Utah State Office of Education Superintendent Dr. Harrington & DigitalBridge(SM) Bring Student Assessment Management Tool to All Utah Schools

DigitalSAMS(TM) made available to all Utah schools, allowing educators to do more for their students with less during challenging economic times

OREM, Utah, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ –

    WHO:     Dr. Patti Harrington, USOE Superintendent
             Terry Pitts, President & CEO of DigitalBridge

    WHAT:    Announce the availability of DigitalBridge's DigitalSAMS
             solution for all Utah schools, continuing their focus on
             technology for the development of students in tough economic
             times

    WHERE:   Lincoln Elementary School
             450 East 3700 South, Salt Lake City

    WHEN:    Tuesday, January 13, 10-11am

A recent Education Week report, Quality Counts 2009, ranked the state of Utah last in the nation on per-pupil spending nationally, yet first in the equity of spending. Increasing population and decreasing budget dollars are forcing Utah educators to do more with less, requiring creative and innovative solutions to this ever-growing problem.

Utah state educators have made the use of technology a core component of their education curriculum. Now, their tool set can be further enhanced by DigitalSAMS, a student progress assessment and management technology solution.

DigitalSAMS is far more than a traditional data warehouse or student information system. The solution is an innovative software architecture that gathers both historical and real-time information about an individual student from a variety of disparate data sources, allowing educators, students, parents, administrators, and policy makers to gather, access, act on, share, and, most importantly, protect individual student information. Educators can, for example, view information such as grades, attendance records, test scores, and formative and other assessment data for an individual student with point-and-click simplicity. Access to such information is role-based and requires authentication, which is part of the privacy management system inherent in DigitalSAMS.

By extension, individual student-level data can be aggregated for analysis and reporting even at the classroom level, providing the educator a powerful and dynamic tool to evaluate the academic performance of each student.

This allows teachers more time to devote to individual student instruction and performance. Further, as data is gathered at the student level, information can be easily aggregated to accommodate classroom, school, district, or state reporting requirements for Utah Performance and Assessment System for Students (“UPASS”), or No Child Left Behind (“NCLB”) compliance reporting purposes.

About DigitalBridge(SM)

DigitalBridge was founded in 2004, in Orem, Utah, by industry-leading executives from the technology, education, healthcare, justice, and legal industries. The company’s mission is to build solutions that enable protected information sharing between individuals and organizations involved in simple and complex ecosystems, while protecting the security, privacy, and integrity of the information. DigitalBridge has developed the revolutionary, patent-pending DigitalFusion(TM) platform, which incorporates Digital Information Packet(TM) technology(TM), and is a completely new architecture for managing information in motion. DigitalBridge solutions provide protected information sharing to digital ecosystems in the education, justice, and healthcare markets. The DigitalBridge solutions interoperate with existing legacy systems without requiring replacement of those systems, allowing authorized users to access the right information, at the right time, in the right context, in a secure and timely manner, from any Web-enabled device. To learn more, please visit: www.digitalbridge.com.

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