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Below are some of the many features that come standard
and ready to use after you have registered for your teacher website! Teacher websites
are free and we welcome all teachers to register and begin using the best teacher
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Parent and
student Registration area
– Students & parents can register themselves on through the
Bloust Portal. They will receive an “Activation link” to the email address they
entered which they will have to activate in order to become registered and be able to
access restricted areas. This prevents people or Internet “spam robots” from
entering fraudulent information and becoming active users. When a valid email is entered
and the link is activated there will be a “paper trail” of who has registered.
Once a person registers, the teacher can choose the permission level for the
registered user. They can even manually add registered users, edit them or if necessary
delete them. This makes it easy when a new school year starts and the teacher needs to
clear out the previous year’s students and parents from their website.
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Survey/Poll
Creator
– Surveys & Polls are a great way to gather statistics on how your
class views certain questions. Your website can support Multiple polls to be published
on the website. Results of the poll are able to be viewed instantly after voting or by
clicking on “results” link. There is even a delay setting that allows the teacher the
ability to prevent the same person for voting twice in a set time period.
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Document Library
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Teachers can upload documents that the student may need to complete assignments.
The students will be able to download these at home. We have created several different
categories for these documents to be linked to so they can be found easily.
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Class Photo
Gallery
– The teacher has the ability to set up different photo albums of
class functions. These photo albums can be created so only registered users would be
able to view them. This makes the albums invisible to visitors to the website who are
not registered.
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RSS Feeds
– Articles that are written in the “Class News” section of the
site are available for an RSS Feed. This gives a subscriber a news feed that they can
place on their favorite personalized homepage such as Google or Yahoo.
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Podcasting
– Teachers are able to upload files that they want to broadcast in
a podcast to subscribers. People who want to subscribe will only need to click on the
podcast button on the website to receive the feed for the
podcast.
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Blogs
– An ongoing journal can be easily updated under the “General
Class News” link. The teacher can even allow students to submit articles to this section
and have the ability to review or edit them prior to publishing to the website.|
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Site
translator
– Your website can be translated into any of eight world
languages. The default choice of English,he website can be viewed in French, German,
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese,Korean or Chinese (Mandarin). To translate
the site all the visitor needs to do is “click” the appropriate flag icon under the
“Site Translator” tab. Within seconds the website will appear in the language chosen.
As a bonus, every webpage linked to the website will be translated as
well into that language.
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“Teacher Talk”
- Enables the Teacher to
communicate in real-time with students and parents. Only registered users will be able
to see this area and their name will be displayed automatically in the “talk” box.
The teacher can publish and un-publish this feature whenever they want. This way they
can let students or parents know when they will be available online to discuss topics
of interest such as homework assignments or class projects. If desired, multiple users
can be in this discussion at the same time.
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Feature Rich Calendaring System
– This is perhaps one of the most comprehensive online calendars
ever developed. The teacher can easily create new events to add to their calendar
in seconds and link them to color coded categories. These categories are able to be
viewed from multiple places on the website at any given time. Each can be searched
individually for all events that fall under that specific category. Want to find all
upcoming homework assignments? Click on the homework link and all events that the
teacher linked to that category will appear. You can even put images, hyperlinks, flash
files, contacts, etc. in each event that is entered. These events can then be printed
out by the visitor if needed.
The “Upcoming Events” area of the website displays the 3 most current events that are
coming up next on the calendar. This area automatically updates to the next event once
an event passes. The visitor can click on any of these events for more details.
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Site Search
– Just type in a word into this “Search” box and any content containing that search word will be displayed in a list.
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Content Scheduling
– Teachers will be able to write an article and schedule when
it is to appear on the website. The default will be immediate publishing but with
the push of a button they can schedule when they want the article to appear in the
future as well as when they want it to be removed from view on the site.
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Scrolling Announcements
- Allows parents and
students to view news feeds from the district, school and teacher. The feed
scrolls slowly for reading and the visitor can hover over the box to stop the scrolling
movement. They can then click on the link in the Announcement box to be taken to the
webpage associated with the link. This will open a new web window so the visitor will be
returned back to the website when they are done reading the information.
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PDF converter, Print and
Email
– Each content
page will contain these three icons. This enables the visitor to be able to
automatically convert the text into a PDF document to save to their computer, Print
the content via the printer attached to their computer or even Email a link to the
specific page to a friend or family member.
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Transferability
- If a teacher ransfers schools or grade level, they can
easily select their new school location and grade level online under their user details
profile. We created this feature so that teachers can maintain their website without
having to create a new one should they need to transfer schools or change grade levels.
All they would have to do is open their user details and change the appropriate fields
and click “Save”. That’s it! Their new grade level or School Name will now appear in the
banner at the top right side of the page.
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Online Video Tutorials
– Even though we purposely created the administration of the
website to be extremely user friendly we decided to create a video tutorial for each
section of the site. Just click on the “Website Tutorials” link under the “Admin
Options” menu and the teacher will be taken to a webpage with flash tutorials on every
aspect of the website. Watch as we take you thru each part of the website. We wanted to
make absolutely sure that every teacher can get up and running quickly and
efficiently….minimal learning curve!
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