Yesterday I posted a little tweet, and I had a really good discussion with a few other educational professionals about it, and I wanted to post a bit more about it. Then I remembered I had a blog, so thought I would write something down, here is the tweet: Or Read more
Over the last 3 weeks, one of which being half term, we have been busy. Busy doing large scale projects, which have required more attention, because we have done multiple schools at once, whether that was migrating 8 schools to our new broadband, or moving 5 schools email to Office365 Read more
One of the core elements of any support team is the help desk. After 6 years, and now having 16 different support clients, this Easter I took the plunge and switched help desk. Going from Web Help Desk to FreshDesk was a big deal for us. We had used Web Read more
In my last post I talked about what we can do to make sure that schools keep moving forward. Of course it is not just the schools that need to keep moving forward – the IT support team need to be on the ball as well. If money is tight, Read more
Is there a point, where schools are content with just a working system and good support? Having taken some schools from a system that simply didn’t work, to a system which exceeds their expectations – is there a point where they are happy with how a system works, how it Read more
We have run sitewide biometrics for registration that feedback to SIMs for 4 years now. The idea behind this was that we didn’t want teachers to have to worry about registration, pupils could sign in (not forget their details or their thumb) and boom, registration done. Apart from it didn’t Read more
The question shouldn’t be “why should we do this?” it should be “why shouldn’t we do this?” It feels like I have made my impact. It feels like we have all taken a huge step backwards. It’s not an individual school thing, it’s a mentality of education at the moment. Read more
I went to Bett 17 with some specific tasks in mind. For a few years now, at my home school we have operated Tasc Software’s Insight – allowing parents to contact staff, update personal information, view reports and book their parents’ evening slots. On the whole, this has gone well, Read more
After spending 3 days at BETT 2017, I feel like I have walked up and down the aisles of the excel centre too many times to count. But was it worth it? First things first, BETT is not a trade show, if used right – the seminars and meetings it Read more
