OpenText Solutions for Primary & Secondary Education: Business Benefits

OpenText’s FirstClass solutions for primary and secondary education address a wide range of communication and collaboration needs of educational organizations, including public and private schools, school districts, colleges and universities.

Some of the benefits that the FirstClass solution provides for educational organizations include:

• Improved Student Outcomes – The FirstClass solution enables educational organizations to augment their in-class instruction with “anytime, anywhere” collaboration and communication between students, teachers and parents.  This community-based approach to teaching and learning delivers a supportive, flexible, and collaborative education environment that can lead to improved academic achievement for students.
• Reduced Risk Associated with Student Communications – As more schools put their students online, ensuring their safety and security is paramount. FirstClass offers a secure, authenticated environment that enables students to freely communicate and collaborate with peers and faculty within a safe, monitored, online community.
• Support for Diverse Computing Environments – Learning organizations often have a wide range of computers within their community. FirstClass supports multiple platforms, including Windows, MAC, Linux, and the Web – ensuring that schools can achieve budgetary efficiencies by leveraging their existing technology.
• Low Total Cost of Ownership – FirstClass is a leader in performance, reliability, scalability and ease of administration, enabling customers to maximize utilization of the solution, while minimizing investments in the hardware, software and staff needed to support it.