All New ClassLink LaunchPad™ 2011 Provides Schools Seamless Technology

March 2, 2011 - PRLog -- ClassLink is proud to announce the highly anticipated release of LaunchPad 2011. LaunchPad has been extensively redesigned to provide a seamless and customizable Virtual Academic Desktop™ for K-12 classrooms. Schools can offer teachers a suite of tools to facilitate blended learning experiences for their students providing access to the digital tools they need in the classroom, the computer lab, the library, even at home or in the park. Leveraging the benefits of ‘cloud’ based computing LaunchPad 2011 is the future of instructional technology.

“ClassLink’s LaunchPad 2011 addresses many of the technology challenges that have long hindered effective integration of 21st century learning in schools,” said Berj Akian, CEO, ClassLink. “Technology needs to be a seamless component of blended learning environments where students and teachers use digital tools both in the classroom, and after school.  Laptops, desktops, Macs, PCs, old or new, even netbooks, slates, thin clients, and soon even mobile devices, can all use LaunchPad –all that is need is a browser with internet access.  Challenges such as out-dated and unreliable infrastructure, high costs, and simply the headaches associated with technology are no longer an issue. It is an exciting time to be in education.”

ClassLink LaunchPad is totally redesigned to ensure that appropriate software, content, and tools are accessible to students, teachers and administrators anytime, anywhere, on any device.

LaunchPad 2011 is:

*Completely cloud-based

*Transparent to the user – looks like a regular desktop

*Easily customizable based on educators’ wants and needs


LaunchPad allows educators to:
   
*Create online or blended classes
   
*Collaborate with each other and their students anytime anywhere

*Add new instructional components easily

*Create their own cloud-drive for individual use or sharing (a drop box for student work)

*Create a personalized learning environment to allow for differentiation

”ClassLink has reinvented the experience of instructional technology with LaunchPad 2011. It provides our District an equitable means to manage and deliver cloud-based instructional tools for teachers and students,” said Greg Partch, Director of Technology with Hudson Falls Central School District, NY, a long-time ClassLink client. “Implementing a Virtual Academic Desktop allows our District to support student-owned computers at home, as well as provide the District a lot of flexibility in terms of the computing devices we have deployed here at our schools.”

LaunchPad leverages the scalability and flexibility of cloud-based services and can dramatically lessen the workload of a district’s IT staff, a group already stretched by budget constraints, eliminating the need for software maintenance. Leveraging virtualization and cloud computing, LaunchPad is the only virtualization solution designed specifically for the K-12 school systems.  

ClassLink has a proven record of delivering high quality technology solutions designed to meet the unique needs of the K-12 instructional setting. Engineered for students and teachers, ClassLink’s award winning products are simple to use yet help raise student achievement by providing anytime anywhere learning access. In addition to a suite of software products, the company has a specialty in instructional technology professional development and 11 years of expertise in implementing virtualization solutions for schools across the country. With an extreme commitment toward customer satisfaction, ClassLink continually partners with its customers.

About ClassLink
Founded in 1998, ClassLink’s mission is to empower educators to improve learning through innovative systems and services. ClassLink solutions provide administrators tracking and usage information to allow for informed decision making which lowers the overall cost of technology.
ClassLink LaunchPad™ delivers 24/7 access to a school's full array of instructional software resources from any computer in the school, community and from home. ClassLink Inquiry™ provides administrators with comprehensive and customizable real-time software and hardware utilization reports.
ClassLink ClassMate® is the only student administration and curriculum management software designed for Career and Technical Education.
ClassLink OnTrack is an easy to use, affordable yet powerful, 24/7 curriculum mapping and lesson planning solution.

ClassLink—The future of instructional technology.

For more information, visit www.ClassLink.com, call 888-963-7550 or email info@ClassLink.com

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ClassLink is the future of education technology. ClassLink's technology solutions include LaunchPad, ClassMate, OnTrack, and ClassSync.