Virtual Class Room

Overview

Sawtel Hosted Microsoft Class Server is a learning management platform that provides a complete solution to harness the power of the Web in pursuit of individualized instruction and higher student achievement levels. It is an exciting new way to learn that engages students, involves parents, and ensures more time for teaching. The perennial challenge is to achieve better results without significantly increasing resources and costs—the traditional productivity barrier. This barrier has been broken in other fields, and widespread access to the Internet and innovative collaboration software is providing the opportunity for the education sector to do the same. Sawtel has leveraged Microsoft’s expertise in world-class productivity tools, along with Microsoft’s relationships with education leaders to deliver Class Server, a solution tailored for schools.

Using Class Server, it is now possible to automate many of the procedural and administrative tasks that teachers have traditionally performed manually. This enables them to dedicate a greater portion of their time to where it makes a real difference—their students. Sawtel Hosted Microsoft Class Server is a powerful educational tool that lets teachers plan, store and deliver curriculum-aligned learning resources over the Web.

With Class Server, students can use a Web browser to access everything they need to plan their day and complete their assignments. Class Server is not dependent on broad access to computers. It is equally effective at managing resources and fulfilling test and report requirements in environments with restricted PC access. Parents can log in to their own page through a secure access and monitor their child’s progress and schedule on a daily basis. Curriculum Managers can use Class Server to strengthen standards through the centralized management of learning resources, which can be customized as necessary.

Class Server enables schools to:

• Create and deliver automatically gradable tests over the Web
• Evaluate student work against local curriculum standards
• Comply with IMS and SCORM open standards for content.

Promoting a Standards-Aligned Curriculum - Class Server gives education authorities greater scope to manage curriculum resources.

Assessing Student Achievement

• Your standards, your way
• Grade against standards
• Track student performance
• Export data for further analysis

Improving Student Achievement

• Track progress
• Disseminate best practices
• Devote more time to teaching

Engaging Students - Class Server brings teachers, resources, and students together in the same online learning space.

Interoperability - Class Server was built with legacy and third party system interoperability in mind.

Individualized Instruction - Create, edit, and manage curriculum resources to provide targeted and individualized learning experiences

Return on Investment - scale efficiencies through:

• Purchasing content centrally
• Training teachers on only one platform
• Limiting support and management costs

Parental Involvement - provides parents secure access to their child’s assignments and completed work, at a time and place of their choosing.

Improving Communication - The Class Server basic portal offers a straightforward and extremely easy-to-use feature to communicate news, events, and other information to the school community.