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'What did you do today?' Uniontown school to start Edline program
The Daily Courier - January 10, 2005
Uniontown ”“ Parents whose children attend the Uniontown Area High School will soon have the answer to that age-old question asked to their kids: “What did you do today?” The high school is Uniontown Area School District’s pilot school for Edline, an Internet-based program that allows teachers to post their students’ homework assignments, test results, real-time grades, a teacher’s grading scale, upcoming tests, event information, special announcements and even their attendance record for every class. “I think Edline is going to make a positive impact on parents and make an overall impact on students’ grades,” said Pete Bozick, Uniontown Area High School principal.
Before finding Edline, Bozick said he searched for more than two years to find an affordable and effective system; Edline was the most affordable and the most secure.
“It’s very similar to online banking,” said Bozick.
To access an account with the system, a parent must provide the school with a photo ID. They are then given a one-time login name and password that’s only known to them. After learning the basics, they can access their child’s account from any computer with Internet capability.
The high school teachers, who have been electronically filing their students grades for years, were schooled in placing the grades and other information on Edline two months ago.
Terry Williams, a teacher at Uniontown Area High School who also taught the Edline program to other teachers, said she received nothing but positive feedback from the faculty because the teachers only have to spend an additional 15 minutes to post the students’ grades.
Williams, who is also the mother of a sophomore at Uniontown Area High School, said the system allows parents to see the whole picture of what their kids are doing, what they have been doing and what they’re going to do in the classroom.
“Parents can view the calendar and know when finals are,” said Williams. “They can better organize their child’s time.”
Another benefit to the system is the parent and the teacher’s ability to directly email each other for one-on-one sessions for those parents with a demanding work schedule or those who are too timid to enter the school to address a teacher.
“It allows convenient communication,” said Dina Kriebel, a teacher at the high school who also taught Edline to the teachers.
Along with the parents, the students also receive an account with the system so they can stay up-to-date with their classes if they miss a day or an assignment and need to catch up.
If Edline goes well in the high school this year, Bozick said it could go district-wide by the next school year.
For that year, and possibly years following that, newer additions and improvements could be made to the system.
Rian Davis, another teacher at the school who taught Edline to the teachers and soon to interested parents, said they're looking forward in getting extra-curricular activities like sports and band involved to narrow cast information to those students' accounts as well as give the teachers the option of securely putting students' grades in the system from their home computer. They can only do so now from the school.
While parents will have the opportunity to learn about the system this week in the form of three workshops, Bozick said they could also get an account set up at the school if they just bring their photo ID. If enough parents get together, faculty at the school could have a smaller workshop for the parents.