of upcoming parent-teacher conferences, and holidays among others. A digital video of the school events can be posted on the website so that parents can view them after work or on weekends.
- Educational resources (+300,000)
- The school website can contain electronic books, teaching aids, journals and links to other useful websites. Teachers and librarians could review, suggest, and maintain these online materials. This kind of information can also help the parents in need of materials to help the students at home.
- Teachers can use the website to collect the materials they have used in the classroom for their use in succeeding school years. Teachers will have good teaching materials readily available and avoid having to redo the research and compilation.
- Interaction opportunities (+300,000)
- Host electronic forums where parents, teachers, and school officials discuss various relevant topics. Don`t wait for the next PTA meeting, an electronic forum allows a person to speak up at virtually any time. The contents of a forum are available for future use and can also be used by school officials for conducting informal online surveys involving teachers and parents.
- Parents can start their own forum to seek advice and share ideas on how to best help their children in their schooling. Parents can even provide information on where to buy the best school supplies or what to do during holidays.
- Electronic forums can be used by students seeking help from other students, even alumni can be allowed to participate and share their experiences inside and outside the school.
- Family-school connection (+400,000)
- A class (each class) webpage can display upcoming and completed projects of the students. It can also provide information about homework and suggestions on how parents can help their children at home. Photographs, video, diaries from exposure trips can also be published in the classroom webpage.
- The school website can also give student performance updates by giving parents access to their children’s grades — assignments, quizzes, projects, periodic tests, etc. Traditionally, parents depend on report cards to know how well (or how poorly) their children are doing in school. If parents are informed early, they will have a better chance of assisting their children at home or during visitation days.
- Mailing Lists (+400,000)
- Create and manage different mailing lists to keep parents, teachers, Board Members posted of any information they need to know. Parents, alumni and well wishers can subscribe to receive this information by email.
All the above will put your school above the rest and give your school an image worth referrals from parents and other people using these resources.
