Museum Extension - Benefits
We work with museums – we help museums work!
Solution Grove's Museum Extension:
- provides customized web solutions designed with museums, aquariums and zoos in mind.
- allows course planning, registration, and tracking through the whole course cycle.
- supports distance learning, local, and blended course delivery options.
- can be integrated with existing web solutions or we can provide a turnkey solution that includes content management for your public website and email accounts for your staff.
Registration for Museum Classes
- allows registrants to easily self register and pay securely by credit card on the web.
- supports automatic reduction of tuition/fees for members, and manages scholarship and gift certificates.
- supports youth troop/field trip registration.
- tracks the relationships when parents or friends sign up a child or other user.
- allows students, registrants, and staff to easily find classes by date, age range, subject area, instructor or category.
- lets you define student application forms for staff evaluation.
- automatically emails registration receipts to registrants.
Registration tools for your staff
- You can accept payments, grant refunds or credits for future classes, securely and easily.
- You can track medical and special needs of participants.
- Your staff receives email if someone registering does not meet the criteria of the class.
- Your staff is notified to start a new section by email if the waiting list reaches a set threshold
- Administrative screens support paper and phone registration
Community and Collaboration
Solution Grove’s Museum Extension includes the latest in collaborative web tools for education. These include discussion areas, blogs, file sharing, photo albums, FAQs, gradebooks, attendance tracking, testing, course evaluations, team collaboration areas and more.
Learning Management
- supports all common course content standards (IMS, SCORM).
- makes available a variety of online collaborative features, such as discussion groups, blogs, group email, file sharing, subgroups.
- supports tests, surveys, and quizzes that can be configured and delivered online.
- can track student progress and supports sharing work with family and friends via online portfolios.
- allows the creation of course supporting materials with a word processor-like, “What You See is What You Get” (WYSIWYG) web interface using a web editable Content Management System (CMS) .
Integration and other services
- Museum Extension is available as an ASP (we host and provide security) or you can host inside your fire wall. Either way you have your own domain name.
- Museum Extension easily integrates with membership and other databases.
- Museum Extension can easily integrate with your current web site or Solution Grove’s Content Management System (CMS) can allow you to manage the content of your entire web presence with easy to use WYSIWYG web interfaces.
- Open source code allows your staff to modify code, or we can provide all customization.
We support you!
Solution Grove’s Museum Extension is modular and customizable. We will help you phase your implementation for a fast, cost effective solution.
- On site training is available for administrators or programmers.
- Our secure online help and ticketing system is available 24 hours a day.
- Phone support is also available