ULTRANET @ SACRED HEART

Parent Information Evening

What is

Ultranet is a Learning Management System (LMS)

LMS is a software application that is mainly used for e-learning, anywhere/anytime online learning

Ultranet facilitates a collaborative interface between the school and home

Background informationThe Ultranet Learning Management

System has been developed locally by Edtech

It is a Ministry of Education (MoE) approved Learning Management System

There are approximately 152 schools using Ultranet

What is a LMSSacred Heart has chosen to use Ultranet

as our Learning Management SystemThe functionality of Ultranet is managed

through Ed Tech. The data within Ultranet is managed by

the teachers and administrators at Sacred Heart

Ultranet provides Inter-operability features enabling the exchange of student data between our SMS and Ultranet

Kamar is our SMS (Student Management System)

Facilitates an online learning environment

Will provide parents/caregivers with another avenue to support their daughter at school

Will give parents/caregivers information that will enable them to keep up-to-date with their daughter’s learning progress

What might this look like?

This could mean viewing test results, NCEA results, teacher feedback, timetables, homework activities and attendance records.

Ultranet will provide an opportunity to open the lines of communication between parents and their daughter

Why Ultranet?It provides schools with an interactive

website, a safe and controlled Social Networking site, and interactive virtual classrooms where teachers can customise their own classrooms using built-in modules for things such as wikis, discussions, quizzes, resources, slideshows, assignments and calendars

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CollaborationUltranet also allows students and

teachers to work together using online tools such as wikis, blogs and discussion forums

Students can create their own learning portfolios and take part in online learning activities, whilst teachers will be able to liaise and share resources with other teachers within Sacred Heart

What are the benefits of the Ultranet for parents, students and teachers

Parents/ caregivers will be able to view this and other information to help keep up-to-date with their child’s progress

You can access this data from anywhere in the world as long as you have internet access, your username and password

E-Learning Portfolios

One of the many benefits of Ultranet is that information will build up over time, creating an ongoing record for each student.

These records will travel with the student from year to year

Safety IssuesUltranet is accessible to the

administration staff, teachers, students and parents at Sacred Heart Girls’ College

All users have a distinct username and password

The information the user can see is mapped to their Kamar information and access rights

The Sacred Heart website is separate to the Ultranet learning environment

Privacy IssuesNo health, welfare or personal

information will be displayed on a student’s Ultranet profile

The only personal information about students will be their name and photograph

You may request that your daughter’s photograph not appear

All other information on Ultranet about your daughter will be specificto their learning and attendance

Where is the data storedThe solution runs using cloud

technology, this means that all data is stored off-site.

Cloud computing is just another term for using internet services such as free email. Some examples of cloud computing are Google apps, Facebook, gmail, Twitter, amazon

What happens if a student leaves the school?

The interoperability feature exchanges student data between Kamar and Ultranet.

When a student leaves the school and all the leaving documentation is signed off, the student will be removed from Kamar which will in-turn update the Ultranet records.

Our doors are

still open

Ultranet will notreplace personal communication between parents and teachers – parents/caregivers should continue to contact the school directly if they have concerns about their daughter’s learning

Sacred Heart Website http://www.shgcnp.school.nz