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Colleges Face Investigations Over Whether Their Use of Social Media Follows Accessibility Regulations

Edsurge

Among the newer aspects of these kinds of complaints is whether college social media communication meets accessibility standards. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights focus on the extent to which students, faculty and others can make full use of a college’s websites, education software and social media channels.

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The Post-LMS World: Social, Simple, Modern, Mobile and Student-centric

Edsurge

The LMS was originally the CMS—Course Management System. higher education system to be a mirror image of the Silicon Valley and social media-enabled world that American innovation has built. Despite its name, the Learning Management System (LMS) is not about learning. Coming from another country, I had expected the U.S.

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Friday 5 — 7.15.2016

Perry Hewitt

As someone who has been through the process more times than I'd care to admit, her observation about "irrational uniformity," the tendency to slavishly shoehorn everything into the CMS, is apt. Anyone who posts regularly to social media recognizes the power of a strong image to grab attention.

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New Mexico’s Carlsbad Municipal Schools Expands Relationship with Discovery Education to Support STEM Education

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New Mexico’s Carlsbad Municipal Schools (CMS) announced today it is expanding its partnership with Discovery Education for 3 more years to support a new K-12 STEM strategy set for implementation in 10 district schools. In addition to STEM Connect, CMS will soon launch the STEM Leader Corp capacity building model.

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35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

eSchool News

ParentSquare , developer of a unified school-home engagement platform for K-12, has acquired Gabbart Communications, a website and content management system (CMS) business. This new feature provides easy access to engaging learning materials that can deepen conversations about favorite books among students, educators, and families.

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SchoolStatus Announces Acquisition of SchoolNow, Enhancing Its Communication Capabilities for K-12 Schools

eSchool News

SchoolNow combines ADA-compliant websites, mobile apps, social media, text, voice, and email into an all-in-one system created to broaden and deepen the school experience with families. SchoolNow also provides support through fast and efficient CMS and website tools, and dedicated launch teams to ensure website success.

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Districts move to single sign-on solution

eSchool News

In addition, SchoolMessenger Passport supports access to student information systems, family portals, school social media tools and more.

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