The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), essentially constitutes a wholesale rewrite of the largely unpopular No Child Left Behind Act. The new law goes into full effect beginning in the 2017-18 school year. While many in the education sector might be aware of the broad details of ESSA (i.e. that it promotes a more “well Continue reading
Author: Bill Harrell
What Is ESSA?
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed into law on December 10, 2015 and largely replaced the No Child Left Behind Act as well as introduced some big changes to the role of the federal government in U.S. educational policy. ESSA takes full effect in the 2017-18 school year. Here are the key elements Continue reading
How Content360 Solves the Top 5 Pain Points of SharePoint
SharePoint is a robust content management platform, but it does not provide users with all the tools they need to process information and documents quickly, efficiently and accurately. Five of the most commonly reported pain points with SharePoint are confusing navigation, user adoption, content management, workflow, and document capture. By adding Content360° to a SharePoint Continue reading
Does Your PowerSchool School District Suffer from Information Overload
In the increasingly high-tech world of document management, both large and small PowerSchool school districts are experiencing the pain-points inherent with “information overload”. They just have too many documents stored in too many places and trying to locate a specific record is challenging at best and impossible at worst. One of the most common contributors Continue reading
Bringing Dark Data Back to Light for PowerSchool School Districts
Everyone who uses a computer stores information, whether they initiate the “save” command or the system does it for them. There are massive amounts of information from multiple users and departments flowing into different storage silos every moment of every day in most PowerSchool school districts. When all that content is stored without adequate metadata Continue reading
Managing Content from All Applications with Content360°
Large school districts tend to store documents in many different applications, often from multiple vendors, in order to manage the many documents related to running the district. This splintered approach to content management can overcomplicate the workflow and put a serious drag on time and resources. That’s where Content360° comes in. As a premier Enterprise Continue reading
AP Invoice Processing for PowerSchool
PowerSchool is already a leading software solution for education administrators nationwide. But now, with Content360, it just got even better. Seamlessly integrated with PowerSchool, Content360 is making it even easier for schools to manage information systems, stay up to date with state and federal requirements, and manage finance and human resources documents. One of the Continue reading
The 5 Must-Haves for Your ECM
ECM Selection: Must-Have Functionality An enterprise content management (ECM) system organizes your organization’s various transactional content, such as AP documents or human resources records, in a single solution. ECM efficiency has become a hallmark of effective organizations. Choosing the right ECM solution can help your organization reduce operating costs, increase security, and boost productivity. However, Continue reading
3 Obstacles to Going Paperless and How to Overcome Them
The benefits of going paperless are numerous. Not only will it save you money on paper costs (they add up quickly!), but it will save your employees a significant amount of time, as well as the unneeded headaches of rifling through filing cabinets and chaotic piles of documents. With the ever growing pressure on companies Continue reading