Dear Teacher,
If you are like most teachers, you are probably stressed with competing demands for your time. You get dozens of e-mails every day (many from parents who want to know how their kids are doing) and the administrative requirements of your job take you away from what you really like to do – teach!  | How do teachers balance state requirements, No Child Left Behind mandates, and bulging classroom sizes that often require individualized study plans for each student? How do you manage the needs of each student, deliver quality teaching, and still have a life at the end of the day? |
MyClassroomHelper was designed by teachers, for teachers to address these issues. Imagine having a simple to use, easy to deploy, affordable classroom management system that was designed for the individual classroom teacher – NOT a cookie-cutter solution for the entire district. There are many excellent student portfolio products on the market. However, they tend to be bloated with features, are difficult to use, necessitate excessive training, or require a major financial commitment and/or district deployment. Often, schools tend to over-buy these programs based on “perceived needs” until they find out they just don’t use it. MyClassroomHelper took feedback from dozens of teachers and created an elegant but simple classroom management software to address the organizational needs of individual teachers and students. As you will see, we put control back in your hands. Click Here to try it free, for 20 days.
It’s all about you… The administrative/teacher interface is elegant in its simplicity with a visual interface and easy to understand icons to direct activity. You can even customize the interface by adding your own logo, changing the colors, or even removing the icons you don't use.
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· Post assignments, course materials, and projects for the whole class. If students are absent, they can pull the assignment off the internet. · Monitor student journals to see if students completed and understood their assignments/projects. · Assign how much disk space each student gets, where the files are located, and the level of access – all with the click of a button.
Easy to Manage - Whether you post or grade assignments, track student progress, mentor individual students or the whole class, the desired action is just a click away. To see how easy MyClassroomHelper really is, Click Here for a free 20-day Trial.
Student Interface…
The simple student interface shows how easy it is for students to “manage” their classroom activities.
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Notice how easy it is for students to view assignments, notes, and make entries in their daily journals. Journal entries are customizable and include: - What did I learn today? - How can I apply what I learned? - What are my goals for tomorrow?
Digital Portfolios A portfolio is a collection of student’s work (called artifacts) that documents his or her learning process. While there are many different types of portfolios, one thing they share is the ability for students to post and reflect on their own work. MyClassroomHelper’s built-in portfolio allows students to take a more active role in their learning. It allows them to document their knowledge, reflect on their work, creativity, and personal perspectives, and provide an instrument for teacher-student-parent discussion and feedback on student performance. This is invaluable for senior projects, college applications, or job resumes. Many states require graduating high school students to create a portfolio, and many foundations recommend it to substantiate their grants. A local school board member recently commented on the value of MyClassroomHelper's electronic portfolio. "Every year we have students who can't 'walk the walk' at graduation because of failure to meet their senior project requirements. I see MyClassroomHelper's online portfolio as a repository for student work. There are no surprises, & no excuses. Everyone (Teachers, Mentors Parents, Students) can see exactly what is going on."
Don’t forget the parents… Engaging parents in the educational process is the best way to gain student cooperation and more focused learning. The problem is most parents don’t know what their children are doing at school. For example, here is a typical Parent/Teenager conversation:  | Q: How did School go today?
A: "Fine." Q: Do you have any homework?
A: “No.” Q: What did you learn today?
A: “Nothing.” Q: When is your next test?
A: “I don’t know. Why are you asking me all these questions?” |
Sound familiar?
The student screen shows parents everything they would want to know about their children’s school performance – assignments, grades, notes, journal entries, and personal portfolio. No phone calls, no e-mails, no letters. It’s a benefit for the parent, the student, and the teacher. Since MyClassroomHelper is a web-based program, it can be viewed wherever there is an Internet connection: school – work – home. |  |
Click here to get started and check it out, free for 20 days. Get feedback from students, parents, and other educators about what they like (or don’t like) about MyClassroomHelper – then let us know. The more input we get from teachers like you, the better the product will become. We even offer a referral award if you recommend another teacher who purchases MyClassroomHelper.
 | Why MyClassroomHelper is right for you… Most Student Classroom Management/Student Portfolio programs claim to be the “best”, “leading”, “world’s leading”, or “most advanced”. If they are too complicated or too expensive, it doesn’t matter how many features they have. MyClassroomHelper was designed to be easy to understand, simple to use, and extremely affordable for the individual classroom teacher, a school, or even a district. |
How does it work? Where is the data stored? The front end (what you see) offers a simple and intuitive interface that drives your actions. Behind the scenes is a very sophisticated database that delivers reliable results day after day. MyClassroomHelper will work on multiple-platforms (Windows-based PCs, Macs, or Linux). For technical specifications, click here. During the set-up process, you decide where you want the data hosted. You may host it on your own school computer/server, or for a small monthly fee, MyClassroomHelper will host it for you on our special servers that offer 24x7 monitoring, back-up service, and secure connections. The cost for this service depends on the amount of disk space you use. That’s all there is to it.
Last Updated February 15, 2004. |
