Why are schools always the last institution to change? Why are parents still receiving huge packets of school forms in the mail for registration? With the budget crisis, schools need to change to a paperless system. Schools throughout the country are using custom online forms for registration.
One school in California mentioned that his district went through 22 pallets of paper a year, just in the central copy room. That’s not including the paper that the individual schools are using. Some progressive schools have switched to eco-friendly, paperless online forms using the K-12 Online system.
Custom online forms during Registration
“This system is nothing short of amazing,” said George Knights of Newport Mesa. K-12 Online allows schools to create custom forms online. The majority of the online forms are used during registration. Parents log in with a unique access key for their student and are able to see all the individual forms online, acknowledge their receipt, give permissions if necessary, sign up for volunteering, update student and emergency contact information and also take surveys if needed. The online forms can also be grade specific so the online forms on the forms homepage has already been filtered for the student’s grade level.
The online forms have enabled districts to streamline their forms across schools. There are district global forms that cannot be edited or deleted by the schools. However, there are also registration form templates for each school to create its own forms and have the PTAs and other organizations be part of that system. It is safe and secure since users can only access the back-end of this web-based school management system with a user name and password. Each user is assigned a privilege level so the student data is not compromised.
PTA Registration
Unlike other registration systems, K-12 Online allows PTAs and other school organizations to be part of the registration process, because they play a huge part in the success of the school. With K12Online, PTAs and boosters can have their information, volunteer signups and fundraise there. These organizations can also access information on their own so they never have to bother the school for information. It’s amazing how these online forms have benefited us all and become a revolutionary school management software.
