Any good school websites out there?

jimdad · May 17, 2003 5:42PM

I'm in the process of updating our school website. We've finally got a couple of pupils who understand PHP. So now I need some good ideas. Does anyone know of a decent school website which provides resources for students at home, uses the site to keep parents involved with school or is generally just worth looking at for new ways of doing things?

Sorry, just read this over and it seems a pretty dry topic ....... (adds smilie to make it more exciting)

ast3r3x · May 17, 2003 7:26PM

what do you mean keep parents involved?

jimdad · May 18, 2003 4:08PM

One of the big pushes in education this side of the pond is to keep parents up to date with events in the school, enable them to check what homework the kids really have, give them tips on how they can help the kids with h/work and anything else that gets them using the school website regularly as a means of staying in touch with their kid's education.

I know ....

nebagakid · May 18, 2003 4:51PM

wilsonhs.org ?

ast3r3x · May 18, 2003 5:22PM

i think its rather hard to set up a system of getting homework online ever night and specially if you would be wanting grades to be online that would be a daring move (security wise)

ghost_user_name · May 18, 2003 6:27PM

My business partner and I wrote a perl suite of scripts to manage homework. Was pretty easy, but then again, we are that good. Not to mention that we write standards compliant code, unlike some people around here! *cough*Brad*cough*

It's totally doable, easy for the teachers to particiapte in, etceteras. We had great success with the school we deployed it at.

nebagakid · May 18, 2003 6:30PM

there is always that apple thing,,, PowerSchool, i think

stupider...likeafox · May 19, 2003 4:19AM

www.moodle.org may be worth a look though it's possibly not what you're looking for. It's more on-line teaching support.

But it is probably the kind of thing you want i.e. a content management system or cms. You might want to try setting up a blog for school news. I think b2 is written in php so check out http://cafelog.com/ (though the developer is currently MIA.

ast3r3x · May 19, 2003 8:17AM

Quote:

Originally posted by M3D Jack

My business partner and I wrote a perl suite of scripts to manage homework. Was pretty easy, but then again, we are that good. Not to mention that we write standards compliant code, unlike some people around here! *cough*Brad*cough*

It's totally doable, easy for the teachers to particiapte in, etceteras. We had great success with the school we deployed it at.

or its not as hard if you have someone do it for you haha...now getting to teachers to participate would be the hard part

jimdad · May 20, 2003 2:32PM

Quote:

Originally posted by M3D Jack

My business partner and I wrote a perl suite of scripts to manage homework. Was pretty easy, but then again, we are that good. Not to mention that we write standards compliant code, unlike some people around here! *cough*Brad*cough*

It's totally doable, easy for the teachers to particiapte in, etceteras. We had great success with the school we deployed it at.

Is there a site I could look at to see this in action ?

Any good school websites out there?

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