e-safety induction

[DavePa]

I've probably missed a dozen threads (apologies if so) but have an e-safety questionm...

 

We have a set of policies covering every area of e-safety - at least I hope so - but how do we go about ensuring students are aware of them and sign to say that they have read and agreed to them? The intention is to have a session of e-safety during the induction week but students are bombarded with information that week and may not take it all on board although there is an argument that says they will click the box to agree to the terms and conditions without reading them anyway no matter how fresh or tired they are when you sit them down. There will be links to .pdf files that they can download although that doesn;t cover the signing to accept the terms aspect of it.

 

How do others go about ensuring their policies are explained to, read by, and hopefully understood by students? Current thinking to is try and do something similar to the PREVENT or safeguarding training - a set of slides and videos that they must watch and answer a series of question on before being allowed to move to the next part. Alternatively we could give them a presentation on it with some time for Q&A on completion followed by signing either a paper form or Microsoft/Google form.

[elsiegee40]

Firstly this isn't your job unless you have designated training

 

Esafety is a Safeguarding problem not an IT problem. If your school thinks otherwise then it has problems.

 

This should be embedded across the curriculum and reinforced in PHSE, Citizenship, Assemblies, etc just like all the other Safeguarding and Behaviour messages.

 

If there are new policies or changed policies then the DSL and senior leadership should be disseminating this information to staff, students and parents.

[DavePa]

Sorry, should have made it clear - it's not going to be me doing the presentations etc, it will be the DSL. I'm only trying to find out how others do it. We are an FE college so our students have a week long induction which is when the new students will be hearing about the policies - what I'm trying to find out is how others go about this but it's going to be different for different age groups - we do not have assemblies or PHSE / cizitenship.