http://www.myschoolbinder.com/blog Schoolbinder Product and Development News Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:37:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en N E W   D E V E L O P M E N T The developers are in Palo Alto working hard on relaunching Schoolbinder. They are redesigning the look and feel of the application to better fit your workflow. Everything is based off of "School, Teachers, Classes and Students." ... http://www.myschoolbinder.com/blog/update/ User:  Bridget Munger Grad school student at Northern Arizona University Bridget has been a member of Schoolbinder since September 2009. Apparently, Schoolbinder's organizer features got Bridget through graduate school. We are sure she would have made it on her own but we ... http://www.myschoolbinder.com/blog/not-just-a-k-12-organizer/ Collaboration is an essential element in designing a powerful learning environment for schools. When designed properly, a collaborative network will cultivate relationships that thrive on the exchange and formation of knowledge. An effective platform will provide students and teachers the opportunity to reflect, discuss, agree, ... http://www.myschoolbinder.com/blog/two-in-collaboration/ Free school accounts are here! Currently, Schoolbinder has thousands of teachers and thousands of students that have signed up for our Free and Pro "Solo" accounts. They have been sharing Schoolbinder with their classes. We have been building features and redesigning features to make sure Schoolbinder helps to make their daily ... http://www.myschoolbinder.com/blog/create-a-small-learning-community-at-your-school/ NEW VIDEO TRAINING SERIES Mike, Andrew, and Jason have been working like mad-men to crank out a bunch of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. We're sure you've noticed some of the changes. We're going to follow that up with a series of training videos. What better way to learn about ... http://www.myschoolbinder.com/blog/video-tips-member-stories-twitter-and-facebook/ We're happy to announce several new features released for Schoolbinder today. While we continue to go through the bug reports and features you've requested, we've added the following to Schoolbinder: Attendance Teachers can manage the attendance for their classes. When inside a class page, click the 'Attendance' sidebar link to manage your ... http://www.myschoolbinder.com/blog/attendance-schoolbinder-support-goals-and-more/ Most startup founders like to make their members happy; us included. The problem is that sometimes startups go overboard when making decisions and start giving away the kitchen sink. What comes after that are unwanted policy changes because the starup realizes that they simply can not afford to give away ... http://www.myschoolbinder.com/blog/unlimit-your-classes/ We are glad to announce that for the next two weeks we will be able to offer these special professional development courses for schools in the NYC/NJ area. The following are the special rates for PD scheduled to be conducted during October 11-22: 1 day in-service: $500 3 day in-service: $1,400 ($100 ... http://www.myschoolbinder.com/blog/professional-development-2-0/ We're proud to announce that Schoolbinder now hosts all files in the Rackspace Cloud! What does this mean? Well, much, much faster upload and download times and a much more secure system for managing all of your files. Best of all, none of your private files are stored on our ... http://www.myschoolbinder.com/blog/cloud-files-to-save-us-all/ We just updated the site with a few bug fixes and some new features today. You can now enable or disable Sharing and Grades for any of the courses you create. We realized that some users like having lots of features and some don't so we'll be gradually scaling back ... http://www.myschoolbinder.com/blog/a-few-updates-and-were-listening/