Elmbrook 3.0 (New Web Portal)
Goal
To efficiently and effectively communicate data, information, and opportunities in order to connect our staff, students, and parents with their schools, the district, and each other using web-based portal technology.
Overview
This portal will be a person's web browser home page and combine data and information from a variety of sources such as:
Staff Portal – School calendar, staff announcements, Teacher course information, e-mail, alerts from Parentlink/Alio/Technology, professional development opportunities, curriculum, forms, handbook, and more
Student Portal – school calendar, school announcements, student course information, e-mail, alerts such as missing assignments/unexcused absences/low food balance/overdue books, recent standardized test scores, recent grades posted, and more
Parent Portal – school announcements, calendar, their child's courses and relevant information including grades, principal's message, staff contact info, alerts with food service balance/unexcused absences, failing grades notice, forms, and more
Sample portal
Microsoft partnered with the Miami-Dade school district to develop a similar solution. In response to many requests, Microsoft developed a sample portal displaying its work with Miami-Dade and demonstrating content which could be included in a student, staff, or parent portal.
http://www.k12portals.com
Project Plan Key Elements (not comprehensive)
A project plan will be developed and implemented by January 25th to include key elements:
- Transition of staff from Blackboard to SharePoint or Moodle (see SharePoint/Moodle description for details)
- Transfer of content from existing content management site (and MyElmbrook) to new portal solution
- Development of input tools for creation of new content
- Implementation of data warehouse to present decision making data pertinent to the stakeholder
- Devleopment of a process for continuous improvement of portal and future development of web content
- Testing of use, functionality, and input tools in advance of final release dates
- Re-design and development of our public facing web site
Key Milestones
- January 31 – Project plan complete and impacted staff (owners of content such as secretaries for calendar information, CAO departments for forms/curriculum, etc) notified of timeline and responsibilities during the transition process
- March 15 - Phase 1 – Mockup and sample functionality complete for testing and feedback with select users from all three stakeholder groups
- May 15 – Phase 2 – core functionality complete and ready for testing
- June 15 – receive feedback on all components of Phase 2 rollout (input tools and portal) from all stakeholder groups
- July 15 – incorporated feedback into Phase 3 – release of portal to all staff members
- August 15 – release of portal to all parents and students