..:.:: Student / Faculty Awareness Solutions ™

Student / Faculty Awareness Solutions™ - (SFA™)

GMx Solutions announces the delivery of Student / Faculty Awareness Solutions (SFA™), which are based on its software platform, IMDS™ (Instant Messaging Data Services). IMDS is a cost effective, high impact, pattern detection, message alerting and notification server that provides a toolset and platform for unattended operations. The IMDS School District Solution provides capabilities for automated notifications and alerting so that manual interactions and inaccuracies of information are minimized. Further, information is proactively pushed to the subscribing recipient or large groups of recipients in real-time. As stated by Senator Victor D. Crist, “Those who need to know should know”. (2/16/04, Eight on Your Side, Crime Tracker Investigation).

Student & Faculty Solutions:

Historically, information that must be disseminated is processed manually and entails much latency, sometimes incurring delays of days if not weeks after the information is available. Some examples include class availability, distribution of grades, attendance details, changes with student accounts, availability of extra-curricular activities, details of school team activities, field trips, and more. The dissemination of critical information requires manual intervention, such as phone calls, paperwork or word of mouth. This typically results in inaccuracies and time delays. One of the most important aspects of lack of awareness is the lack of procedures; information just simply is not made available. Even when school systems contain the information, it is often not looked at by students, parents or faculty. Examples may include a school website, papers sent home with the student or postings on premises. Critical information that is time sensitive can now instantly reach its recipients. Such information includes attendance patterns, homework assignments, changes in GPA, security procedures, epidemics, school news and more.

The services of SFA provide a unique and powerful solution for ensuring immediate and accurate information to those who require it or desire it. SFA interacts with existing school information systems or county data sources to detect critical activities that staff, students or parents may benefit from if aware. Individual profiles can be created by the parent, teacher or student to define the exact criteria for what information to receive, when to receive it and how to receive it. Information is made available via e-mail, cell phone, telephone, voice mail, pager and more.

If a situation occurred that mandated a change in security procedures or even a school closing, many people must be aware, perhaps including those from other districts. Automated call lists can be initiated with the touch of a button. Reports are generated based on confirmations from the recipients themselves, thus pointing out those who have not received the information.

GMx Solutions has capitalized on real-time processing, to provide a new dimension of automated notification and interactions within and for School Districts. IMDS delivers the ability to improve communications for those who need to know, when they need to know. Below is an example profile that can be managed with any user with proper credentials that are issued by school personnel: