A dynamic online ‘window' into student's attendance, attainment, behaviour and progression at school provides parents and carers with access to actively engage with their child's learning and create a dialogue with teachers, other parents and the whole school community.

UniServity, the market-leading Learning Platform provider, announces the imminent release of an exciting new product for Parents which will transform how they access, engage and support their child's learning journey. UniServity's Parental Engagement and Reporting Product will empower parents by dynamically engaging them in their child's progression at school, whilst creating new opportunities to communicate with teachers, other parents and the whole school learning community beyond the traditional constraints of the school day.

A personalised and familiar ‘social networking' style experience will provide parents with safe, anytime anyplace access to valuable information about their child including attendance, attainment, behaviour and progression data.  Parents will benefit from being able to take a more proactive role in supporting their child's learning, and will have the ability to easily access and comment on examples of their child's school work and ‘ePortfolio' learning journal.

Schools will benefit from a comprehensive suite of fully customisable tools and features to support teaching, streamlined reporting and administration, with the ability to create an online dialogue with parents and other key stakeholders.

UniServity has developed its new Parent Product primarily to enable schools to meet and exceed the U.K. Government's Parental Engagement guidelines for providing online reporting from Secondary Schools by September 2010 and Primary Schools by September 2012.  The Parent Product is fully integrated with the UniServity cLc (connected Learning communities) Learning Platform to further provide schools with a comprehensive 21st Century Teaching and Learning toolkit.

Wirral Local Authority (LA) has become the first Local Authority to announce they will be providing the Parent Product for their schools.  Angela Allen, ICT Advisor, Wirral LA, stated "Our aim is to fully support our schools in meeting their requirements for parental reporting. Our commitment to the cLc Learning Platform for Wirral's schools and our relationship with UniServity has made the choice obvious."

Alan Wood, CEO, UniServity, added "We're delighted that Wirral Local Authority has chosen the new UniServity Parent Product for their schools. We see this new product as a natural but powerful extension to our core cLc Learning Platform solution.  The role of the parent is critical in a child or young person's development and UniServity's Parent Product will empower parents like never before, to engage in and support their child's learning."

Full specifications, product literature and demonstration version will be available in September 2009. The Parent Product will be available from October 2009, with a premium version scheduled for launch at the BETT Show in London (UniServity Stand E125) in January 2010.

The announcement of the new Parent Product builds on UniServity's recent strategic partnership announcement with the Microsoft Live@edu educational service.