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NetSupport School launches Google Classroom integration at ISTE 2019
NetSupport is delighted to announce the launch of Google Classroom integration in its award-winning classroom management solution, NetSupport School, at ISTE 2019! As schools continue to heavily invest in edtech, NetSupport remains focused on ensuring schools maximise its use and benefits by keeping it simple. According to research by PwC, only 10 per cent of 2,000 teachers surveyed reported feeling secure in their abilities to incorporate “higher-level” technology into their classroom, while 5
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Want to give the Department for Education some feedback?
The other week we had a chat with Tony Sheppard (@Grumbledook) who is currently talking to the DfE about data protection in schools. However he is hitting a little snag, since the demise of BECTA 10 years ago the DfE has little information on what goes on regarding technologies in schools. Because of this, he has asked both ourselves and ANME to seek out 4 volunteers each to help him get the information they need to enable the govt to get a better idea of the challenges faced by IT departmen
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NetSupport January Special Offer
NetSupport has 3 special offers for you! NetSupport is celebrating 30 years of providing award-winning school IT solutions! To kick-start our celebrations, we're not just offering one special offer; we're providing three incredible offers so you can pick the one that suits your needs best: from effective school-wide IT management and safeguarding, to supporting teachers with classroom management and instruction tools, or boosting emergency procedures with school-wide alerting. Offer 1 Ne
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PaperCut MF - Now a Google for Education Premier Partner
PaperCut MF: unbeatable printing for Google for Education schools PaperCut – one of the industry’s leading print management providers – recently became a Google for Education Premier Partner, giving Google schools and universities their most complete printing experience yet. It’s an exciting development – not just for educational environments using Chromebooks and/or Google tools, but for all Google organizations. So let’s dive into a few of the great integrations already availab
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NetSupport Black Friday Offer
The NetSupport Black Friday offer is available to claim for the next 8 days! From the 19 - 26th November 2018, buy any new NetSupport solution and get free maintenance for 6 months. Our award-winning solutions include Network and IT Management, Multi-platform Classroom Management, an Emergency and Alerting solution, Multi-platform Remote Control, and Helpdesk and Ticketing. NetSupport’s solutions are developed with hundreds of schools and businesses across the world and by taking the
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The ICT Direct Winter Upgradathon Competition - Win a HP Z420 workstation!
In recent times there have been a number of threads on this esteemed site where good users have compared their office workstations. Some of you are lucky devils indeed and boast powerful hardware to run your day to day admin tasks. Others are veritable paupers, suffering from old processors, limited memory and, astoundingly, no Solid State Drive! To this end. We at ICT Direct have decided to host a winter competition. We’ll be offering lucky winners upgrades to their current hardware wh
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Securing Access to your Education Network with UserLock
IS Decisions are proud to introduce one of our leading products, UserLock, to the EduGeek community. UserLock is a versatile suite that provides educational organizations with a protective layer at the forefront of their Windows Active Directory network to help secure access for students, teachers and faculty. If you’re responsible for IT security at a school, college or university, we don’t envy you. Educational organizations represent a repository of so many valuable data types (personal i
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NetSupport Special Offer For UK And Ireland Schools
To help schools and Trusts manage their technology with ease and make their budgets go further, NetSupport, the market-leading provider of award-winning education software solutions, is offering an exclusive deal on its school-wide IT management solution, NetSupport DNA. Special offer For only £4.50 per device* (on a subscription basis), your school can gain award-winning toolkits to help save time and money, increase leaning outcomes and boost security. Network and IT asset management
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NetSupport Notify - Geek Pride Day Special Offer!
A special offer to celebrate Geek Pride Day! Everyone is a geek at heart – whether you geek out about the latest Star Wars film or the new Perk Recombobulator in the online game ‘Fortnite’, we all have something we are passionate about. At NetSupport we are true geeks when it comes to EdTech – we love it! And so, to celebrate our passion for technology in education, we have a special Geek Pride offer… for 1 week only, if you buy NetSupport Notify with 12 months maintenance (from £1 a
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Google for Education + Neverware: transforming old devices into Chrome devices
Webinar starts on Tuesday 1st of May at 2:30pm Whether your computers are brand new or a decade old, installing CloudReady provides unparalleled speed, simplicity, and security without hardware limitations and allows you to transform old hardware into Chrome devices. Join Google for Education and Neverware to learn more about how to transform your organisation's devices and repurpose old kit. Will from Neverware and James from Google will cover getting up to speed with Neverware, the types of
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Win Tickets for AIConf.! and a special offer for EduGeek members!
We are pleased to announce that two people can attend AIConf. for the price of one. This two-day conference explores the effect that artificial intelligence and machine learning will have on education and society. The conference will take place at Wells Cathedral School and will bring together experts and thought leaders from both the education and technology sectors. It is aimed at heads, principals, CEOs, governors, educational senior leaders, IT administrators, systems managers, technicia
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The EduGeek Bett 2018 Draw Results
Here we go! (next week there is a special raffle for those that couldnt come as well fyi) Before we list the results of the EduGeek Bett 2018 draw below, we’d just like to thank you all for coming to visit us on our stand with ICT Direct last week. It really was a pleasure to see you all in real life and, when possible, sit and have a chat, especially those who we got to meet for the first time this year and others of you who we see far too little of for one reason or another. We hope th
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EduGeek @BETT Live Stream Competition 2018
Like last year if you can’t make it to BETT and want at least want a few freebies we have the perfect solution for you! Now our live stream is up and running we are to raffle off five prizes which, we are sure, will make up for you’re not being able to make it to Excel. To enter all we need you to do is to watch our live stream and look for a ‘keyword’ in the video description. Once you have seen the word then please post it in this thread here with the title of each day, e.g. Thursday: EduGe
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GDPR in Schools - EduGeek Members Offer
Happy New Year to you all. With Christmas been and gone and a glorious new year of challenges ahead, all of us at GDPR in Schools would like to take time to thank you for the conversations, feedback and support you have shown over the last 8-9 months. There have been a lot of changes and updates during that time with what is happening with GDPR and there is still a considerable journey to go. As we enter the second week in Jan we see the next reading of the Report Stage for the Data Prot
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NetSupport DNA + NetSupport Notify Special Offer For EduGeek Members!
Get NetSupport DNA with NetSupport Notify for only £4 per device, per year! This special offer provides schools and Trusts with the complete solution to manage technology in the classroom and across the school, while safeguarding students and enhancing emergency communication policies – all across multiple platforms. What does the offer include? IT Asset Management tools: Technicians gain features to effectively track, monitor and manage IT assets across a school or Trust, from one ce
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Summer Special for EduGeek members - NetSupport DNA for only £3!
As many of you will know, NetSupport DNA provides schools and Trusts with the complete solution to manage technology in the classroom and across the school while safeguarding students. >IT technicians gain IT asset management features to effectively track, monitor and manage IT assets across a school or Trust; >Teachers can access our award winning classroom management tools to leverage the full value of technology-led learning. >Safeguarding Leads are provided with proactive an
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WannaCry Ransomware – Info, Patches & tips to disable SMBv1
[PAGE]Background and symptoms[/PAGE] Quite a few of you have been looking for some kind of guide and information on this quite serious threat to our networks, so in true EduGeek fashion, here is an article on what we know and what steps you can take. NOTE: We will be updating this article when we find out any extra information. This article also has links to patches and possible methods of deployment. Check out this thread as well. Click Here to get notifications of article updates. Backg
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Review: HP ProBook x360 11 EE G1
For some years now there has been a large range of devices on which you can use a Windows operating system on, but since the demise of netbooks, small, highly portable, inexpensive laptop based devices are not amongst them. Admittedly the whole netbook situation got a bit silly towards the end with them increasing in size, power and capacity until they morphed right back into laptops once more. To fill this vacuum, Chromebooks appeared. Again, they were small, inexpensive and tied to a relativ
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NEW offer from NetSupport
Calling all EduGeek users…get NetSupport DNA for an amazing price! As many of you will know, NetSupport DNA provides IT technicians with a complete toolkit of IT asset management features to effectively track, monitor and manage IT assets across a school or Trust; while teachers can access our award winning classroom management tools to leverage the full value of technology-led learning. And finally our built-in safeguarding module is also included as standard, helping staff and l safeguard
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Microsoft @BETT 2017 Roundup
This year’s Microsoft stand at BETT was definitely a place which was on pretty much everyone’s ‘must see’ list and we had our stand staff pop over to take a look at the things that you may have either missed or had you not been there, were not aware of. My own personal highlight was the Surface Studio. We had been aware that they had made great efforts to obtain on of these for the show and I was very happy to see one present and being demonstrated by guest artist Tony Harmer from Adobe. This
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Last chance to enter the BETT competition
We have decided to extend entries until tomorrow at 1pm to give you all a last chance to enter our giveaway. To enter simply create a post titled "Monday" using this link: EduGeek Comp Entries Read more about the prizes at: EduGeek @BETT Live Stream Competition Those of you that entered during the BETT show have extra chances to win.
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EduGeek @BETT Live Stream Competition
Can’t make it to BETT and at least want a few freebies? Well we have the perfect solution for you! Now our live stream is up and running we are to raffle off five prizes which, we are sure, will make up for you’re not being able to make it to Excel. To enter all we need you to do is to watch our live stream and look for a ‘keyword’ in the video description. Once you have seen the word then please post it in this thread here with the title of each day, e.g. Thursday: EduGeek Comp Entries You
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A year of Windows in Education with EduGeek and Microsoft Education
Here we go! We are very happy to announce that in partnership with Microsoft Education we are to bring you a whole 12 months of Windows 10, Server 2016 and related product goodness, all with the aim of informing, educating and helping you with the more technical aspects of these products. These will take to the form of focused threads (in-depth looks at particular issues involving you all), webinars, seminars and other ‘things’ which we are working on (more on those as and when they are read
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EduGeek Members: NetSupport DNA - Exclusive Offer!!
***PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS OFFER AND THE TRIAL PERIOD HAS NOW BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL THE 30TH SEPTEMBER 2016*** ***SIGN UP FOR YOUR FREE TRIAL HERE*** Exclusive to EduGeek users only, NetSupport is offering a special rate for its education ITAM solution, NetSupport DNA! For a lifetime licence of only £5 per PC (plus £1 optional annual maintenance), IT technicians can benefit from a complete toolbox of features to support the effective management of school, staff and student techn
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Microsoft & EduGeek - School of the Future Whitepaper
Microsoft School of the Future As some of you may have been aware, earlier this year some of our members very kindly donated some of their time and expertise to helping Microsoft in developing their upcoming School of the Future strategy via a whitepaper. This strategy aims to leverage some of their existing technologies whilst integrating some new ones to give schools’ a whole raft of ready-to-go tools to enable schools to roll out and manage their Microsoft software and infrast
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