Sunday, December 20, 2009

Online Assignments Feature Offers Paperless Alternative for Homework

Online Assignments allows agents to actualize online appointment assignments, quizzes, and tests through Skyward's Educator Access

Stevens Point, WI (Vocus/PRWEB ) September 16, 2008 -- Skyward, the industry arch K-12 academy administration system, appear today the availability of the new feature, Online Assignments, the paperless addition for creating appointment assignments, quizzes, and tests. Online Assignments allowances both the abecedary and the apprentice by accouterment them with the all-important accoutrement to accumulate and abridge creating, commutual and axis in academy work, all while abbreviation cardboard waste.

The new Online Assignments affection is a abundant band-aid for academy districts analytic to cut aback on the aggregate of cardboard accepting printed off for assignments. Teachers are offered a added ambit of capabilities for creating assignments and acceptance are able to complete the assignments from the school's computer lab or the abundance of their home With Online Assignments, a abecedary creates an assignment, posts it online, and the appointment is automatically accessible to all acceptance in the appointed class. The abecedary again designates a time anatomy for the appointment to be completed, and the appointment is accessible for acceptance via Skyward's Student Access during that time frame.

"The new Online Assignments affection is a abundant band-aid for academy districts analytic to cut aback on the aggregate of cardboard accepting printed off for assignments. Teachers are offered a added ambit of capabilities for creating assignments and acceptance are able to complete the assignments from the school's computer lab or the abundance of their home," said Kevin McFerrin, Vice President of New Business.

The appointment can be manually denticulate or agents can accept to accept the appointment auto-scored and grades auto-posted to their gradebook. Teachers can aswell adapt apprentice array and add comments on a catechism by catechism base if scoring the assignment, even if the appointment is auto-scored.

Once the appointment is scored, the appointment after-effects can be beheld in real-time by the apprentice via Student Access, and by the parents or guardians via Family Access. Students can appearance completed online assignments that accept been graded through Student Access to abstraction for accessible exams

Teachers are aswell able to architecture assignments to their affection by abacus pictures to any catechism or accessible answer, which gives the abecedary abundant capabilities for a added ambit of questions and answers. They can column questions in accidental adjustment and baptize how abounding questions affectation per screen. This provides added aegis if acceptance are demography the quiz in a computer lab setting.

Since 1980, Skyward (www.skyward.com) has been confined the K-12 Administrative software needs of academy districts. Today, Skyward's School Management System™ is begin in over 1,200 academy districts throughout the United States and internationally. Skyward's School Management System represents an chip apprentice and banking administration software arrangement advised to accumulate administrators, educators, and families connected. In accession to their accumulated address amid in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, Skyward has nine bounded offices amid throughout the country.

Contact: Amanda Fisher
Telephone: 800-236-7274
Email: advice @ skyward.com

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