Why Should My School Use Homework Hero?

What is the most useful thing your school can put on its web site? An up-to-date listing of  homework assignments would surely be one of the top answers parents would give to this question.

Why is Homework Hero the Best Solution?

Consider Hero's Rule: 

Homework site participation is inversely related to the number of clicks required to participate.

At Homework Hero teachers and students have the shortest route to posting and viewing assignments. We stay on task -- we do NOT provide calendars, lesson plans, or gradebooks -- just assignments. Despite the focus on ease of use, the system is remarkably flexible in producing an attractive and useful teacher page.

How Does the Site Work?

1. You sign up for your school. By default, the individual who signs up will be the school site manager. Only school employees may sign up.
2. After we verify your employment with the school, we create your Homework Hero web site and assign you a manager id and password.
3. The site manager creates pages for each teacher by using the manager id and password and then filling in a short form. The manager assigns each teacher a password and id for their page.
4. Teachers can now update their pages and add assignments using the id and password assigned by the manager.
5. The Homework Hero software automatically updates the list of teachers when new pages are created. Students just click teacher names to view assignments.
6. Billing is done after the site is set-up. You can pay by check, credit card, or purchase order. 

What is Different about Homework Hero and Competitors?

When you subscribe to Homework Hero, you subscribe for your entire school. All teacher pages for a school are listed in a single page automatically. Having all teachers posting in the same spot greatly encourages parent and student participation. On some other homework sites, individual teachers subscribe, not schools (often at a price that exceeds what we charge for an entire school). When individual teachers post on different sites, it becomes difficult for parents and students to remember where each teacher's page can be found.

Assignment pages are publicly available on Homework Hero. Students and parents are not required to have passwords to see assignments. This also encourages participation.

We offer customized integration with your school web site at a remarkably low price! Great for webmasters who would like to integrate assignments into the school web site while permitting individual teachers to post content themselves.

We keep it simple! See Above!

How We Make Web Communication Work! 

• We make the burden on teachers minimal. With Homework Hero, posting an assignment to a personalized web page can take less than 30 seconds.

• Access is fast. Our site is set up to be simple and organized. Use of graphics is minimized to give you rapid page loading.

• Buy combining the posted assignments of many teachers in one location, searching for assignments is easier for students and parents -- so they are more likely to do it.

• We can remind teachers and students to participate automatically and regularly with our optional e-mail reminder service. If you forget, we remind!

• We do all of the work to set up your school's page. All you do is fill in the assignments.

• Teachers who already have their own web sites can benefit from Homework Hero's organization and search functions. We list you in our database and link students to your page! 

• Your school's Homework Hero pages can be easily linked to to your school's existing web site.

• The Basic Service is only $24.95/year for an entire school.

Make your School a Technological Leader! 

Have your school sign-up with Homework Hero today!  Let your students use the Web for what it's really good for.

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