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Major Goals and Objectives

Our vision for this project is to effectively integrate a learning management system into our current teaching environment so that we may reach students that we may ordinarily have difficulty reaching, create a better transition model for students that move on to higher education, and increase communications between parents, students, staff, and the community at large.
 * Project Vision Statement:**


 * Objective 1: Increased Outreach**

We intend on reaching students that we may ordinarily have difficulty reaching**.** Specific students in mind include at risk students, students that have IEP’s, and those students that cannot adjust to a standard school structure. We intend on measuring the success of this by comparing results of students meeting this criteria after the learning management system has been integrated with the results of students meeting this criteria from the past. Most teachers support this change as they all agree that we need to make a better effort to reach these students. Given the practicality of a LMS, the relatively low costs associated with an LMS, and our relatively short adoption calendar, we feel that this is a realistic goal. Assuming that adoption goes successfully, teachers will be able to provide the close attention that at-risk students need. We fully anticipate that students will respond positively to this change and as such should increase overall scores according to both federal and state guidelines. This will improve funding and reflect positively upon the teachers.

A large percentage of graduating students from Pottersville move on to higher education institutions. We feel that it is important to make students seeking additional education have a smooth and successful transition. Given the fact most universities use an LMS of some sort, offering an LMS now will allow students to become familiar with the paradigm of an online aspect to their education. The best way to measure this will be to create a poll sent out to graduates a year after they leave Pottersville. The poll should ask appropriate students about their experiences post graduation with regards to LMS. As with all technologies, this poll may also assist in identifying technical trends. This will allow those involved to make educated decisions on what types of technology or brands of future LMS should be considered.
 * Objective 2:** **Better Transition to Higher Education**

It is becoming more and more common place to have a two person household income. As such it is becoming increasingly more difficult to manage parent-teacher relationships. As such, it has become increasingly difficult for parents to play the active role that is needed when it comes to the education of their children. As sad as a reality as this is (and not really the parent’s faults: wages over the past several years have stagnated while the cost of living has gone up) it does present an opportunity to not only correct a broken relationship but also allows a new level of interaction between all parties.
 * Objective 3: Increased Parent-Student-Teacher Communication**

Parents have easier access to student’s homework, teachers will be able to contact parents in effortlessly and be able to share the student’s results in real time. It is fully expected that this increased level of communication will not only benefit the parent-student relationship (hard to measure) but will also increase results and productivity from the students directly (very easy to measure).

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