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DfE refreshes the digital and technology standards manual
The Department for Education has made another round of amendments to its Meeting digital and technology standards in schools and colleges manual, with the latest changes published on 25 August. Taken together, this year's updates focus on three areas: generative AI in filtering and monitoring, the new Cyber Essentials 2026 requirements, and Wi-Fi 7. They are worth working through before the first safeguarding and IT review of term. What has changed in 2026 Generative AI and f
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Active Directory Password Security: A Guide for the UK Education Sector
In this article, we discuss how to get a handle on the problem that compromised passwords present to educational establishments, how to easily identify them in Active Directory (AD) alongside additional password vulnerabilities, and how to future-proof your password security with continuous compromised password scanning. The compromised password problem The education sector is becoming an increasingly attractive target for cyberattacks. This year the UK government reporte
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ESP Education Salary Survey 2023
Our last IT for Education Salary Survey, coincided with the very start of the Pandemic. Since then we’ve experienced: Big shift across IT to hybrid or remote working. An accelerated move to cloud based tech both in schools and industry. “The Great Resignation”. A big over demand for IT staff. An increasing upwards pressure on salaries and more flexible conditions. Help us to help you understand where you now stand against your peers. See where salaries of IT staff have
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Department for Education Technology in Schools Survey (TiSS) 2022-2023
Here is your chance to get your voice heard to the Department for Education. IFF Research, an independent research company, are conducting a 'Technology in Schools Survey (TiSS)' on behalf of the DfE. This is an important study, which aims to collect a snapshot of technology use and suitability within the school sector in England. If you are an IT professional working for a primary or secondary school in England, please answer this survey on behalf of your school. If you work on
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How to Streamline and Simplify Your Admissions With Applicaa
Hello, here at Applicaa we love innovation and are continually driving new ideas to enhance our products because we want all our users to get the best experiences. We specialise in digital admissions and are currently working with over 600 UK schools. We also have products that digitally manage bursaries and also for the application and results of the 11+ grammar exam. Our core product, Admissions+, is easy to use, fully customisable and can be branded to each school so t
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New resources from NetSupport helping to support Safer Internet Day
Children are online more than ever before. For many, technology and the internet are part of everyday life at home – and in terms of education, digitally-led education has taken on increased significance, with schools having no option but to take learning online over the pandemic lockdowns of the last 18 months. With all this online activity comes the need to stay safe. A young person’s online world may consist of social, chat forums, online games, websites and more, all of which can be accessed
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Cyber On A Shoestring
It is always wonderful to see advice and guidance being shared freely and openly, and most people here know how much I love having the opportunity to share as well. That is one of the joys of being at NetSupport now. The whole crew has the same mentality, from @Al_netsupport downwards. For those who listened to last night's , you may have heard Al and Mark mention the Cyber On A Shoestring online event that Derbyshire CC/Education Data Hub are running on the 7th Decemb
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Online Safety – Trends and Challenges Panel Discussion
It’s no surprise that technology and the internet has become a part of everyday life, especially over the past few months with remote learning in place across the world. Consequently, keeping young people safe online, while being respectful to their privacy, is more challenging than ever before – especially since most young people are accessible 24/7 though a variety of channels, in a digital word that is forever changing. To examine the current trends and insights, useful edtech tools/reso
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NetSupport enhances classroom.cloud's online safety provision by including integration with Microsoft Teams
NetSupport today announced that its newest solution for classroom management and online safety, classroom.cloud, will now further enhance students' online safety at all times – and, critically, in any location – by including integration with the widely-used communication and collaboration solution, Microsoft Teams. With many students equipped with their own school learning devices to enable blended and individual learning to occur both inside and outside of school hours via platforms
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NetSupport further enhances classroom.cloud's SIS integration options by collaborating with ClassLink
NetSupport today announced that its newest solution for classroom management and online safety, classroom.cloud, will now connect to ClassLink (the leader in single sign-on, class rostering and learning resource analytics), to integrate Student Information System (SIS) environments via ClassLink’s Roster Server. classroom.cloud provides essential cloud-based classroom management, teaching and safeguarding tools to help support teaching in classrooms and with remote learners. It’s the
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Data Retention - Guidelines for Schools From MyCloudBackup
The Department for Education has urged schools to ramp up protection for their systems and data following a new round of targeted ransomware attacks. Targets for the recent cyber-attacks included all 17 schools in Cambridge Meridian Academies Trust, 15 schools at Nova Education Trust in Nottingham and 24 Schools across South Gloucestershire, including all seven at Castle School Education Trust. Jon Gilbert, Chief Information Security Officer for the DfE, is now asking UK education establ
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Sysadmin of the Year - Win a brand new gaming laptop with PaperCut!
It’s no secret that PaperCut loves sysadmins. Working in IT for a highschool is what led our CEO to code some printing software and eventually co-found our company. Many of our support engineers and developers were once sysadmins too. So our heart has really gone out to all sysadmins during the COVID-19 pandemic. You’ve always been the glue behind the scenes that holds countless workplaces together. That hasn’t been more true during this era of lockdowns all around the world. The sysadmi
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classroom.cloud advances online safety with its new contextual intelligence toolkit
Super easy to set up, manage and maintain; and simple for teachers to use – no matter their edtech experience, classroom.cloud (the cloud-based teaching and classroom management platform) now includes new safeguarding features to allows schools to monitor and capture concerning activity, enhancing their ability to provide a safe online learning environment at all times. Shielding students from inappropriate content while allowing them freedom to learn within safe parameters is a fine balance
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MyCloudBackup - Follow up on the gov.uk email regarding data backup
You will most likely have received a message from the Chief Information Security Officer recently regarding Ransomware and how to protect your organisation from the rising threat. It is estimated around half of UK organisations faced some form of cyber-security breach in 2019/20. Most of the time the firewall and/or anti-virus software will trap the attempted infiltration however…. just like some human viruses, there’s an occasional one that gets through and causes havoc. In extreme cases, h
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PaperCut launches new cloud-native print management solution
Hello there. Without meaning to be too much of a bold one, Papercut thought you might like to know about the release today of their cloud-native print management solution, PaperCut Hive. The official blurb says that PaperCut Hive brings the power, control, security, and savings of print management traditionally enjoyed by large businesses to organizations of any size, even the smallest around the world, via serverless printing. The unofficial blurb says Papercut are super
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School saves over £300,000 with refurbished IT hardware from Intelligent Servers
The past twelve months have been a tough one for schools. Teachers, pupils, IT managers and almost everyone in the education sector have had to adapt in some way to the changing requirements brought about by online learning. With these digital changes, IT budgets have been pushed to their absolute limit which is why we feel now is a great time to share how one community education trust in Essex saved over £300,000 by working with Intelligent Servers on their Network, Server and SAN Storage upgra
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Free events to help your school or MAT achieve more with Teams and SharePoint
In our latest series of live events, we get real-world experiences of a trust and a primary school adopting Microsoft Teams and SharePoint. The free webinars are designed to help your school get the most out of Microsoft 365. Firstly, we talk to an Assistant Principal at the Fallibroome Trust about how they’ve adopted Microsoft 365 across the trust. This is followed up with an event in April where we speak to a DfE EdTech demonstrator and Microsoft Showcase School to learn about using Teams to
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Ed:gen is the next generation of MIS, but is it evolution or revolution?
Management Information Systems relay some of the most important information from inside your school, but in recent years innovation in this area has been hard to find. IRIS has taken matters into its own hands with Ed:gen, the answer to the stagnant MIS market. At a glance: - Ed:gen is a cloud-based MIS designed for education professionals regardless of location. - Its simple to use dashboard gives a clear view of data, powering better decision making. - Working in real time, staff can sha
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Edulife: 3+ benefits of an automatic sync between G suite and your active directory
Edulife & G Suite for Education Case study: Chiltern Learning Trust Case Study Chiltern Learning Trust Chiltern Learning Trust is a group of 11 schools across Luton and Central Bedfordshire, ranging from primary up to a secondary school with sixth form. They began their journey with Google for Education back when there were just two schools in the trust. At that time the schools were both already using a learning platform due to the Department for Education requirements for all secondary
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The ‘Check it out!’ show: helping edtech enthusiasts beat the January blues!
The start of 2021 has already thrown some curve-balls into the education sector, with many schools not opening or with only selected year groups returning to school. Technology is playing a huge part in the continuation of learning, so ensuring that schools can easily find out about solutions that can help them now – and in the future – is essential. The Check it out! show, now on its fourth episode in the series, helps schools to discover new solutions in a fun, informative online show, host
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Check It Out Show - Christmas Edition 22nd Dec 2020
Back by popular demand, Al Kingsley and Mark Anderson (authors of ‘A Guide to Creating a Digital Strategy in Education’) are hosting a Christmas edition of the ‘Check it out!’ show that highlights the latest and greatest in EdTech. Broadcasting live on 22nd December 2020 at 7pm on the NetSupport YouTube channel . The show will feature a ‘cracking’ set of guests discussing a range of new edtech services and solutions supporting online safety, edtech confidence, learning and resource platform
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The 'Check It Out' show is back!
The ‘Check it out!’ show is back by popular demand, showcasing the ‘must-have’ education solutions After a successful first show in October, the ‘Check it out!’ show is back for another broadcast in November and is packed full of exciting new education solutions that will have an impact on education today and in the future – and that schools and educators need to hear about. Hosted by Al Kingsley and Mark Anderson (authors of ‘A Guide to Creating a Digital Strategy in Education’), the sho
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A new show to highlight the latest products and services for the education sector
Spreading the word about new products and innovations has just got a little easier for edtech vendors and educators with the launch of a new show called Check this out! Hosted by Al Kingsley and Mark Anderson (authors of ‘A Guide to Creating a Digital Strategy in Education’), the show will take place virtually on 27th October 2020 at 7pm and will provide a platform for anyone within the education sector (for example, educators, technicians and edtech providers) to share their new and innovati
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Intelligence Hosting Offer for EduGeek Members
In light of these unprecedented times and the pressures placed not just financially on schools but also the fast switching use of technology towards the cloud, we have looked at ways in which we can adapt the products we offer and really try to help you as Education IT Professionals. As a UK based cloud partner that offers enterprise-class backup solutions that meet all GDPR regulations whilst still delivering ultra-reliable and high performance services to our clients, we felt that we can rea
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Lessons learnt from the Coronavirus shutdown
It's no secret that schools have faced unprecedented pressures over the duration of the Coronavirus outbreak. Every kind of organisation in the global economy has been impacted; each one battling its own individual set of problems. But for those working in schools, those problems are exacerbated further still by the responsibility held for millions of children and their future life chances. In one fell swoop, schools were forced to close “until further notice”, GCSE and A Level exams canc
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