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Challenges and Opportunities in Education

Microsoft Class Server 4.0 is a learning management

platform that provides a complete solution for

harnessing the power of the Web in pursuit of

individualised instruction and greater student

achievement. It is an exciting new way to learn that

engages students, involves parents, and ensures more

time for teaching.

The education community works towards the common

goal of raising standards. In the classroom, teachers are

responsible for motivating and inspiring their students

as well as for setting tests and reporting progress.

Administrators are there to support them by creating a

favourable infrastructure. Parents want to be involved

with their child’s education and help them realise their

potential. Finally, governments set curricula and targets

and are ultimately accountable for the results.

The challenge is to achieve better results without

significantly increasing resources—the traditional

productivity barrier. However, it has been broken in

other fields, and widespread access to the Internet

and innovative collaboration software is providing the

opportunity for the education sector to do the same.

Microsoft has taken its expertise in world-class

productivity tools and worked with education leaders

to deliver Class Server, a solution just for schools. Using

Class Server, it is now possible to automate many of the

procedural and administrative tasks that teachers always

used to do manually. This enables them to dedicate a

greater proportion of their time to where it makes a real

difference—the students.

Reclaiming time for teaching is just the beginning

of the benefits. By making Class Server the hub of

a well designed and thoughtfully implemented

Learning Management System, schools can also create

opportunities to motivate students, involve parents,

monitor achievement, and raise standards.

Microsoft Class Server

Microsoft Class Server is a powerful educational

tool that lets teachers plan, store and deliver

curriculum-aligned learning resources over the Web.

With Class Server, students can use a Web browser

to access everything they need to plan their day

and complete their assignments. Class Server is not

dependant on broad access to computers. It is equally

effective at managing resources and fulfilling test

and report requirements in environments with

restricted PC access.

Parents can log in to their own page and be involved

on a daily basis through secure access to their child’s

progress and schedule.

Curriculum Managers can use Class Server to

strengthen standards through the centralised

management of learning resources, which can be

customised as necessary.

Class Server enables schools to:

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Create and deliver auto-gradable tests over the Web;

•

Grade student work against local curriculum

standards;

•

Comply with IMS and SCORM open standards

for content.

In addition to the many specific ways in which Class

Server helps the education community, the most

valuable is the teaching time returned to teachers and

their students. When teachers have their administrative

load lightened, they have more time to provide

individualised instruction, more space to be creative, and

more ideas to inspire students to achieve their goals.

This affects standards in just one direction—upwards.

Promoting a Standards-Aligned Curriculum

Class Server gives schools and education authorities

greater scope to manage curriculum resources. They can

use it to centralise the purchase or creation of learning

materials, and ensure that they are aligned to local or

national standards. In addition to this, teachers can also

create, edit, and share their own resources, enabling them

to provide individualised instruction where necessary.

Assessing Student Achievement

Your Standards, Your Way

Tests are delivered online and then auto-graded

according to the standards you define. The Class Server

Curriculum Standards Editor allows you to import

national standards where available directly into Class

Server, which you can modify to meet local requirements.

Teachers can grade student results against these

standards using a series of pull down menus.

If required, teachers can only tag content with standards

from an approved list, ensuring consistency in reporting

and tracking. Automatic change tracking allows

assignments to be automatically updated when details

of your standards change.

Grade Against Standards

Teachers using Class Server can create assignments that

are aligned to your school’s standards. Using the grading

tool, teachers can easily evaluate students’ work against

these, and provide individualised feedback, even if the

work is submitted on paper. Once their assignments have

been graded, students can immediately see how well

they did and where they need to improve

Track Student Performance

After an assignment has been graded, teachers can use

the reporting tool to get a high-level view of how their

whole class or groups of students within the class did on

that assignment. Clicking on a score allows the teacher

to drill down to the actual graded assignment to see the

underlying work that generated the score, or to adjust

it if necessary. Teachers can also get a quick snapshot

of how an individual student is performing in the class,

showing longitudinal progress against standards. This

allows the teacher to understand the causes of student

problems and provide individualised attention to remedy

the situation.

Export Data for Further Analysis

Teachers can print reports, or export the data to

Microsoft Office Excel for distribution to school

administrators, or for further analysis. In addition, a

complete set of application program interfaces (APIs)

enables other applications to retrieve performance data,

allowing complete accountability solutions to be built

on top of Class Server.

Improving Student Achievement

Class Server can help schools improve student

achievement in three critical ways

Track Progress

With Class Server, teachers can deliver standards-aligned

diagnostic assessments. They can then view reports on

student progress and be more responsive to student

needs, providing extra attention where needed.

Distribute Best Practice

Class Server helps Curriculum Managers distribute best

practice materials digitally across all of your schools,

saving printing, distribution, and curriculum update

costs.

Give Time Back for Teaching

Class Server saves teachers and IT Administrators time

that otherwise might be spent manually grading student

tests and collecting/analysing student results. The time

they save can be spent on teaching instead of paperwork.

Engaging Students

Class Server brings teachers, resources, and students

together in the same online learning space. This means

that whether the students are working at home, in the

library or in the classroom, they can interact with each

other.

Unlike text books, interactive learning resources give a

more appealing and personalised experience that are

more conducive to learning.

This availability and interactivity engages and motivates

students, ensuring that they benefit from an enjoyable

learning experience.

As an online forum, it adds to existing communication

channels rather than replaces them. Class Server allows

for one-to-one communication, ensuring that quieter or

less confident children have equal opportunity to ask for

additional attention.

Finally, in addition to the learning and testing resources,

Class Server also provides students with tools that help

them organise and prioritise their time.

Interoperability

Although many schools already use Web-based

learning applications, these are often islands of learning

confined to a single computer or classroom. Often, the

applications are incompatible or expensive to integrate

with existing systems. In contrast, Class Server was built

with interoperability in mind.

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