vertical market | education
Community outreach solutions using voice processing technology on behalf of teachers, students and parents
A 24-hour Hotline for Homework Assignments - the Telephony Office-LinX platform allows students to get their homework right away, 24 hours a day. A simple call from a touch-tone phone is all it takes to stay informed and receive the latest homework assignments.
How does it work?
With the Telephony Office-LinX voice menus and IVR (interactive voice response) module, users can create custom Homework Hotlines that can greet callers and instruct the user on how to retrieve their homework assignment. A caller will simply need to press a touch-tone number to access their assignment.
The Homework Hotline is easy to implement and simple to use. School staff can control selections and update message recordings with ease.
The IVR module allows custom applications to be created that include the ability to call parents and inform them of student absences, school activities and emergency messages - saving money on manpower, labor costs, paper and postage. The Telephony Office-LinX voice processing system can call parents and deliver vital information by leaving a private and secure message.
Key Features
24-Hour Information Hotline - Use this feature to give parents access to daily school information such as:
- School schedules
- Field trips
- Guidance and attendance information
- Extra-curricular activities
- Sport schedules
Parents have access to school information around the clock. The main school phone number can also be forwarded to Telephony Office-LinX system after hours and access all of the voice processing features.
Homework Hotline - Parents and students have the convenience of retrieving assigned class homework using any touch-tone phone. Teachers can record assignments in minutes. Parents can stay current with their children's homework assignments and students are required to become more responsible.
Grades Hotline
Telephony Office-LinX has an add-on IVR interface and text-to-speech module, which can read text from any database and converts it to speech. For example, with a central database of students containing marks and personal records, Telephony Office-LinX will login by authenticating their password and voice their grades over the telephone. This convenient system is helpful to parents who may not have Internet access to view information. The IVR interface can be used for unlimited applications.
Distribution List Maintenance
Used to create customized phone lists, such as staff lists, PTA members list, teacher’s class list etc. A daily absent list can also be created for schools with no student information systems.
Absent Caller & All School Caller
Use the Telephony Office-LinX system to telephone parents and report absences and/or call all parents. The built-in text-to-speech feature will play the student's name, so parents will know which one of their children was absent. The Telephony Office-LinX platform can be automated to telephone parents and report absences with the IVR interface.
Application Benefits
- Efficient and accurate way to listen to homework assignments by class
- Allows parents to participate and motivate students for class assignments
- Allows students who miss class due to illness to keep up with class assignments
- Only items that have changed need to be updated
- Parents have an easy and secure way to communicate with teacher, when they are not available
- Teachers no longer need to have a dedicated telephone to communicate with parents and students
- Telephony Office-LinX can make over 100 calls per/hr using one line. It can be configured with 2 - 64 lines unlike other systems that can only go up to 4 lines.
- Telephony Office-LinX can be used for small and large schools. It can also be used in large districts as a centralized system.