Digital in the service of the educational community
In this blog, discover how digital can simplify your daily tasks in the educational community through tips and user reviews as well as Skolengo news.
- January 6, 2022[News] Financial management: Change payment deadlinesDiscover how you can add payment deadlines in the Skolengo billing system.
- December 30, 2021[News] 3 ways to deliver work-to-doDiscover the different delivery modes available that teachers can use for their students.
- November 2, 2021How can you track your child’s work-to-do on the Skolengo EMS?The Skolengo EMS offers parents the possibility of easily tracking the work the teacher has given their child.
- October 22, 2021[News] Displaying student rankingsSkolengo allows schools to ensure that class councils function smoothly. It is now possible in the Skolengo DSE/EMS to display the ranking of each student in the class council hosting screens and in the results summary tables (PDF or Excel).
- September 10, 2021[News] Administrative management: Monitor e-mails sent to pre-registered personsDuring the pre-registration phase for students in a school, it is now possible to monitor the e-mails sent to pre-registered persons.
- August 24, 2021Skolengo for families: what can I do with Skolengo as a parent?Skolengo fosters communication between the school and families. Legal guardians can consult school news on its website On their smartphones, via the mobile app, parents can also consult the marks and the work-to-do. They are informed by SMS or by e-mail if their child is absent or about the next educational counselling meeting.
- July 12, 2021Videoconference: an effective educational and communication tool even without CovidSkolengo offers the educational community an easy videoconference service to set up. This tool offers many features that can facilitate daily exchanges between the school, teachers, families and students.
- July 5, 2021EMS: how can you put an escape game in place with the exerciser?English teacher since 2006, Claire Parmentier teaches at the Louis Pasteur junior school in Petit-Couronne (76). For 4 years, she has used the Skolengo EMS more known under the name Arsene76. Being the digital reference person, she is a member of the digital skills centre of the Local Educational Authority. She has been exploring the various digital uses to develop with the EMS and to share her experience with other teachers. Discover how the EMS assists her daily in her tasks and how she has produced an escape game* with the EMS’s exerciser to motivate students in their learning.
- June 15, 2021Building and energizing the school public home pageThe EMS (Education Management Software) of Skolengo allows the public home page to be built easily and quickly. All the activities and information on the school are thus made available to the educational community in an attractive and friendly manner. The home page guarantees good communication between the school, the students and families. To regularly renew the content of the home page, the school can entrust different people for the contribution and publication of the content.
- June 3, 2021How to make learning fun with the EMS’s Exerciser?With the Skolengo EMS, teachers can make learning fun. In particular they use the exerciser. You can learn here, how an English teacher and a History/Geography Teacher use the Exerciser to make their courses more attractive and to facilitate learning.
- April 30, 2021The EMS forum: A collaborative tool to facilitate remote communication between studentsWith the forum, the teachers, the school staff and students can share a collaborative space and discuss varied, common subjects if this service is activated in the section.
- April 27, 2021EMS Chat: Organise synchronised, secure discussions with your studentsThe Skolengo EMS makes available, a user friendly, collaborative and secure discussion space for real-time communication between members of the class.
- April 7, 2021How can you share documents with students via the EMS?The Skolengo MIS or EMS (Educational Management Software) offers teachers a pallet of different tools for distributing documents to students. Let us take a little tour around the horizon of the different modes of distribution with their specificities.
- April 2, 2021How to provide remote schooling on Skolengo?The many features of Skolengo allow teachers to present their courses remotely when one or more students cannot come to class: hospitalised students, students practicing high level sport, imposed lock-down measures, etc. Skolengo thus maintains a link with the students providing educational continuity.
- March 19, 2021Skolengo has been enhanced with new features 2020-2021Amongst the new features to discover this quarter: easily contacting the parents by SMS, the management of long-term replacements in the timetable and new services for families in the Administrative & Finance module.
- March 18, 2021How can you easily design and modify your timetable with Skolengo?Marguerite Henry, Principal of junior school has adopted the timetable module integrated into Skolengo EMS since the start of the 2020 school year. She tells us about her experience of handling this module and its features offered for efficiently managing a school.
- March 16, 2021Skolengo EMS in the service of innovative teaching practicesWith Skolengo EMS, teachers can put innovative teaching practices in place. Discover several uses developed by teachers!
- March 3, 2021How to produce an interactive course with the collaborative tools of the Skolengo EMS?The Skolengo EMS (Education Management Software) offers many features for facilitating collaborative work. Using these collaborative tools, teachers can set-up more interactive courses which help to motivate students in their learning. Discover how the tools offered by the Skolengo EMS favor exchanges between students and teachers.
- February 25, 2021The Saint-Louis Crest school group optimizes catering management with SkolengoSophie Chauvet, “Accounts manager” from the St Louis Crest Group, uses the Catering module, a school canteen management software integrated into Skolengo. Since its arrival in 2016, the module has seen numerous changes that have allowed it to optimize the monitoring of canteen visits, billing and online registrations.
- February 9, 2021Creating your timetable in 7 steps with SkolengoAll school principals and deputy principals know it well: creating a timetable is a real headache! The Skolengo timetable software will guide you step-by-step in the design of your timetable, all in 7 key steps.
- February 1, 2021The flipped class with Skolengo!With Skolengo, practice the flipped class concept easily. Discover our features and user feedback.
- January 22, 2021Opt for the Skolengo Schooling moduleOptimize your operating costs and develop the uses of your EMS by using the schooling module - school life integrated into Skolengo. Designed in collaboration with users, the Skolengo schooling software allows you to have a personalized follow-up of learners. It makes available tools adapted to Deputy Principal and educational assistant jobs but also to teachers.
- January 20, 2021Assessment by marks AND skills, a major asset of the Schooling moduleCoralie Beller, mathematics teacher in a junior school in Meurthe-et-Moselle, digital referent and EMS administrator, shares her experience of using the attendance register and schooling assessments.
- January 20, 2021Flipped classes: how do you establish this practice with the Skolengo teaching binder?Arnaud Corrèze, certified geography and history teacher in the Louis Majorelle de Toul high-school, EMS administrator and Lycée 4.0 assistant considers the Skolengo EMS as a very rich teaching tool, especially the binder and the sections. It allows you to establish innovative practices such as flipped classes.
- January 18, 2021Innovative teaching practices: how to set up a class assisted by Skolengo?Marjorie Tonnelier, Teacher of Geography-History-Literature-EMC in the Pierre et Marie Curie High School in Freyming-Merlebach tells us about the advantages of Skolengo offering features that facilitate both the daily preparation and teaching of classes. It is also a tool that allows you to establish an innovative teaching practice: the assisted class.
- January 14, 2021How can you prepare students for handling a microscope in a flipped classroom?Christelle Jacquemin, Biology teacher for 21 years, the last 5 years in a rural junior school in Moselle, the Collège des deux Sarres in Lorquin. A great user of digital solutions in class, she easily picked up Skolengo EMS. Its user-friendliness and the many features have rapidly made it an essential tool for classroom practices and in particular those of flipped classes.
- January 13, 2021Virtual class and meeting: think about the Videoconference service!Benefit from the videoconference service integrated into Skolengo for organising your virtual classes and your administrative meetings in hybrid mode or 100% remotely.
- January 4, 2021Develop collaborative working with the online office-tools of Skolengo EMSSkolengo EMS makes Word, Excel and PowerPoint available to users in collaborative mode. With online office tools, you will be able to reinforce collaborative work within the educational community and develop synergies between teams while securely benefitting from efficient digital tools.
- December 4, 2020The Skolengo videoconference has pride of place in a Seine-Maritime junior school in the presence of the President of the Department and the pressOn the 3rd of December, a presentation of the Skolengo Videoconference service took place in the Emile Verhaeren de Bonsecours Junior School in the Seine-Maritime Department. This presentation was organized at the request of the Department President, Bertrand Bellanger.
- November 25, 2020Skolengo has been enhanced with new features 2020Amongst the news items from the third quarter: individual corrected papers sent directly to students from the Teaching module, a new “Meeting” service in the Collaborative module, online meal booking for staff and students in the Catering module and customization of graphics in official Administrative & Finance documents.
- November 20, 2020Videoconference : Guide to audio and video configurationIn this guide, you can find advice for properly configuring your microphone and your webcam before connecting to the videoconference.
- November 9, 20205 key steps for holding class councils with SkolengoSkolengo allows schools to ensure that class councils function smoothly.
- July 31, 20203 key steps for a successful virtual classThe virtual class offers teachers the opportunity to teach all students remotely (students in internships, hospitalized students, high-level sports participants, school closings, etc.). They can also vary the teaching (oral training, cultural exchanges with other schools, etc.). Here is some advice and best practices for holding your first virtual class.
- June 18, 2020The Top 10 new Skolengo features for the 2019-2020 school yearThroughout this school year, following feedback from users the Skolengo teams have developed new features in the Teaching, Communication, Schooling and Management and Administration modules, to optimise the platform so as to best assist you in performing your missions.
- June 2, 2020MIS: who are the 5 million users of Skolengo?More than 5 million users use Skolengo daily. These users evolve within more than 3600 schools and universities across 70 countries. They come from all sectors of teaching and all levels combined.
- May 20, 2020Video-conferencing: a new service integrated into SkolengoFollowing the string demand from our clients and users, win just a few weeks, our team have integrated and deployed a new video-conferencing service into Skolengo.
- May 19, 20201st summary on the maintenance of teaching and administrative continuity by the headmistress of the Amsterdam SchoolTestimony of Mrs. Alric, headmistress of the Amsterdam School, an annex of the Vincent-Van-Gogh High School of the Hague. Mrs. Alric, headmistress of the school but also music teacher, gives us her feedback on implementing remote teaching.
- April 20, 2020Portfolio: your virtual USB keyEach user has a portfolio amongst their personal services. Zoom on this key service of the EMS that allows them to access all their files at any time and in a secure fashion, from whatever device uses and wherever they are found.
- April 20, 2020Where can students find their courses and their work-to-do on Skolengo?The Skolengo MIS or EMS (Education Management Software) offers teachers a pallet of different tools for distributing documents to students. Take a little tour of the horizon of the different means by which students can access their courses and their work-to-do.
- April 1, 2020How to check that the students have actually received and seen their work-to-do on Skolengo?In the Skolengo teaching binder, teachers can create attractive activities by adding media to them: images, video, audio recordings, etc. From this activity, teachers have the possibility of giving work to do to their students and can efficiently monitor the on-line delivery of homework with the EMS.
- March 26, 2020Discover the class sections for developing remote collaborative work with SkolengoIn the current context, the class can continue to live via the EMS, in particular using each class’s section, already available in the “Class spaces”. This section can be used by all teachers of each class to communicate with students and parents and to discuss with them, depending on the modalities defined by the teachers. But also to discuss with other teachers.
- March 12, 2020Educational continuity #1: How to maintain the link with remote students via the EMS?Following the closing of many schools and universities for avoiding the propagation of the Coronavirus, Kosmos, the specialist in the digital transformation for education, established emergency measures for assisting high-schools and junior schools in maintaining educational continuity and links with students and families.
- January 14, 2020First participation in SETT for the Skolengo teams!Our teams participated in SETT 2020 (School Education Transformation and Technology) that took place on 6 and 7 February 2020 in Namur. SETT is an international exhibition whose first edition in 2019 welcomed more than 75 exhibitors specialised in digital education, 100 conference presentations and workshops recognised by the IFC and more than 1500 teaching professionals coming from all over Francophone Belgium.
- January 6, 2020Testimonial of a Deputy Headmaster: communicating effectively with SkolengoMr. Plontz, the Deputy Headmaster of the Pierre-et-Marie Curie high school in Freyming-Merlebach in Moselle talks of the advantages of the MBN EMS for communicating.
- November 15, 2019Exerciser: building interactive activitiesInnovate in your teaching practices with the exerciserThe new “exerciser” service from Skolengo is an intuitive tool for building interactive activities. It adapts to students of all levels from nursery school to high school.
- May 22, 2019Targeted communication, a communication module feature of SkolengoSkolengo offers features for simplifying communication between its users. Targeted communication is a powerful tool for easily communicating with several user groups. It allows a partner portal (academic or municipality) or a school, to perform bulk communication actions to precise user targets.
- April 3, 2019New services dedicated to managementSkolengo is enriched with new services to offer a complete, modular software solution dedicated to the overall functioning of schools
- April 3, 2019The latest features from SkolengoSkolengo, the EMS (Education Management Software) from Kosmos, evolves throughout the year as user feedback comes in. Discover the new features introduced since last November.
- January 31, 2019How 4 school principals from first and second levels communicate with Skolengo?Skolengo’s communication tools represent an undeniable asset in the relations between schools and families. 4 school principals give their feedback on the daily use of these tools.