ElectronicSchoolBoard (ESB)

Product Details

Website

https://electronicschoolboard.com/

Overview

ElectronicSchoolBoard, or ESB, is a paperless board-meeting management platform from InterCom Network. It automates the process of creating agenda initiatives, routing them for review and approval, assembling meeting packets, conducting meetings, recording actions, and publishing information for the public.

The product is designed around the different responsibilities of central-office staff, board clerks, superintendents, board members, and technology administrators. Role-based access, agenda templates, real-time meeting controls, motions and voting, automated minutes, document libraries, search, notifications, and public publishing help districts maintain a more consistent and transparent board record.

Features

Agenda workflow and preparation

• Uses meeting and item templates to create recurring agenda structures and standardized board initiatives.
• Routes items and attachments through configurable submission, review, approval, and publication stages.
• Provides diagnostics, deadlines, notifications, and revision history so board staff can see what remains incomplete.

Board-member workspace

• Gives board members secure access to meeting packets, attachments, policies, and authorized board-only materials.
• Supports private notes, bookmarks, agenda tracking, and review of revisions.
• Provides search across records while respecting the user's access level.

Live meeting management

• Keeps participants synchronized with the active agenda item through meeting-control and Cruise Control functions.
• Tracks motions, seconds, amendments, speaker queues, attendance, and votes in real time.
• Displays appropriate meeting and voting information to board members, staff, and public audiences.

Minutes and public record

• Builds draft minutes from motions, votes, discussion summaries, and actions captured during the meeting.
• Publishes approved agendas, minutes, decisions, and attachments for community access.
• Offers PDF packet generation, RSS updates, and searchable archives for board records.

Security, administration, and training

• Uses role-based permissions for accounts, documents, agenda items, libraries, and administrative functions.
• Provides event logs, account administration, audience-display controls, and other tools for district technology staff.
• Includes role-specific in-application training and vendor support for board members, clerks, administrators, and staff.