Technology Startup Helping Schools Save Billions Of Pieces Of Paper

 
MELBOURNE, Australia - Nov. 5, 2014 - PRLog -- An Australian startup is on a journey to help schools save billions of pieces of paper globally by moving their existing paper-based forms to an online system.

Each year around the world tens of millions of parents sign hundreds of millions of paper forms on behalf of their children or relatives. It’s a labour intensive, unreliable and inefficient process.

Most schools still rely on a paper-based form to capture parent permissions for activities like excursions and sports activities. Yet for busy parents, especially those with more than one child, this leads to literally dozens of pieces of paper that must be signed and returned to school every year.

A school with 2,000 students could be using 80,000 pieces of paper a year just to send forms home to parents – that’s around ten trees a year that need to be sacrificed just so parents can give permission for their children to attend a sports carnival or other school activity!

The team at Melbourne-based ParentPaperwork are determined to both help schools and parents communicate more efficiently, and to make a real difference to the environment.

ParentPaperwork is an online platform to automate paper forms in education, dramatically reducing cost and improving liability management.  The system manages excursion forms, field trip forms, permission slips and many other forms parents need to complete for their children and send back to school.

ParentPaperwork has only been available for a couple of months, but Fiona Boyd, the company’s CEO says the response has been strong:

“The feedback from schools is overwhelmingly positive. We are now live or have trials in several dozen schools in Australia and around the world. Principals and teachers know just how much work is needed to look after all their paper forms, every hour we save them is another hour teachers can spend in the classroom.”

Fiona Boyd and David Eedle founded ParentPaperwork after counting the dozens of forms they had signed for their three children over the course of a few months. They started consulting a number of schools in their local area last year and uncovered just how much teacher time and school resources are needed to manage the many paper forms sent out by schools each year.

Fiona Boyd says ParentPaperwork is simple to use for both schools and parents:

“ParentPaperwork allows schools to create  an unlimited number of completely customisable online forms and uses a combination of email and secure web pages to capture the submitted responses back from parents. There’s no set up or installation required from parents, and they don’t need to own a smart phone to use the system.”

“With a paper form system, schools sometimes need to wait weeks before all the parents return their completed paperwork. On average we’re seeing half of the parents completing and submitting their online forms within 24 hours. ParentPaperwork gives the schools access to real time reporting, school administrators can see minute to minute how which online forms have been returned, who has opened their emails and who has not, and then export all the data for easy analysis.”

ParentPaperwork recently won a StartUp Victoria Pitch Competition with the judges praising the innovation and potential of the business.

ParentPaperwork is now looking to recruit school customers around the world for their online forms system. Schools can sign up for a Free 30 Day Trial at www.ParentPaperwork.com

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