9 things your school IT provider should be doing for you and one thing to do if they are not – Part 2

Mon 26 October, 2020

Now for the second part of our blog looking at how school IT providers should be looking after you. If you are not sure what you should expect from your IT provider or if you are unhappy with the service they provided during COVID, then this is the blog for you.

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9 things your school IT provider should be doing for you and one thing to do if they are not – Part 1

Fri 16 October, 2020

Did your IT provider step up to the plate and give you all the support you needed? Or were you left feeling neglected and abandoned to figure it out alone? Many schools across the UK now rely on outsourced IT services and providers to some extent. If your school is one of those, it is likely this year has tested your relationship with your service provider to the max. In this unprecedented year schools have had to adapt like never before.

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How safe is your school data?

Wed 30 September, 2020

As a school, you will hold an enormous amount of data, on your teachers, your pupils, your buildings and your school resources. All of this data is vulnerable and highly valuable. So, what are you doing to protect it? Do you know how your data is being protected and managed? Or do you just pass it on to an automated backup service to process and be forgotten about?

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Is Your School Wi-Fi Running on Snail Speed? 5 Ways to Improve School Wi-Fi

Tue 22 September, 2020

Many schools struggle with slow and patchy Wi-Fi, and as the level of technology in classrooms increases this is becoming ever more disruptive.

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3 Ways to Improve E-Safety for Your Pupils at Home

Fri 11 September, 2020

The online world has never been more open, more vibrant and more important. Therefore E-Safety is now even more important to parents, teachers and pupils. Helping to protecting your pupils beyond the classroom is key to any successful E-Safety programme.

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3 Ways to Improve E-safety for Your Pupils at School

Wed 09 September, 2020

Find out how to take your school E-safety to the next level with these 3 handy tips.

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3 Ways to Get Your School ICT Ready for September

Wed 02 September, 2020

The summer is the optimal opportunity to ensure your school is ICT ready. This is especially important after months of remote learning to ensure a seamless back to school process for students and staff.

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3 Ways to Support Parents While Remote Teaching - Making Sure No One Gets Left Behind!

Thu 30 July, 2020

This period of lockdown has not only been hard on children but also on their parents. As teachers, you will know just how tough it can be to support and encourage children through education. And yet at present, many parents are having to do this in the home alongside remote working themselves.

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3 Ways to Encourage Teamwork Between Students While Teaching Remotely

Tue 21 July, 2020

We all know teamwork is important, it is often ranked as one of the most valuable and desirable soft skills in the world of work. And we all know that the foundations of good teamworking skills start at school. But how can teachers ensure pupils are still practising this skill when they are teaching and learning remotely. First, you need to look beyond the traditional classroom group project and consider how technology can elevate the humble group project to new levels.

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Using G-suite to assign, monitor and receive work from students

Mon 13 July, 2020

Find out how setting, monitoring and marking Homework remotely can be made easy with tools from G-Suite for Education.

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How to use G-suite to teach lessons remotely to classes and groups of students

Mon 06 July, 2020

Despite schools now having access to funding and support, to implement remote learning tools such as G-suite for education many schools still aren’t making the best use of these tools. So, in our new series of blogs, we hope to provide some tips, advice, and ideas for how you can make the best use of G-suite in your school.

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DfE Platform Provisioning Programme

Fri 24 April, 2020

DfE support to provide remote education during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

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