Telephone enquiries.

Had a visit from a company today to discuss our telephone needs.

We are again planning our vision of improved communication and laying the foundations of a communication system that we can build on.

We produced a list of our requirements and situations that need meeting and look forward to the cost implication.

Full IP based internal communication.
IVR (multiple)
Call transfer/forwarding to mobiles.
Follow me feature.
Schedule for extension diversion.
Active call transition from mobile to desk and desk to mobile.
Caller ID to Name matching from our MIS system.
Caller pop up on PC with caller details
Dial and control active calls from pc
Messaging (pc and mobile)
Call recording.
Call auditing.
Caller ID auto routing.
Voicemail.
Voicemail to email and alert.
Panic button to alert key staff phones.
Intercom for school wide emergency announcements.
Staff hot desking
External screen with staff names with pending voicemail counts
Phone in each classroom and corridor.

Clever Touch screens arrived

And they are HEAVY!!!!!

Virus/Spyware alert

This started late last night. Loads of machines and servers reporting a possible virus/spyware.

Thankfully it's a false positive. But my mail box was almost in melt down. My poor phone has been "Bing"ing all night.

CleverTouch

We are in the final phase of securing two 65" CleverTouch LCD interactive screens. These screens do away with projectors and alignment issues.

Whilst all our classrooms were kitted out with Casio Bulbless projectors two years ago, we are still three years away from their end-of-life, so we are fitting our two new classrooms with these.

Each of these units will be accompanied by a TOSHIBA satellite pro laptop.

Pupil Logins Rolled Out

By the end of Friday we had successfully rolled out pupil logins to our KS2 pupils. Feedback from staff is that the kids are "thrilled".

KS2 pupils have access to their own school email account, access to our Learning Platform as well as their own storage area.

Quite Monday

Not much happened today.

Our pupils don't come back until Wednesday 5th, we have a Development Day tomorrow (the 4th), and today (3rd) is still classed as holiday.

Today has mainly been tidying and throwing away packaging. Well, I say throwing, more sorting for recycling.

I also had to do some creative accounting so that our Printer Management software quite complaining about licenses. I simply disabled all KS1 pupils in Active Directory; after all, we are only pushing toward KS2 with unique login details this year.

Also had to restore a template in SIMS, our dinner registers were printing pupil reports. Whoops.