 Technology at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School
St. Francis School employs technology throughout the campus and curriculum to maximize the learning experience for the students, support the faculty and staff, improve communications amongst parents, faculty and staff, and in general streamline the operations of the school. The school’s local area network connects the approximately 290 Windows-based on-campus computers and servers, and is connected to the wide area network maintained by the Catholic Diocese of Memphis. The Diocese provides the school with email and internet connectively, and includes firewall, antivirus and content filtering services. All computers are on a 5 year replacement schedule.
Some of our Facilities
- Lower School Computer Lab (26 computers)
- Middle School Computer Lab (27 computers)
- All-School Computer Lab (27 computers)
- Library (15 computers)
- 34 Classrooms and Labs with Ceiling Mounted Multimedia LCD Projectors
- 4 Multimedia LCD Projector and Laptop Portable Carts
- Virtually all 1st – 5th and some 6th – 8th grade classrooms provide several student computers each
- SmartBoard Classroom (Lower Spanish)
- WeatherBug Weather Station
- 12 Robots and Related Programming Facilities for use by 5th - 8th grade Science Classes
Some of our Applications
- Accelerated Reader
- Discovery Streaming Video
- BrainPOP
- Star Reading Level Assessment
- ALEKS Mathematics Assessment and Learning System
- Fluent Reader
- Follett Library System
- AdministratorsPlus School Database System
- Connect-Ed Emergency Notification System
- TextLink Textbook Management System
- Security Cameras
- Perimeter Access Control
Edline - Connecting the School and the Families
- The Edline website is used to securely post information for students and parents:
- 5th – 8th grade student’s grades are uploaded weekly to Edline for parents to view.
- All grades provide weekly newsletters and other relevant information posted by the individual teachers.
- General news such as school menu and newsletters are posted monthly.
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