Polycom^® Solutions for Primary and Secondary Education

Distance Learning

Educators face a continuous need to improve learning as they prepare their students for a global workforce. By using Polycom's collaborative solutions educators are able to offer a low-cost, high-impact way to extend the interactive learning experience.

• Extend course offerings – Offer courses to advanced learners, special needs students, faculty, staff, parents, and community members
• Enhance and share expertise – Greatly extend the scope of your classroom by tapping into the field of experts and professionals throughout the world
• Realize educational equity – Enable remote campuses and homebound students to take advantage of learning opportunities thus creating educational equity
• Student Collaboration Projects – Collaborate with another class to discuss issues that are controversial; learn about a different culture or community; participate in a student-led discussion about a novel; offer prep classes; and much more

Polycom Video Conferencing Systems – Polycom collaborative solutions are taking teaching and learning to disenfranchised learners whether they are socio-economically disadvantaged, geographically isolated, or in alternative environments. Our solutions act as a campus extension, providing classes for regular course delivery, dual enrollment, and advanced or specialty courses to remote campuses.

Polycom Management Applications – Polycom management applications provide powerful, centralized functionality to expand collaboration throughout an educational environment that seamlessly integrates with existing IT infrastructures and directories.

Polycom Conferencing Infrastructure – Polycom conference platforms provides the industry’s most resilient, high demand educational environment to connect over distance using many types of media.

Polycom Recording and Streaming Solutions – Polycom Recording and Streaming solutions enable educators to create, manage, and deliver real-time or multimedia content for on-demand viewing.

Polycom Mobility Solutions – Administrators must implement disaster preparedness plans and provide safe and secure campuses while reducing their capital and operational costs.

Polycom Professional and Support Services – Offers expertise and assistance with assessment, planning, implementation, and support of new technology, at a fraction of the cost of additional, internal headcount.

Polycom Video Content Management Solutions – Polycom Video Content Management solutions enable educational institutions to create, manage, and deliver live and on-demand streaming video, including captured video conference sessions, for distance learning initiatives that students can view online from anywhere and at any time.

Curriculum Enhancement

Polycom's technology allows interactive curriculum connections. To be successful in the today’s competitive working environment, students must learn how to interact and collaborate with peers locally and globally using the methods they will find in the workplace. Students and educators can connect virtually with museums, science centers, authors, and content experts and many other resources.

• Improve student skills and understanding – Heighten student motivation, improve communication and presentation skills, and increase memory and retention by appealing to a variety of learning styles
• Collaborate – Connect with colleagues and student peers to discuss a controversial issue, learn about a different culture or community, participate in a student led discussion of a novel, and offer prep classes or other curriculum relevant subjects
• Enhance and share expertise – Expand the scope of your classroom by tapping into the academic field of experts and professionals throughout the world. Often this is accomplished by viewing a content database or social or professional directory
• Alternative learning opportunities – Reach out to remote, homebound, and advanced or special needs students to take advantage of learning opportunities while providing educational equity for schools and districts

Polycom Video Conferencing Systems – Polycom collaborative solutions offer students and faculty the opportunity to collaborate and enrich curriculum through content interactions with remote subject matter experts around the world.

Polycom Management Applications – Polycom CMA™ Desktop solutions have an intuitive click-to-dial IM-style interface, allowing easy and high quality point-to-point and multipoint video interactions that seamlessly integrate with existing IT infrastructures and directories.

Polycom Conferencing Infrastructure – Polycom conference platforms provide the industry's most resilient, high demand educational environment to connect over distance using many types of media.

Polycom Recording and Streaming Solutions – Polycom Recording and Streaming solutions enable educators with the ability to record and capture lectures, presentations, and other content for live or on-demand viewing.

Polycom Mobility Solutions – Increasing communication and decreasing safety risks, audio solutions from Polycom give educators mobility and help address many school communications and safety challenges.

Polycom Professional and Support Services – Offers expertise and assistance with assessment, planning, implementation, and support of new technology, at a fraction of the cost of additional, internal headcount.

Administration Uses

In today's competitive environment, educational institutions are highly concerned with intercampus connectivity, operating more efficiently, and reducing travel costs. Administrators must manage busy schedules that are filled with meetings, briefings, and regulatory requirement deadlines.

Enable accelerated decision making, and accomplish organizational goals and objectives with Polycom's advanced voice, video and content collaboration solutions.

• Eliminate the need for travel and time out of office – Save time and expenses associated with travel when you connect virtually for administrative meetings
• Collaborate and share expertise – Connect with colleagues, collaborate on projects, host new employee orientations, and discuss significant issues between campuses
• Greater access – Allow administration and staff to tap into the field of experts to participate in educational programs such as graduate degree activities, continuing education course work, professional development, and access to other resources otherwise not available locally
• Enhance facilities management – Ensure the optimum connection and communications across campuses regardless of the network or endpoint equipment used by enabling unified communications

Polycom Video Conference Personal Systems – For the administrator who needs to stay connected regardless of geographically dispersed activities such as cross-campus meetings or meetings with key organizations collaborate and streamline by connecting from your desktop.

Polycom Video Conference Room Systems – Whether conducting board meetings, faculty and administration collaborations, or interviewing candidates, HD video solutions offer three-dimensional clarity and depth of picture and sharing of HD content such as presentations and videos.

Polycom Immersive Telepresence Solutions – For face-to-face academic meetings, provide a natural, "across the table" experience where true-to-life dimensions allow interaction to read the body language of others as if in the same room—with solutions only from Polycom.

Polycom Recording and Streaming Solutions – When communicating across campuses or capturing content, create, manage, and deliver real-time or multimedia content to browsers, desktops, digital signage screens, conference rooms, auditoriums, and more.

Polycom Voice Solutions – Gain access to key resources and information reaching into and beyond the campus whether in an audio conference or delivering announcements with life-like high fidelity audio that sounds as natural as being in the room.

Polycom Professional and Support Services – Offers expertise and assistance with assessment, planning, implementation, and support of new technology, at a fraction of the cost of additional, internal headcount.

Mobility Solutions

Wireless telephone systems provide primary and secondary (K-12) schools with communications capability anywhere on the school campus. Educators and school staff can stay in constant contact and more effectively manage their time. Polycom offers the most durable, feature-rich, and cost-effective wireless telephone solutions for your school's educational challenges.

• Open communication channels immediately connect teachers, parents, school staff and community emergency medical teams
• Effective classroom management so teachers can call parents to resolve issues or provide positive feedback while the student is present
• Real-time communication gives busy parents direct access to teachers which ultimately supports their children's academic achievement
• Communication even on the go let teachers make phone calls at recess, lunch, and between class periods, anywhere on campus rather than finding a wired telephone
• Safer learning environment through the use of wireless handsets enables direct real-time communication between school staff, and results in immediate access in crisis situations

Polycom SpectraLink® 8000 Wireless Telephones – The SpectraLink 8000 system is a Wi-Fi, standards-based, converged solution for legacy PBX systems and enterprise IP networks.

Polycom KIRK® DECT Wireless Telephones – KIRK DECT telephones, built on the international DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications) standard, deliver a cost-effective wireless telephony solution for analog and IP based PBXs.

Polycom Professional and Support Services – Offers expertise and assistance with assessment, planning, implementation, and support of new technology, at a fraction of the cost of additional, internal headcount.