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Helping schools stretch their budget: serverless printing for under £3/$5 per user per year with directprint.io
Helping schools stretch their budget: serverless printing for under £3/$5 per user per year It’s clear that today, schools need to be as cost-effective as possible while maintaining the standards required to foster an environment of learning if they are to effectively cater to students and staff alike. One way of ensuring a lot of bang for their precious buck is by switching to directprint.io’s serverless print management solution which costs just under £3/$5 per user per
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Come see EduGeek and our Sponsors @ BETT 2022
And it’s back! After a two year break BETT is once more gracing the grand halls of ExCel London from the 22nd to the 25th March. Here you will be able to view and play with the latest and greatest in the world of educational IT and meet with the top suppliers and innovators in the sector. As always, we shall be there on stand SB41 with ICT Direct to see you all and catch up with what has been happening in your worlds. As many of you know, the show has been delayed since its origin
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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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EduGeek
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Here we are once more, at the end of a year that turned out to be a very good LARP-ing of Groundhog Day for most of us, we seem to be back right where we were this time last year. Still, we can all take pride in the act that most of us are now in the situation that we can change our working practices at the drop of a hat, work from wherever you might be and have processes in place to adapt to circumstances rapidly. And that should make you all feel proud as I don’t think many have realised
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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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EduGeek
EduGeek to take part in the Check it out! show - 28th Sept 2021
This is just a quick heads-up that EduGeek will be taking part in the September 2021 Check It Out! show hosted by Al Kingsley and Mark Anderson (Twitter - @AlKingsley_Edu and @ICTEvangelist) from NetSupport on Tuesday the 28th September at 7PM (UK time). Dos_Box will be taking part in the show and it promises to be a fun event. We may even have some news about the new site for you all! This is a great show that gives educators and others in the EdTech sector a platform to present the
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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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