For the students of middle and high school, School Loop is an online application where students and parents can communicate with teachers, as an alternative to e-mail. Visit the official website of School Loop for searching school at www.SchoolLoop.com after login process.

Mark Gross, a school teacher & parent, and Tom Burns, an engineer created School Loop as a tool used for grades and to check homework. School Loop is used by approximately 1400 schools in 100 districts as their homework-online service. Staff is allowed to access each student’s workload and grades and digital lockers are provided to store and share files by School Loop. Every day assignments and grades may be emailed home.

An internal email system, “LoopMail” is maintained by School Loop. Only e-mail can be sent by users to other School Loop users. The LoopMail is sent to both the LoopMail inbox and the recipient’s regular e-mail inbox if a user LoopMails another user. An anti-profanity filter is contained by LoopMail system, however still internet slang can bypass this.

Login to School Loop School Search

• Open the website of School Loop, which is www.SchoolLoop.com.
• Click on “Login/Register” option, which is given at the right side on the top of the page.
• If you want to find school, then enter your school name in the given box and click on “Find”.
• After entering the information, if you can not find the results, then follow the given step:

1. Go to the website www.google.com.
2. Search for “your school name” + “school loop”. For example: “mount pleasant high school school loop”.

Features

• Homework for students, school announcements, and downloads can be posted by Schools and teachers.
• Class-specific information can be posted by teachers, if they have a website inside School Loop.
• Students can search for their homework, grades and e-mail their teachers.
• A calendar system is provided for assignment due-dates by the system.
• For later use, digital locker is given to the students where they can store files.
• Students can form groups with the permission of a teacher or a staff member.
• If parents want to keep track of their child’s progress and check homework, assignments and grades, then they can sign up.

Easy to use

Mark Gross is founder of School loop, a former teacher and a parent. Schools are known by him, and know how frustrating K-12 software can be. All School Loop products—School Loop Standard and School Loop Plus are accessible, easy and well-supported.

Easy to Implement

Training

People can not be taught to use software in a lab. By using the software, people can learn it. People are motivated to give School Loop a try by help of its training orientation. They help you to develop programs anchored in your real-world needs, and can deliver those programs if you want.

Support

Support is really training, and that people learn when rapid, empathetic and accurate responses are gotten to their requests by them.

Data Integration

School Loop incorporates with any SIS. The process of getting your master schedule and attendance data has been automated by them, and exports are provided for grades back to your SIS. Additional, It integrates with your directory service (like Active Directory), making account management a breeze. OpenLoop (a framework broad integration) is offered by it. OpenLoop is designed to help you to get more value out of your investments in other data systems.

Easy to License

School Loop is not software but a hosted service. The requirements of hardware and software are minimal, implementation is fast and inexpensive, and the service is fully supported. School Loop Standard (Standalone) is free. School Loop Standard (Unified) is reasonably priced. An annual license is charged on a per-student basis by it for School Loop Plus. E-Rate is used to pay for School Loop by many districts. 75% of their license has been elected as eligible for discount by E-Rate.

What is E-Rate?

The obligation of telecommunications providers to make available discounted services to the nation’s schools and libraries were expanded by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. This idea became known as the E-Rate (Education Rate) program. The Schools and Libraries Division (SLD) of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) administers it. Yearly, technology discounts to K-12 schools amount to approximately $2.5 billion was funded by E-rate. To help districts pay for Internet services like email and web hosting, E-Rate is a federal program.

Security

School Loop is very conscious of the importance of keeping access and information secure. K-12 software systems are not realistically under the sort of ongoing attack as financial institutions; password protection is the primary security susceptibility of them by users. So in addition to prevention, they focus on detection and recovery.

Prevention

To prevent security breaches, a wide variety of measures are used by School Loop. Basically, School Loop is not vulnerable to typical off-the-shelf problems since it is a custom JAVA application written on the Mac platform. Users need access to personal information to register, and parents cannot see grades or attendance until a staff member approves them. Individual members can challenge new members, so the system protects itself. School Loop users can login securely using HTTPS. Beyond technology, because real names of students are published by them, and their names can not be changed, mischief is kept at a minimum and is easily trackable by their log system (see detection).

Detection

School Loop logs many data transactions, and makes logs obtainable to administrators. A review of those logs often results a conclusive resolution in case of an issue. In addition, a set of algorithms that looks for unusual patterns in the gradebook is employed by School Loop.

Recovery

K-12 districts find themselves dealing with more cases of grade tampering as more grading moves onto computers and online. As users generally do not follow rigorous back-up routines, and can’t easily compare files even if they do, desktop are vulnerable. Constantly, gradebook is recorded by School Loop, though online systems have better backups, and teachers are allowed to move back and forth in time, making it easy to revert in case of trouble. The history of an assignment or of a student can be researched with ease by teacher.

Source: http://www.schoolloop.com