Massachusetts Association of School Committees, Inc Online Policy - PDF document

Massachusetts Association of School Committees, Inc Online Policy Manual Online Policy Manuals  Create a convenient, paperless policy collection  Accessible to School Committee members, administrators, teachers, and parents  Anytime, all the time  User friendly, easy to navigate, word-searchable, and expandable What are the Benefits?  Fingertip access  Faster updates  Reduced administrative costs  Paperless efficiency  Searchable information 1

How will this help us?  Get a powerful, digital document format to search reference information  User-friendly interface  High speed retrieval of information  Requires no special training  At your fingertips: full text searching and easy navigation How will this help us?  Instant results  References the full text of Massachusetts General Laws cited  Enables users to connect district policies with legal requirements and Department of Education regulations How does it work?  Policy manual is converted into MASC database using a digital publishing platform  Footnote citations, cross-references and legal references are digitally linked for full viewing  Database is transmitted to server and posted on our hosting site 2

How does it work?  Policy manual can then be viewed anywhere by anyone who has access to the Internet  We supply you with the URL to include as a link on your own school district home page  You send any changes to your policies to us, and we modify the database accordingly How much does this cost?  For a district with a manual convertible to Word: • First year cost is $3,500.00 • Annual renewal fee is $950.00  Includes unlimited updates  Initial contract is for two years, then renewed annually Online Policy Manual 2004 Massachusetts Association of School Committees, Inc  3