School Districts

Facebook privacy abuse raises school privacy issues

April 16, 2018 at 2:19 pm

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent 2-day hearing before congressional committees serves as a reminder to school administrators that students’ privacy also needs assurances of protection. School privacy issues need your attention as data about them, you, me – everyone – is with

How to respond to a school website accessibility complaint from OCR

April 3, 2018 at 12:34 pm

You’re busy updating your school’s homepage with some fresh images when your superintendent hands you a letter from the Department of Education Office. It's a school website accessibility complaint from OCR – the Office for Civil Rights. This official notification claims that your school w

3 ways school website approval workflows can improve communications

March 23, 2018 at 3:13 pm

Look around your school and you’ll find many people who could be valuable contributors to your website. It could be that school secretary with a flair for writing; a teacher with a cool class website of her own; or an athletics director who wants more timely game recaps. Problem is, many schools h

Do private schools need accessible websites?

February 7, 2018 at 6:07 pm

“We’re a private school. Does our website need to be accessible and ADA-compliant?” This is a question we often get as there's still a great deal of buzz around school website accessibility. Public schools are required to adhere to section 508 because federal and/or state funding support re

AODA helps steer school website accessibility in Canada

January 18, 2018 at 9:12 am

There is no letting up on the pressure on school districts across America to comply with accessibility laws for school websites. But what about our neighbors to the north? Are Canada’s schools facing the same challenges schools in the U.S. are encountering to make and keep their websites accessibl

The 3 best ways schools can communicate are all together now

January 11, 2018 at 11:36 am

On the heels of the launch of its Campus Reach™ school notification system, Campus Suite has completed the “triple play” by introducing Campus App™, a branded mobile app for schools. The Campus Suite ‘suite’ of products and services now includes Campus Sites™ content management system,

5 top school communications trends for 2018

December 14, 2017 at 3:13 pm

Keeping up with communication trends and taking advantage of that ‘next big thing’ is not all that easy these days given the rapid pace at which technology and communications advance. So, as the new year is upon us, I wanted to take a moment to put the spotlight on 5 top school communications tr