Microsoft Learning Gateway
Overview for primary and secondary schools
Updated: July 19, 2006
Does your school or district need to…
| • | Share instructional best practices? |
| • | Collect, report, and analyze student assessment data? |
| • | Generate student reports that require the collection of data from different sources? |
| • | Find a cost effective data reporting solution that can help save money? |
| • | Deploy instructional resources quickly and efficiently? |
The Learning Gateway can help you accomplish all of these tasks—and much more. This secure, Web-based learning environment uses Microsoft and partner technologies to connect parents, teachers, and administrators. The result? An integrated framework that turns student data into knowledge, knowledge into action, and action into success.
Collaborating through technology
With the Learning Gateway, you work closely with a technology partner to create a customized solution for your educational institution. Built on Microsoft Windows Server System technology, including Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Exchange Server, the framework uses a combination of products and technologies to provide you with built-in collaboration capabilities. The standard interface lets you address and share education applications and student data for more accurate, more secure, and more accessible information to help improve student achievement.
Benefits to administrators
As an administrator, efficiency, cost, and ease of operation are keys to your job. This technology solution allows you to:
| • | Easily share and communicate key data with students, parents, districts, and other institutions. |
| • | Cost-effectively meet reporting requirements and drive better decision making for factors affecting performance (including requirements for the No Child Left Behind Act). |
| • | Streamline processes for managing student data. |
| • | Provide real-time progress reporting to parents and teachers. |
| • | Collect and consolidate data from different sources across your district or state. |
Benefits to faculty
Teaching, not mastering new technology, should be your focus. The framework’s tools allow you to:
| • | Manage curriculum, collaborate online, and have anytime, anywhere access to information. |
| • | Identify and apply proven instructional practices using scientific methods. |
| • | Implement changes based on analysis of student performance data. |
| • | Access reports based on gender, disability, economic status, ethnicity, and other factors. |
| • | Provide a process of continuous improvement for students and parents. |
| • | Use standard Microsoft Office System applications to help identify performance improvement areas. |
Benefits to students and parents
The Learning Gateway gives students and parents the chance to participate directly in the learning process by enabling their ability to:
| • | View high-level information in a browser. |
| • | Study student assessment, curriculum, resources, lesson plans, and parental involvement data. |
| • | Have easy access to analysis, charts, and reports. |
Next steps: contact a partner
Microsoft partners are the key to your success with the Learning Gateway. They provide a range of integrated assessment, reporting, and analysis software and services. The following partners are ready to help you build and deploy the right solution for your needs.
List of worldwide Learning Gateway partners
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