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eChalk Features

Home Page
  • Calendaring system that allows the user to post announcements and events
  • Daily school announcement
  • Principal's message
  • School/District name and logo
  • Contact information with location map and
  • Directions
  • Help in English and Spanish
  • Shared resources with an individual school or with the entire district
  • Create surveys
  • Acceptable Use Policy for Internet and email use always available

Email System

  • File attachments
  • Spell-check
  • Return receipts & Forwarding
  • Screening to prevent undesirable incoming and outgoing emails (customized by your school/district)
  • Ability to "close down" system and allow emails only between certain groups within the schools or district -Student Safe Emailâ„¢
  • Language filtering to eliminate inappropriate language (customized by your school/district)
  • Personal address book with the ability to create multiple distribution lists/groups
  • email archiving


eChalk Classroom Pages (Teachers & Students)

Teachers can

  • Create classes, post assignments and announcements
  • Upload documents, web resources or create web pages
  • Create a threaded discussion about a particular topic
  • Create a class calendar for students and parents
  • Use the homework drop box to collect assignment from students
  • NEW! Blogging Tool - fully functional tool with RSS and comment moderating for public and private use.

Students and parents can

  • View the assignments, calendar and announcements
  • Download documents and web resources
  • Upload class assignments to the homework drop box
  • Participate in a secure threaded discussion
  • Student can blog (if district has enabled the feature!)

File Storage & Sharing

  • Each user receives  space (expandable) for email and file storage.
  • Users have an electronic locker or briefcase where they can upload web resources and files and access from any computer from anywhere in the world.

Group Pages

  • School clubs, sports teams and administrative committees can have a dynamic website.
  • Members to a group have access to a dynamic calendar, resources and threaded discussion area.
  •  Members decide whether to make some or all of the information public or private.






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