The Locker: Developing a School Intranet

About the Program

Category: Information Technology (Best in Category)

Year: 2016

Henrico County Public Schools (HCPS) did not have an intranet to meet the needs of its over 6,000 employees. There was plenty of online information available, but it was all housed at separate websites and not easily accessible by employees. The information was also inadequate and could only be accessed at work and not remotely. An outdated staff-development page was available for teachers through a public portal, but was outdated and no longer a usable resource to find information. (See Appendix 1) Additionally, since all information was accessible by the public, nothing secure could be uploaded to that site. The time had arrived to build a staff-only intranet located on a secure server that could be used as a vehicle to connect the many resources needed by HCPS employees. We needed to pull all of our resources together, save paper, and work with a library of digital forms that could be downloaded and filled out electronically, as well as a location to place future staff resources. “The Locker,” our new HCPS intranet, was born.