Is It Possible To Go Paperless In The Classroom?

Michelle Grant

How much money could your school save by reducing paper in the classroom? What if your teachers used half the amount of paper per-class?


According to Edutopia, an average school spends about $25,000 on paper each year—and that does not include the maintenance, toner, and ink which add to the printing costs. With an average of 50 reams of paper used per teacher, at a 100-teacher school, 5,000 reams of paper are used. That tallies to 2,500,000 sheets of paper used per school, per year!


Reduce your school’s in-class paper use by following these four steps:

1. Standardize your onCampus features, and create guidelines for teachers to follow when using the technology.
2. Create specific minimum requirements for teachers to use technology instead of paper.
3. Train your teachers to use the features in onCampus quickly and easily.
4. Register for the Blackbaud University course, K–12 onCampus: Reducing Paper in the Classroom. This instructor-led course can help you learn to standardize your onCampus features, create minimum requirements for teachers, and train your teachers to reduce paper use in every classroom.

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