Edline web hosting and portal solutions save teachers' time by enabling more effective class administration, reducing the need to make paper-based copies, and by reducing phone calls and other inquiries from parents.

• Easy to set up and use. Edline websites set up quickly, with no need to re-type or re-create information. Users cut and paste into the Edline web page, or type directly into the web form.
• Publish content with one click. No FTP or HTML skills are required. Upload pre-existing content from common desktop software.
• Import information from gradebook tools. As an integrated solution, Edline lets teachers easily import information from electronic gradebook tools—Edline's GradeQuick and Easy Grade Pro products, or other gradebook solutions.
• Publish content to multiple classes simultaneously. Edline's solution eliminates the need for tedious rekeying of information to multiple classes or groups.
• Easy reuse. Easily retrieve and re-use web content from a teacher's previous classes.
• Calendar rollover functionality. "Fast-forward” an entire class calendar - complete with links, resources and content - from semester to semester or from one year to the next.

Ultimately, teachers find that class administration is easier and more comprehensive with Edline's website and portal solutions. Teachers are able to forge a stronger partnership and more harmonious relationships with parents by keeping them informed, setting realistic expectations and ensuring they receive no surprises when it comes to their children's performance and upcoming assignments.

Today, parents often suffer from "feast or famine" when it comes to getting the information they need to help guide their children to success. They may get insufficient or filtered information from the children themselves. Or, if a school has a website, parents may find a glut of information, but have difficulty finding what's relevant to them.

To help harness the power of parental involvement in student and school success, Edline offers:

• Personal shortcuts to the information parents need. Parents gain ready access to information just about their students: classes, activities, homework, reports and daily grades, test dates, missing assignments and much more. Navigation is easy: no need to remember multiple URLs and passwords, or to maneuver through a maze of disorganized web pages.
• A combined calendar, where assignments, test dates, programs, and other calendar information from all of the separate classes, teams, clubs and other groups pertaining to one individual student are displayed on a single, “combined” calendar page for a big-picture view.
• E-mail alerts when important new information becomes available.
• Single sign-in with one screen name and password, provides access to all information for different students for one parent in different buildings but in one school district. General school information is available to the public at any time without a password.

As one school technology coordinator said of Edline's website and portal solution, "Set-up and administration are a breeze." Edline configures easily so schools can be using it literally in hours, not days, with no special training needed. Other benefits include:

• Easy set-up. No software to install, no hardware to maintain, no network or security to manage.
• One-click publishing. Easy to import content from third-party systems and gradebook tools, including Edline's GradeQuick and Easy Grade Pro.
• No need to replace existing systems. Edline's website and portal solutions work with your existing systems and integrate with all major student information systems.
• Flexibility and control. With Edline, it's easy to enable teachers and staff to publish content while maintaining centralized control.
• Easy to maintain. Schools can easily manage their current website content and design at professional levels without being dependent on external graphic designers or web consultants.
• Effective oversight. Edline enables district or school personnel to share work while still allowing IT to retain oversight.
• WYSIWYG web design. With Edline’s revolutionary new Design Sidebar, your webmaster can create and maintain a professionally designed school website with ease, viewing changes in real time without having to jump between multiple screens.

Edline delivers the functionality, reliability and performance that schools require. Our web hosting infrastructure has been optimized for speed, stability and security.

• Support for enterprise-scale customers. Edline's state-of-the-art hosting facilities, connectivity, and infrastructure are the best available in the world. Edline websites are designed to support millions of daily hits, provide terabytes of storage and seamless access to hundreds of millions of database records.
• Scalable to your needs. Our websites and portals can be deployed in a simple, turnkey implementation that even a small school can quickly use and manage with limited resources. Yet our powerful, enterprise-scale platform is scalable for the largest districts in the United States where hundreds of thousands of users must access the system.
• Stability and built-in redundancy. Our world-class server farm consists of multiple web servers with redundant, adaptive, dynamic load balancing. Multiple, redundant high-speed fiber trunks connect Edline directly into the heart of the global Internet backbone.
• World Class Data Centers. We use security technologies similar to leading banks and brokerage firms, including 128-bit encryption and Secure Socket Layer (SSL). Our hardware is protected by biometric recognition and other state-of-the art measures. We use the most advanced firewall technology available, monitored 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.

Additional Edline products, integrated with a school's website and portal, dramatically extend the power of a traditional web hosting solution, creating a comprehensive Learning Community Management System that transforms the learning and communications environment. These products include:

• Interactive Classroom™, which creates a two-way flow of educational information—not just from teachers to students, but also vice versa. With Interactive Classroom™ capabilities, students can participate in online discussions, submit homework and other assignments, and take quizzes and tests that are automatically scored and reported.
• Student Web Lockers that let students and teachers store important class materials and assignments online, to be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection.
• Forms and Surveys, an Edline product that makes any kind of form you need available to the community: surveys, quizzes, tests, parental permission forms and so forth.
• Gradebook and classroom management. Edline's two market-leading gradebook products — GradeQuick and Easy Grade Pro — are being used successfully in more than 15,000 schools in the United States and around the world. These solutions help schools manage every critical classroom activity: assessment, attendance, lesson plans, standards, reporting and online parent communication.

By extending a traditional website solution beyond the classroom — into the entire school and the student's home environment — Edline creates a total communication and information solution for the entire learning community, and parents receive the comprehensive information needed to guide their children and enrich their education.