ParentLocker

ParentLocker is a web-based school platform many schools use for content management, school organization, and efficient organization. ParentLocker helps schools keep parents, students and staff in constant contact and up-to-date on school based information.

Notable features of ParentLocker are the school calendar, photo albums, video player, news section. Also effective is the email platform, where school administrators have the ability to send out school wide mail, and parents can email any teachers through the streamlined system. At the end of the school year, students at schools have used ParentLocker to register classes for the upcoming year, as well as schedule parent-teacher-conferences and standardized exams. The most recent feature of ParentLocker, implemented in June of 2008, is the Student Information System (SIS), a platform that allows administrators to create report cards to email or print, transcripts, attendance records, and student and alumni contact information.

One of ParentLocker's most criticized features is a service that enables schools to set up televisions in hallways and post announcements on it through ParentLocker. Although optional, this feature has been widely criticized, most notably in The YULA Panther, for its false purposes, creating a "facade" of efficiency for the administration.