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he Community School Builder website solution is focused on helping schools and districts strengthen parental involvement and community building initiatives by harnessing the power of the internet to provide an effective communication platform for all school stakeholders.
Community School Builder uses one of the most powerful open source content management systems on the planet. We provide the service of web hosting, site development, professional developmet, and customer support. The package that we put together for schools provides an extremely effective communication platform to help foster a strong school community!
Some features of the package that CSB provides include a learning management system, calendars, help desk, school meal calendar, forums, private messaging, automatic email updates, project manager, personal web space, and much more.
Parents
Parental Involvement is a key componenet to the success of any school. Community School Builder provides many tools to strengthen your parent involvement and community building initiatives.
Parents can subscribe to thier child's teacher pages so any new items posted to the web site will also be emailed to subscribers.
Parents are encouraged suscribe to the school newsletter to receive periodic communications from the school.
A forum is provided so parents can have discussion groups and receive feedback from other parents, students, teachers, administrator, etc.
Parents can also post comments about articles posted to the website.
Students
Students will always be up to date with school events through the school calendar, daily announcements, teacher pages, and much more.
Students can participate in their own moderated forums to share ideas, ask questions about their howework, or start thier online community.
Students can also post comments about articles on the website, subscribe to their teachers pages, or even have their own pages if the school so chooses.
A learning management system (LMS) is also available for tutorials or even podcasting.
The uses for community building initiatives are limitless and foster an extremely effective learning environment for your campus!
Teachers
Teachers will have their own pages that they can edit very easily or post new items to their pages that provide a powerful communication platform for fellow teachers, students, parents, administrators, and all other stakeholders.
Professional development is availble for teachers through an online learning management system or they can produce their own tutorials or podcast for their students.
Teachers will also be able to participate in the online forums, school blog, or post comments about articles that others have written.
Online calanders, daily announcements, and a private messaging system will always keep the teachers informed and up to date about school events.
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