FROG FOR COMMUNITY
Wider Community Engagement
By providing a unified access point for all community-related interactions, Frog enables schools to efficiently share updates, events, and important announcements with parents and local stakeholders.
With Frog, schools can build stronger relationships with families and the local community, ensuring that everyone stays connected and actively participates in the educational experience.
How Frog supports Community Engagement...
Benefits of Wider Community Engagement...
For Parent
Connecting family and community members to school experiences is strongly associated with obtaining faster rates of literacy among children.
For Staff
Boosts student retention, promotes positiveness among teachers and improves attendance rates of children at school.
For Students
Real world learning experiences.
For Admin
Boosts student retention, promotes positiveness among teachers, improves attendance rates of children at school, promotes school services and resources such as the library, sports and events.
"Effective community engagement in education involves creating meaningful partnerships that extend beyond the school to include the wider community, enhancing both student learning and community well-being."
Department for Education, South Australia (2023)
How Frog supports Wider Community Engagement...
Forms
The Forms solution in Frog enables you to do everything from collecting surveys, student meal choices, NAPLAN options and reward nominations. You can set out a form any way you wish and all the submissions appear in its Data Viewer. The Data Viewer is its own mini-database, where you can search, filter and export all the information submitted.
External Site Sharing
Frog Sites are mini-websites in themselves, so (where appropriate) it is possible to publish a Frog Site to the internet, meaning people can view it without needing to log in. This becomes a great, simple way to share your school with the wider community, helping promote school events and share projects with the outside world.
Polls
A tool which makes gauging learner understanding a simpler matter, e.g. setting up a poll at the start of the topic to ask a simple question and base a discussion on the results. Polls are also useful for school elections or just capturing learner opinions as they provide a quick of asking a multi-choice question and visualising the results.
Site Timelines
A record of all files uploaded to a Frog Site. Site Timelines provide a quick way of sharing images and files and discussing them. Add a Site Timeline to an ePortfolio to create a personal gallery or add one to a class site and send an image to it to create an instant visualiser.
Noticeboards
Noticeboards are a quick way to add messages, files and links on a Frog Site. The widget is incredibly versatile and is also used for note-taking, blogs and shared resources. When setting up, the site's owner gets to decide who can post, making noticeboards useful for school or class notices, club messages and more.
Solutions built with Frog...
Using Frog's educational toolkit of features and functionality you can create powerful and flexible solutions that really enrich your daily operations. Out of the box you can benefit from a range of existing solutions - that have been co-created with schools - some of these are highlighted below...
Volunteering
Frog's Volunteer Template simplifies parent and carer engagement in schools by enabling online volunteer applications and notifications. It efficiently tracks the vetting process, helping to save time and budget resources while encouraging family involvement in their children's education and school activities.
Student Voice
The Student Council at your school empowers students to take responsibility, participate in democratic processes, and celebrate achievements, fostering a sense of community and responsibility.
Governance
Frog offers a convenient online portal for school governance, allowing stakeholders to share information, vote, and apply for team membership, while maintaining secure resources and documents.
Pedal Prix
Pedal Prix is an annual human-powered vehicle race where teams compete in endurance events using custom-built tricycles, emphasising engineering skills, teamwork, and fitness. And Frog has a microsite that helps your team prepare for the event!
Newsletters
Frog offers a comprehensive solution for creating and replicating newsletters, offering various formats, interactive polls, forums, and easy sharing of archive content.
