LHRIC’s eChalk User Group Conference

December 16th, 2008Mary Lynn Collins, LHRIC Model Schools CoordinatorJennifer Ozanne, Vice President, eChalkAdam Schneider, NY Project Manager, eChalk

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

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.

Multiple Onramps to Enter A Village of Possibilities

eChalkWebvantage eChalkPLC eChalkClassView eChalkAnytime

Exploring the Ways to Work with eChalk

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

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

NEW! Design Services

Integration Services - Improved Technologies

Data Transfer

DataCertification

Bulk Class/Student Roster Load

Web Services

eChalk SFT - LDAP

eChalkSFT SIF

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

Integration Services Data Transfer

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

Integration Services Other Integration Services

eChalk’s 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

eChalk’s Latest Upgrades 8.5-9.1 Cont’d 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

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

December 16, 2008

Sneak Peak atNew Developments

eChalk 10.0

Charlene Noll - VP of eChalk Product Design

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.

Web Publishing 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

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

Class Features in Development

Exciting new EmailRedesign in Progress…

(Beta version release within the next months)

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

Upgraded Email Client: Inbox

Support of multiple levels of folders

Reading Pane Options

Drag & Drop messages into folders

Multiple Window Support

Open multiple emails & compose tabs at once

File Attachments

Enhanced file attachment and download process

Address Messages

Auto-fill the address bar as your typing

Beta Option