eChalk Announces Enhancements to its Online Learning Environment
Improvements include new capability for sharing best-practice lesson plans
ATLANTA, GA JUNE 22, 2007 - eChalk, Inc., today announced the newest version of its Online Learning Environment, Version 8.0.
eChalk's Online Learning Environment enables district leaders, principals, teachers, students and parents to communicate more effectively and positively impact leadership, teaching, and learning. The latest improvements to the Online Learning Environment include new Lesson Planner capabilities that allow curriculum leaders, principals, department heads, and teachers to collaboratively develop and share exemplary lesson plans.
The Lesson Planner module, which automates lesson plan creation, standards alignment, and plan submission and review, now allows teachers, within a department or throughout a district, to work together to create best-practice lesson plans and share them with each other. One of the many unique attributes of Lesson Planner is the ability for this system to be customized in order to mirror the natural work flow of a district.
"Because South Carolina has very strict standards, we decided to implement lesson planning software so that we are consistent across the district and our students learn the same curriculum no matter what school they attend," said Linda Shaylor, Director of Instructional Technology for Kershaw County School District. "After a very thorough evaluation process, we selected eChalk's Lesson Planner because it's so comprehensive and so easy to customize to our lesson planning process. Teachers can access standards, post lesson plans, homework assignments, and resources, all within one easy-to-use system."
Other enhancements featured in Version 8.0 include new integration options with a district's student information system (SIS) that allow for the system to be automatically updated, powerful new email archiving capabilities that provide district leaders maximum flexibility to comply with state and federal email retention laws, and updated calendaring tools and user interfaces.
About eChalk
Founded in 1999 and headquartered in New York City, eChalk is committed to helping schools succeed by providing online communication tools that support leadership, teaching, and learning. With eChalk's safe and secure environment, every school and district community member has appropriate access to event calendars, homework assignments, school board meeting minutes, online discussions, resources, student grades, and other information that helps K-12 schools to achieve their learning and instructional goals.
eChalk and Student-Safe Email are the service marks or registered service marks of eChalk, Inc. More information is available on the Web at www.eChalk.com or by calling 800-809-3349.
Press contacts
Kershaw County School District:
Mary Anne Byrd
Director of Communications
(803) 432-8416
eChalk:
Terry Meehan
Vice President of Marketing
800-809-3349
