Recognizes the best non-instructional business management application, product or solution that supports education. Includes privacy tools, class/lecture capture solutions, network services, human resources/talent management, enterprise management, digital communication/security solutions, scheduling and registration services or student information systems.
Campus Cloud - Campus Cloud Services
Campus Cloud Services is a cloud-based student information system provider. Our Student Information System (SIS) is the first cloud-based, real-time solution that manages all student data in one place – across admissions, academics, financial aid, accounts and billing, graduation, and career placement. Many universities and schools were forced to shift to a remote teaching and learning model because of the pandemic. For faculty, accessing student data from anywhere was extremely crucial. The institutions that already had SIS in place and remote accessibility were able to adjust to this shift in no time. But it was tougher for smaller, nontraditional colleges with limited IT resources and year-round demand. We cater to these schools and worked to help several remain open during the pandemic by giving them instant access to cloud systems that can be accessed anywhere. Campus Cloud has built more than 350 APIs to communicate with most learning management systems (LMS), including Canvas, Moodle, and Brightspace, and with other software popular in the higher education market. By embracing an open application programming interface (API) environment, we’re able to extend our college services giving our customers the flexibility to build a system that works for them. In order to meet our growth and performance challenges, we migrated to MariaDB SkySQL as our cloud database running on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and SkyDBA for fractional DBAs with A+ proactive care. The volume of data that we’re moving and the connectivity we’re building only increased our need for a modern cloud database with high availability, scalability and security. MariaDB’s intelligent database proxy and router is included in our SkySQL multi-node deployments and it has helped increase redundancy, coordinate automatic failover, and handle concurrent connections. SkySQL’s database firewall, dynamic data masking, and other enterprise security features prevent data breaches and stop accidental and malicious queries from flooding the network and database. This is key in handling sensitive student data and personally identifiable information protected by federal laws. SkySQL powers Campus Cloud with its dynamic scalability and a zero-tolerance policy for any downtime. Universities and schools are able to lower upfront infrastructure costs, repurpose IT professionals to other tasks, and focus on projects that differentiate their college instead of infrastructure with Campus Cloud. Go To Campus Cloud Services' Web SiteGo To Product SiteSupporting PDF |
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ClassLink Suite - ClassLink, Inc.
ClassLink is a leading provider of cloud-based education products that connect educators and students with their classroom, their curriculum, and each other in richer, more powerful ways. As leading advocates for open data standards, we offer instant access to apps and files with single sign-on, streamline class rostering, automate account provisioning, and provide actionable analytics. ClassLink empowers 16+ million students and staff in over 2,000 school systems and 15 countries. Go To ClassLink, Inc.'s Web SiteGo To Product SiteSupporting Video |
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Clever - Clever
Nine years ago, Clever was born of Dan Carroll’s experience as a school tech director in Denver, in response to the massive inefficiency and lost classroom learning time from dealing with siloed technology and forgotten passwords. Today, Clever has become, in the words of Glendale Unified School District IT leader Doug Laing, “this magical place where students can go and everything they need is just one click away.”
The digital learning platform is used by over 94,000 schools, representing 65% of K-12 schools in the U.S. Clever offers schools the Best Administrative Solution by solving pernicious technology implementation and access challenges, at no cost to them. Clever does so through a single sign-on platform that creates a seamless learning experience for teachers and students, while streamlining interoperability, rostering, and security for districts.
Districts can connect any SIS to Clever to use its free rostering solution to provision new applications. When they do, they save time with easy implementation, reduce data errors, and strengthen data security for all their users. Clever’s API has cut implementation cycles between schools and developers from months to minutes–making it possible to spend more time on innovation, and less time on implementation. Over 750 ed tech developers have already integrated with Clever. This year alone, three-quarters of a million free and freemium applications were downloaded by teachers who discovered new apps in the Clever Library.
Building on its secure, automated rostering, Clever also launched its Clever IDM solution this year, which provides school districts with a comprehensive identity management platform. Given the increased volume of ed tech usage across U.S. classrooms, districts have faced unprecedented challenges in creating and maintaining user information in core identity systems. To help, Clever has developed a comprehensive, enterprise-level identity management solution that eliminates the delays and errors in account creation that are inevitable with manual processes, giving students faster access to the resources they need and reducing demands on overtaxed IT departments. And, it is offered at a fraction of the cost of most comparable solutions on the market today, with no minimums or fees for setup or support.
Lastly, Clever analytics give district administrators quick insights into who has access to learning apps and who has or hasn't logged in – making it easy to protect data, support student learning, and maximize district investments in tech. At the outset of the pandemic, for example, Clever’s data dashboard helped Oakland Unified School District pinpoint which students weren’t engaging so that they could get devices and internet in their hands. In a matter of a few weeks, 96% of students were logging into school.
Clever is a leaders’ swiss-army knife: helping them make informed decisions, save time and money, and deliver on their academic mission. Go To Clever's Web Site |
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Munetrix Financial Module - Munetrix
The Munetrix Financial Module is a comprehensive, all-in-one solution for school districts looking to create a district-wide culture of community through trust, teamwork and transparency. From financials and transparency compliance to planning and progress reporting, the Munetrix Financial Module features easy-to-adopt and easy-to-use modules that facilitate simpler and more robust forecasting, capital planning and performance management. Offered in conjunction with the Munetrix Academic Module, the product offers a comprehensive suite of powerful, interdependent solutions for the whole district, as well as the whole student—taking multi-level, complex data sets and making them simple to understand, report and act upon.
Specific modules address the complete range of a district’s departmental operations, including tools for performance analytics, data visualization, business and process workflows, fiscal wellness, and compliance reporting. Maximizing the product’s interoperability by integrating with a district’s existing systems, the product enables users to quickly and easily harvest and contextualize publicly available data and privately generated data in one powerful combination.
Users at any level of financial proficiency can use the system to create linear regression budgets in a matter of minutes, as well as multi-year forecasts with multiple scenarios, to assess potential outlooks and plan for the future. Human resources teams can generate multiple reports to better understand performance, staffing trends and costs related to salary and benefits. The system also empowers administrators to compare enrollment trends against staffing trends to easily visualize operational and budgetary status/forecasts. Easy-to-use interpretive charts and graphs help policy makers understand the true picture and helps auditors in the preparation of "supplemental" reports. Best of all, users are able to quickly transform multi-level complex data sets into easy-to-comprehend visualizations in order to provide consistent, relevant and actionable data to stakeholders—leading to greater transparency and collaboration across the district and entire community it serves.
The product saves administrators hundreds of hours per year, otherwise spent on collecting, aggregating, disaggregating and analyzing data by more traditional methods such as spreadsheets, Google forms, Word documents, etc., stored in multiple, disparate locations, where they are difficult to sort and cross-analyze.
The Financial Module provides schools a unique holistic platform that empowers districts to analyze all of their data with a single login and destination, supporting horizontal succession planning, building institutional knowledge, and facilitating workflow management.
More transparency. More teamwork and collaboration. All of this is empowered through the Munetrix Financial Model, uniquely designed to foster stronger school districts and build more trusting communities.Go To Munetrix's Web SiteGo To Product Site |
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