Hayward Unified School District and Xerox Make the Grade With Online Learning

Hayward Unified School District and Xerox Make the Grade With Online Learning

What if teachers could adapt their daily lesson plan based on current events and at a moment’s notice provide students with color printouts supporting the day’s discussions? Picture a teacher using an interactive whiteboard that is connected to the Internet. During class, the teacher visits an online news site and prints out color copies of a breaking story for every student. With the help of Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX), that’s exactly what’s happening at Hayward Unified School District in California. The 24,000-student district has chosen Xerox to support its online learning center known as e-District. Under its five-year, multimillion-dollar deal, the school district is using more than 60 Xerox WorkCentre™ color multifunction systems and Xerox DocuShare™ enterprise content management software with the learning center.

Hayward’s e-District is built around a citywide wireless network and a Web portal. It enhances student learning and assessment, helps deploy professional development materials to staff, and manages documents. Teachers, now equipped with additional tools to grab students’ attention, use the portal’s interactive whiteboard to create lessons with embedded images and other visuals. They generate excitement in the classroom by tailoring lesson plans to react to students’ queries and interest areas, and they instantly provide supporting printed material.

Xerox DocuShare software, which works with the e-District portal, enables teachers to save and share documents and multimedia files. Faculty and administrators across the city can access the curriculum files through the e-District portal and check them against California state testing standards. Previously, teachers had no easy way to share curriculum other than in district-wide meetings.

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