LHRIC

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LHRICs 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

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E Rate Internet Safety

• E Rate Application Procedure
• Technology Plans
• 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

• 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.

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Multiple Onramps to Enter A Village of
Possibilities
Exploring the Ways to Work with eChalk
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eChalk Webvantage and PLC

• 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

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NEW! Design Services

• Custom Sites For School Districts
• 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

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Integration Services - Improved Technologies
Data Transfer
Data Certification
Bulk Class/ Student Roster Load
Web Services
eChalk SFT - LDAP
eChalk SFT
SIF
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Integration Services Data Transfer

• Data Certification
• One time charge per district
• 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
• 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

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Integration Services Other Integration Services

• 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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eChalks 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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eChalks Latest Upgrades 8.5-9.1 Contd

• Google Analytics
• Email Filter
• My Applications
• Storage Upgrade
• 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

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LHRIC eChalk Course Offerings 2009

• 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

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Sneak Peak at New Developments
December 16, 2008
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eChalk 10.0

• Charlene Noll - VP of eChalk Product Design

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Web Publishing Features in Development

• New Themes
• More publishing options
• Additional Color Choices
• Consistent Font Style and Size
• More Layout and Navigation Choices
• Announcements
• Highlight an announcement for selected members
  (e.g. all 12th grade students upon login will see
  the announcement in a pop-up)
• Multimedia Tools
• Podcasts
• Photo Gallery
• Slideshow Creator
• 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.

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Class Features in Development

• Multimedia Tools
• Podcasts
• Photo Gallery
• Slideshow Creator
• 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
• Content Library

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Class Features in Development

• 2-Way Homework Drop Box Interaction -
• provide for comments back and forth between
  student and teacher as well as the ability to
  allow students to re-submit homework.
• Upgraded Discussion Forum Survey Tool
• Site Level Grade New Attendance Publishing
• 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

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Exciting new EmailRedesign in Progress(Beta
version release within the next months)
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New Email Web Client

• Improved 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

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Upgraded Email Client Inbox
Drag Drop messages into folders
Support of multiple levels of folders
Reading Pane Options
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Multiple Window Support
Open multiple emails compose tabs at once
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File Attachments
Enhanced file attachment and download process
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Address Messages
Auto-fill the address bar as your typing
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Beta Option