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School Loop

What is School Loop ?

School Loop is an online application for middle and High School students and parents to be able to communicate with their teachers, it can also said as an e-mail alternative. This application allows the staff to access each of the workload of students and graduates to provide “digital lockers” to share files.

School Loop is a paid online application (commercial) created by Mark Gross, a school teacher and a father. Together with his colleague Tom Burns, who is an engineer, they built this online system to monitor and to check whether students do their homework. Visit the School Loop official website here: www.schoolloop.com.

School Loop Target

Schools and teachers can post homework for students, school announcements, and downloads. Teachers can have a website inside School Loop, where they can post class-specific information. Students can look up their homework, grades and e-mail their teachers.

The system provides a calendar system for assignment due-dates. Students can also store files in a digital locker for later use. Groups can be formed by students with the permission of a teacher or a staff member. Parents can sign up to keep track of their child’s progress and check homework, assignments and grades.

School Loop Features

• Digital Drop-Box: Turn in Homework Assignments online
• Assignments Discussion: Students can ask teachers and other students for help.
• Gradebooks(for teachers):Informs students of grade.
• Automatic Homepages: No HTML
• Downloadable Rosters(teachers only): Text or Excel Files
• Daily Homework Email: Email every day at 5 P.M. informing homework assignments
• LoopMail: Safe, Secure, Filtered, Never Anonymous
• Groups: Departments, Clubs, etc.
• News Publishing: Publish news (teachers only)
• Digital Locker: Students store personal sites, documents, etc.

Loop Mail

School Loop maintains an internal email system, “LoopMail”. Users can send e-mail only to other School Loop users. If a user LoopMails another user, the LoopMail is sent to both the LoopMail inbox and the recipient’s regular e-mail inbox. The LoopMail system contains an anti-profanity filter, though this can still be bypassed by using internet slang.

Participating Schools

Approximately 1400 schools in 100 districts use School Loop as their homework-online service.

Source: Wikipedia, Schoolloop.com