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Complete Education PackageCommunity School Builder is pleased to provide an extremely effective communication platform to help foster a strong school community! Every solution includes the following Education Package components (please note this list merely highlights the major features and is not meant to be exhaustive):
Allow teachers/users the ability to create not just a blog but a mini-website within your website. The teachers/users can post assignments, podcasts, pictures, and more. The user has the ability to have multiple pages and the option to allow or not allow comments to be posted Preview
The key features of the Teacher Sites/Blog are:
- Teachers/Users have individual mini-websites with your own environment
- Ability to post assignments in secure and individual repositories
- Free text blog pages
- Favorite links
- Picture Gallery with lightbox effect
- Ability to post podcasts
- Ability to add an RSS feed
- Ability to provide a contact page
- Multiple templates for teachers/users to choose
The Picture Gallery is a Flash-based tool which allows you to create eye-catching slide shows of your pictures on the web. The small footprint of the Flash clips and an intelligent loading of resources allow even dial up users to have a seamless experience viewing your photos. Preview
The key features of the Picture Gallery are:
- direct linking to a photo or album
- a slide show can be automatically started
- Pictures can be added in bulk with adding a title, description, sate, and location
- Supports flash video
- Organize photos by Collections and Albums with thumbnails
- Highly customizable
- Scroll photos on other pages by album or collection
The Video Gallery is a feature rich tool which allows you to offer a video platform to create and share local video in wmv,mpg,mp3,and swf files and direct linking to over 35 video servers, like youtube, google, revver, break etc Preview
The key features of the Video Gallery are:
- Easily embed or upload videos
- AJAX voting system with the ability to add comments
- Advanced permissions system to define almost every aspect of user groups
- Supports podcasts
- Video download option
- RSS Feed
- Featured Video
- Category system to arrange videos
- Automated Newsletter Mailer
Our Newsletter Mailing system is designed with ease of use and robustness in mind. It can handle an unlimited number of newsletters with an unlimited number of subscribers with just a few clicks. Regular newsletters are one of the best ways to keep visitors interested in your site and keeps them coming back. Preview
The key features of the newsletter program are:
- Simple and intuitive to send and maintain your newsletter lists
- Flexible direct mail delivering with HTML mass email support, It is also perfect for sending personalized e-mails in bulk.
- The number of email recipients in lists and the number of lists themselves are unlimited.
- Copy function for lists and newsletters which can be used to manage newsletter templates.
- Special front-end user-panel (so users can easily manage the newsletters they are subscribed to
- Auto-configuration of mailing settings
- Sending mailing report to list owner
- Automatic update
- Personalize newsletter by greeting the reader with their first name.
- Imports email list data from any source
- Past newsletters Public Archive
- Conforms to most ISP restrictions for sending mail.
- Unlimited lists.
- Unlimited newsletters.
- Unlimited subscribers.
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The Newsletter also includes classical newsletters functionalities:
- Handle registered or unregistered subscribers
- Attachment capability
- Email address validation when registering
- Sends test email to admin before whole list
- Ability to Ban emails
- Embedded images option
- Automated unsubscribing link
- Preview newsletter before sending either on the screen or send a test email.
- Statistics management (Number of Sent / Opened newsletters, HTML or text only)
- HTML or TEXT only mailings
- No limit on mailing list size
A forum is public meeting place for open discussion of various topics. Online, a forum may also be referred to as a bulletin board or discussion area. Forums come in all shapes and sizes. The main objective is to provide an area where users can interact with questions, answers and discussions on a given topic. There are literally thousands and thousands of topical forums online. Each forum usually states the topic and tries to keep the discussions on topic. However, this can often vary from forum to forum. This can be a very powerful means of communication for parents, teachers, students, and administration by providing a platform for the sharing of ideas, homework help, general ideas, etc. You could also use a forum to gather data in a less traditional way rather than survey based. Preview
The key features of this forum program are:
- Unlimited category and subcategory system
- Ability to moderate posts before the they are posted online
- Ability to rank a post or response
- User profile box at the top of the forum
- Support for the private messaging system
- Forum spotlights and highlights
- Forum announcements and its panel
- Latest messages (Tabbed)
- Statistics at bottom
- Who's online, on what page?
- RSS, PDF output
The calendar system is a robust online calendar system that allows for general district calendars to individual calendars. Use a 3rd party application that supports iCalendar such as Outlook 2007, Apple iCal, and Mozilla Sunbird
to view and / or update the calendar while you're on the go. Other people can
subscribe to your calendar to easily view your schedule or add an
appointment to a calendar shared by your group.
The features are extensive so please view the features tab. Preview
Calendar Features
RSS Feed Modules
- Add RSS news feeds to the calendar navigation bar.
- Keep up to date on stock quotes, weather, or even add an RSS feed from other sites.
Advanced repeating events
- Set event start times to "Call for times" rather than having to choose a specific time or "All Day" (actual text is configurable, can be changed to "E-mail us for times" etc..)
- Other examples include
+ Every other Monday and Thursday
+ The first Tuesday of the month on or after the 2nd
+ 15 days before Easter every year
+ The first weekday of the month
+ Any Friday that falls on the 13th of a month
+ The first Saturday OR Sunday of a month, which ever comes first
Overriding of repeating events
- Change only a certain instance of a repeating event
- Delete only a certain instance of a repeating event
- The ability to reset a changed instance back to it's original state
Multiple Calendars
- Create Views which enable you to view multiple calendars at once (Layering)
- Multiple calendars (for users) each with their own configurable options including:
+ Member list (administrators, normal users, view-only users)
+ Event requests
+ Remember recently added locations
+ Categories
+ Color asignment
+ Remote publishing
+ File Attachments
Categories
- Easily categorize events using categories you can define for each calendar
- Assign color(s) to each category
- Assign an icon to each category
- Filter events by any category
- Assign multiple categories to events. For instance, a musical theater production can be in both Theater and Music categories
Users and Groups
- Each calendar has it's own members and administrators list
- Public access with configurable access per calendar (this can be turned off globally)
- Advanced access control based on groups and users.
- "Everyone" pseudo group
Attachments
- URL attachments
- Event file attachments
- Enable or disable attachments per calendar
- Ability to download all attachments for an event as a zip file
Import/export and publishing
- Import/Export to Apple iCal, Mozilla Sunbird and other programs that support the iCalendar standard
- Post events to a calendar remotely using Apple iCal, Windates, Mozilla Calendar and other programs that support this feature (just like when using a WebDAV server!)
- Subscribe to a calendar remotely using any program that supports this feature such as Microsoft Outlook
- Post calendars to a remote web server or service su ch as iCal Exchange or iCal Share
Syndication
- RSS feeds for calendars (day, week, and month views)
- Add your calendar feed to an RSS reader or your content provider home page (My Yahoo!, MSN, etc..)
Event requests
- Configurable per calendar
- Non-authorized users may request that an event be added
- Remote, non-authorized users may post an event just as they would any other and it will be added to the event request queue
- Calendar admins may add the request to the calendar or deny the request
- Calendar owner may choose to recieve e-mail notification of pending event requests
- Users recieve notification that their event has been added or denied
E-Mail
- E-mail notification of pending event requests
- E-mail an event to to anyone (turned off for Guest account)
- E-mail subscriptions to calendars. Works just like a newspaper subscription. Subscribe to daily or weekly views.
- E-mail notification of added events based on event type or title text
- E-mail reminders of upcoming events
- Online Learning Management System (LMS)
Train your faculty, staff, students, and parents with this amazing light weight component. Online training allows everyone the ability to participate in professional development activities at their own pace. You can make some training items compulsory or optional with the ability to require a test to be taken upon completion of the training. Preview
Features of the LMS System:
- Deliver your training content in any format! Flash, Power Point, Word, PDF, MPEG, AVI, and More! You can upload any file type as your training content
- Up to 6 way multiple choice, True/False, Short Answer. Fill in the Blank, Main photo and question photos, Random questioning and limited attempts of test or exams
- Pre-requisite course’s for certifications or diploma’s
- Custom certificates that display the students name and date of completion that can be printed
- Front end reporting tools that allows Managers/Teachers to track results of students and have those results automatically emailed
- Ability to group learning modules by category and subcategory
The School Lunch Component allows the public user to view a week of menu items for lunch or breakfast or both. The public user can print a copy of the menu for refrigerator hanging! As the school site administrator, the admin may add, edit, or delete single or weekly lunch and/or breakfast menu items. Options include the ability to adjust user printing, the user display (current week or floating (today + 4), and meal order. This is a very important feature that will keep your parents coming back to your website and helping them stay informed. Preview
The private messaging system allows users of your website to easily communicate with each other. Many Districts/Schools face the challange providing student email accounts. The private messaging system is set to an alternative by providing a simple, yet effective means of communication. Users can only send and receive from within your community. Messages are archived in the database and the system is capable of creating distribution lists and attachments. Additionally, the private messaging system will copy a traditional email to the recipient so you don’t have to worry about messages in two different places. Preview
Scrolling daily announcements will keep everyone informed about the daily events at the school. Parents will always know what is going on at their child’s school. The daily announcements even supports images to make sure it catches the users eye. Preview
- Email Updates (Listserve)
Always stay informed with Email updated news that allows registered users to e-mail subscribe to news categories. News articles on the web site are scanned at the selected interval and mailings can trigger automatically. For example, a parent can subscribe to her child’s teacher and when the teacher posts new homework assignments, the parent is automatically emailed the home work assignments that have been posted.
Features of Email Updated News:
- Automatic scheduled mailings or manual mailings by selected users.
- Categories/sections can be configured to compile news into one daily or weekly newsletter.
- Mails are only sent once with the recipients as BCC-copy which brings the mailing time down to a minimum.
- Logging of previous mailings.
- Selected users can manage subscribers from the frontend.
- Mailings can be previewed.
- Subscription to categories and/or sections.
- "Read more..." link after optional number of characters.
- Verification mail option.
- Complete HTML formatting of verification and news mails with preview window.
- Users can select HTML or plain text mail format with preview.
- Automatic or manual resend option of failed mailings.
The help desk is a great wat for your staff to perform a maintenance request or technical assistance. Teacher can submit a ticket through the system which will email the person in charge of each category. The ticket can then be assigned to a particular person for completion and priorities can be set when assigning. When the request has been taken care of the ticket can be closed.
The advantage of implementing this system is the ability to track request in a database format and makes it easy to determine campus trends, or trends from particular users. This provides the useful information to run a more effective campus and a useful tool to help make sure your teacher’s needs are being addressed.
The survey system helps schools by conducting surveys of your stakeholders to gain anonymous responses to questions that you feel are relevant to your operation. For example, you may want to conduct a campus wide survey to evaluate your safe and drug free program compliance reports or even a needs assessment to help you with your NCLB application. Gain useful information with results that can be view graphically or exported to a spreadsheet.
The key features of this survey program are:
- Unlimited surveys, unlimited questions per survey and unlimited answer types. Theme based system allows surveys to have their own look and feel once new themes are made.
- Complete access control system allowing for the creation of multiple administrator users, public or private access to creating surveys, multiple users with individual permissions to take surveys, view results, and edit surveys. Access to surveys and results can be unrestricted (public), or restricted by IP address, cookies, username and password or invitation only (invitation sent by email).
- Access to taking surveys can be restricted to a certain number of times over a given period, i.e. "Allow users to take 1 survey every 7 days.".
- Questions can have text or multiple choice answers. Multiple choice answers can be presented horizontally, vertically, in a HTML drop down or a Matrix (grid).
- Questions can be can be marked as required or left optional
- Questions can be optionally hidden or required based upon answers to previous questions (called dependencies)
- Survey results are presented in bar graphs showing percentage of answers for each value. Each answer value can be assigned an image to be used for it's bar graph.
- Survey results can be filtered based upon the results of any question, i.e. if you have a Gender question, you can filter the results to see just how Females answered your survey to look for trends. Survey results can be viewed in a "table" format which shows each response on it's own table row. Results can also be exported to a CSV file for further processing. Individual text answers that are inappropriate can be deleted from the results.
- New surveys can be created by copying existing surveys, so there will be no need to rewrite all of the questions and recreate answer types and values. New empty surveys receive a default set of answer types and values.
Offer job postings on your school web site. Your users can browse jobs or search by job title and apply immediately online. Human resources can add jobs and update job status throughout the hiring process. The administrator can approve or deny any job and controls publishing status. Preview
The key features of this job posting program are:
- View job openings - Users can list published job openings and sort on different fields
- Post job openings - Any visitor can post job openings, but they need to be approved by admin before they are published
- Ability to include, if desired, job descriptions, salary ranges, start dates, and more.
- View internship openings - Like job openings but only for internships
- Submit application - Users can send applications for job openings through the web site
- Applications are emailed to the designated person for each job
- Search job postings.
The project manager is intended to be an administrative feature of CSB to help your school stay on top of assigned projects and tasks. For example, a project can be created for a teacher with your benchmarks or objectives set as tasks for each teacher for the entire year. You can create timelines for accomplishing each task and the teacher can update the progress of each task towards mastery by indicating percentages of completion.
Features of the Project Manager:
- Manage Projects
- Create Projects and related Tasks
- Assign Projects to Groups
- Assign Tasks to Users
- Setup Start and End date
- Compact Progress Management and Statistics
- Maintain Files and Documents
- Database driven File browser
- Share Files and Documents with other Users
- Create Hydra-Documents on the Fly
- Restrict/Assign Files and Documents to Projects or Users
- Calendar
- Create Events
- Share Events with other Users
The document manager is a document repository system for uploading, downloading, opening, or editing important school documents. With this component you can manage documents across multiple categories and subcategories and make them available to the public. You can also set permissions so that only certain users or user group can access the documents. This is especially important for sharing and working on sensitive documents from a central location. Administration has the ability to be notified by email of new posting and to decide if it should be posted or denied. Preview
These are the main features of Document Manager:
- Infinite categories and subcategories. The documents can be organized across custom categories and subcategories.
- Custom groups support. Documents can be owned by a specific registered user, a groups os registered users, all registered users or everybody; * Download counter and log. You can display a download counter per document and all the downloads can be logged* (by user, IP, browser, date and hour).
- Own search system. Documents can be searched by name and/or description.
- Online editor. Plain text files can be edited online.
- History and archiving system. All documents can use the history description and be archived to later retrieve
- Mass group e-mail function. A user assigned to a group can e-mail other group users to discuss a document
- Anti-leech system. The built-in anti-leech system avoids direct linking to documents;
- Path protection. Real paths to documents are never displayed to users.
The commenting system allows user to comment on articles posted on your website. The permission are fully definable and comes with the ability to moderate so you don’t have to worry about negative information or foul language being posted. Additionally, you define the areas that users are able to comment. This provides an effective communication tool to give or receive feedback about the content on your site.
Features of the Commenting System:
- Ability to subscribe via RSS on comments made to the website
- Give user the ability to quote your article by copy/paste code on their website
- Ability to limit the number of comments on display/add
- System will email alert you on new comments
- Ability to report comments made to Administration
- Ability for the author to be notified on any follow up comments made to Weather Forecast
Present your content to users in EIGHT languages. This module gives the power of Google translation to your website. The eight language translations included in this are: English to French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese and Simplified Chinese.This is a dream come true for web site owners who have content in English but want multilingual users.
The Database Reporter is a simple framework for creating reports on your database. It includes example reports for showing visitor statistics and content. Examples show how you can extend the reporter to do additional operations such as mailing the owners of old content, or exporting your database to CSV files.
The Database Reporter Features:
- Simple frontend report list manager
- Easy to extend model for designing simple and more complex reporting
- Content listing by age (with mail facility)
- Content listing by modifications
- Export database table to CSV
- Search text
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