School Dialing System | School Crisis Alert

Quality education is an important standard for every community. Advanced communications between
teaching staff, students and parents are a vital component of that standard. With a School Dialing System,
campaigns such as: School Crisis Alert, Absenteeism Notification and Bus Cancellations can be sent
out to students, parents, faculty and first responders quickly and easily. TasTec Inc. offers unique products
to board officials of small, medium and large sized schools. With emphasis placed on; scalability,
flexibility, ease-of-use and open architecture, the TasTec Inc. line of modular products offered are; simple
to integrate, forward and backward compatible, well supported and custom designed. TasTec Inc.
specializes in making new and existing legacy infrastructures more intelligent, by bringing you solutions
that best fit your requirements, so you don't have to; forklift equipment, take a loss on past investments or
abandon plans for acquiring mission critical applications.

Products

Description

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The Integrated Communications Server™ (ICS™) is an advanced future proofed multi-application
Voice Mail and IVR School Communications System, designed to integrate with telephone systems or
central office based communication exchanges and School Information System software, that is
network and desktop messaging ready. ICS™ combines award winning voice processing software and
Microsoft’s Windows multi-tasking operating platforms, supporting a wide ranging suite of built-in and
optional software modules providing a one-stop shop for innovative School Communications. i.e.
teachers can call into the School's IVR system to report absences - while the IVR system searches for
available substitute teachers, parents and students can call into the School's IVR system to retrieve
information regarding; bus cancellations, extra curricular events, class trip details, school pageant or
concert dates, P.A day or holiday dates and more...

The Automated Speech Recognition™ (ASR™) is a speech processing module of the ICS™, designed
to recognize speech commands for navigating through the ICS™ IVR system, while integrating with
School Information System software or just about any DBMS software. With it's world renowned
speech recognizer (powered by Nuance) and it's feature rich, easy-to-use GUI and self learning
capability, the ASR™ is the next generation in voice processing technology.

The TollGuard™ is a module of the ICS™ (that can also be acquired as a standalone application)
designed to connect with most new and existing telephone systems. TollGuard™ brings leading-edge
call accounting to schools in need of advanced call tracking and reporting tools, while offering email
ready features for call reports and alarms to automatically deliver directly to administrators.

The VoiceGate WAV™ is an Education On-Hold Messaging module of the ICS™ (that can also be
acquired as a standalone application) that connects to the audio source on most telephone systems
via any PC sound card. With VoiceGate WAV™, not only can you play the message you want, but you
can also play school announcments while callers are on hold.

The CallAlert Wireless™ is an instant desktop to RF wireless messaging bundle that can be acquired
as a standalone application or as a add-on of the ICS™, integrating with the VGClient™ unified desktop
messaging module. With CallAlert Wireless™; you never miss a call, you eliminate obtrusive overhead
paging, there's no need to purchase expensive wireless telephone equipment and the communication
medium (pocket pagers) is inexpensive with no ongoing costs. CallAlert Wireless™ pagers can
receive instant text messages, as well as inform faculty or care takers of; incoming calls (before the
call is transferred) and voice mail messages, while displaying detailed information regarding; the
date, time, internal user ID and external caller ID*.
*If caller ID is supported by the telecommunication system and service provider.

console. The sovereignty of console. The VGClient™ also has screen capturing capabilities so that or
POP3 for cross media messaging, text-to-speech enabled call screening and instant messaging, and
CTI based screen popping technology, bringing excitement to it's converged communication ™
VGClient also has screen capturing capabilities so that teachers can monitor each individual station
console. The individual station within their computer classrooms.™VGClient™ also has screen
capturing capabilities so that teachers can monitor each individual station within their computer
classrooms.

The VG Q&A™ is an interactive question and answer - scripted prompting module of the ICS™,
designed to integrate with School Information system software or just about any DBMS software. VG
Q&A™ is ideal for schools looking to implement automation in compiling information for the purpose
of automatically migrating responses to a central database, for such purposes as; completing
application information, conducting surveys ...and more.

The VoiceGate SMS™ is a desktop to wireless SMS messaging application, designed to allow instant
text messages to be sent directly to a cellular or paging device right from your desktop. VoiceGate SMS™
is quick sending, simple to use and is supported through most wireless carriers.

The Intelligent Line Tap™ (ILT™) is a telephony recorder / call logging solution that brings multiple
recording applications together into one system, supporting most phone switches or central office
based communication exchanges, while offering highly advanced network client applications. From
standalone affordable, to entry level telephone call monitoring, to networked business phone tapping
installations, the ILT™ is a feature-rich and highly robust call recording and monitoring solution that can
be scaled to recorded hundreds of stations, making it suitable for schools of all sizes.

The Teacher's Assistant™ is an interactive voice broadcasting and automated notification dialing
system, designed to integrate with School Telecommunication Systems, and School Information
Systems or just about any DBMS software. The Teacher's Assisistant™ allows school administrators to
create and send their own voice broadcasting campaigns to students and parents from the school or
from their homes via remote access. The Teacher's Assistant™ can be used in all schooling institutions,
starting from elementary schools to high schools, right up to colleges and universities. You can acquire
either one or any combination of the Teacher's Assistant™ sub-modules that best suit your needs:
Absenteeism Notification, Activity Notification, Homework Delivery, Bus Cancellations, School Crisis
Alert, School Crisis Drills, School Threat Screening, Faculty Messenging, Substitute Teacher
Bookings, Parent-Teacher Bulletins, Student Bulletins and Faculty Bulletins. i.e. Elementary and High
School administrators can send automated dialing campaigns to parents to inform them of; absences,
parent teacher interviews, report cards, community and school crisis alerts. Teachers can send
homework assignment campaigns to students who have missed classes. College and University
administrators can send general announcement campaigns to groups of students regarding school
events or send school crisis alert campaigns to warn students about potential safety threats, and more.