The educational environment requires high standards and the teaching and learning, administrative, back office and supplemental systems need to be organized, cohesive, efficient and effective. This week's assignment allowed me to analyze our current applications and I realized many of the systems that we currently use serve teaching and learning, admin, back office and supplemental needs all within one application. One example is illuminate as it is used for a grade book, attendance, assessments, report cards, student data, student meals, health data and also capable of behavior management.
As a teacher, I often have trouble remembering all of the systems and where they are located. Thank God for bookmarks or google's ability to memorize our history and save passwords. To synchronize all of these systems, I would ask our IT team to create a site or shortcut that house all of these essential sites so teachers and administrators do not have to search through their history or bookmarks to find the sites they need. Create a sight similar apps on a phone, where users can view all of the available and apps and users can simply click on what they want to access. Basically, a one stop shop for all of the current applications instead of surfing through our history.
As a teacher, I often have trouble remembering all of the systems and where they are located. Thank God for bookmarks or google's ability to memorize our history and save passwords. To synchronize all of these systems, I would ask our IT team to create a site or shortcut that house all of these essential sites so teachers and administrators do not have to search through their history or bookmarks to find the sites they need. Create a sight similar apps on a phone, where users can view all of the available and apps and users can simply click on what they want to access. Basically, a one stop shop for all of the current applications instead of surfing through our history.