The end of the year is the festive season with many schools, colleges and educational institutions slowing down and going into a vacation mode. During holiday season, Students often appear to be distracted more easily during the holiday season as the focus shifts to spending time with family and friends rather than the books before the students. This can be a challenge for teachers and educators as they struggle to keep the students focused on their studies. Another obstacle faced by teachers is to ensure that students complete and apply all the work on time, ensuring that their performance is on a trend upward.
This can be seen as a major task for teachers in traditional schools and colleges. But it is easier than ever to ensure that the students stay motivated and remain excited about their academic achievements with technology to help them and with the help of school management software.
1. News
The school management software’s news feature allows the administrator or the privileged employee to publish the latest news and academic updates related to the school for the day. These can be used by staff and students to help keep them up-to-date with all the latest campus events during the holidays that will be available to all users on their dashboard.
This campus news which is easy to create and publish can not only be textual but can also include videos and images to make it more interesting. Additionally, the administrator can allow for comments to be added to the news to make this feature more interactive for the students.
2. Discussion
Another strategic way for schools and colleges to keep students engaged through the discussion feature in the school management software. Through online discussion, students, teachers, and staff can interact with each other despite the holidays. This module helps the students and teachers to interact with each other through discussions and comments. This is a moderated discussion and unwelcome comments can always be deleted by the school administrator. They can interact and exchange ideas, discuss grievances and build a stronger and more engaged student and teacher community.
3. Poll
With the help of the Poll feature, the school can seek and collect the opinions on a particular subject from a group of selected members. This poll can be done anonymously without revealing the identity of the person and can be extended to a pre-selected audience for the purpose of analysis.
4. Gallery
The school can share important screenshots and pictures with the students or employees by creating an album in the gallery module of the school management software. Public albums that update the students with the various events and activities of the school can be shared so that even when the students are on a vacation, they are updated on the school happenings. By sharing these images, the students also get excited and motivated to resume classes when the holidays end.
5. eMails
One of the most common methods to send regular updates to the students and the parents is through the use of emails. These mails help the schools keep the parents and students updated on a regular basis. Emails also enable to school to send essential communication to the teachers, parents and students such as fee reminders, exam schedules, meeting updates etc.
Emails can also be sent to the alumni to engage them for career guidance and training activities for mutual knowledge exchange. Additionally, to reduce the burden on the administration, the school automatic emails can be set up for a particular set of recipients on specific events
6. Task
The Task module of the school management is used by the school administration team to assign tasks to the staff or the students by their teachers or management team. Once the students or the staff receive the task, they can then upload documents and put up periodic updates related to the task assigned to them. They can also receive feedback, comments and further instructions related to the task for further follow ups.
The holiday season, while it is a time for rest and relaxation for the students, does not necessarily mean being cut-off and isolated from school work. With the help of the various technological tools given above, the students can continue to stay connected with their school, peers and teachers. The period of time, when used well can also be used by the students to give themselves the extra boost that will help them ace their exams with ease.