Simplify student management in the cloud.

9 Jun 2011

By Ken McElrath

Chattanooga — Today Skoodat announced the public release of Skoodat Village, a cloud application designed to simplify student management for education and training organizations. Skoodat Village functions like a virtual learning community, helping any organization track people, relationships and attendance, while staying connected through a private, secure social network.

In the U.S. alone, there are more than 76,000 schools with less than 30 teachers. Very few of these smaller schools can afford the price tag of old-school technologies, which require expensive servers and personnel to manage and operate. There are also tens of thousands of other training organizations, from after-school programs to summer camps, who also need, but can rarely afford robust student management tools. Their need for better student management tools has never been greater.

With cloud computing, I see no reason why smaller education organizations should be denied the kinds of capabilities formerly available only to the big districts and universities.

Skoodat Village is designed to help any type of education organization get started in the cloud today, and even leapfrog the big guys, many of whom are stuck with inflexible, expensive, and environmentally unsustainable technologies.

One the many unique features of Skoodat Village is its built-in private social network. As with other social networking apps, a Skoodat Village user can “follow” a person, group or organization, receiving automatic status updates. This is very important to staff who want to make sure kids don’t “fall through the cracks.”

Another notably powerful feature of Skoodat Village is disguised by its simple user interface. People can be connected in many different ways, organizing them into schools, districts, groups, families, extracurricular activities and other affiliation types. Yet no matter how many or how complicated the connections become, the simple user interface makes it possible to quickly create or view any person’s or organization’s unique “village” of connections.

A 30-day free trial of Skoodat Village is available through the Skoodat web site, and an 80% discount is available to qualified schools, nonprofits and B Corporations.

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