2020 will certainly be remembered for the coronavirus pandemic but in K-12 education, it will also be remembered as the year online learning was implemented for nearly all students in a very short period of time. Teachers are learning on the fly how to engage children in new ways and provide effective lessons across digital Continue reading
UPDATE February 2015: Microsoft has listed FOSL (Forms on Sharepoint Lists) as cancelled on the Office365 roadmap. This was supposed to be one of the technologies used to replace InfoPath. At the same time on the Office Blog they officially announced that InfoPath Forms Services will be available in SharePoint 2016 on premise and supported Continue reading
A professional organization’s documentation should have branding consistency complimentary to the business workflow. Whether they’re purchase orders, invoices, pick-lists, reports or checks they are brand ambassadors for the organization, and they need to contain information that fits perfectly into the business’ processes. Bottomline Technologies’ Transform Designer and Transform Server are two programs that work in Continue reading
When a parent or guardian requests that a student transfer to another school, a rather lengthy workflow process typically begins. A school transfer starts with the parents completing an initial request form. This is more often than not a paper form that contains all the basic information about the student, the schools, and the reason Continue reading
The National Center for Educational Statistics reports that it costs more than $500 billion annually to finance the 98,817 public schools in the United States.[1] To put this in perspective, consider that Walmart has 11,000 retail outlets with total sales of $476 billion. From a staffing comparison, there are over three million public school teachers Continue reading
Eliminating the need for paper documents has been the Holy Grail of electronic content management (ECM) since day one. Yes, it’s a worthy goal and it has obvious benefits – but there’s more to ECM than achieving a paperless office. ECM has long been considered valuable only for its original function of storing, tracking and Continue reading
If you value the advantages that an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution affords an organization, and are interested in purchasing or expanding Microsoft SharePoint to fill that need, you should become familiar with SharePoint’s ECM strategy merits and limitations. SharePoint can provide a solid foundation for your ECM solution, but it requires additional functionality to Continue reading
Office administrators, CIOs and IT managers interested in taking their company paperless with an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system sometimes wonder where to start. After all, mountains of paper don’t go digital at the drop of a hat. Going paperless is a journey more than a destination. And like any journey, it begins one step Continue reading
Trying to find a specific document in the company’s shared drive can be a nightmare, especially when the network drive contains a mind-numbing array of folders and subfolders, created by different people at different times. Consider the time wasted by high value employees when they engage in a low value task […]