SoDA - School of Digital Age

SoDA - School of Digital Age. The main purpose of the SoDA project is to establish a universal tool for individual and group cooperation within the school community at the Russian educational institutions using a set of Microsoft products (SharePoint, Exchange, Lync, Office) and popular external systems.

The SoDA solution uses a set of Microsoft products, and taken together these products create a comfortable and modern infrastructure for high-quality provision of educational services.

In order to turn SoDA into a full-feature tool for educational institutions it was integrated with famous Russian  software solutions for education.

SoDA addresses the following issues:

• Single sign-on for access to SoDA content and the data obtained via integration with the popular solutions already installed at the Russian schools;
• Efficient communication inside the school community, remote access to classroom for a student, use of a shared whiteboard;
• Automated reporting of various school departments regardless the distance between the school buildings, an easy tool for access rights control;
• Assignment and control of the tasks for school support staff with automatic notifications to the e-mail of the task-owner and workgroup;
• Easy way to create an internal school portal using the best practices of the leading modern schools and to customize workflow templates according to the particular school needs (SharePoint implementation);
• Publication of documents for individual and group work at the internal school portal;
• Prompt informing of particular groups of the school community;
• Viewing the inventory assigned to a department or an individual;
• Access to on-line timetable (including the classroom number), students progress record, homework assignments; electronic textbooks.

The SoDA solution and the corresponding Microsoft products are automatically deployed at the school hardware or in the cloud.