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Hi We use Tes Room Booking in our school . Please could you let me know if the Room Booking syncs with SIMS, does it write from SIMS to room booking system? There were changes done on the MIS for changes in the room , but the changes has not happened in room booking system. Any help much appreciated. Thanks.

Hi We use Whisper Anonymous Reporting Tool in our school .One of the teacher is asking if there is a way of finding out which school user account may have accessed the Whisper tool from a school PC at a particular time on a particular day. Is this possible to run a report and find from the Impero console? Or Let me know of there is any other way of finding this out. Thanks in advance

We use 0365 and our staff can share the document using the parent personal email address ? and it should be GDPR compliant?

Hi Our staff had difficulty taking the biometric reading of a student and finally, they registered the biometric of the thumb. But when the student produces the thumb on the reader it is not recognising. Therefore the staff deleted the biometric reading and registered the index fingers instead , but when the student puts the index on the biometric reading it doesn't read . Not sure what could be the problem. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks

Hi We use O365 and SharePoint. A member of the Learning Support staff has asked whether it’s possible for staff to share a confidential document located on our SharePoint with a pupil’s parents and allow them to edit it. The parents reportedly work at a school and i assume their school also uses O365. According to GDPR, would it be acceptable to share the document with the parents, and would it be permissible to use their school email address for this purpose? Alternatively, is there another way to achieve this? Thanks.

Hi We use teams and one of the teachers have asked if there is a way to disable student comments on an assignment post in teams. Thanks

Hi, We use Parentmail to communicate with parents, and they need to have the Parentmail app downloaded on their smartphones to receive messages from the school. However, many parents either don’t have smartphones or are not tech-savvy enough to install and use the app. I’m curious to know how your school manages communication with parents. Do you use a similar service, send hard copies , or rely on newsletters? Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hi We are using ParentMail for parents to manage dinner money payments. When new students are added to ParentMail, the system sends a link to their parents for registration and to top up dinner money. Each September, IT handles tasks like removing leavers, rolling up year groups, and adding new Year 7 students to the system.In cases where parents face issues topping up dinner money for their child, admin staff have been the point of contact, assisting parents, diagnosing the problem, and, when needed, raising support calls with ParentMail to resolve it. Recently, however, some of the new administrative staff seem to expect IT to take on these tasks, which is unusual. Our IT team has day-to-day responsibilities that need attention, and this expectation is adding strain. Could you provide some guidance on how to clarify to the admin department that handling ParentMail-related issues, such as assisting parents with dinner money top-ups, is typically managed by the admin team rather than IT? Thanks

Hi We have moved to 0365 and we use SharePoint and Onedrive. One of the staff is asking to install Dropbox on her laptop. No sure what to email her. They have access to the school Onedrive and not sure why she is asking Dropbox . Will this be a GDPR issue and will i need to speak to SLT and tell staff that Dropbox is not allowed ? Please advise... Thanks

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Hi I would like to buy a scanner for the business manager that can duplex scanner only that can upload document to a network share. Budget is £140 ex VAT . Please suggest a suitable scanner. Thanks and nay suggestion appreciated.

We use ParentMail and we have new staff taken over and not sure if they know the ParentMail and if it is being used effectively?

Hi I have been asked to join the SLT meeting to discuss how the school can better communicate with parent and carers. On a IT point of perceptive could you let me know the things i need to be aware of or the things i need to raise in the meeting. Thanks and any help much appreciated.

Hi We use NetSweeper and Impero on our network and one of the staff is asking how do the students know that the school is monitoring the internet activity. Any help much appreciated. Thanks

Hi One of the parent emailed me saying that they would like to buy a device for his child to use to access school emails and Teams at home. He is asking me as how i manage their device connecting to Intune and Exchange and teams and not sure why he is asking this question. It is their personal device and they install the necessary software and log into the teams app and 0365 OWA. Nothing to do with our school managing their personal device ?Please advise. Thanks in advance