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PaperCut - Better Printing in Education Webinar- 13th July - 09:30AM UK
Let’s be real, the education sector faces print management challenges that no other industry does... You don't hear other workplaces trying to work out if it's the Art department or the English department that’s printing the most. Nor do you hear of anyone else having to install software on hundreds of laptops at the start of the year. And let’s not even begin on having to find all those mouse trackballs! We can’t help with super gluing each mouse back together, but we can help with the p
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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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EduGeek
The EduGeek 2020 Christmas Message
Usually, we’d start off our annual Xmas message by congratulating you all on a job well done throughout the year and hoping you all have a great Christmas holidays. This year that feels rather inadequate. No one could have predicted just how things would turn out at the beginning of 2020, and for possibly the first time ever, your skills, knowledge, hard work and inventiveness throughout the initial lockdown period and through the re-opening of the schools have not gone unnoticed by the wider e
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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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IRIS Education - It's Time For A MIS Revolution
Schools have been forced to be reactive for too long. Without the right tools at their disposal, it’s been near impossible to get the real-time data and insight that’s needed to make proactive changes. And who could blame schools for this? Long-established software packages have been thrust upon them by circumstance, third parties such as local authorities, or simply because there’s a lack of options on the market. To take a different path and choose a new, innovative solution would have been
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