Fri. March 10, 2023
Many school districts have a collection of assets they use to supplement their curricula. From laptops to textbooks, these resources serve as the bedrock of a quality education. Without an effective resource management solution, however, these assets can become a burden. Districts need a way to easily track all district assets and to analyze their financial investment to ensure educators and students are truly benefitting from an improved educational experience.
That is exactly why 25,000 schools trust Follett Destiny® Resource Manager to track all district assets in one centralized resource management system, enabling them to efficiently track, distribute, and collect curriculum and technology resources, ensuring they’re making the most of their investment.
Resource Manager is an extremely cost-efficient investment because the pricing of the software is based on your unique site, not the number of resources or users, as is the pricing model of other offerings. This spreads the cost of our resource management solution over various departments in your school community, ultimately saving you money.
Let’s get to specifics. Here are seven ways Destiny Resource Manager helps districts improve every student’s educational journey with the assets you’ve invested in.
1. Comprehensive Inventory Management
Resource Manager can play a critical role in making it easy to manage all your resources in one place. With Resource Manager, you can easily assign resources to specific individuals or departments, check items in and out, and set up alerts for low inventory levels or overdue items. This means you always know where your resources are and can ensure that you have the resources you need when you need them.
Our inventory functionality includes tools for managing lost or damaged resources. If a resource is lost or damaged, you can easily mark it as such in the system, helping you keep track of your inventory and identify any issues that need to be addressed. Overall, our inventory functionality helps you optimize your resource allocation, ensuring your students and staff have access to the resources they need to succeed.
2. Efficient Resource Management Solution
Resource Manager makes it easy to manage your school or district resources from Grades PreK-12. With its sophisticated search features, you can quickly find the resources you need and keep track of who has checked them out.
Use digital signature agreements in your distribution and collection workflows to always know where your resources are. This functionality makes it easy for parents and guardians to submit signatures from their computer or mobile device ahead of time or during the checkout phase, and all forms are stored in an organized fashion within Resource Manager. These features are designed to meet your unique needs while making resource organization and management much simpler.
3. Making Your Resources Accessible
With Resource Manager, your school community will enjoy greater access to your resources than ever before. Users will have a variety of asset management capabilities available to them, from searching for assets from the comfort of their own home to reserving those items for future use. This ensures that your resources get into the hands of those who need it – the students, parents, and educators in your school community.
Of course, you can also maintain security and peace of mind with detailed permission settings within the resource management system to ensure that only authorized individuals have access to your inventory data. Resource Manager offers all of this via a simple, user-friendly interface that makes it easy for users to explore the materials available to them safely and productively.
4. Productivity Gains
Districts that deploy Resource Manager avoid the headaches involved in traditional resource management methods, making your educators’ jobs easier and more productive, ultimately enhancing the student experience. Staff can easily find asset history, including an item’s maintenance schedules, user manuals, depreciation, correct disposal history, and help ticketing, enabling optimal distribution and use of these assets.
In addition, Resource Manager allows for class schedule integration, which can be used for forecasting classroom needs. You can use enrollment data to avoid ordering too many resources, ensuring that every student has access to the resources they need while staying within your budget. This increases the effectiveness of your investments while freeing up staff time for other crucial responsibilities.
5. Enabling Your 1:1 Device Initiative
A modern resource management system means full-service support for your 1:1 device initiative. Resource Manager enables you to keep device data from Google Workspace or Jamf Pro in sync with your mobile device management (MDM) solution. You can speed up asset imports and 1:1 device deployment with the MDM integration, take a physical inventory of your assets, and run recurring audits inside Resource Manager. By keeping all systems current, the MDM integration keeps your district informed of changes to inventory status, such as lost or stolen items, keeping the entire school community on the same page when it comes to your resources.
6. Reporting Capabilities
Our reporting functionality enables users to generate a variety of reports on usage, condition, and other metrics. Whether you need to see which textbooks are most in demand, which technology equipment needs maintenance, or how many resources each department is using, our reporting tools make it easy to get the data you need.
Our detailed usage reports provide data-based insights that inform smart resource management decisions. Plus, our reporting tools integrate seamlessly with Destiny® Library Manager and Destiny Discover®, powering smart resource management decisions that benefit your entire school community inside and outside of the library. With our audit functionality, you can easily track changes to your inventory and resource data, giving you peace of mind by ensuring the accuracy of your inventory.
7. Professional Services
Perhaps best of all, Follett offers your staff members professional services so they can master their inventory quickly.
Our experts can teach your staff how to easily locate and modify asset data, track resources using item records, check out and check in resources, and use the full range of reporting capabilities.
Additionally, Follett offers consulting to help you at each stage of your resource management journey. Our committed consultants collaborate with you to make the most of all the features of Resource Manager, including establishing and maintaining data integrity, selecting resource types, ranking assets according to importance and determining who is in charge of managing them at the district and site levels, collecting data for each resource, and more.
The Ultimate Resource Management Solution
All in all, Resource Manager is a powerful tool that benefits the entire school community by optimizing your valuable asset investments. Resource Manager users see an improved educational experience for educators, parents, and students. If you are looking to take your asset management to the next level, Resource Manager may be the solution for you. Contact your Follett Sales Representative today.
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