Benefits of CaaS for K-12

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• Leverage E-Rate to fund leading edge communication technologies

  Lower your total cost:

  • Apply E-Rate funding to more of your telecommunications costs. 
  • Majority of high cost equipment covered by priority two E-Rate is no longer necessary. 
  • Service model covered by priority one E-Rate with higher availability of funding.

  
  

  Devices:

  • Reduced costs for items that do not receive E-Rate funding. 
  • Multiple options for deskphones that reduce costs with full feature-set. 
  • Offering users soft-phones, mobile clients, and voicemail-to-email, reduces the number of phones needed.

  
  

  
  

• Features for teachers and administrators

  Improve the frequency and quality of communication between parents and the school while reducing staff workload: 

  • Voice mail box forward messages to teachers' emails, improving parent contact and reducing need for desk phones. 
  • Create custom informational hotline for each classroom’s homework, exams, etc. 
  • Automated announcements inform parents of school events or snow days and reduce staff workload. 
  • Absentee hotline messages archived in email form for easy search and retrieval. 
  • Teachers log in to teachers-lounge phones and use their direct line. 
  • Administrators make calls from their mobile phone and broadcast their district provided phone number on caller-ID.

  
  

• Benefits for the district

  PosTrack's solution enables K-12 districts to streamline their telecommunications: 

  • Create a single, flexible, telecommunications system district-wide. 
  • The system remains available to incoming callers and mobile users even if the district’s buildings lose connection. 
  • Users move between buildings using the same contact number.