Prevent - In Tallin, ekool helps the communication beetween schools, pupils and parents

eKool gives the feedback to the student and parent. It enables for the parent to see the development of his/her child and be involved in the learning process personally. The student can quickly find out his/ her learning results, homework assignments and other messages from the teachers. The school head receives the operative overview about the school attendance by the students and about the students' results per classes. eKool enables to forward information to all users or only personally.By the year 2002 it was obvious that school diary on paper and system of exchanging information cannot be the same anymore as it was. eKool was created and the City of Tallinn started to use it from the beginning.

eKool aims the creation of cooperation, which makes contribution to the development of a child. eKool enables systematise information of the school and create internet access to this information and bring into order the collecting and maintenance of the school informati eKool is a role based web application, allowing distributing learning information only for those, who are eligible to see it.

Subject teacher and class teacher are those who forward the information. There is a forum where parent or student can take part in the discussion. It is also possible to open a discussion where the parents can discuss on the topics they are interested in and where class teacher or subject teacher can be involved.

New part in eKool is development conversation between teacher, student and parent to cooperate for the child's development. Before the conversation the questionnaire will be sent to the student and parent to be prepared for the conversation. During the conversation the aims of the last development conversation will be looked over. As the result, a written summary will be composed where feedback and new aims will be set. The development conversation and the summary are the confidential. The school head is the composer of the questionnaire and analyst of the results of the development conversations (can log in to see the summaries).

In addition to the school curriculum, lessons plan, grades and results information there should be more learning materials, e-textbooks and other useful materials for the teachers.

eKool is an indispensable facility of the modern school today. 98% of the Tallinn schools use eKool system in 2013. There are no diaries on the paper and upon agreement with the school - no certificates on the paper. All information will be archived digitally and exchanged with the Estonian national educational information system EHIS.

It is positive that at every moment the student and parent has the access to important information and feedback regarding his/ her child's school.