GOOD FOR TEACHERS

As schools purchase more and more digital cameras the demands on IT-literate teachers to manage the resulting media files can become hard to manage.

Access to these media files are difficult to control effectively using just the tools provided with Windows and typically it will therefore be left to certain ‘trusted’ individuals (such as the ICT teacher). Typically these issues are resolved by restricting access. The ICT teacher becomes the ‘bottleneck’ in the process while suffering from a heavy workload.

School Life can organise and display still and video pictures, documents, notes, stories (and jokes, poems and reviews) and even food recipes. It allows all users at any PC on the school’s network to access the school’s digital media through a single easy-to-use interface.

Built-in privacy controls enable teachers and administrative staff to easily control access to all items. Not only is this more secure but crucially it provides for wider accessibility.

Media items can be easily tagged by curriculum area which enables teachers or school inspectors to easily and quickly search for and view samples of work done in those areas.

Teachers can use School Life to store and present any subject material. Visual aids, Powerpoint presentations, graphics and text can be stored in collections, searched and filtered in a variety of ways.

Teachers may wish to take photographs of each new class display board and store them in School Life so that they can be reminded of them later and, of course, they form an invaluable evidence base for compliance with various standards and initiatives.

All materials are easily and conveniently accessed through School Life from any PC on the network regardless of the physical location of the media file itself.

Good for Schools Good for Pupils