School Websites

Dynamic Self-Managing School Websites 

School Website Features

Our schools use the self-managing tools in the Mediasphere CMS to take control of their school websites. On your new site you will be able to:

• Add your own school administrators and editors
• Add unlimited pages and import multimedia on all pages
• Change sitemap order with drag and drop
• Add your prospectus and school documents as downloads
• Publish school news, image galleries, calendars and events
• Upload your newsletters
• Add web forms and publish your school blog
• Add on-page metadata for SEO campaigns and link to social networks
• View Google Analytics reports on the website
• Upgrade to include e-Commerce and a School e-Shop
• Upgrade to include Mediasphere Campus - Your School Intranet and LMS portal

Serving Your Community with Your New School Website

Your new school website has all of the inbuilt tools and functions to serve your local community to a high standard.

Connect with your current families by:

1. Publishing school news and push the news to parent emails
2. Publishing your school newsletters and forms
3. Publishing school events with the ability for parents to register their attendance
4. Publishing an interactive school calendar
5. Conducting online surveys and polls
6. Access co-curricular information and results

 Communicate with your prospective families by allowing them to:

1. Download an online prospectus or enrolment form
2. View curriculum pages for all year levels
3. View co-curricular image galleries
4. Understand the ethos of your school with your Home Page Image and byline Showcase
5. Use online forms to communicate with your schools
6. Register online for an Open Day 

 A Snapshot of our Leading Schools with Mediasphere School Websites 

Mediasphere has been building school websites for Australian schools since 2002. Many of Australia's leading government and independent schools have engaged us to build their custom websites. Mediasphere provides a fully managed hosting service with daily backups of your database in addition to providing unique designs and custom tools for your school. 

Although Mediasphere prides itself on its expertise in delivering world class school websites, it is also one of Australia's web site developers for some of Australia's largest organisations. Our clients include the Commonwealth and State Government department and leading companies such as BHP Billiton and Virgin Australia.

We build school websites in all states and territories and we offer online and face-to-face training for all of our sites. It is time to add your school to our extensive portfolio of happy clients. A cross-section of our clients includes the following schools: 

Fully Featured and Affordable School Website Packages 

Mediasphere is pleased to provide preferential prices for Australian schools school website packages. The school website package includes the following:

1. Unique website design specific to your school
2. The build of an interactive showcase on your Home Page
3. The deployment of all modules in the Mediasphere School CMS
4. Build of the site map and all pages for your site
5. License fee, daily data back-up and unlimited support
6. Free hosting
7. The complete cost is $3300 inc GST (Primary) and $5500 inc GST (Secondary - K-12)
8. The annual cost after Year 1 is only $660 inc GST (Primary) and $990 inc GST (Secondary - K-12)

School Website Modules and the School Content Management System

The Mediasphere Content Management System (CMS) is the award-winning school website platform allows you to deliver a dynamic and self managing website to your school community

The Mediasphere CMS is a secure hosted web platform which can be set-up for your school without the need for costly and time consuming installation by your IT staff.

Your school website will feature a unique design with intuitive navigation to present an effective and intuitive site for your school community.

For more information on the Mediasphere School CMS please download the CMS Overview.
 

Book Your New School Website Today 

To book your new school website or to learn more about our school website platform please contact Mediasphere on Free Call 1300 787 611 or email Tahlia at tahliam@mediasphere.com.au

If urgent, we can build and release your new website in 4 weeks. Typically school websites are developed and deployed in about 12 weeks. If you are planning a new website in 2013, you can book and build the site this year and pay for the site when it is launched in Term 1 2013.  

The Features of Your New School Website 

Your new school website will have the following functions and features:

Publishing to Your New School Site

• School News | Events with RSS
• Dynamic Site Map
• Re-order Menus and Pages
• Add Unlimited Pages
• Add text, video, audio to all pages

School Document Downloads

• Newsletter downloads
• Newsletter archive
• Document downloads
• School Prospectus download

School Marketing Features

• Unique website design
• Customised image slideshows
• Open Days Marketing
• email Campaign Manager
• Add search engine optimisation text
• Website metrics (traffic reports)

 School Site Management 

• School Event Management
• Contact response forms
• Database export
• Full site search
• Google Map integration
• Mobile version of the site
• Hosting, Data-back up, Support

Primary School Websites

Learn more about our Primary School Packages

Secondary School Websites

Learn more about our Secondary School Packages.

School Staff Online Induction

Mediasphere assist schools with an affordable induction course platform that delivers online compliance courses, instant reporting and certificates for school staff.

The platform can be used to create and deliver custom courses or can be pre-loaded with workplace compliance courses.

Visit http://www.powerhouselms.com.au/online-induction-for-schools for more information

School e-Business Networks

Mediasphere has developed the Powerhouse Affiliate CMS that hosts and builds a free online network for your parents, students, alumni, families, staff and local school community.

The Powerhouse School e-Business Network software offers:

• A hosted and supported web business network customised with your school logo
• A FREE community for your parents and alumni to list their businesses online
• A FREE community for your parents and alumni to buy, sell and access Special Offers
• A FREE community for your parents and alumni to bid in your own online auction facility
• Inbuilt sponsorship packs to offer to your corporate sponsors – from $500 to $4999 per annum (+ GST)
• Your own portal to access your parent and alumni networks.

Mediasphere supports your school fundraising program with:

• A business manager to liaise with your sponsors
• A designer to create the artwork and copy for the sponsor advertisements
• An annual license to the Powerhouse School e-Business Network
• Annual hosting and support for your e-business network.
• Mediasphere services are provided based on a shared revenue model on sponsorship and advertising revenue.

The initial cost to your school for the license of the Powerhouse School e-Business Network software, training, domain name registration, annual hosting and support is only $3,300 inc GST per annum. Once ordered, your site can be launched to your school community within four weeks. 

Discover more about the power of the Powerhouse Affiliate CMS and how it can generate a school database of alumni, parents and community members while building revenue for your school.

To learn more about our school e-Business packages or to order an e-Business network for your school, please contact Mediasphere today.