Education Solutions

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Key Features

Ektron CMS400.NET is the leading all-in-one Web content management platform. It enables your educational institution to not only manage content, but also rapidly create, deploy and manage interactive Web and social networking sites using its extensive out-of-the-box functionality. Develop rich, dynamic sites for personalized, two-way communication with visitors, building your brand and online presence and fostering community.

• Enterprise 2.0 and Social Networking
  Make your site pages a true collaborative environment where students, faculty and alumni can create their own personalized page and profile, form groups, and utilize wikis, blogs, polls and forums to communicate online in a collaborative environment
• Open Architecture
  Your school’s developers can take advantage of the 80+ built-in Server Controls to deploy your Web site out-of-the-box or customize deployment using CMS400.NET’s well-documented API
• Building, Deploying and Managing Your Strategy
  SEO tools, URL Aliasing, extensive metadata and taxonomy controls combine to give you a toolbox that aligns with your needs
  

Recruit Students

To remain competitive in recruiting new students, colleges and universities are using the Web as a vital link to prospective students and their parents. Oftentimes when these students and their families are searching for a school to attend, they judge it by the school’s web site – the first step in looking for what that educational institution has to offer them before making the road trip there. Ektron CMS400.NET allows you to deliver an interactive and dynamic site, letting your site visitors truly experience your school’s exciting campus community.

Enable prospective students to:

• Virtually visit your campus through online tours and slideshows
• Listen to sample lectures online on courses they’re interested in
• Easily apply to your school online
• Talk to current undergraduate students
  

Alumni

Keep alumni in touch with each other and informed of what’s going on in your school community. Today, individuals like to be online (that alumni newsletter sent in the mail is oftentimes thrown out). Enable your graduates to stay connected and involved.

Using Ektron’s social networking technology, alumni can easily create their own personalized profile. With this, alumni can:

• Add friends so they can stay-in-touch with their fellow graduates
• Subscribe to groups relevant to them whether it relates to jobs, interests, or location-related groups
• Make a donation online through Ektron’s e-commerce module
• See the updated calendar with events occurring in their area

Current Students

Deliver relevant information and interactive online services to your current students. Allow them to create a personalized page where they can:

• Drag and drop widgets that they want to utilize such as a calendar, bookmarks and campus map
• Easily access third party applications like Blackboard where they can check course updates and grades, and LexisNexis where they can perform research on a certain topic
• Create groups especially for team projects where
  
  • Documents are managed in a collaborative format rather than being emailed back and forth
  • Team members may communicate on that page through a message board and/or blog to exchange ideas and provide feedback

In addition, enable students to:

• Manage their tuition payments online through Ektron’s e-commerce module
• Watch class lectures they missed via e-learning
• Search content they want utilizing Ektron’s site search
  • Provides fast results
  • Reduces clicks through our taxonomy filtered search
• Collaborate with teachers and other students via wikis where they can control web site content
  

Customers