The best cloud business phone system for educational institutions.

Educators are rarely – if ever – tied to their desks. They are often moving students from classroom to classroom in a K-12 setting, moving from lecture to lecture across campus in a university setting, or might be completely outside of a building at recess or on a field trip.

While every teacher has a personal cell phone they use to keep in touch, it lacks professionalism and can cause confusion, especially in a large team setting that many educators are often in.

Educators need a business phone line that helps them stay connected to other teachers and school administrators even when they aren’t in the classroom. Tools like extension dialing, mobile access, ring groups and caller-ID are highly beneficial in a school or university setting, as these features keep the entire school’s communication organized and efficient.

Most clients have been in a contract prior to switching to Ooma. We have tools to help schools navigate this process. Please call 877-572-8418 to speak with an Ooma phone expert.

Ooma Office delivers more than 100 advanced business phone features, including a Virtual Receptionist to greet callers after hours or when the receptionist is too busy to pick up. Staff can answer and return calls when they are away from the campus with the Ooma Office mobile app—letting call recipients see the school’s office number on their caller ID, not a personal mobile phone number. Learn more about Ooma Office, winner of PC Magazine’s Business Choice award for the Best Business VoIP Phone Service 10 years in a row.

We know K-12 schools, universities and trade schools are extremely busy, so we make it easy to get started. Ooma Office works right out of the box, and no one at your office needs any technical knowledge to set it up. Ooma Office is typically up and running in less than 15 minutes. Phones arrive pre-configured, just plug in and start making calls.

POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) lines are the old copper telephone lines that have provided residential and business telephone service since 1876. POTS lines are used for more than just voice calls. They also service analog devices like security alarms, fire alarm panels, FAX lines, building and gate entry systems, public safety emergency phones, elevator phones, point-of-sale systems and more.

You can rip and replace legacy devices, which is typically impractical, difficult and expensive. Or you can get an affordable solution like Ooma AirDial that provides a digital connection that acts like a traditional POTS line to a legacy device. Ooma AirDial is a single package solution that combines hardware, a wireless data connection on a nationwide network and phone service. Ooma AirDial also meets many regulatory requirements for devices, such as fire alarm panels and elevator phones.

Ooma Continuous Voice™ is a unique, patented technology that provides automatic backup for voice calls running through Ooma Connect. With it, all Ooma Office phone calls are simultaneously transmitted through two links – a primary broadband connection (such as cable, fiber or T1) and the wireless connection provided by Ooma Connect. The Ooma cloud platform constantly monitors both data streams, so if the digital voice data in one stream is disrupted by internet congestion, dropped packets, or latency, Continuous Voice automatically uses voice data from the second stream to avoid degraded audio quality or dropped calls. If one stream goes down, all calls in progress continue uninterrupted through the other stream.