SchoolCenter Launches SC Mail for K-12 Education – New 94 Percent E-Rate Eligible Email Application Provides Staff and Students With an Interactive and Safe Communication Environment
CARBONDALE, Ill. Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ – SchoolCenter, the leader in strategic K-12 web solutions, today announced the availability of SC Mail, a new 94 percent E-Rate eligible email application designed specifically for K-12 education that completes the communications loop between administrators, teachers, parents and students. SC Mail coordinates all school-related email correspondence through a single safe and secure application that is easy to use, reliable and fully customizable, bringing substantial benefits to the school community.
Today, schools and districts face a number of challenges related to electronic communications. Leaders face intense pressure to archive all inbound and outbound email correspondence and struggle with the lack of oversight that comes with students utilizing personal email accounts for school-related purposes. They also recognize the importance of establishing stronger school communities and view the web as the best conduit for achieving that goal.
At the teacher, student and parent levels, email communication is an essential component of day-to-day learning, with each group appreciating the benefits of being able to interact with one another online.
“Schools and districts are seeking better ways to integrate all of the pieces of the digital communications spectrum, and SC Mail provides that opportunity,” said Mary McCaffrey, CEO, SchoolCenter. “Tackling the complexities associated with a webmail framework deployed to staff, students and parents has been a long-standing concern for K-12 IT departments that are anxious about the management of such a system. SchoolCenter worked with hundreds of districts across the country to ensure that SC Mail has features that are intuitive for all users as well as a broad set of administrator controls that allow for customization down to the student, classroom and individual grade levels to meet the unique needs of each school.”
SC Mail was created with the needs of K-12 school district users in mind. The result is a system designed to suit the needs of school students and staff.
SC Mail Highlights
Safety and Security
- Ability to lockdown per domain to prevent users from sending or receiving messages outside the school
- Robust profanity filtering system
- Complete anti-virus and spam filtering
Archiving
- Immediate archiving for all incoming and outgoing messages at no extra cost
- Message retrieval assistance
Personalization
- The email system can be uniquely branded
- Logos or mascots can be incorporated into each school or district’s email system
- SchoolCenter designers can create a custom “skin” for the interface
E-Rate Eligibility
- 94 percent reimbursement rate
SC Mail is the third web solution from SchoolCenter and rounds out an integrated portfolio of strategic communications offerings, including SC Pro and SC WebTools, that are designed to provide K-12 schools and districts with a cohesive and complete approach to establishing effective web presences that engage everyone.
For more information and to watch a short video about SchoolCenter’s new SC Mail web-based email service for K-12, including technical features and implementation services, please visit www.schoolcenter.com.
About SchoolCenter
SchoolCenter is the leading strategic web solutions company in the education market. With offices in Carbondale, IL, Sacramento, Chicago and St. Louis, SchoolCenter provides schools and districts with a proven approach to growing interactive K-12 environments that engage everyone. With more than 13 years experience, 6,000 school customers and more than half a million users, SchoolCenter applies proven best practices to the development and implementation of strategic web solutions to ensure that all identified goals are met. SchoolCenter offers customized design services, scalable and flexible technology solutions, including both hosted and onsite alternatives, comprehensive training, ongoing support and a long-term commitment to customer success. For more information, please visit www.schoolcenter.com.
SOURCE SchoolCenter