Find, Use, and Share Information to Enhance Communication and Collaboration
SharePoint 2010 is a flexible, extensible solution that can
help build on existing education IT systems and work securely
across physical boundaries—meeting your current needs and
ready to support future requirements. Whether your institution
adopts a top-down or bottom-up approach to IT, you can deploy a SharePoint 2010 framework that can support how you want to progress with the flexibility to accommodate later developments. This means that your investments are future-proofed, even during times of rapid change.
THE SOLID FOUNDATION BENEATH YOUR CONNECTED LEARNING COMMUNITY
SharePoint 2010 is based on the Microsoft .NET Framework. That means it is flexible and extensible by design. Your institution can create custom applications or choose from a host of Microsoft and Digicon software and services. Either way, you can plug in features that meet your current priorities, and you will be ready to support your future needs.
WEB-BASED COLLABORATION AND COMMUNICATION
SharePoint 2010 gives users a single point of access to information that is held across different systems. Administrative staff and faculty can save time with applications that streamline tedious procedures into simple tasks. They can collaborate more easily with encrypted e-mail, shared documents, calendars, and scheduling. Teams can more easily develop documents and reports through online collaboration.
SharePoint 2010 creates a common access point to the data and 
services that the people throughout your school district need to effectively share information and work together on projects. Some
of the things you can do with a SharePoint 2010 solution include:
- Record and share grades with students and parents electronically.
- Create online communities for teachers, administrators, and students to collaborate.
- Facilitate sharing of best practices among teachers and administrators.
- Enable students, parents, faculty, and administrators to access your institution's resources anytime from any connected device.
- Post lesson plans, research content, coursework, and more to online document libraries.
- Provide Web-based class registration, lunch ordering, and other services.
- Create dashboards that show up-to-date student performance data to inform instruction and decisions.
- Share information with your district personnel, school board, parents, and community members.
Give Students the Digital Campus They Expect
SharePoint 2010 offers students hassle-free access to a digital campus—anywhere, anytime—by bringing information, course materials, library sys-tems, discussion groups, learning pro-grams, and timetables to a single point of access. Faculty can easily communicate with students—from posting attendance policies to updating class calendars to making announcements.
Boost Opportunities for Innovation
By improving communications and collaboration, universities and colleges can support innovation and facilitate research and development. SharePoint 2010 makes it easier for research groups to use and share information, regardless of their location. Your institution can offer commercial partners industry-standard systems for collaboration.
Reduce Costs Through Platform Consolidation
Using powerful, familiar, easy-to-use technology that simplifies the analysis of complex information results in better decision-making throughout the college community. Reducing manual input gives you specialized systems without needing specialized knowledge.
Available Services
- BUSINESS NEEDS ANALYSIS
Determining and documenting institution needs. - ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
Designing hardware and software architecture to meet IT needs. - CUSTOM DEVELOPMENT
Developing SharePoint web parts, templates and database integration. - QUALITY ASSURANCE
Controlling and monitoring the deployment and testing of code. - OPERATIONS
Managing and monitoring the day-to-day activity of SharePoint.
To learn more about the benefits of Digicon's SharePoint 2010 solutions in education, call us at 703-621-1000.