Forget handwritten notes and phone calls with your child’s teacher...Technology is taking a leading role in education and communication, streamlining the learning process, and enabling you to become more easily involved in your child’s schooling.

The way we communicate with one another continues to evolve and schools are utilizing online education tools to enhance the communication process with parents. According to the online education tool BuzzMob, 150+ Million US adults keep their smartphone within arm’s reach for 90% of their waking hours.To address obstacles of time and schedules, school districts are adopting supplemental online resources as viable options to enhance the parent to teacher connection and provide school information in a convenient and consistent format.

Here are a few key features and advantages:

Academic Incentives 

Some tools have a point or scoring system that awards students feedback points based on their behavior or performance in the classroom. Rather than giving a student a gold star in the classroom, a student will earn points for good behavior by just the click of a button on your smartphone or laptop. ClassDojo, an online classroom tool, uses gamification and focuses on improving behavior in their classroom quickly and easily. Using gamification online is a fun way for students to learn about behavior, and also useful for parents to see how their child is behaving in the classroom and respond accordingly.

Learning Resources 

Webinars, videos, e-textbooks, and interactive learning programs provide unique, fun, and challenging ways to better educate students online by providing information on-demand. This is helpful if kids fall behind or lose concentration in class, miss class, or just need additional studying, and it keeps the parents aware of what they are learning and often allows them to become part of the learning process as well. There are also webinars and videos study material and inspiration for the classroom that teachers create for both parents and students to view.

Daily Report Cards

Parents are instantly connected with progress reports by receiving this crucial information in real-time. Teachers can also send instant alerts to parents to inform them of grades, schedule changes or an emergency. Rather than waiting 9 weeks for parent-teacher conferences and report cards, this feature is extremely beneficial and allows you to stay current with your child’s performance..  Being able to access your child’s grades early on makes is easier to diagnose any potential learning issues  or address performance problems.

Event Calendar 

Being able to access an interactive calendar and keep up with events, or changes in schedules, seems like a necessity in today’s fast-paced world. Online education tools, like the Teacher App & Gradebook, are taking advantage of sending event notifications to parents. Printed calendars easily get tossed in the trash or misplaced, but sharing access to an event calendar from any device at any time keeps everyone connected and on schedule

Ensuring children’s developmental and educational success can be more easily accomplished when school and home life are working together in concert. Online education tools broaden opportunities for not only parents, but for students as well. When parents are more involved in their child’s schooling, it is more likely that the child will succeed and get the most out of their education.

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