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The interactive features of SOCS allow you to create a dynamic online presence in easy, inexpensive ways.
The comprehensive online survey tool allows you to gather valuable feedback and the polling tool allows you to conduct a simple poll on the homepage. Both gather quick input and you can use the results as a foundation to further engage the community.
With the interactive calendar, busy parents can stay on top of school events by signing up for email reminders and change notifications about specific events. Through SOCS, they can also access school forms and pay for school-related items online.
If your school closes unexpectedly due to extreme weather conditions or a serious incident, SOCS allows you to react immediately via News Update emails and posting regular updates on your homepage.
With the feedback tool, your readers can submit comments about articles. The comments will be posted only after you review and approve them. This often triggers an interactive forum that keeps readers coming back for more.
These interactive features will take you to a new level of online communication while meeting the needs of your community.
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Parents Today's time-pressed parents appreciate quick, current online information. With SOCS, you can: Provide online access to teacher email addresses, homework assignments, grades, activities calendar, lunch menu and student handbook, testing dates, information about school projects, and parent-teacher conference schedules |
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Send important information via e-mail such as:
- urgent bulletins (school closing due to weather)
- News Update e-mails that links parents to articles on your site
- automatic calendar reminders about school activities
- electronic newsletters that replace expensive hard-copy publications
Online forms that parents will actually see and return -- unlike forms sent home in students' backpacks.
"Shopping Cart" technology that allows parents to easily pay for fees, yearbooks, school clothing apparel and school trips.
| Students Students can download class handouts, assignments, guidance materials, e-mail teachers and set up calendar reminders for the school year schedule. |
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| The Community Your district depends on community support, and much of that support comes when you provide up-to-date information about school-related issues in a professional, easy-to-read format. |
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With SOCS, you can:
- Be the source for reliable information about important school-related issues, instead of the media
- Provide school board-related information such as school board agenda and minutes, e-mail addresses of school board members, and school board policies
- Ensure that your content is accessible to those with disabilities
- Use online surveys to gain input on school and district issues
- Provide an up-to-date calendar listing school-related events. Readers can even subscribe to automatic e-mail reminders prior to an event.
