The Moorland Federation of schools has launched an amazing new Google platform across the five schools. This investment saw staff attend a launch date training session recently led by Getech Ltd expert. The ICT Champion, Aaron Deeks, liaised with Getech Ltd and Somerset ICT Support lead Clive Franklin to get this exciting new project going. [...]
SCC ICT Team would like to inform all schools that the EDUC email accounts are scheduled to be deleted on Friday 24th February 2023. As previously communicated the SLP migration project completed in September 2022. This is the schools last chance to request migration of any remaining EDUC mailboxes (including the email content) before they [...]
We are seeing a large volume of cyber-criminal activity across the UK, with a significant focus on the education sector. With this in mind, we recommend that you confirm that the following information and details are in place for your school. Some of the critical areas these criminals use to gain access to your school [...]
SCC ICT wish all our schools a Merry Christmas and we look forward to schools continuing their cloud journey in 2023. Now all schools in Somerset have moved from SLP to Microsoft 365 own tenants, it is time to look at the new tools and money saving options now available to you all. If any [...]
Auto-Forwarding of emails from Educ accounts to your new domain You will be pleased to know that auto forwarding and out of office messaging from the old educ accounts has been extended until 31st December 2022. At the end of the year these services will be switched off and any senders will get a non-delivery [...]
To all our supported schools, Reminder and advice following the successful migration to your new email accounts. Using your new email address, you will need to register for the following applications: Assyst - please register using this link - Assyst Self Service Access Request - Somerset County Council Reset the FMS Email Settings for each user [...]
Our records show that all the schools have migrated apart from the six schools that our project team are working closely with to migrate to their new email accounts. The team are in close communication with these schools and will continue this until they are fully migrated. Schools will be aware that the educ [...]
The Department for Education (DfE) has set out new standards for schools and colleges to meet moving forward when choosing an internet connection type, connection speed, resilience and safeguarding. Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSiE) statutory guidance has been updated and the new requirements come into effect from September 1, 2022. Keeping Children Safe in [...]
To all schools that have submitted an enquiry to be part of the Global Address Book... After careful consideration, a decision has been made not to supply a Global Address Book due to the low level of uptake (a third of schools) for this service. It has been agreed that the amount of administration work [...]
As all schools are now moving to their own Microsoft 365 tenants, the Somerset Learning Platform (SLP) is being decommissioned. As part of this decommissioning, the current Schools Closure Website logins will no longer work as there will be no EDUC email directory. Therefore we will need a list of updated user emails who will log school closures. [...]
