|
What
is K12Planet? K12 Planet
User Instructions
K12Planet
demo
K12Planet
is a Web portal that that bridges the gap between school and home and
allows schools to build a powerful online learning community.
K12Planet provides an easy-to-use and secure school-to-home portal
that gives parents and students instant access to grades, attendance,
homework assignments, and school activities. Some teachers will also have
access to assignment lists and communicate through parent email lists.
In the future, discipline records and student course requests and
scheduling may be used in the system.
K12Planet is completely free of advertising and sponsorships.
How
K12Planet helps students?
By
giving students access to feedback on their own performance, K12Planet
empowers students to take control of their academic progress. By
monitoring their own progress and taking responsibility for themselves,
students can both enjoy their success, and see clearly where to apply more
effort. Other features help students organize their schedules and access
learning resources. K12Planet
lets them communicate with school staff anytime, from anywhere.
How
K12Planet helps parents?
K12Planet
allows parents to review everything from their child's daily grade and
attendance information to curriculum details, homework assignments and
school activities.
Parents can stay easily up to date throughout the semester, exchanging
emails with teachers, over and above quarter report cards and
parent-teacher conferences. Parents have the information they need to make
a positive difference with their children's education, to spot potential
problems, to take action, and to plan for their children's success.
How
K12Planet helps teachers?
Because
K12Planet automatically draws on information that's already in the
school's central student information system, there's no double data entry
required. Teachers have full control over any information made available
through K12Planet and the facility to correct any errors that might occur.
Teachers can communicate directly and securely with parents rather than
rely on students to deliver verbal or written messages. Emailing
individuals or whole groups, teachers save much time on phone calls,
meetings and visits. K12Planet also has a range of web-smart templates for
teachers to use and customize.
Possible
negative aspects of K12Planet?
The
extra information may encourage some parents to ‘micromanage’ school
procedures. Teachers should
not need to defend why one assignment was worth 20 points and another
assignment, which took more time to complete, was only worth 10. It may also lead to unrealistic expectations that the test results
will be immediately posted the same day as the test. Teachers will update grades within 1 week of an assignment or test.
How
current is the data?
Attendance
is updated daily. Grades will
be updated at least once per week.
What
about midquarter reports?
We
will no longer print and mail midquarter (after 4 weeks) grades to every
student. For this year of
transition, teachers will mail a paper D or F warning to parents of
students with low progress at midquarter.
What
if I don’t have Internet access?
Parents
and students may use the school library computers before or after school.
Quarter
and semester report cards will be printed and mailed home.
How
Secure is K12 Planet?
Only
you and your school can view your information through your login and
password. All student data on K12Planet is password-protected and
safeguarded round-the-clock behind a series of firewalls, in a highly
secured and monitored facility. The
online data viewed is only a copy of the actual data, which remains stored
on a separate server.
Cookies
K12planet.com
uses "cookie" technology. Cookies are small text files sent by
our Web server to your Web browser and to your computer. The persistent
cookie is stored on your computer for 30 minutes. Cookie technology tells
us non-personally identifiable information. We use cookies to personalize
the pages our user visit based on their type (student, parent, teacher,
administrator) and their view security access. Cookies allow us to control
security so that only you view the info that you are allowed to see.
If
you choose to refuse the cookies, you won't be able to log-on to
K12Planet.com school pages.
Other
than as described here, we do not collect personal information online. We
do gather our users' IP addresses, browser type information, and usage
statistics to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer
our Website. None of that information is personally identifiable, and none
can be tied back to any individual user.
|
.jpg)
