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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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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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