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John O’Farrell Education Manager. Pavilion Internet Plc. Started in 1994 Part of the Easynet Group of companies Based in Brighton, staff of 40 professionals Specialise in Business and Education Value Added Services and Solutions. What is SchoolNet?. Pavilion’s focus on Education
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Pavilion Internet Plc. Started in 1994 Part of the Easynet Group of companies Based in Brighton, staff of 40 professionals Specialise in Business and Education Value Added Services and Solutions
What is SchoolNet? • Pavilion’s focus on Education • 1997-99 Pioneer LAN Solutions with Nynex and now BT’s 0820 service • Options - Number of Students and Staff • Content via www.schoolnet.org.uk • NINAA software - Grid Server
Grid Server for NGfL An Internet communications system, so simple, an adult could use it… mail server web server proxy server for filtering news server chat server file server
Summary needs analysis ease of administration protection from inappropriate material every student to have their own email address easy publishing of web pages discussion groups within safe environment information and analysis open to future changes and development
Intuitive Web Interface Consistent menu down the left side of your screen Clear choice of subject area, users verses filtering Available from any browser on the network Available only to trusted teachers
Filtering “Green and Red” AUP - acceptable use policy Red filters are the traditional ban lists Green lists came from our Primary Heads .. and are now often used for curriculum lists The logs guarantee that while a student may get somewhere inappropriate today, .. they won’t tomorrow NINAA filters work together with the .. upstream smart filter at Pavilion
E-Mail for everyone NGfL expects e-mail for every student While we support any standard e-mail client Listening to teachers, particularly in primaries We brought you browser based e-mail No need to set up and manage mail clients Access from any workstation No online charges
Community Access to Zone Learning Materials Mirror the School Intranet onto your public website www.schoolname.location.sch.uk for teachers, students and parents to access from home private password protected folders on server for teachers students can retrieve work from teachers at home security - protects school network from hackers savings - no modems or management costs for the school
Who’s doing what & when We monitor every access by individual Show sites that are really popular ... by hits or by users Improve filters Under NGfL it will become increasing important to demonstrate results and produce reports Export into Excel
Open Standards Industry Standard Applications We are committed to providing solutions in response to the needs of schools.
Broadband Solutions An appropriate mix of 4 basic choices ISDN - 64K to 512K using 0820 or … ADSL - 512K downstream 64K up Fibre - leased lines up to 2MG Radio - internal and external Thank you for your time. It is now my pleasure to Introduce ….