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Using School Site ManagerWhat does School Site Manager do? School Site Manager helps you create, maintain and manage a highly functional school Web site with a minimum of effort. School Site Manager has provided for the typical kinds of information a school Web site needs: information about departments, courses, sections, teachers, extracurriculars, calendars of events, the PTA and announcements. It also provides for functions such as scheduling cafeteria menus and reserving facilities. It includes fun functions such as photo galleries and student profiles that anyone can create. It makes it easy to manage text pages such as school descriptions, policies and student handbook. Finally, it makes it easy to create and update other miscellaneous pages you may require. School Site Manager keeps you in control. Anyone can create calendar events, photo galleries, profiles or announcements, but they appear only with administration approval. Teachers and coaches are authorized to maintain their own course and extracurricular information, and it's as easy as filling out Web forms. The development and maintenance bottleneck is gone. What was School Site Manager designed for? School Site Manager was originally designed to fix the most common school site problems. Often, a site starts out well but, since it's too difficult to maintain, the information on the site grows outdated. Also, a site might start with a functional, professional design, but when many people with limited skill make changes, the site soon becomes like a crazy quilt of ideas with no coherence. The cure? It takes three things:
Can School Site Manager help me manage my classroom? Yes. School Site Manager provides many tools for managing your classroom and for improving communication with students and their parents. School Site Manager includes:
With School Site Manager your school Web site becomes so functional and so easy to maintain that it can serve as your school's information hub. All this information not only benefits the student but helps parents keep abreast of class plans and events. Better communication among teachers, students and parents leads to better learning. I see that I can add a lot of information about a class section, but I teach several sections of the same class. Do I have to re-enter all of that information for each section? No. School Site Manager has two capabilities to save you work in this regard.
Can School Site Manager help me run my school more efficiently? Yes. The Facilities Reservations component and the Cafeteria Menus component are examples of features that are real timesavers. School Site Manager is used via Web browser. Does this mean that anyone can edit my site's content? No. Access to School Site Manager is password-protected. Users must sign into School Site Manager with a valid username and password to edit your website content. Does School Site Manager allow multiple user accounts? Yes. School Site Manager allows you to create as many user accounts as you need and it provides a wide range of privileges to grant to users. You can authorize each teacher to maintain his or her own course material, coaches to maintain team descriptions, an administrator to manage the calendar, someone else to approve photo galleries and so on. Service and FeesWhat is the fee for School Site Manager service? School Site Manager is available for an annual subscription. Fees vary according to the size of school. Contact us for more details. What is included in the fee? What is not included? School Site Manager is a complete suite of functionality. The standard high school package includes:
We customize each school site for color selection and home page and page header graphics. Customer is responsible for adding content through the administrative pages. No. Are software upgrades provided to me when they are developed? Yes. Upgrades are provided as soon as they become available, free of charge. We may add premium services in the future for an additional fee. We are a school with a very small staff. How do you suggest we keep our site current? It will take very little time and no technical expertise to maintain your site. Anyone who can use the Internet and fill out a web form can do it. You may choose to delegate this task to a volunteer. Anyone with an Internet connection and your permission (by granting password access) can update the site. Do you provide free customer support? Yes, we do. We will respond to all e-mail questions within 24 hours. Contact us at support@SchoolSiteManager.com. You may also contact us by telephone at (469) 831-5189. Getting StartedHow do I sign up for School Site Manager? Easy! E-mail us at sales@schoolsitemanager.com with your contact info. What do I have to provide to School Site Manager to get started? Your first step in the design process is to select a design as a starting point. Depending upon which site design you choose, you will be asked to provide the images or artwork and the text required to complete the design. Can my School Site Manager site have a unique look and feel? Yes. School Site Manager is highly flexible. We provide a variety of design templates that will be customized for your school colors and images. In addition, we can work with you to develop unique designs as a custom service. How long does it typically take to start using School Site Manager? Some up-front work is required to customize your chosen design with your images and colors. Typically we can do this within two days. Then, it's up to you. Just enter your data and you're ready to go. Some of our teachers have already built their own Web sites that they would like to keep. Does School Site Manager support this? Yes. You may link other sites. We find, however, that many teachers prefer to migrate to School Site Manager because course information is so much easier to maintain. Can non-technical users easily create or update content without any HTML knowledge? Yes. You enter data through simple Web forms and the data appears on the Web site pages. If you want to use HTML, you can, but you don't have to and most people don't. Do I need an ISP to host School Site Manager? No, you don't. We host it for you. Hosting service is included in the price. Can we continue to use the domain name that we already have? Yes. We will need to work with the organization that currently controls your domain name to link it to your new Web site. Can I have my school mascot, colors, photos, etc., on the home page? Yes, you can. Our designers will work with you to customize your site. We have course and faculty information in a database. Can we do bulk data loading? Yes. We can help you with bulk data loading as a custom service. I'm developing a website for a client and would like to use School Site Manager to maintain it. Is this allowed? Yes. Does Harry Tennant & Associates offer a reseller program or otherwise offer discounts for repeat purchases? Not yet. May I modify the School Site Manager source code? No. School Site Manager is delivered as a service. You will not have access to source code. Do I have to link back or give credit to School Site Manager? Yes. The School Site Manager service agreement requires a link at the bottom of your home page. May I change the wording on the buttons and links on my site? Yes. The buttons and links on your site's home page, page headers and page footers will reflect your school's needs. There are some length limitations so that links fit into allotted space. We already have a web site. Can I use School Site Manager to manage the content? Usually. In order to make school sites easy to maintain, many design decisions are built into School Site Manager. Contact us for a free assessment of your current Web site to determine how it could be adapted to School Site Manager.
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