What are non educational ICT equipment's

[genesis]

Hi

 

What equipments are classified as is non educational ICT equipment's

 

Thanks

[elsiegee40]

In what context?

 

You could argue that all IT equipment used in an education establishment is educational

[Face-Man]

Depends on context but I often get the argument "I can buy this cheaper at PC world" . I then have to explain that equipment is designed for home use doesn't have a business type warranty or have security features such as TPM . The counter arguement is that ipad not really designed as education ict equipment out of the box you just need to have all the things in place like apple school manager and a mdm to make them fit for use in school. However there are some cheap switches and wifi solutions that are not fit for use in school due to the specific requirements of education. My advice to schools is invest in business grade tear 1 supplier for your infrastructure equipment that then gives you options to separate cheaper devices from your data to avoid any data breach risks...

PS . a bit redundant now but encrypted USB sticks are not educational ICT equipment

PPS do you mean educational ict equipment like beebots ? (see https://www.tts-group.co.uk/ for loads of this type of equipment)

[pete]

This sounds like a financial reporting obligation. School should be reporting the educational / non-educational breakdown in terms of hardware, software and services/subscriptions. Some bursars / finance depts will guess, some will torture their IT staff into arbitrating what does and doesn't count.

 

We classify it as equipment that's not used for teaching and learning such as:

 

• Desktop for the bursar
  
• Backup NAS
  
• UPS
  

 

compared to (for example):

 

• Bee-bots (think Big Trak but in mechanical bee form)
  
• Laptop trolley & contents for student use
  
• USB visualiser webcam
  

 

It's a poor metric and most things can be argued either way.