Toronto School Board Selects NetNation To Power Continuing Ed

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NetNation will provide the technical infrastructure and expertise needed torun the School Board's new site. The Web site incorporates a database forstudents to access a new online course calendar and a payment gateway tosecurely allow students to register for courses over the Web.
"The Toronto District School Board needed a custom configuration for theirhosting requirements, much like many of our other larger clients," saidGeorge Muenz, director of sales at NetNation. "Building scalable and veryreliable hosting solutions backed by responsive service and expert supportis our business," added Muenz.
The Toronto District School Board offers over 500 continuing educationcourses. Specifications for the new site required the database to manage aminimum of 3600 individual classes for all terms, accessible to over twomillion people, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
"We needed a seasoned company with a reputation for solid reliability andservice to ensure the technical success of our new site. NetNation fits ourrequirements perfectly," said Garth Breit, communications officer of theToronto District School Board.
A study completed in spring 2000 indicated that a majority of continuingeducation students surveyed expressed a preference for online registrationand course payment, prompting the School Board to develop the new Web site.In a vendor competition held by the School Board, E-SyncDesign Toronto(e-syncdesign.com) was awarded the development of the Continuing EducationWeb site. The School Board's requirements for the Web site were to givestudents the ability to search, register and pay for all ContinuingEducation courses offered in the fall, winter and spring terms, in a secureonline environment. The design firm created the Web site to meet allrequirements.
With the new Web site, students can now choose three search methods to finda course, learn about the course's individual class details, register forthe class, and have the fees automatically calculated and pay online.E-SyncDesign created the registration process, from beginning to end, to becompleted in six easy steps.
"Online registration is much easier and much anticipated by students, asopposed to conventionally having them register by telephone, fax, mail or inperson. The site is so successful that within three weeks of launch, over3000 students registered for courses online," added Breit.