A few years back, Gill St. Bernard's made a decision to overhaul our web site. That decision involved considerable deliberation but ultimately the school decided on Whipple Hill as our provider. Whipple Hill was a company with deep experience building custom web sites for schools.
Part of that purchase included the construction of an intranet which came to be called KnightSite. KnightSite, as you know, connects students, families and school personnel in a way that gives users ways to distribute and access information. Because it is password-protected, it affords privacy as well.
Last year, Whipple Hill was purchased by Blackbaud, a company built on data services. Blackbaud should be a familiar name; we've used Blackbaud products for years to manage data in admissions, development, academic offices and in our business office. Because our web sites and databases would all be under one corporate roof, we hoped that services could be more efficiently integrated over time.
Looking in to the near future, some of those streamlined efficiencies are now on the horizon. Soon, student schedules that are entered into our academic database (Education Edge) will automatically populate the student's KnightSite account. Similarly, changes in parents' phone numbers or addresses in our databases will translate to KnightSite changes. These and other similar connections between our existing databases and KnightSite accounts should result in more accurate information across our platforms.
Blackbaud periodically issues an update report that informs system administrators about changes. These updates are generally both in text and video form. A recent update included a number of items, but I edited the video to focus on the increased functionality available to faculty beginning February 10th.
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