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Schools and Education Partners
Our Schools Support Teams have been busy helping Education Partners to adapt to a world of online teaching and resources. We are currently supporting 230 schools on Office 365 and Google Classroom and have set up remote teaching/learning elements in Teams, Class Notebook and Assignments within Office 365 for 152 schools,
enabling over 30,000 pupils to
learn remotely. There are some education providers with differing needs and the approach has been adapted to meet their needs, which includes: • Aycliffe Young People’s Centre This young people’s centre has special requirements in terms of safety and security of the young people they support but still need ICT to play a part in the learning of those pupils. An online system
was developed to provide each young person their own private
workspace accessible only for them and their teachers. A read only shared content library was also created for teachers to store resources, worksheets and other materials to assist their students. Security adaptations were made to restrict internet access and remove the email service to ensure the learning environment was appropriate for residents use whilst still
providing a safe place for students and teachers to communicate for
learning purposes. • The Woodlands The Woodlands Pupil Referral Unit requested the introduction
of Microsoft Teams to facilitate
remote teaching and learning for their pupils during the pandemic. Class Teams and pupil accounts were created; however, extra
security measures were applied
as pupils at this facility are taught separately from one another. The Teams working approach was successfully customised to reflect this.
•Education Health Needs Teams
- Group for Anxious Pupils (GAP) A remote learning solution was
developed to enable GAP to continue to engage with and support students with Education Health Needs in specific Core subjects on both a one to one basis and in small groups. • Remote Learning The Schools Support Teams used existing platform technologies to link schools’ Sims databases to Office 365, allowing pupil accounts to be automatically created. This has allowed the Team to set up
150 schools with Office 365 and
Google pupil accounts, including
41 of these schools using a
Google-365 hybrid set up, allowing both pupils and staff to sign in both platforms with one account as well as secure sign on into devices such as Chromebooks. Training has also
been delivered to over 60 schools
individually between September and December, with many more schools attending virtual events that the Learning Cloud Team have supported including working in conjunction with Education Durham and Microsoft.
