Information for Teachers
"I am a college-educated trained professional."
"I love to teach the joys of music, dance, and athletics to young people."
"Why do I spend half my day doing paperwork?"
We say these out loud, and yet we spend a great deal of our time away from the students. Music teachers have our own libraries to maintain. Coaches are responsible for hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of inventory. Dance and Drill Teams have to raise our own money for trips and show fiscal responsibility. We work evenings, early mornings, weekends and need to communicate with parents like no other teacher does.
Charms is designed with one purpose - to help you get back in front of your students faster. One extra music lesson might make the difference in a student's All-Area audition. Ten minutes extra a day with the team might mean a trip to the playoffs this year. An extra five minutes with the drill team could make a difference in festival competition. An organized program sets the foundation for a successful program.
Charms manages all the organizational details a successful program encounters - from uniform assignment to fee collection, from accumulating varsity jacket points to managing trip payments, from fundraising accountability to printing mailing labels, from collecting practice logs to checking out instruments, from scheduling multiple meets to blasting phone messages to parents.
With Charms you can delegate many of the tasks to eager booster parents or advanced students with our restricted-access helper accounts. Your helpers can work from anywhere and won't have to be in your office, looking through your desk, reading your files.
Charms is also designed for the technologically challenged. It runs completely in your web browser. There is nothing to download or install. You don't have to remember to make backups or save. It works with a familiar point and click interface, and there are help files, how-to videos, and live technical support people just one click in any direction. Our job at Charms is to help you and your students be successful.
So, take a few minutes and view the free demo. It's the real, fully functional program using a ficticious teacher in mythical schools. Or if you're ready, you can set up a free trial today and start using Charms tomorrow. Charms is a product of Dorian Business Systems, Inc.
Give Charms a try, and let us know how you like it!
Michael Baker, Charms Administrator