The Move to Ultrafast – 10 Things Schools Need to Know
You may have heard people talking about the move to ‘full fibre,’ ‘FTTP’ or ‘G.Fast.’ But what does this mean and how can it benefit your school? Here we look at ten things you need to know about Ultrafast broadband. 1. Affordable: Ultrafast is the latest Broadband suite of technologies and have been designed to provide incredible bandwidth and connection speeds at affordable prices. Quicker […]
Homeworker Phone Systems
We know many schools remain open to support Key Workers’ children, and to complete necessary building and maintenance works. To enable school managers and other key staff to keep lines of communication open with parents and other school employees, the Schools Broadband hosted phone system couldn’t be better. The “My School Phone” hosted phone system lets school staff answer […]
Coronavirus Update: Support for Remote Working
Following on from the Government’s announcement of school closures, we’d like to assure all our customers that we’re here to offer support in ensuring your staff are able to work remotely and securely. We’re equipped to ensure that essential administration and network continuity can still take place. Our purpose-built Fortigate Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW) and […]
MATs Utilise WANs to Reduce Costs
Typical school set-up In the past, and in some schools today, it is relatively common to host curriculum data and admin services in school server rooms. Whilst this has worked well for many years, recently, the flooding of servers with additional content has resulted in the management of data becoming more complex than ever before. […]
Questions to Ask Your Internet Service Provider
We understand that choosing web filtering, network security and connectivity for your school can be time-consuming and sometimes confusing! Especially when it comes to deciding which ones offer the best value for money and customer service experience. That’s why we’ve created a series of questions to ask potential providers to make sure you’re receiving like-for-like quotations […]
Keep Students Safe Online
In light of this month’s Children’s Mental Health Week (3rd-9th February) and Safer Internet Day (11th February), we’ve pulled together links to some useful resources for schools regarding keeping children safe and happy online – take a look below. As the principal specialist in world-leading web-filtering and award-winning security to schools, we promote the online safety of young people in […]
DfE Teaching Online Safety in Schools Guidance – Instalment 5
In June 2019 the DfE released the non-statutory guidance for schools, ‘Teaching Online Safety in Schools’. We’ve partnered with e-safety adviser Alan Mackenzie to bring schools and MATs five helpful bitesize instalments along with expert insight to make it easier to digest. In this fifth instalment Alan discusses five key areas where online activities can […]
5 things you need to know about ransomware
This year, we learnt that hackers used Ransomware to encrypt files at a Dorset school, when a member of staff mistakenly opened an email containing a virus. Ransomware is an increasing cyber security threat that poses a real risk to schools that don’t have the appropriate defences. Here we share five things you need to […]
DfE Teaching Online Safety in Schools Guidance, Instalment 4
In June 2019 the DfE released the non-statutory guidance for schools, ‘Teaching Online Safety in Schools’. We’ve partnered with e-safety adviser Alan Mackenzie to bring schools and MATs 5 helpful bitesize instalments along with expert insight to make it easier to digest. In this fourth instalment Alan discusses 8 elements of online activity that could […]
DfE Teaching Online Safety in Schools Guidance, Instalment 3
In June 2019 the DfE released the non-statutory guidance for schools, ‘Teaching Online Safety in Schools’. We’ve partnered with e-safety adviser Alan Mackenzie to bring schools and MATs 5 helpful bitesize instalments along with expert insight to make it easier to digest. In this this third instalment Alan discusses how to navigate the internet and […]