MBN
Presentation of an EMS project rolled out in many junior and high schools within a region simultaneously
MBN is the name of the EMS project initiated by a brand-new territorial control group consisting of 841 public, private and agricultural schools and universities and 413,000 students.
Stated needs
The local authorities and the three school boards sought to bring the education community of the whole teaching network together around a single point of access to benefit from a range of efficient digital services: Skolengo (EMS).
In line with the challenges of the 4.0 programme and those specifically handled by the counties, the goal of this EMS project is to favour the educational success for students, to bring the school and families closer and to develop new collaborative, teaching practices using today’s digital innovations and to combat computer illiteracy.
Skolengo offers a secure educational ecosystem, more accessible to the educational community. It will contribute to the development of “Digital Education” planned for in the 4.0 programme.
Jean-François VENDRAMINI, Manager of Digital Education
The challenge was, within 3 months, to deploy Skolengo, available as SaaS, uniformly throughout the great majority of schools and universities (700 schools and universities deployed). The project team also wished to establish a global teaching system and dedicated assistance for the education community. They also wanted to reuse the Moodle platform, harmonising its operational perimeter as well as its advanced integration into the EMS.
The project
To ensure the tool was rapidly available, the Skolengo team put in place a customised training programme for the 10 counties, as well as for the region. 23 trainers have been mobilised for 196 sessions over 6 weeks to train nearly 700 schools and universities.
The EMS project offers a complete range of services covering school life, teaching, collaborative and communication tools.
The advanced integration of high added value domain services into the system makes the EMS a major lever for integrating digital technology into the educational ecosystem. From a technical point of view, Skolengo has performed the advanced integration of Moodle while providing its hosting and its maintenance.
L’intégration de connecteurs métiers comme Moodle apporte une valeur ajoutée aux missions des enseignants. Les parcours pédagogiques deviennent pérennes.
Jean-François VENDRAMINI, Manager of Digital Education
Moreover, each school has a public internet portal for communicating with the educational community: registration procedures, school meals, grants, educational activities, etc.
The main services Skolengo offers are available via a dedicated mobile app which can be downloaded from the different stores.
The features of the MBN project will allows us to communicate better, collaborate better and distinguish learning programmes better.
Summary
With 841 schools and universities and close to 1.5 million users, this EMS project is the largest digital educational project in Europe.
Based on its professional know-how and technical skill, our team has demonstrated its ability to develop and lead major projects. The entire project perfectly adhered to the stated budget and deadlines.
The integrated SaaS approach is very flexible and efficient. It allows very widespread deployment to be achieved with a high level of personal data security. It helped make the school’s information system uniform, reduces its complexity and its investment and operating costs.
Key figures
841
schools
413 000
students
1.5 million
million end users
Key points
- Volume: 1.5 million users
- 100% SaaS: Skolengo is an integrated J2EE solution
- Interoperability: professional connectors in SSO, Moodle, RAM, etc.
- SSO: 6 authentication wickets
- Mobile platforms: iOS, Android
- Deployment to 700 schools and universities in less than 3 months
- Community: hosting of school networks