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.Have to find a way to force people to use website e.g., eliminate paper notices .Write into employment contracts the requirements for maintaining course pages from WH. .Support from administration to require use of site required. Require that grades, assignments, syllabus be online. .Some parents have not understood that they have their own account, use kids' password. .Make rule that students are only responsible for homework/assignments that are posted on the web. That will force teachers to post. .In teacher contract - required to check email every 24 hrs. .With new system, all the same data is there. Rather than accessing thru portals will see a dashboard. .OnCourse and OnRecord will be available fall of 2013 for general users .One school has made their portal as simple as possible. removed a lot from their left menu.  Parent portal is for info they need, not cute pictures of kids. .Newark Academy - one page where parents can access all the data they need. .Big challenge is for teachers to update their info. They require support from the tech team/webmaster. .Quick hitter workshops before school- train on one quick item. One teacher per division, team, supply a goodie like new laptop or iPad. use them as assault team to roll out training, updates, etc. .For students- log in during new student orientation, called "let's get connected" Get their email, login, basic instructions. they get it right away. .Parents are trained each year. .Prof Dev day for faculty in August. uses Quick Hit team to deliver workshops. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">.OnCourse will be real 21st century tool - two way, interactive, responsive. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">.Turn move to "OnSuite" into a positive because it cleans up all the glitches inPodium. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">.Can't work with faculty one on one. Have to do via workshops or quick hitter sessions. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">.Preparing parents: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Don't do too far in advance. Send a letter saying an email is coming, look for it. in email send links to all the resources. Use other schools' resources and change the name. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> ID most tech savvy parents and include them in launch rollout. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Video from Second Baptist School, highlighting the homepage. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Use the school created resources page in WH Help Center <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Create webinar page with links to introduction webinars. Keep them very short - under three min, one topic at a time. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Meet with subgroup of parents, live to intro. They then pass on to the rest. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> For parent questions, used email canned responses to answer common questions.