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Alaress Wins Digital Business For Ormond College
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alaress on the 29th of April, 2011
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In a national tendering battle between Alaress and up to three other highly profiled competitive digital agencies, Alaress is the winner. Melbourne University’s Ormond College selected Alaress as their new digital partner to design and develop a new cutting edge website as a key component of their digital strategy.
The largest residential college for The University of Melbourne and founded in 1881 by the Presbyterian Church with the hallmarks of open entry and liberal education, Ormond College aspires to be a leader in residential collegiate learning in Australia.
Managing Director, Sean Richards said “We have thoroughly enjoyed our partnership with Ormond College for the past four years through the provision of their eLearning solutions from our flagship learning management system Schoolbox. The opportunity to work with Ormond College on their new website and digital strategy, means Alaress can apply our expertise building high-end websites to create a true full service solution for the College and it’s community.
James Leckie, Technical Director said “Our flexible process will ensure the clients requirements are met within budget and time-frame.”
This further supports Alaress’ position as the best digital partner for the education space, having secured clients including Melbourne Grammar School, Melbourne Girls Grammar School, Bialik College, Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore) and Tintern Girls Grammar to name a few.
Alaress has just deployed the most recent and impressive milestone update of the Schoolbox eLearning platform for Ormond College. Since 2001 Schoolbox has been transforming learning in major Australia Independent schools for staff, teachers and parents. Schoolbox ’s interactive community portal utilises advanced technology, making it a complete communication and content distribution system.
Schoolbox supports the school administrator with infinite control to provide a secure area for the entire school community to communicate, collaborate, manage information, share resources, control content and approve changes and modifications.
Administrators have an easy to use, feature rich and flexible framework in which to build a complete communication and content distribution system. Information management includes: Document and Image libraries, version control, work-flow and approvals.
Schoolbox delivers content to users based on their current enrollment status. It also provides access to information regarding timetables, student contact information, calendar, email and numerous other custom built systems (internet usage, sports fixtures, forms, resources, library). Alaress’ vision for Schoolbox is to provide a single, central home for all information relevant to the whole of school community.
When it comes to digital services Alaress understands what schools and college’s need. The combined solution of Schoolbox with a new website Alaress have commenced designing and developing means that Ormond College has a trusted digital partner to realise their digital strategy.