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Publisher's description
THE PRIVATE SOCIAL NETWORK FOR SCHOOLS (TM)
Scholabo is a Private Social Network that has been designed specifically for Primary and Pre Schools, connecting schools and teachers to their parent communities.
Scholabo helps schools to improve parental engagement whilst moving away from paper based communication which can not only rack up a considerable cost in paper, consumables and time but on average also equates to over a tonne of carbon per school.
From a parental perspective Scholabo provides a customised view of everything that is going on in the school pertinent to you and your child. You can choose to watch / follow specific teachers or classes for updates so you do not have to wade through all the other ‘noise’ that comes out of the school on a daily basis.
Private school reports, letters, reminders, events, homework assignments, permission slips, learning links picture galleries and more are only ever a click away whatever time of day or night.
There is zero training required – no set up – no infrastructure. The school can be up and running within 10 minutes.
Owned by the school and operating on an invite only basis, Scholabo is a chargeable service to the school and then free for all teachers and parents to use.
Schools get a 28 day Free Trial as well as a 3 month money back guarantee!Specifications
Scholabo is a web based social network for schools. For a full list of supported browsers please visit www.scholabo.com
Payment Methods
- Purchase Order
Payment Flexibility
Trial
Launch Date
1 January 2011
Licenses Available
- Multi-User Site License
School Users
Key Terms
How does this help a school?
Community Cohesion
Scholabo helps schools to engage parents in school life as never before. Often parents do not get the opportunity to drop their children off at school or pick them up every day and can miss out on interaction with the teaching staff and other parents at the school. Scholabo helps the school to create an online community that helps to strengthen real life school communities in the process.
Scholabo helps schools to engage parents in school life as never before. Often parents do not get the opportunity to drop their children off at school or pick them up every day and can miss out on interaction with the teaching staff and other parents at the school. Scholabo helps the school to create an online community that helps to strengthen real life school communities in the process.
Enrichment
Scholabo helps to enrich and reinforce learning performed at school by keeping parents informed about what the children are doing on a day to day, week to week basis within the classroom. Studies show that the conversations about learning that take place at home are the most important in the whole learning process - Scholabo helps facilitate this.
Scholabo helps to enrich and reinforce learning performed at school by keeping parents informed about what the children are doing on a day to day, week to week basis within the classroom. Studies show that the conversations about learning that take place at home are the most important in the whole learning process - Scholabo helps facilitate this.
Exam Results
Scholabo can be used to distribute exam results, annual reports and attainment data in a secure, private manner to individual parents.
Scholabo can be used to distribute exam results, annual reports and attainment data in a secure, private manner to individual parents.
Financial
Scholabo has been proven by many of our schools to pay for itself three times over in paper, print and consumable savings within the first 12 months.
Scholabo has been proven by many of our schools to pay for itself three times over in paper, print and consumable savings within the first 12 months.
International Links
Scholabo allows user schools all over the world to connect and share information and resources via the secure Scholabo Global Forum for Teachers
Scholabo allows user schools all over the world to connect and share information and resources via the secure Scholabo Global Forum for Teachers
Parent Voice
Scholabo can be used (at the schools discretion) as a two way communication tool. This occurs in a number of ways but mainly via direct private messaging between Teachers and Parents and the ability for them to contribute to school moderated forums.
Scholabo can be used (at the schools discretion) as a two way communication tool. This occurs in a number of ways but mainly via direct private messaging between Teachers and Parents and the ability for them to contribute to school moderated forums.
Safeguarding
Scholabo is a secure and private facility that cannot be accessed by any uninvited external source.
Scholabo is a secure and private facility that cannot be accessed by any uninvited external source.
Special Educational Needs
Scholabo is particularly powerful in SEN settings where the requirement for close parental involvement in the learning process is even more acute. The system helps keep the school, teacher and parent connected to support the necessary 1 to 1 relationships.
Scholabo is particularly powerful in SEN settings where the requirement for close parental involvement in the learning process is even more acute. The system helps keep the school, teacher and parent connected to support the necessary 1 to 1 relationships.
Teaching & Learning
Scholabo provides a facility to store and showcase homework assignments and learning links with parents. It also allows teachers to share best practices in terms of resources and lesson plans both within and across school boundaries. Scholabo acts as a VLE through parent directed learning.
Scholabo provides a facility to store and showcase homework assignments and learning links with parents. It also allows teachers to share best practices in terms of resources and lesson plans both within and across school boundaries. Scholabo acts as a VLE through parent directed learning.
byKatie, November 2, 2011
Scolabo has been a great asset to our school. It makes communication between school and parents instant. No more letters to send out, saves such a lot on paper and photocopying, not to mention the time factor! We can list all upcoming events, like after school clubs, diary dates. The documents section is great for storing all the letters, no lost letters in book bags. Extremely helpful at Head Office, nothing is too much trouble, really open to any new ideas. Keep up the good work!!!!
byDawn Lawton, October 3, 2011
Scholabo is an excellent tool of communication between the school and parents, it is straight forward and easy to use. Weekly summaries updated each week detailing what the children have been focusing on that week is a great way for us to ascertain what our children have been learning, and also a great way for us to support the children at home. You never have to miss anything as email notifications alert you when the school or teacher creates a post, document, classboard or event so you only have to log on when you are certain there is something of interest posted. All documents are stored so you can easily log on and locate a document that was posted months before.
The elimination of paper is definitely the way forward... no more piles of documents/letters cluttering up the kitchen worktop!!
In my opinion Scholabo is brilliant, so simple but so effective.
The elimination of paper is definitely the way forward... no more piles of documents/letters cluttering up the kitchen worktop!!
In my opinion Scholabo is brilliant, so simple but so effective.
byShelley Ickringill, September 30, 2011
Brilliant - prevents the thankless task of drilling our 6 year old for news/events/learning topics from school - and being paper free is liberating!!
byMartin Rooney, September 29, 2011
Scholabo has made a massive improvement in how the school is able to communicate with parents. It helps to cut down on the frustration we used to feel because of those lost or incomplete 'book bag' messages. I am delighted with it. We are better able to access homework, information on school events, and follow discussion forums. Because it's always accessible, it works like a real (though it's virtual) community too.
