A school is more than bricks and mortar, and an effective phone system is more than just dial tone. A phone system should make it easy for staff to integrate and manage multiple schools or locations from the same centralized system. It should make it easy for everyone to communicate, taking the burden off of students to be information carriers. And it should allow schools to provide information to parents, students and staff 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, whether it’s a homework hotline, events calendar or school closure notices. With Objectworld, powerful but simple collaboration tools make it easy to build your school’s community with strong communications.

Lower costs. With Objectworld, schools can eliminate redundant paging services and fax machines while improving the flow of communications between teachers, students, staff and parents. Schools can further maximize the investment they’ve already made in their phone systems by deploying CallAttendant Office™ with their existing PBX or cut long distances charges with Objectworld UC Server™’s VoIP. Both products allow schools to keep costs to a minimum while making communications easier.

Improved privacy and security. With Objectworld products, schools can easily improve student security and confidentiality by directing faxes, voice mails and e-mails to secure staff e-mail inboxes. School staff use simple Windows-based software interfaces to manage all messages about a student in one place — their e-mail inboxes — lessening the chances of student information getting into the wrong hands.

Simple management means greater productivity. With Objectworld products, very complicated changes with a traditional phone system are just a couple of mouse clicks. Employees can manage their own communications or IT staff can set system-wide policies. Both products are entirely Windows-based, making for simple, intuitive interfaces with which most educational staff are already familiar. Administrators use simple, Windows-based productivity tools to make changes, whether it’s adding an extension, configuring voice mail or setting up an absentee hotline. available from any Windows desktop. Staff access voice mails, e-mails and faxes directly in Microsoft® Outlook® or Lotus® Notes®. They can prioritize and group those messages according to client or levels of urgency.

Effective communication 24/7. Schools can improve privacy and their engagement with parents by providing self-service information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with Objectworld’s Interactive Voice Response (IVR) capabilities. IVR makes it easy for everyone to stay on top of critical information, whether it’s a school closure due to weather, the day’s homework, or reporting a child’s absence. Objectworld products make IVR simple and inexpensive for schools, with a point-and-click service creation environment that requires no programming. Objectworld Authorized Resellers are also available to build custom IVR applications.

Extend your existing phone system with CallAttendant Office or switch to VoIP with Objectworld UC Server. Objectworld products provide Unified Messaging, Unified Communications, Interactive Voice Response, fax capabilities and more. Extend your existing phone system with CallAttendant Office or switch over to VoIP with UC Server. With Objectworld, schools can easily integrate an entire school division within a single, flexible and simple phone system. Both products provide productivity and system administration software that will enable IT staff to manage the system directly.

Protect your investment. Every day, computers are becoming faster and cheaper, and people around the globe are imagining new ways to communicate. Objectworld’s open, software-based approach means that as computers become faster and less expensive, your school will benefit directly in cost-savings. With Objectworld’s certified and supported Connect Partners, schools can buy and upgrade third-party hardware and applications, like phones, media gateways, and video conferencing hardware and software, as they need to. Objectworld products provide flexible, secure and cost-effective integration with other phone systems.

Learn more about CallAttendant Office or Objectworld UC Server.