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Brightways Student Management

 
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“Brightways Student Management System has been a valuable resource for our district’s homeschool program. It is an efficient way for Raven to track our enrollment, increase our productivity, and establish solid family communications. Brightways has been instrumental in our program’s overall success!”
— Patty White, Assistant Superintendent, YKSD
 
“When I first came to [our program] and had to learn Brightways SMS, I thought it was going to be a lot harder than it was. It was surprisingly easy and intuitive, and I was quickly able to figure out how to use the different tools.”
— Carena Wood, Fast Track Virtual School, Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District, Alaska
“The Brightways rollout has gone exceptionally well—thank you! There were a couple of moments when I honestly thought we might lose it, but you stepped in and made sure everything came together. You and your team have been first-class throughout this entire process. I truly appreciate your professionalism and partnership.”
— Gerald Finkler, Principal, Frontier Charter School, Alaska

For districts and schools that offer distance education and homeschool support programs, Brightways Student Management System (SMS) can bridge the communication gap and improve the cooperative workflow.

Administrators, teachers, registrars, and parents love how fast and easy the web-based tools and services make creating individual learning plans (ILPs), managing student information, streamlining communications, tracking progress, managing enrollments and transcripts, creating state reports, and more.

Brightways SMS is specifically built for these kinds of programs. Easier management means your staff can handle more students more effectively.

Family-Focused Approach

  • ENROLLMENT & RE-ENROLLMENT that’s easy for families and integrated with customizable Terms of Agreement and electronic signature option.

  • FAMILY DASHBOARD with on-demand access to student records and ability to create & submit Individual Learning Plans (ILPs), submit grade reports & work samples, and update contact information.

  • DOCUMENT COMMUNICATIONS with families using Log Notes all in one place, along with tracking “last contact” date.

  • REQUIRED FORM OPTIONS are integrated: FERPA Agreement, Demographic Survey (active military, federal and Indian land residence, etc.), Field Trip Consent, Home Language Surveys, and OASIS data collection

    • Reduces email & paperwork juggling

    • Streamlines enrollment & re-enrollment processing

    • Documentation and knowledge related to students and families are accessible to staff in one easy-to-navigate portal

    • Robust data export tools provide valuable customizable reports

    • Offers transparency and timeliness to parents, improving family satisfaction

    • Supports & improves program audits

    • Staff can search & manage the current status of:

      • Every family’s last contact date with staff

      • Individual Learning Plans (ILPs)

      • Term grades & work samples

    • Optional Allotment & Ordering module for reimbursements & requisitions ensures swift and well-documented approval processing

    • Term-based Progress Report forms automatically match Individual Learning Plan

    • Quick and easy grade input and skill-tracking

    • Ability to upload Work Sample files and associate them with specific ILP course

    • Course-by-course development of each student’s Individual Learning Plan (ILP)

    • Customizable course list, curriculum sources, and assessment types

    • Advisory teachers manage & approve ILPs

    • Electronic signatures for parents and advisory teachers

    • Course grade input is automatically driven by the each student’s approved ILP

    • Course-specific student work samples (pdf, jpg, etc.) uploaded, reviewed & approved by advisors

    • Easily access and manage student records and enrollments

    • Streamlined input of transfer courses and historic credits

    • Automated credit and graduation requirement tracking, including a parent accessible

    Graduation Audit

    • One-click official transcript generation including custom watermark, graduation requirements, and standardized test scores

    • Variable role-based and task-specific access

    • Multiple program management capabilities

    • Encrypted secure login access and daily data backups

    • Admin tools promote in-house application settings & management

    • Collects and manages necessary data for state and federal reporting, including pre-built and up-to-dte Alaska OASIS Reports

    • Built-in reports for families, students, enrollments, and progress reports

    • Ability to select data fields and set filter fields for custom-query reports

    • One-click data export to spreadsheet (csv) files

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