Project and Task Management for Education
What does your organization use to manage it's ongoing projects and initiatives? As schools are complex institutions that continually have a variety of divisions, departments, staff, initiatives, and projects that separate and mix in a variety of ways, with an array of completion dates and benchmarks, appropriate management systems can be central to productivity. Below are a variety of productivity apps that organizations, private and public, have found to be useful to manage their projects and initiatives. Over the next few weeks a variety of groups, admin, teacher, and student led, within Seoul Foreign School will be sand boxing which Apps best fit our needs. After which I will report their findings. In the meantime, I would love to hear what other educational institutions are using or of their experiences with the Apps below.
Productivity Apps—Project and Task Management
Smartsheet Project Management
Google Apps Integration, calendar overlays, timeline view, fluid layout, sheet level permissions, form integration, spreadsheet foundation, Email integration, integrated attachments. View and Edit options, In-app tutorials, comments. Education pricing available.
Gantter
Google Single Sign-on, Create within Google Drive, real time chat and collaboration, Mobile support. Works within the GAFE domain but mirrors Microsoft Project
Workflowy
Simple, serious, and sophisticated, Workflowy lets you create nested lists in a quick and responsive Web app.
Planbox
Google Single Sign-on, Unlimited storage, Mobile access, real-time collaboration, 2 users free, Google Drive integration, in app file attachment, feedback for customers widget.
Teambox
Teambox was designed with a very specific end goal: to bridge the gap between the project management and information sharing markets.