Lotus Connections Enables Better Student Education at a Large Metropolitan School District

1. Lotus Connections Enables Better Student Education at a Large Metropolitan School District

2. Customer Information • Large Urban School District • 1400+ schools • 90,000 Teachers, Principals and Administrators • 1,000,000+ students

3. Customer Challenges • Need one, easy to view location and provide principals and teachers innovative ways of working together to give the highest quality education and support to all students • Need tools to give educators and parents clear insight into critical student performance information • Need to improve instruction and increase student achievement • Need to speed the location of key expertise across the schools to address specific student challenges

4. Solution: Leverage Lotus Connections services within a Portal application for Educators and Parents Participants • Provides educators and parents access to exam results and will be designed to help teachers identify and share effective practices and skillsets • Example Use Case • A teacher trying to help a student struggling with geometry • The teacher can search for best practices on geometry instruction and get contact information for teachers across the school system identified as having strong skills in that area • The teacher could see important content from those expert teachers and collaborate with them to learn how to address their student’s issues most effectively

5. Business Value • Improve access and visibility of best practices, methods and content for teachers • Reduce the time and effort to find critical expertise across a school or the broader education system • Reduce the time for new teachers and administrators to become productive and connected with their peers • Increase the interaction and collaboration across teachers, principals, and administrators • Provide the foundation platform for future expansion to online connection with parents and students