LearningPoint

Products and Services for Education Authorities

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What is LearningPoint?

LearningPoint 5

Benefits of LearningPoint

Benefits for Teachers

Benefits for Students

Benefits for Parents

LearningPoint Features

Easy Access to School Services

Optional Modules

Why choose myinternet products?

What is LearningPoint?
Schools today need to equip students to make the most of a rapidly changing world of knowledge acquisition and technology. LearningPoint provides the platform to meet this challenge by integrating Information and Communication Technology (ICT) into the fabric of the school community to serve both educational and wider school needs.

LearningPoint is a total intranet solution developed to meet the needs of Australian K-12 schools. It enables schools to unify all of their teaching resources under a single, intuitive learning platform, saving students and their teachers from logging into multiple applications and enabling administrators to better utilise the investments already made.

As an onsite intranet (running on a server at the school), LearningPoint is designed to fully utilise the school's local area network and maximise the speed of accessibility to content.

Currently in use in some of Australia's most respected independent schools, it provides a mechanism to enhance and engage students in learning while assisting teachers to implement effective programs using online technology.

Teachers, students and even parents who use LearningPoint are impressed by just how easy it is to access school resources online from their school, home or anywhere.

The appearance and functionality of LearningPoint is fully customisable and may include school colours, graphics and unique titles applied to the many information portals to reflect the school's unique culture.

View the Senior Interface

View the Junior Interface

LearningPoint 5
The latest version of LearningPoint for independent schools launched in early January 2006. Major new features included, the integration of The Le@rning Federation digital resource library, and the inclusion of a WYSIWYG editor. The digital resources now include high quality multimedia curriculum content covering most key learning areas spanning across primary and secondary sectors. Staff and students are now able to create pages in LearningPoint using the WYSIWYG editor and staff are also able to use the editor with the various text areas within LearningPoint. Further improvements to the mark book, changes to the interfaces for administrators, and increased access to activity event information were just a few of the other inclusions. The annual Strategic User Forum and ongoing user feedback strongly influenced the direction of development for this release.

Benefits of LearningPoint
LearningPoint is designed to be used by all members of the school community; administrators, teachers and students - even parents.

Whole School Benefits
LearningPoint offers significant benefits to the school through its comprehensive school-centred functionality, its performance and accessibility, and its administrative and control features.

Some of the many benefits for the school are:

Enhances school communication and administration - with timetables, curriculum, activities, school communications, attendance and mark books.
Easy to use - easily used and managed from within the school community by your key staff.
Fast - not reliant on external access, LearningPoint runs on your LAN and is not restricted by external bandwidth.
Cost effective - significantly reduces the wastage and cost of printed resources and their distribution.
Integrates with other systems - integrates with Microsoft Active Directory or Novell NDS domains for seamless authentication.
Safe and robust - curriculum content and personal information is stored in a secure central location.
Flexible - easily structured to reflect campuses, departments, form groups and houses.
Stable and supported - experienced Network and Systems Engineers are on call to ensure system stability (myinternet Help Centre).
Enhances school communications - builds on an easily accessible repository of information (newsletters, bulletins, guidelines, policies, handbooks, templates, meeting schedules, agendas, minutes - they can all be accessed from anywhere - school, home, office - any time).

Benefits for Teachers
LearningPoint is developed taking into account feedback and suggestions from teachers. Curriculum requirements, as well as how teachers really work with their students and with the school community, have been considered.

Benefits for teachers include :

Easy to get started - the ability to compile and publish their curriculum online without the need for specialist IT training - it's as easy as attaching a document to an email.
Saves time - no more waiting over photocopiers to prepare and deliver curriculum - preparation and delivery can occur online.
Enhances communication with the class - for example, photo lists of classes to make the transition for new and temporary teachers easier - LearningPoint provides a "who's who" in the classroom.
Transform connectivity into productivity - work from the most convenient location at the most convenient time.
Facilitates collaboration with other teachers - collaborative work environments are facilitated - with easy access to shared curriculum resources. Easy to add, delete and exchange resources.

Benefits for Students
The online resources available with LearningPoint enhance the educational experience for students. Access to the virtual classroom is available anywhere, anytime.

Benefits for students include:

Helps to prioritise work - all tasks are aggregated in due date order so that students can focus on forthcoming submissions.
Enhances communication with teachers - students can electronically submit tasks and then receive online feedback on their submissions.
Improved access to materials - subject matter is organised so that students can access it more efficiently and effectively to achieve enhanced learning outcomes.
Enhances communication with the school - students can stay in touch with school activities even if absent from school or away at camp.

Benefits for Parents
With the increasing demands for parents to be involved in their children's learning, LearningPoint provides immediate access to their children's classes, results and attendance. Parents can also easily and quickly access newsletters, school policies and procedures and even tuck shop menus.

Other benefits for parents include:

Enhances parent involvement - parent involvement through access to curriculum such as homework and assignments. Parents can also access their children's attendance and marks.
Enhances communication with teachers - facilitates enhanced communication with teachers via email.
Enhances communication with the school - easy access to school curriculum, policies and information.

LearningPoint Features

Document Management
LearningPoint offers state of the art document management to schools. Teachers and students can easily add, move, copy and remove files of any kind to and from the intranet.

Timetable/Schedule
Individual schedules for the day or week can easily be accessed by all users. The LearningPoint calendar and daily timetable are conveniently linked.

Tasks
Tasks can be set for students to complete on or offline. Tasks can be
submitted and marked online and are added to the online teacher Mark Book.

Online Mark Book
Within LearningPoint, teachers have access to the online Mark Book
where they can keep track of all task assessment and online submissions.

Content Search Facilities
Search for general content or your own content inside LearningPoint. Users can also search within documents loaded into the system.

Online People Search
Look up details of staff and students such as telephone numbers and extensions, email addresses and classes.

Bulletins, News and Forthcoming Events
Members of the school community may access school bulletins, announcements, news and forthcoming events. Information can be specifically targeted to groups or individuals within the school.

Bookmarks or Favourites
Users can add their own hyperlinks of frequently visited places to Favourites on the LearningPoint intranet. These appear on the MySchool Home Page for quick and easy access at a later date.

Easy Access to School Services
Users can access a wide variety of school services from the MySchool Home Page of LearningPoint including the school web page, library catalogue, online school address book, email and network drives making LearningPoint the ultimate home page for all teachers and students.

Whole school intranet solution with personalised individual user profiles.
Browser based access for MACs and PCs.
Single click access to information.
Individual user logins provide for a secure environment, including parent access.
Collaborative work environments.
Individual class spaces.
Mediated discussion groups.
Easy creation of folders, files, links and web sites.
The same environment at home and at school.
Scheduling of classes, duties and activities.
Integrated school timetables.
Class, form and house lists, optional class photos.
Customisable to reflect school culture.
Automatic system backups.
Comprehensive and easy to navigate online help.
Automatic generation of classes, subjects, activities, houses and learning areas.
Online classes structured around a school's own learning areas and organisation.
Provision for form groups and houses, school activities and special lessons, teacher extras and special duties.
Password protection and timeouts

Optional Modules

Parent Portal
Parents can access LearningPoint from anywhere, anytime, to check on their child's progress at school. From LearningPoint a parent can view their child's timetables, activities, attendance and academic outcomes as well as initiate email contact with their children's teachers.

Attendance Recording
LearningPoint enables teachers to take official roll calls in their class, form or tutor groups, as configured by the school system administrator. The flexibility of the attendance module also enables class attendance to be recorded. Full reporting of absences by student, class and year level is available, as is an audit trail of all changes. Parents can view their children’s attendance via the Parent Portal.

Activity Scheduling
LearningPoint’s Activity Scheduling module enables schools to integrate their compulsory and voluntary activities to the timetabling facilities. All sporting, club and special interest activities can be scheduled and integrated into everyone’s schedules.

Junior Interface
The Junior Interface module provides a characterised interface with larger fonts and direct navigation while maintaining many of the efficiencies of the senior interface. Specially designed for the junior students the Junior Interface offers enhanced readability and useability with its specially designed layout and larger font sets.

View the Junior Interface

Resource Bookings
The Resource Booking module enables teachers to book vacant rooms, and equipment. Users can quickly see their own bookings or those of everyone. Reservations integrate with the timetabling.

Special Lessons
LearningPoint provides the facility for curriculum coordinators to manage extension classes and individual lessons such as personal instrumental tuition. With a single click they can quickly see who is taking the class, when classes have been scheduled, where they are conducted and who will be attending. The scheduled class is also incorporated into a student or teacher’s schedule.

Why choose myinternet products?
myinternet Limited (myinternet) is a dynamic, education focused Internet software and services company. Our commitment to the K-12 education sector, combined with our technical and commercial experience, makes us a key provider to education authorities, schools, teachers and students throughout the world. Educators have come to expect more than just software from myinternet.

The company, incorporated in 1993, currently services schools in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong.

Bring your school community into the information age, with LearningPoint. Expect more, from myinternet.

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