Threats

Canfield High School: Implementation of an Online Grading System

 * ==== Background ==== || ==== **S**trengths ==== || ==== **W**eaknesses ==== || ==== **O**pportunities ==== || ==== **T**hreats ==== || ==== Diffusion ==== || ====Conclusion==== ||

Threats:
As with all change, resistance is expected, and in many cases resistance is not always a bad thing, as long as it helps a beneficial change validate its' advantages. By this I mean that threats and resistance are good because many times change is just accepted because it is forced or because it is the flavor of the month, and not because the change will actually add value to the specific organization.

Many of the concerns that teachers had were actually good and were addressed during the inservice:
 * 1) //"Is this system secure?"// Response: Yes, all information is private and can only be viewed by those with a username and password. In addition it is highly secure, our technology coordinator was able to verify this via their website information page.
 * 2) //"This will only make our students lazy. They should have to calculate their grades on their own and communicate with their parents."// In addition: //"Parents should be communicating with their student."// Response: In a perfect world, maybe so, but this system actually holds students and parents more accountable as the grades are available for their viewing at anytime.

Most of our true threats were from individuals who:
 * 1) Do not like to be told to do things. This was the use of "mandatory." (which was actually a major downfall in this particular change process).
 * 2) Were worried about the additional work that would be required if communication were increased or in learning the new system.

Although some opposition was present, it was actually much more limited than normal. In addition, we faced little threat anywhere in the change process.