Why is Community School District 2010 important for educational institutions?
The workplace is changing, and the desktop applications that employers use today will evolve to desktop applications combined with web services tomorrow. Educators preparing tomorrow’s workforce want to partner with companies that can give them affordable access to those tools today.
Education institutions are under increased pressure to provide sophisticated communications environments as a standard part of their academic offerings. As students become increasingly tech-savvy at a younger age and demand more technology services from their schools, education institutions struggle to offer rich solutions, and keep up with students’ changing needs, while battling budget concerns and slow deployment cycles.
Community School District 2010 is a flexible platform, offering education institutions a rich set of familiar web-based applications that are regularly upgraded and added to, and hosted on a reliable infrastructure that relieves them of the burden and cost of maintenance and design. This lets schools outsource non-core services to take advantage of the scale of larger companies, while turning their IT staff toward projects that help the institution innovate and offer differentiated value to students.
In addition, schools have long understood the importance of staying in touch with alumni – the greatest evangelists for the school. Community School District 2010 makes it easy to create communities that last a lifetime, with a free email addresses that the students can keep after they graduate, and a rich set of communication services schools can use to help maintain an ongoing lifelong relationship with graduates.
Why is Community School District 2010 important for students?
Students are coming to schools more technologically savvy than before. They expect their school environments to have rich, high-quality communications capabilities like those available to them in non-academic settings. Community School District 2010 puts a no-cost, yet familiar, email and document management and sharing service at the students’ fingertips, allowing them to communicate easily with their fellow students, and seamlessly incorporate their digital lifestyle with their academic work style. Students want to stay connected to their alma mater and their peers. Ten years ago, these kinds of tools were not readily available for building communities among remote users. Today, even when graduates are scattered across the world, Community School District 2010 helps schools create a community that lasts a lifetime.