Journey to the Cloud
Digital Transformation - A real life case study of a primary school as they move into the cloud.
What really matters to your school?
Not the industryThe journey so far...
Microsoft Teams – Supporting Mental Wellbeing
Journey to the Cloud, Accessibility, Financial Savings, Student Achievements, WorkloadIn March 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic forced schools to close their doors to students. As the enforced closures showed no sign of being lifted, following the Easter break, the school started to explore how teachers could deliver remote...
Intune for Education and Windows Autopilot
Journey to the Cloud, Accessibility, Financial Savings, Student Achievements, WorkloadIntune and Autopilot work together to modernise the way your IT Team can deploy and manage devices for staff and students. This new approach saves time and money, reduces the requirements for on-site infrastructure and improves the end-u...
Use OneNote Class Notebooks and save enough money to pay for 1 to 1 devices.
Journey to the Cloud, Accessibility, Financial Savings, Student Achievements, WorkloadBy using OneNote Class Notebooks to replace printed resources in a Key Stage 2 class, a school can save enough money to pay for 1 to 1 devices. Working with St John Fisher Catholic Primary School we have identified that the money spent o...
Assessment – Teacher Feedback (OneNote)
Journey to the Cloud, Accessibility, Financial Savings, Student Achievements, WorkloadThe Year 5 class teacher collects students exercise books at the end of the day ready to take home and mark during the evening. They estimated it takes approximately 60 – 90 mins to mark the students work and provide written feedback w...
Literacy & Personalised Learning (OneNote)
Journey to the Cloud, Financial Savings, Student Achievements, WorkloadFor many schools Literacy is top of the agenda, so most days, among other tasks, students take part in a Word Association activity and each week we have a class spelling test. Typically these types of activities involve printing 30 copie...
School Newsletter (Teams & Word)
Journey to the Cloud, Financial Savings, WorkloadStaff would email text and images to a colleague responsible for creating the newsletter as a word document. The completed document was then shared on the school website as a PDF. Frustrations would arise when staff sent changes to artic...
Supply Teacher & Nursery Placement Request Forms
Journey to the Cloud, Financial Savings, How to, WorkloadThere was a lengthy process in place for organising supply cover for teachers. A teacher completed a paper form, handed it in to the main office who then took it to the Head for approval. The Nursery application form was also a paper-b...
Journey to the Cloud – An Introduction
Journey to the Cloud, article, consultancy, CPD, cross curricular, education, microsoft, news, primary, schoolThe story of an English state primary school as they undertake their journey to the cloud and implement a new school digital transformation strategy. Capturing the successes, savings both in time and cost, impact on teachers and students...
Industry Partners
Journey to the Cloud, How toIf you are serious about digital transformation you will need support from industry partners. You may need to be prepared to invest upfront to capitalise on long-term gains and savings. Transformation Real outcomes, and the impact on end...
Creating Your Teams
Journey to the Cloud, How toImportant to know! When you create Microsoft Teams, access is granted to all Team users including access to all files, channels (except private), OneNote notebooks, and anything shared with the Team. The naming convention used for your ...