A content management system, or CMS, provides the ultimate interactive, multi-user website solution for your school. It gives your school an interactive, portal-like environment, and enables parents, students, teachers, and adminstrators to communicate effectively and efficiently. With a school content management system you can have a custom site that:

• Is easily administered with no knowledge of HTML
• Is affordable
• Has a clean, modern look and feel
• Is flexible
• Is feature-rich
• Can be launched quickly.

What features are offered with the School Custom CMS Express? The School Custom CMS Express has been pre-configured to provide any or all of the following features (you choose):

• Custom design with animated Flash header
• Full-featured calendar and mini-calendar
• Event Registation for trips, concerts, and extra-curricular activities with online payment.
• Class pages updated by each individual teacher.
• Individual student pages where a teacher can post private information for each student only that student's parents can login and see.
• Photo Album to showcase your school events
• Online tuition and meal plan payments
• Newsletter/Mailing list manager with unlimited lists for classes, sports, and activities.
• Download manager to make available permission slips and other regularly requested documents.
• Blog (web log) for principal to post news and thoughts.
• Staff/faculty directory
• And more!

Managing access for parents, students, teachers, and administrators Our Custom CMS Express gives you the ability to decide who can view each specific page and feature on your website as well as who can modify and administer each. That means you can do any of the following:

• Give teachers access to update just the pages for their class.
• Give teachers the ability to post private information about a student's performance that only the teacher and parent can read.
• Create private pages, calendars, and forums for internal use that only staff can view.
• Set up a web log ("blog") for the principal that allows him or her to easily add to the blog directly without having to go through the webmaster.

You can learn more by visiting our sample school Custom CMS Express site. It has all the features we have determined to be useful to schools, and you can pick and choose the ones that are most important to you. Now you can discover how easy it is to receive your own custom site from OurChurch.Com.