Live Oak needed to move away from its system of communicating with employees via email; multiple updates, lost attachments and sheer traffic made it difficult to effectively share and later find information. The goal of The Loop was to create a central, easily accessible location for that information; the challenge was to make it a daily destination for the staff, a place they would be sure to check every day.
My solution was to create a dashboard front page, giving the user a snapshot of the day ahead. Items include a daily message from the Head of School, news, announcements, events, meetings and attendance as well as a personalized greeting, current weather and even raffle prizes.
Deeper content includes employee policies and guidelines, curriculum maps, and emergency information. Tools include directory, calendar, resource scheduler and substitute teacher locator. Building on the structure of the Family Tree site, labeling and navigation were already familiar.
