Digital Unification Update
We would like to thank everyone at King Edward VI High School for Girls, King Edward VI Five Ways School and the Foundation Office for their huge efforts in taking part in the recent proof of concept trials. We really appreciate that everyone involved has genuinely pulled together during this complex roll over, which has been no mean feat. The team did this in a safe and considered manner to ensure that safeguarding was paramount.
We want to learn quickly, and Marc Stone our Digital Unification Ambassador is very keen to hear your thoughts and gather any lessons learnt so that we can adapt and improve the experience for you and future roll outs. Marc has visited King Edward VI Five Ways during the last couple of weeks understanding our teacher’s and pupil experience. We are keen that we make our proof-of-concept schools centres of excellence and that future roll outs benefit from this insight. Your voice is important, and we encourage you to contact Marc Stone.
Q&A
What is digital unification?
The simple answer is that it is a programme which seeks to provide the best and most secure educational experience from the IT tools around us. This will include a ‘Single Central Enterprise Platform’ (the Microsoft migration), but also other areas across IT, including cyber security, networks, storage, training and policies for example. At the heart of this is our teaching and pupil experience, which is first and foremost in any thinking.
What is the Single Central Enterprise Platform?
At it’s most simple it is the migration from Google to foundation-wide Microsoft applications or Microsoft to foundation-wide Microsoft applications, if you are currently using it. Microsoft was chosen objectively by a collective group across the foundation who judged that this is the best set of tools and will benefit from the significant investment that Microsoft is making into education tools. It is imperative that we get the best from the Microsoft suite and share our best practice so that our teaching and communications continue to improve within school and across the Foundation.
The platform includes for example, using Microsoft Outlook for e-mail, Teams for collaboration and teaching or One Drive for storage.
