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eduBoards V 2.0 - Ready for Installation in your School District Today!
Since eduBoards was first put into service in February of 2003, we have redesigned and restructured the program so that it not only provides the easiest-to-use communication tool allowing teachers, families and students to stay informed, it now provides an end-to-end communications tool to meet all of the web-based communications needs of even the largest school districts.
CyberWiz for Education has managed to provide a wealth of easy-to-understand, implement and utilize communications features, without giving up any of the simplicity of use, which has been the hallmark of the product since its introduction. Rest assured, however, that training for the average teacher using the simple administrative interface requires less than on hour. EduBoard moderators desiring to use the powerful advanced features also have the option of using the power interface long enough to configure the advanced feature, then continuing to normally use the simple mode for daily use.
Bringing together teachers, students, parents, families, the community, administrators, educators, the school boards, technical coordinators, school offices, district offices, community relations, food services, transportation - everyone that matters - into one, easy-to-use, seamless web-based community of communication on the Web. There has never been a web-application like eduBoards.
New Features List: [Note: There are links throughout this page which let you see demos of several new features - click on the glasses  ]
- EduBoards Discussion Groups See it Now [Look for the red checkmark on the notice]
- EduBoards Discussion Groups provide a powerful new collaboration tool that can be used at all levels of the eduBoards system
- Teachers host discussions between class members
- Teachers host discussions with classes in other parts of the world using MyBuddyBoards
- Teachers conduct discussions with parents and family members of their students
- School Boards, Cabinets and Administrators conduct forums with their constituents
- Department Heads conduct private forums with their staff and associates
- Discussion Groups are automatically moderated - CIPA and E-Rate Compliant - Messages are not released for viewing until the board owner places a check in the ‘approved’ box
- EduBoards Discussion Groups are powerful
- Moderators establish the rules and features for each Discussion Group
- Members may be allowed to easily upload pictures or attachments with each message
- For a lighter feel, members are allowed to attach emoticons to subject lines and messages
- Members are allowed to edit or delete messages for a Moderator selectable number of minutes after they create the message
- eMail list manager allows members to elect to have new messages eMailed to them as soon as the moderator releases a message
- Navigation of large discussion boards is a snap with ‘Next,’ ‘Previous’ and Individual page links
- Moderators are allowed to edit or delete messages at any time - a feature specifically created for the needs of educational use
- EduBoards Discussion Boards are organized
- Visible threads group messages into threads while keeping all messages in clear view
- Members me respond to or comment on a given thread or begin a new one at any time
- Thread messages always contain the poster and subject of the thread starter
- EduBoards Discussion Groups are secure
- The i.p., date and time of all messages is recorded and available to the moderator for security
- Posters are required to leave their an email address
- Messages are not available to anyone except the poster [during the timer-edit period] and the moderator until released by the moderator
- The moderator can edit or delete any message at any time - correcting any minor inappropriate oversights [this is not standard on discussion boards]
- EduBoards Discussion Groups are flexible
- Discussion Groups are compatible with share notices, meaning that several classes or departments can share any Discussion Group [read about share notices below]
- Discussion Groups are MyBuddyBoard compatible, meaning that corresponding classes in different parts of the world can use a Discussion Group for conversations and coordination
- EduBoards Homework Depot See it Now [Look for the red checkmark on the notice]
- The eduBoards Homework Depot allows students to turn in homework, assignments or projects on your eduBoards - compatible with all standard computer document formats
- You can host an unlimited number of Homework Depots on your board - one Homework Depot for each assignment or project
- Teachers use a simple interface to securely retrieve projects and assignment then print them in the classroom or save paper and review and grade them right on their computer
- Students can upload corrected documents automatically until the teacher ‘closes’ the Homework Depot when he or she is ready to review the material
- Each homework Depot offers plenty of room for the teacher too clearly delineate the assignment of project parameters - no more excuses that students didn’t understand the assignment
- EduBoards Integrated web pages / websites See it Now [the website demo will popup in a new window]
- Each board may host an simple web pages for their classroom - or host one or more entire websites
- Websites can be associated and launched by any tab heading or from links you place inside of any notice
- Websites may be displayed in the top frame of the eduBoards panel while keeping a return link in the bottom frame, or they may be launched in their own window
- Each tab based website can have its own Vanity Alias attached to it - i.e. Stadium High School’s website address on the web could be http://stadium.TPSBoards.com or http://Stadium.TacomaSchools.org - all easily controlled in the friendly eduBoards Administrative Interface
- Try this Link to our Alias Demo Site web1.studentcopy.com [this demo open the home board in a new window and open the demo website in a 3rd window]
- Simple to use browser based uploads allow anyone to upload web pages or entire websites using only your browser
- EduBoards easy to use uploads panel and file manager offer teachers an easy to use interface to manage your board’s home folder and sub-folders
- If your district allows it, each website is fully compatible with popular page creation programs, such as Microsoft’s FrontPage, Adobe’s GoLive and Macromedia’s DreamWeaver
- EduBoards exclusive SchoolCamLink
- SchoolCamLink uses the latest 802.11 wireless Internet Camera technology to allow any board to host real-time video streaming
- SchoolCamLinks can be hosted on any tab or any notice
- Wireless mobile cameras can be used for special projects, plays, assemblies, games, competitions or any other types of events
- SchoolCamLinks can be restricted so that they are available to specific groups of people, making them valuable tools to administrators, security officers, parents, teachers and others with special interests – restriction types:
- Logged-in district personnel
- Logged in parents with special permission make SchoolCamLinks perfect for allowing parents to view pre-school and kindergarten classes – only parents of children in the class can access these links
- Administrators and Security personnel are allowed special access where appropriate
- general viewing by all visitors is also available
- SchoolCamLinks are easy to set up and use
- Cameras are inexpensive, compatible with most intranets and can be moved easily from place to place
- SchoolCamLink is fully compatible with MyBuddyBoards, ShareNotices, and you can assign a Vanity Alias to your SchoolCamLink
- EduBoards Share Notices See it Now [Look for the red checkmark on the notice]
- Teachers can declare any Notice to be ‘public’ or shared. Other eduBoards moderators can then display the contents of these ‘shared’ notices on their Boards in real-time
- Department heads can produce Notices designed to be used by everyone teaching certain levels or subjects in their departments
- Teachers can collaborate on elaborate content then share it amount themselves
- Picture notices can be shared by a large number of Boards
- Districts can create standard notices containing items such as mission statements to be used district-wide
- EduBoards Picture Notices
- Teachers can easily upload up to four pictures using an simple, intuitive interface
- Each picture can have a caption of unlimited length
- Teachers select to have notices displayed in one of three formats
- 1 x 4 for narrow, tall pictures
- 2 X 2 for average pictures See it Now
- 4 X 1 for wide pictures
- eduBoards Family Oriented Calendaring See it Now [Click on some links in October to visit the baords]
- Families are encouraged to create simple links on the lower frame of their home computers with ‘quick links’ to each of the classrooms for special activities of each of their children
- Whenever a parent visits the calendar on any of their children’s eduBoards, the calendar displays all of the events for all of their children’s classes in one simple format
- Special checkboxes presented with the group calendar allow parents to customize the view to include only select types of events - or to show all events [the default]
- A special ‘print mode’ is available allowing parents to print a comprehensive ‘refrigerator calendar’ at the beginning if each month to help organize their lives around their children’s school schedule
- Teachers use their normal administrative interface to easily add calendar events to their class calendar - any notice can have up to 4 dates associated with it
- Notices which have associated dates display the notice headline on the calendar
- Visitors click on any classroom calendar event and are taken directly to the proper eduBoards with the proper notice highlighted
- Administrators use the eduBoards calMaker to easily manage calendar events which apply to the whole district, such as holidays and term begin and end dates
- EduBoards comprehensive Hit Counters
 Phone us at 877.EduBoards and we will setup a special demo for your district
- Learn which portions of your board are generating the most interest. Your administrative interface shows you individual hit counts for the following types of visits
- All hits to your board
- Hits for each tab clicked on
- Hits for each notice that requires an individual click to display [memo, graphics, Homework Depot, Discussion Group,]
- Individual counters for each of your tab based websites
- Administrative hits counter
- Individual Hot counters for each message in each of your discussion groups - keep your Discussion Groups alive as long as there is interest!
- MyBuddyBoards Phone us at 877.EduBoards and we will setup a special demo for your district
- MyBuddyBoards are special tab panels that are shared by an unlimited number of Boards. Any board owner can host a MyBuddyBoard, allowing an unlimited number of other Boards [that you specify and control] either read-only access or participatory read-write access
- MyBuddyBoard group members with read only access create their own introduction and marquee, but otherwise display the real-time contents of all member notices of the MyBuddyBoard Group
- MyBuddyBoard group members with read-write access have unlimited access to add and modify notices contained in the group
- MyBuddyBoard contents are locked while any member is modifying the group - MyBuddyBoards is a workgroup compatible web-app
- MyBuddyBoard groups true power comes from the fact that they can contain all types of notices: Discussion Groups, Homework Depots, Memos, and pictures - allowing for interesting collaborations, discussions and shared experiences across town or across the planet
- EduBoards StaffNews Phone us at 877.EduBoards and we will setup a special demo for your district
- StaffNews are a special group of notices which are created by the following board owners
- Administrators and Community Relations professionals can create StaffNews notices which display to the moderators of all eduBoards in your district
- Department heads and facilitators can create StaffNews notices which display to all moderators in their departments
- Principals and office staff can create special StaffNews notices which display to all moderators in that school
- Special departments, such as health services, transportation and food services can create special StaffNews notices which display district wide
- StaffNews notice are presented automatically as a special tab whenever a board moderator logs into manage their board
- EduBoards moderators now close or transfer their boards
- Board moderators are now able to delete their board from the eduBoards system. This makes it quite convenient to start temporary boards for special purposes or projects.
- Teachers are also provided with a smooth method to temporarily pass their boards to their supervisor at the end of school year if they will not teach that class next year - and the supervisor is reminded to and provided a convenient method to pass the board on to the new teacher for that class at the beginning of the following school year
- EduBoards enhanced Tabs Management
- EduBoards Tabs management has been dramatically expanded
- You are not allowed to have a fairly large number of tabs for your board - up to about 30 [determined by your district] with a limited number of those tabs being displayed at any time
- Prepare tabs for special seasons or projects - displaying those tabs only when appropriate such as for Halloween or Christmas
- Rearrange the order of tabs as often as you want
- You determine whether in-active tabs are displayed on your manager’s interface
- Easier to use - only Tabs that you have defined are now displayed
- You can now select from special coordinated tab colors or background textures
- Specify any tab as belonging to a MyBuddyBoard Group
- You can now delete tabs when they are no longer needed
- Specify any tab as being available to all visitors or being shown only to logged-in district personnel
- Attach your own HTML or ASP based website to be displayed in the top frame or a new window for any tab
- Easy to use upload manager allows you to upload and manage all type of files to your board’s folder
- EduBoards Restricted Content Phone us at 877.EduBoards and we will setup a special demo for your district
- Multi-level control of who can see what content allows you to securely include information on your board that is available only to other district personnel when they are logged in. This enhancement opens a plethora of new uses for eduBoards in managing departments, planning, providing lesson plans available for substitutes, coordinating teaching methods - the possibilities are unlimited
- Restrict entire eduBoards to logged-in district personnel - present content securely which is available only to teachers and other staff
- Restrict any tab on any board to logged-in district personnel only - useful for keeping lesson plans securely available for substitutes or coordinating with other teachers
- Restrict any notice to logged-in district personnel only - useful for sharing with other teachers or even keeping notes for yourself
- MyBuddyBoards may also be restricted to logged-in district personnel only - and restricting a MyBuddyBoard globally is secure as it cannot be over-ridden locally
- EduBoards Alerts Propagation Phone us at 877.EduBoards and we will setup a special demo for your district
- Alerts are displayed to all visitors on all eduBoards when they are active. Alerts originate from the following locations
- Administrative Boards from offices such as transportation and community relations control district-wide alerts which appear on all eduBoards in the district
- School Boards from the principal or office of any school control alerts which appear on all eduBoards associated with that school
- Department Boards from departments such as high school math, or middle school English appear on all eduBoards associated with that department
- Individual classroom boards can also create alerts that appear only on their eduBoard
- Districts can specify other alert categories when we design your system for you.
- Alerts now propagate from designated categories boards downstream so that a classroom board will show alerts from all entities above, Schools boards show alerts from district resources and so on
- EduBoards now offers 3 Moderators Interfaces
- The Easy Interface - eduBoards intuitive interface designed for the average board moderator who wants to get the job done quickly and without a learning curve
- The Power Interface - Gives you access to power features such managing calendar events, building your own website, Share Notices, MyBuddyBoards and other advanced features
- The Technical Interface - Offers all of the Power Interface features as well as access to technologically advanced features such as schoolCamLink and FTP control for your board’s home folder
- Moderators who want simple day to day operation can “pop in” to the more advanced interfaces to set up one or two advanced or technical features, then simply return to the Easy Interface mode while the advanced features run in the background
- eduBoards Files Manager Phone us at 877.EduBoards and we will setup a special demo for your district
- eduBoard moderators are provided with easy-to-use browser based file management tools for each of the folder types to which uploads are allowed:
- The board’s home directory
- Each of the Homework Depot folders
- Each of the Discussion Group folders
- File Managers provide detailed listings and delete checkboxes. Folders and their contents for Discussion Groups and Homework Depots are removed when the associated notice is deleted
- System wide graphics and emoticons
- Snap up your boards by using simply shortcuts to place emoticons or standard graphics at any point in your text
- Use special shortcuts to apply standard graphics and emoticons anywhere on your board
- Custom Background Colors and Textures
- Customize the appearance of your boards with custom colors or background textures while remaining color compatible with the background artwork for your districts eduBoards system
- Board owner selectable backgrounds or background colors for
- User managed Right Hand NavBar panels Phone us at 877.EduBoards and we will setup a special demo for your district
- Mini-Calendar (must be displayed)
- ‘Activities Panel’ (user namable - you designate its use)
- Calendar Activities (upcoming events from your calendar)
- Contact Panel (now you can upload your picture)
- Alerts - stacked with District Wide, School Wide, Department Wide and your Local Alerts [some district may require that the Alerts Panel remain at the top]
- ‘Learning Links’ - Resources Panel - for website links of interest to board users
- Easy-to use selectors to specify the order of the panels
- Chose which panels you want to display (mini-calendar and alerts required and contact required by most districts)
- Multiple board owners
- Specify a list of authorized administrators for any board on your managers panel
- eduBoards eMail List Server for parents Phone us at 877.EduBoards and we will setup a special demo for your district
- Integrated Calendar Manager
- allows designated district personnel to maintain the overall district wide calendar using a simple browser based application
- ebJump shortcuts
- Empowers board owners to provide links so that users can jump from any notice to any other notice in your board or on any other board [as long as they have access to the target board / notice]
- Cookies Reset tool
- Located in the help system allows parents to reset their boards at the end of a school year and start over for next years
- Improved Visitor information
- Visitors now track their user number, last visit, total visits on their Manager’s Panel
- Now Featuring Fully Customizable installation on your servers or ours!
- EduBoards is a powerful web-application which is fully customized to the special needs of your district when we install it on your server or ours
- EduBoards is Ready to integrate with your Student System
- EduBoards is ready to become your single-point suite of web-based applications that your parents use to interact with your district online - from learning the details of their students’ homework and projects through learning how they performed on each assignment - empowering parents to help their students achieve success. EduBoards helps your district meet the challenges presented by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
- EduBoards is E-Rate and CIPA compliant
- SQL database controlled look and feel for your District on our server
- EduBoards has been redesigned to be based on a totally customizable graphics package and color scheme for each district when you host on our server
- You eduBoards will have the same graphics and color scheme as your existing website or will be designed to fit your needs
- Response lag is decreased using advanced Microsoft SQL Server 2000 data control
- You can change the coloration or graphics on your eduBoards site as desired
- EduBoards Vanity Names Phone us at 877.EduBoards and we will setup a special demo for your district
- A Vanity Alias is a simple name that you make up to represent your board. Visitors looking for your particular board are then able to quickly and easily find your eduBoard using any computer. Examples of Vanity alias URLs:
- Superintendent.TPSBoards.com
- Menu.TPSBoards.com
- MrsJones.TPSBoards.com
- Vanity Names also work as folders:
- TPSBoards.com/Superintendent
- TPSBoards.com/Menus/
- Vanity Aliases can be applied to your board and for each website within your board
- Stadium.TPSBoards.com - for Stadium High School’s website
- JasonLee.TPSSchools.Org - For Jason Lee Junior High (Vanity Aliases can be used on all domains managed by the system)
 - YikesSites
- As in Yikes we need websites NOW! We have heard from the Directors of Technology of several major school districts that District Superintendents this summer mandated that every school in the district was to have their own website this year. Yikes said the Directors. YikesSites is eduBoards answer
- Simple website Creation and Management using the eduBoards Easy Interface
- As part of your eduBoards package, we will work with your to design a common look and feel for your website, and determine the content areas that will be used by the schools
- Your eduBoards installation will be customized allowing each school to complete a simple form which will create the website for the school
- You can register individual domains and use a Public DNS service, such as GraniteCanyon.com
 - EduBarista
- One of the main challenges faced by school districts today is in maintaining avenues of open communication with their constituents: parents, students, vendors, and the community they serve. EduBarista is a web-based open forum for your community. A place to get together and talk about the education of your kids.
- Easy-to-use; based on eduBoards discussion groups
- Use eduBarista in your district to keep a finger on the pulse of the community – included with your custom eduBoards installation
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 eduBoards V 2.0 - Ready for Installation in your School District Today!
Bringing together teachers, students, parents, families, the community, administrators, educators, the school boards, technical coordinators, school offices, district offices, community relations, food services, transportation - everyone that matters - into one, easy-to-use, seamless web-based community of communication on the Web. There has never been a web-application like eduBoards.
Click Here for all the Details
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