Features

Summary

Now you can build a Trunity site for student engagement and professional and community collaboration.

Shared content connects teachers, learners, and others in small communities of interest that can intersect as needed. That means that students can connect to teachers, teachers can connect to experts, and everyone can connect to the broader school community whenever and wherever they want to.

Role-based site membership lets educators build content with lesson plan templates that allow individual or group authoring and publishing to a shared library, either private or public. Trunity's Live Cross Publishing feature gives students and teachers the ability to incorporate, with permission, content authored by others into their classroom or project site. They can then message the authors, who can comment on their use of the material or make changes based on comments from readers. Changes made to Live Cross Published material are updated automatically to all sites using that content.

Social networking features like profile pages, personal dashboards, blogging, and commenting give you the ability to add new ideas to existing content. Networking and collaboration are encouraged through membership in a classroom, project, or community site such as an Alumni Associations using an Alumni Connect site or a PTA building a Parent Connect site.

Students

Students connect with teachers and peers in a cloud-based social learning environment that fosters engagement anywhere-anytime.

  • Personal public profile with members and dashboard

  • Access to peer profiles with authoring by permission

  • Commenting, blogging, network messaging

  • Access to expert content and author profiles

  • e-Portfolio

Teachers

Teachers connect with students, parents, and other faculty. Media-rich content is available for use in classrooms, and new content can be created easily.

  • Membership in a content site

  • Role based membership allows for collaborative authoring

  • Access to expert content and experts expand the classroom

  • Instructor website enables collaboration within and across classes

  • Access to and ability to author within shared content libraries

Administrators

Schools and departments are connected in a network of customized and secure content sites.

  • Cloud-based platform enables communication across institution

  • Access to resources shared between institutions and education organizations

  • Cross-departmental professional development programs can draw on shared libraries of administrative resources

  • Ability to include parents and other community stakeholders in education process

  • Ability to manage input from and communication with students across the institution

Parents and the School Community

Alumni associations, PTAs, and community projects are enabled within a virtual connected online community.

  • Parents can participate in school and student online communities

  • Access to student portfolios and assignments

  • Parent organizations can organize projects that benefit the school

  • Alumni organizations can stay connected and draw on a variety of skill sets and resources

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