School Loop

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**School Loop**
URL	schoolloop.com
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	Online Application
Owner
Created by	Mark Gross
Current status	Online

School Loop is an online application that makes sharing information and working together easy. Staff can access each student’s workload and grades. Digital lockers help members store and share files. And every evening, assignments and grades are emailed home.

1 History
2 How to Sign Up
3 Features
4 No Fail Zone
5 Participating Schools
6 External Link

[edit] History

School Loop was created by Mark Gross, a school teacher, and a parent, to show homework and online advice from their teachers. Tom Burns was an engineer and he helped Gross with the invention of School Loop.

[edit] How to Sign Up

Your school is in charge of School Loop. If desired to have this service, contact your school. Then if the school receives this service, you can sign up for School Loop. You're required to give your Student ID (usually you can get this at the school), Name, Email(for daily emails for homework assignments), and password.

[edit] Features

Digital Drop-Box: Turn in Homework Assignments online
Assignments Discussion: Students can ask teachers and other students for help.
Gradebooks(for teachers):Informs students of grade.
Automatic Homepages: No HTML
Downloadable Rosters(teachers only):Text or Excel Files
Daily Homework Email: Email every 5 P.M. informing homework assignments
LoopMail: Safe, Secure, Filtered, Never Anonymous
Groups: Departments, Clubs, etc.
News Publishing: Publish news (teachers only)
Digital Locker: Students store personal sites, documents, etc.

[edit] No Fail Zone

A No Fail Zone is an attitude about achievement, a sense of purpose and direction, measurable by reducing F rates, increasing performance on standardized tests, retaining teachers, and helping students and parents take an active role in education.