Meeting digital and technology standards in schools and colleges – Guidance

Summary

How schools and colleges can use the right digital infrastructure and technology.

Contents

• Get the right connection type and speed for your school or college, a backup connection to ensure resilience and appropriate safeguarding systems.

• Know how to use or move to cloud solutions for your school or college, including managing access, availability, data protection and backup.

• Keep your school or college cyber secure, and control and secure user accounts.

• Make your school or college’s digital products, content and services accessible and usable for all.

• Have effective digital technology leadership and governance, roles and responsibilities and processes in your school or college.

• Provide a safe online environment for your school or college with appropriate filtering and monitoring systems.

• Plan, commission and review your school or college’s IT support services to make sure you have suitable support for your digital technology.

• Get the right digital devices for teaching and learning by meeting standards for laptops, desktops and tablets for schools and colleges.

• Make sure you have the right copper cabling, optical fibre cabling and installation in your school or college.

• Make sure your school or college has proper network switches and switching infrastructure for reliability, security and resilience.

• Make sure you choose the right servers and storage for your school or college, including security, energy efficiency and suitable environments.

• Use the latest wireless network standards for performance, coverage, management and security in your school or college.

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