"U.S. Company Unveils Software To Monitor Kid's Performance in School"
March 22, 1999
Xinhua via NewsEdge Corporation : LOS ANGELES (March 20) XINHUA
- A U.S. company, known as Schoolsoft and based in California,
unveiled an upgrade to its software that lets parents monitor their
child's performance in school over the Internet, according to a report
from the company on Saturday.
The company said it has developed software that runs on 3Com
Corp.'s popular Palmpilot handheld computers. School children will
have a more difficult time skipping classes in the future if their
parents monitor data stored in the software.
School teachers can now enter into the PalmPilot student attendance
data, grades, homework assignments, which are all sent to the
school's central server pre-loaded with SchoolSoft software,
according to Jim Weldom, SchoolSoft founder and chief executive.
Later, parents with either Internet access or just a telephone can
access the school's server for updates from the teacher, he
explained, adding parents could only access the system via the
telephone in the past.
Weldom said his company at present had an installed base of about
330 schools around the United States, and that the software was
used for children in kindergarten all the way to secondary school.
The server software costs an average of about 20,000 U.S. dollars for
a school and the PalmPilots average about 360 a year per user, the
company said.
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