Trends pioneered in the USA educational sphere have a habit of eventually making their way over to the UK and getting slowly adopted into the mainstream. Many enlightened UK teaching professionals have embraced existing technologies and have created their own [...]
"What I really wanted was remote access to files, which Magellan does beautifully." David Thomas, Systems Manager from Burnham Grammar School, describes how Magellan works for his school in this blog post. Teachers love it. They can set homework knowing that [...]
If you're dreading the annual chore of conducting an audit of school assets, you need to read this blog post from Kurt Cooper, ICT Network Manager at The Stonehenge School, who found the way to make it easy by using Asset Manager from [...]
Have you recently switched from LogMeIn and now need remote access to your files? We’ve noticed that some schools have switched from LogMeIn recently and now can’t access their files remotely. In this situation, Magellan is a prefect solution because [...]
St Charles is a Catholic Sixth Form College in the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, with 1,200 students and 100 staff. It offers A Levels, GCSE's and also a wide range of vocational courses spanning Art, Business Studies, Childcare, [...]
North Shore Academy has switched to online testing, using Magellan with Alfiesoft, to achieve the following results: - a saving of £1,1oo a year in printing costs; - saving approximately 35 minutes of learning time for each assessment. How does it [...]
The New York Observer reported last week that the Department of Education has lost track of 1,800 computers from just 10 city schools, according to an audit from city Comptroller Scott Stringer. Could it happen here - would your school be ready if [...]
Nicky Morgan, Secretary of State for Education, invited feedback as part of the Workload Challenge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7YLPAdI93c Here's what CSE had to say: Dear Nicky We’ve worked in the education sector for nearly twenty years and seen the use of [...]
Microsoft announces availability of Visual Studio Community. Something for budding programmers and dedicated teachers - the Visual Studio Community. Tony Saxby from CSE explains why is it is a great free resource for schools and students. Visual Studio is [...]
Why the raspberry? A new version of the Raspberry Pi was released this week, hailed as even smaller and cheaper than its predecessor, and many schools will be looking to this to teach computing skills from Year 4 and upwards. [...]
