General Features:

• Comprehensive website presence and communication solution for preK-12 schools; website professionally installed, hosted, and managed, at very affordable monthly or yearly rates.
• Comprehensive communication system allowing the community/parents to communicate with school administrators and teachers without publishing email, personal, or school information.
• Comprehensive course listing, publishing, and description system.
• Comprehensive academic support system allowing for on-line tutoring, on-line lessons, and on-line subject-matter discussions.
• Comprehensive sports  communications system that is integrated with the Calendar, Chat, and Forum system.
• Comprehensive homepage announcement system allowing administrators to post important and emergency notices quickly and easily on the website from any web browser, at any time – no coding necessary, just a simple form is used.  Perfect for school closings, lock downs, and general announcements like Back to School Night.
• Comprehensive administrator and teacher communication tools allowing private chat meetings to be held on a scheduled or non-scheduled basis.  Administrator and teacher chat rooms can be opened at all times throughout the day to be used as a school-wide management system.  
• Comprehensive integration with RSS feeds from local and national news organizations allowing the school to select whether they would like news on the homepage, and if so, the source of the news (i.e., USA Today, NY Times, CNN, Fox News, most major magazines, web sites, and local newspapers can be used.
• System can be easily expanded by adding new web pages by any school personnel using common web development tools.

School-Wide Calendar:

• Comprehensive Calendar system allowing administrators, teachers, and other staff to create, edit and manage calendar events.
• Calendar is extremely attractive, easy-to-use, and interactive.
• Calendar can be displayed in multiple views including full month, full day, list of upcoming activities, etc.
• Calendars can be easily integrated on any web page the school creates by adding a few simple lines of code.  School personnel designing new web pages can easily control the look and display of the Calendar.
• Multi Calendar capable, i.e., public calendar, staff calendar, PTA calendar, sports Calendar, administrator calendar, teacher calendar, test calendar.
• Calendar system is RSS compatible allowing staff, students, and parents to receive automatic updates and news delivered directly to their email, computer desktop, or even their own website.  Any changes made to the calendar will be immediately updated to users using the RSS feed.
• Calendar system allows any parent, staff member, and/or student to automatically receive emails concerning new calendar events or changes to any event listed on the calendar.
• Calendar system can be implemented and synchronized with all major Calendar systems including:
• Microsoft Outlook
• Trumba Calendar
• MSN/Hotmail Calendar
• Applle iCal
• Google Calendar
• Calendar events can be emailed to any email address from the website by any user to themselves or another user as a reminder.
• All Calendar events can be downloaded into Microsoft Excel and other popular Microsoft products.
• Calendar will automatically update users (staff, students, parents, community) of event changes that they have specifically requested to track.
• Calendar events can be text-messaged to most cell-phones.
• Calendar events can be forwarded to friends.
• Calendar system is prominently displayed on the homepage listing all important upcoming events.
• Calendar system automatically creates a list on the homepage of all upcoming events.
• Calendars can be updated by administrators and teachers from any web-browser, at any time.
• Calendar can be used to track all academic due dates, major tests, exams, events, sport schedules, PTA events, BOE meetings, and any other important date.

Chat System:

• Chat system provides a comprehensive communication solution for administrators, teachers, students, parents, and other school groups.
• Chat system is state-of-the-art, using the same interface that all staff and students will be familiar with. 
• Chat system can be used as the basis of an on-line tutoring system. (The chat system can be combined with the forum to make an even more powerful on-line tutor program.)
• Chat system includes animated smiley faces, icons, and avatars to be used as on-line personas.
• Chat system supports private messaging, which is very useful for one-on-one teacher-to-student and teacher-to-parent communications.
• Chat system records transcripts of all messages sent by all participants for review, if necessary.
• Chat system features moderated functions allowing administrators and teachers to be designated as a “manager” of the room.
• Chat rooms can be set with “passwords” to limit access to a room.
• Chat rooms can be scheduled to open and close at specific times.
• Chat room events featuring a “star speaker” can be scheduled for specific dates and times.
• Chat system automatically scans all messages for profanity and other harassing language.
• Chat rooms can be created for any topic.
• Chat system can have private and public rooms.
• Chat system can create rooms that allow only particular administrators, teachers, and/or students to enter/use the room.
• Chat system can be set to turn on and off for particular rooms. (I.e., Student General Chat may only be open from 3pm to 9pm).
• Chat rooms can be created for any organization inside or outside the school, including PTA groups, Board of Education members, and student organizations.
• Chat system can be configured for school use only, which would not allow any use of the chat systems by non-authorized/public users.
• Chat system is built using industry leading Java and Flash technologies, combining the two most powerful and reliable programming and presentation systems.
• Chat system is compatible with all major operating systems including Windows, Macintosh, and Linux, and is compatible with all major web-browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera.
• Chat system can hold up to 5,000 simultaneous users.
• Unlimited chat rooms can be created.

Forum System:

• Forum system allows administrators, staff, students, and parents a way to discuss topics of interest.
• Forum system can be used for an on-line tutor program allowing students to post messages.  Students and teachers can respond to work out problems.  Past messages can be saved to create a library of tutor answers.
• Forum system allows users to post messages to public or private forums for discussion.
• Forum systems can be used for subject or grade-level discussions where staff can read and respond to discussion topics at their own time.
• Forums can created as public and/or private.
• Forums automatically monitor for abusive language and harassment.
• Forums can be moderated by administrators and staff, allowing for the review of messages before posting to forum members.
• Forum system is integrated on the homepage allowing the any visitor to immediately use any public forum.

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For more information about the
3 in 1 Communication Portal please contact VESC™ Education at:
212-566-2522 or toll-free 800-947-6278
Email: info@vesc-education.com