www'ParmaCitySchools'org and WebCalendar

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www.ParmaCitySchools.organdWebCalendar

• What Administrators Need to Know

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What is it?

• This is the districts public Web site

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What is it?

• http//www.ParmaCitySchools.org- or -
• http//bilbo

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Why is it important?

• The Who
• Parents, students, community members, prospective
  employees, families looking to move to the area,
  the media and people throughout the world
• The What
• Visit the site on a daily basis looking for
  information

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Some Definitions

• Unique Visitor the system tracks each computer
  used to view our Web site
• Visit a unique visitor comes to our site and
  looks around
• if they stop for 20 minutes and then continue it
  is a new visit

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Some Definitions

• View a unique visitor during a distinct visit
  view a single page
• Hits every element on a page (paragraph, image,
  etc.) counts as a hit
• One page often counts for 6 hits

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How Many People are using it?

• Site wide, From August 9, 2005 - April 23,
  2007
• 305,385 - Unique Visitors
• 782,676 - Total Visits
• 5,300,519 - Total Page Views
• 45,950,939 - Total Hits
• Average Length of Visit 5 min 55 sec

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How about your site? (Bldgs)Jan - Apr 07
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How about your site? (Dept)Jan - Apr 07
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How about your site? (Info)Jan - Apr 07
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How is it Maintained?

• CommonSpot Authors
• Create/update content based upon what is given to
  them
• Building Admin were to be final approvers
• A few buildings do this, the rest rely on DIS to
  review and approve changes (time delay)

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A Few More Numbers

• 4,028 - Total number of site pages
• 70 - Total number of pages updated /
  added in last 7 days
• 267 - Total number of authors
• 26 - Total number of authors active
  in the last 7 days
• 11 - Staff members with personal sites

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What is Needed?

• An active, useful site needs
• A template / design that organizes your
  information
• More than one author
• A systematic method for giving updates to the
  authors
• Time

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WebCalendar

• http//www.ParmaCitySchools.org/calendar/

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What is it?

• A Web based calendar at the PCSD Web site
• View by Day, Week, Month or List

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Why is it Important?

• A single place for parents, staff and students to
  find calendar information
• A visitor can dynamically assemble a custom
  calendar
• A visitor can export their information into MS
  Outlook or Palm Desktop

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How is it Being Used? (district)

• Buildings
• Dentzler
• Green Valley
• Greenbriar
• Hanna
• John Glenn
• John Muir

• Normandy
• Parma Senior
• Pleasant Valley
• Pleasantview
• Renwood
• State Road

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How is it Being Used? (district)

• District Wide
• Board Meetings
• Byers Field
• General
• Red Rees
• Senior Freedom Card

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How is it Being Used? (visitors)

• 697 Times visitors have exported
  calendar information
• 5,613 Visitors from Jan - Apr 07
• 79,635 Pages viewed from Jan - Apr 07

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How is it Maintained?

• Users login to the WebCalendar tool to edit the
  information

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What is Needed?

• One or more people assigned to enter the
  information
• A systematic method for giving the information to
  those people

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Conclusion

• We have built it,
• They have come,
• Now we need to maintain and expand it to keep it
  useful