Skip to main content

THE FUTURE OF PLANNING & PROGRAM MANAGEMENT IS HERE !

INDUSTRY CASE STUDY:
SCHOOLS

Industry Challenge

The importance of a productive and safe school system to the vitality of a community cannot be overestimated.  School systems are a socializing agent that affects all of the community’s residents and offers an important stabilizing force in the lives of young people and the community.  Today, however, the vulnerability of these vital community assets is increasing. Whether an external threat of violence or an internal environmental concern, the health of these vital community assets​ is dependent on our school administrators ability to coordinate the development, training, and exercising of crucial operational plans, procedures and protocol in the school environment.

ODYSSEUS™ | GMT

GRANT MANAGEMENT TOOL

The Odysseus™|KMS provides school administrators with a central repository where plans and other school operational procedures and protocol can be accessed and shared by staff and key stakeholders. The secure yet flexible virtual collaborative preparedness environment allows for the efficient development, maintenance, and update of planning doctrine.

ODYSSEUS™ | KMS

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

The Odysseus™|KMS provides school administrators with a central repository where plans and other school operational procedures and protocol can be accessed and shared by staff and key stakeholders. The secure yet flexible virtual collaborative preparedness environment allows for the efficient development, maintenance, and update of planning doctrine.

ODYSSEUS™ | CPM

COMPLIANCE & PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

The Odysseus™|Compliance Metric Tools are a data-driven, assessment that allows school administrators the ability to systematically evaluate the compliance to various governmental and industry recognized programs.

ODYSSEUS™ | AAT

ASSESSMENT & ANALYSIS SYSTEM

The Odysseus™ | AAT offers school administrators the ability to develop customized assessment tools that can be used to evaluate, assess, and understand their progress and program trends.

ODYSSEUS™ | CBT

COMPUTER-BASED TRAINING SYSTEM

The Odysseus™|CBT allows for the delivery and tracking of learning across the Odysseus™ enterprise. Your programs, courses and exercises can be harmonized with your planning and other school program efforts while facilitating your strategy to deliver training and exercise content to your target audience.

ODYSSEUS™ | SIT

SITE INSPECTION TOOL

The Odysseus™ | SIT offers a ready-to-use application for real-time damage assessments and log site-specific damage inventory. The SIT is customizable, mobile friendly, and integrated with the GMT to streamline disaster recovery and the FEMA reimbursement process.

Odysseus Solutions

Odysseus Offers a

Programmatic Solution

for School Administrators

to Coordinate Program Elements.

School Planning

The Odysseus™ | KMS gives school administators an online tool dedicated to the development and maintenance of vital school plans, procedures, and protocol. Odysseus™|KMS offers administrators with the unique feature of providing standardization and flexibility in a collaborative environment. This union greatly increases the school’s planning capabilities by efficiently and effectively enabling administrators to coordinate the design, develop, maintain, and continually improve school preparedness efforts, operations, and programs.

Customized Courses & Training Management

The Odysseus™|CBT plug-in provides organizations with an integrated learning management system that allows administrators to more effectively deliver and measure preparedness understanding across the Odysseus™ enterprise.  Odysseus™|CBT provides a platform to deliver and manage customized computer-based training, track course assessments, award certificates upon course completion, and in-depth reporting of learner progress and understanding.

Simulated Testing & Exercise Scenarios

Designed from the Odysseus™|CBT framework, the Odysseus™ Exercise Simulator incorporates cutting-edge media technology to  deliver an interactive, best practice solution to accurately test and validate your school’s operational and programmatic strategies, while effectively engaging participants in important tests and exercises.  Exercise designers can build an interactive school environment, visualize operational scenarios, and experience real-world crisis decision-making. The Odysseus™ Exercise Simulator provides an easy-to-use, turnkey solution to accurately test and validate a school system’s operational and programmatic strategies, while engaging stakeholders and impressing your organization’s leadership.

School Compliance Assessments

Designed from the Odysseus™|AAT architecture, the Odysseus platform offers a customized school compliance assessments tools that is consistent with the regulatory requirements and guidelines of the Department of Education.  School administrators can assess their school’s compliance and integrate the results into their existing planning framework.

Community Participation and Awareness

The Odysseus™ enterprise offers a variety of tools that can be used to efficiently engage your colleagues and the public, and solicit their participation in the planning process. Customized Odysseus™|CBT interactive planning participation module allows committee members, stakeholders, and the public to learn about current programs and provide real-time feedback and input in the plan development. Customized Odysseus™|AAT survey instruments allows your school staff to provide input in the planning process and inform the management strategies of your school.

Committee Management

In today’s environment of fiscal efficiency, limited availability of resources, and the necessity to balance competing demands, it is imperative that the engagement of assigned work groups and key stakeholders is efficient and effective. The committee management tool within the Odysseus™|KMS will assist in documenting the planning process, provide a method of on-going committee collaboration, offer an archival repository of planning meeting minutes and information, and ensure the active participation of committee members and key stakeholders throughout the life-cycle of the planning process.