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What is the journey to the cloud? For schools, it's digital transformation
If you think you’ve reached the endpoint of the journey to the cloud once you bid your school servers a fond farewell, you’re missing the opportunity for continuous improvement and innovation. Digital transformation isn’t a definitive result; it’s a cultural shift in an organisation rather than just a new set of tools...
21 February 2022
Taking tech to the next level – small changes that add up to a big impact for teachers and learners
Over the past decades, technology has become ubiquitous in every area of our lives, and education is no exception. Management Information Systems, interactive whiteboards, email, safeguarding databases, maths and spelling apps children can log into from home – technology has become such an integrated part of schools that we barely notice...
11 November 2021
Before you buy another school server: Is now the right time for you to migrate to the cloud?
There are many benefits to using cloud computing and associated technologies for teaching and learning. But if you’re in the early stages of the journey, or even mid-way through, the actual process of cloud migration may seem like a rather large elephant to be consumed. You may be struggling to fully visualise and scope out where...
19 October 2021
How does a server support IT at school?
Fundamentally a server is just a powerful computer that historically has run at the heart of the network, ‘serving’ the network. A server stores, sends, receives and processes data, which includes setting access control and rights of users on the network. In schools they traditionally also perform functions such as managing client devices (laptops and desktops)...
14 September 2021
What is the cloud and how does it help schools?
‘The cloud’ isn’t one particular ‘thing’ or ‘position’, many schools can be ‘in the cloud’, but have completely different set ups and ways of working. ‘The cloud’ refers to anything managed and hosted online as opposed to on local servers and computers, but this doesn’t necessarily mean a school can’t be in the cloud and have onsite servers...
14 September 2021