Foundation Academies Technology Stack

Alma SIS provides tools to optimize school operations, empowering educators to improve family engagement and student outcomes.

Bootstrap is a free and open-source front-end framework for designing websites and web applications. It contains HTML and CSS-based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, navigation and other interface components, as well as optional JavaScript extensions.

Font Awesome makes it easy to add vector icons and social logos to their website.

Google Charts provides interactive charts for browsers and mobile devices.

Gravatar is a service for providing globally unique avatars and was created by Tom Preston-Werner. It is owned by Automattic, having integrated it into their WordPress.com blogging platform.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.

JavaScript is the programming language of HTML and the Web.

Moment.js is a free and open source JavaScript library. The library is a wrapper for the object making the object a whole lot easier to work with. the problem with JavaScripts object isnt the functionality it brings; its just extremely cumbersome to use as a developer.

Nginx is a web server which can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache.

Salesforce's Desk.com is a cloud customer support solution with features including agent console, knowledge base and multi-channel support.

Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service offered as part of Google's G Suite, with 15GB of storage, color-coded inbox filters and unsend button.

Google Calendar is an get a button on its browser toolbar that they can easily click to see upcoming events from google calendar, without ever leaving their page. And if they are on sites that have special events encoded, it can click the button to instantly add events to they calendar.

G Suite is a suite of apps from Google which offers a number of tools to communicate and collaborate with colleagues, store files, and manage data.

Google Tag Manager helps marketers control the end-to-end process of adding website tags.

Juicer provides a solution to aggregate brands' hashtag and social media posts into a single social media feed on their website.

Greenhouse is a recruiting optimization platform to help companies build and scale their recruiting processes. It automates and measures all sourcing activity (social media, referrals, job boards, in-person events, meetups, campus recruiting, etc.) and improves teams' interviewing skills with all-in-one “interview kits” that bring together all the information one needs into one simple web page.

MonsterInsights is a Wordpress plugin for Google Analytics.

SiteGround is a web hosting service with support, uptime, focus on security and server speed.

Yoast offers plugins to improve SEO and optimize web sites and blogs.

YouTube is a video sharing service where users can watch, like, share, comment and upload their own videos. The video service can be accessed on PCs, laptops, tablets and via mobile phones.