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E d Te c h S h o w D a i l y Tu e s d a y, J u l y 1 , 2 0 1 4 4 HOW 50,000 PARENTS ARE ACCESSING STUDENT GRADES AND SCHOOL NEWS IN REAL TIME Not long ago, Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida had something of a communications breakdown. The eighth-largest school district in the U.S. had been using outdated electronic gradebooks to try to share grades with students and parents. "We needed something easy to use and easy for getting information home," said Gregory Hart, Manager, Web Communications, Hillsborough County Public Schools. For its 2013/2014 school year, Hillsborough moved its 200,000 stu- dents, 270 school sites, 18,000 teachers and other staff to the social learning and engagement platform Edsby. "The Edsby web-based interface means no client, so we don't have to worry about what our users have installed. It gives us a lot more flexibility and allows for a lot more students, par- ents and staff access," he said. 60-Day Rollout Edsby was installed and adopted amaz- ingly quickly at H i l l s b o r o u g h , given that the plat- form connects hun- dreds of thousands of students and manages more than 200,000 classes in the district every aca- demic quarter. The county had the system populat- ed with hundreds of thousands of teach- ers, students and classes in sixty days. How? The secret: Edsby's two-way inte- gration with the district's custom student information system (SIS). BOXLIGHT ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF INTERACTIVE FLAT PANELS BOXLIGHT has announced the release of its ProColor interactive flat panels. The line includes a 70-inch full HD and 84-inch UHD panel that lets you inter- act using your fingers and/or the included pens with the ability to inter- act with up to four individual touch points. The ProColor units are accurate within 2mm and have a response time of less than 12ms. Both panels have an OPS slot for an optional Open Pluggable Specification PC, eliminating the need for an external computer. BOXLIGHT offers two differ- ent OPS PC options: Windows 8 (Full HD) and a 4k UHD OPS with Windows 8 specifically designed for the ProColor 840H. An optional pen tray can also attach below the front of the panel, giv- ing you access to customizable quick key functions right on your display. "Technical directors in schools and in corporate alike depend on interactive technology for engagement and collabo- ration – the ProColor series is the natural next step for collaboration among groups in a learning environments, and with the dependence on mobile devices and inter- active sur- faces, pro- viding an interactive flat panel is a necessity. With nine dif- ferent interactive display options, includ- ing interactive projectors and interactive panels, BOXLIGHT has what you need to interact," said Jeremy Peterson, BOX- LIGHT Product Manager. "BOXLIGHT strives to innovate based on user feed- back, and this is what that feedback has told us." In addition to the two-year stan- dard warranty, BOXLIGHT has the ability to take this product offering a step further by providing service and Continued on Page 30 Continued on Page 30 Lee M. Oser CEO and Editor-in-Chief Kim Forrester Paul Harris Jeff Rosano Associate Publisher Lorrie Baumann Editorial Director Jeanie Catron JoEllen Lowry Dave Bernard Associate Editors Yasmine Brown Vicky Glover Graphic Designer Ruth Haltiwanger Mandy Feld Customer Service Managers Levi Borland Jules Denton Justin Schmigel Account Managers Enrico Cecchi European Sales EdTech Show Daily is published by Oser Communications Group ©2014. All rights reserved. Executive and editorial offices at: 1877 N. Kolb Road, Tucson, AZ 85715 520-721-1300/Fax: 520-721-6300 www.oser.com European offices located at Lungarno Benvenuto Cellini, 11, 50125 Florence, Italy. AN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION NOT AFFILIATED WITH ISTE