Schoopy.com - MySpace for Schools

Schoopy is a social networking site for schools. Schools can sign up and carefully create a networking site for their school that allows the school to communicate with parents, teachers and students online, as well as create "communities" within the school.

Those communities are usually specific classes (ie, Mr. Smith's geometry class), teams (tennis team) or clubs (debate club). That way, people within those communities can organize and communicate with each other (they have a great calendar graphic that keeps everyone on the same page). Testimonials on the site share that teachers like to post homework assignments, quizzes, and/or reading material, parents like to check up on what homework their students have and ask the teacher questions directly, and students like to be reminded of their homework assignment and ask the teacher or fellow students for help, if need be. By requiring every person to receive an invitation to join the school or community, the site secures itself from random people coming online. Oh, and of course the users of the site can have individual profiles for individual messaging, etc. The site also had games and an online shop. There are ads on the site, but a school can pay $400 a year to remove those ads.