Students and teachers at the school use OpenText Vibe to sharpen their communication and collaboration skills in a safe online environment

The educational process was suffering because the school wasn’t keeping pace with the student body’s adoption of emerging technologies.

GVSD built its reputation of superior education by offering a wide range of high-quality programs and services to prepare students to eventually compete in a fast-paced job market. Yet its lapse in technology innovation left many teachers and administrators feeling they weren’t adequately preparing students for a world increasingly run online – thus breaching the ethics instilled within the foundation of GVSD’s mission. GVSD needed to find a way to help teachers keep up with students and innovate in their classrooms in a quick, efficient, and effective manner – especially on the social media side.

GVSD turned to OpenText Vibe to help close this technology gap. The district began using OpenText Vibe as a teaching tool with several goals in mind. First and foremost, GVSD wanted students to be the predominant users; therefore, it needed a solution that had a user-friendly social media interface. It wasn’t long before students caught onto the social side of OpenText Vibe. For example, they were able to learn about blogging and improve their writing through practice with the solution’s secure microblogging tool. Additionally, OpenText Vibe provided a secure environment for students with a robust selection of tools, allowing GVSD to ensure students are safe online.

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