STATE COLLEGE, PA -- Schoolwires Inc., a leading provider of strategic online communication, community management and productivity solutions, announces the release of Schoolwires CentricityTM, now with homework management solutions that enable teacher-student collaboration like never before.
Schoolwires CentricityTM brings together comprehensive capabilities, including the ability to more easily deploy and manage multiple custom, interactive websites; to implement advanced Web 2.0/multimedia capabilities, such as blogs, podcasts, and photo galleries; and to enable all users -- from novices to power users -- to utilize the functionality that meets their needs and comfort levels.
Now, Schoolwires CentricityTM 1 lets teachers establish an assignments page that allows students to keep track of upcoming assignments. For districts that have Schoolwires SynergyTM, teachers can establish homework drop boxes on the assignments page and teachers can access the submitted homework through safe and secure digital file sharing.
The product combination of the Schoolwires CentricityTM Strategic Solution for Connecting K-12 Communities working hand in hand with the Schoolwires SynergyTM digital file sharing solution is another step forward in leveraging Web 2.0 interactivity within a district"s span of control.
"We"re excited to be able to offer something that uniquely facilitates greater student and teacher interaction and collaboration," said Peggi Munkittrick, Senior Product Strategist for Schoolwires. "Our Schoolwires team is always looking at making our products even better. We listen to our clients and put that input back into our products. I feel that this new release will truly help us in our mission to provide solutions to K-12 schools that result in stronger school communities, more effective schools and greater student success."
"Teachers told us they like to organize assignments by category, assign due dates and display them on calendars," added Jason Coudriet, Vice President of Product Development. "As a plus, we added Real Simple Syndication (RSS), so the assignments can be aggregated to iGoogle or Yahoo!."
Of note, Schoolwires CentricityTM is a hosted, on-demand solution offering the very high levels of security, performance and reliability that a strategic solution requires. For more information, visit www.schoolwires.com/centricity.
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Schoolwires Inc. (www.schoolwires.com) is a leading national provider of strategic online communication, community-management and productivity solutions that result in stronger school communities, more effective schools and greater student success. With the launch of CentricityTM, Schoolwires delivers the first strategic solution for connecting K-12 communities. Centricity brings together robust and flexible website management, community management, and web 2.0/social network capabilities in a single, user-centric solution. Schoolwires also delivers SynergyTM, a digital file sharing solution, AssistTM, a service request solution, and Share, an online client community and support center. Schoolwires solutions are deployed at more than 3,500 schools serving an estimated three million students, parents, teachers and administrators throughout North America. Schoolwires is ranked as the #328th fastest-growing private company in the nation and the third fastest-growing within the education sector in the coveted Inc. 500 list. 
