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Monitoring your Schools Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) Safeguarding our children's use of ICT Inappropriate use of school networks in Primary and Secondary schools is causing concern. Paedophile grooming, cyber-bullying, and inappropriate behaviour are not just the concern of secondary schools and colleges. Young children are astoundingly advanced in their use of technology. There is evidence of them using social networking sites, having eBay accounts, accessing the internet by mobile phone, and chatting to people around the world via interactive games such as World of Warcraft. Many children naively post their addresses on Bebo or Facebook and, even more worrying, we are seeing cases of primary-aged children meeting face-to face with adults they have met online. The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre have warned that online predators are increasingly turning their attention to primary pupils and have advised primary teachers to give more advice to their pupils about internet dangers.
DJP Associates can advise on and supply two systems which are designed to help your school monitor Acceptable Use Policy: Ranger Guardian and Policy Central Enterprise Both systems involve the use of a "client" piece of software to be installed on each PC in your school. Ranger Guardian utilises a dedicated piece of equipment which is housed in school and connected to your network. PCE is a software based solution which can be intsalled on a Windows 2003 or 2000 server or for small intsallations of less than 50 client computers, a PC running Windows XP would suffice
Protect your pupils, staff and reputation with Ranger Guardian Despite traditional internet blocking and filtering systems, schools face problems with students circumventing safeguards and accessing unacceptable material. Monitors text in every application Whether a computer is used off- or online, every word that appears on the screen – regardless of whether it is saved or sent – is monitored. Protect against:
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Policy Central Enterpise (PCE) offers another option to enforce the terms of acceptable use policy on school networks. PCE also provides dynamic, real-time control and monitoring of computer resources. Key features of PCE include Desktop Filtering PCE filter all the content that appears on the desktop, based on a series of built-in word/phrase libraries. If a use creates a violation by viewing or typing inappropriate text, a screen capture of their machine is taken in real time. This information can be viewed later and appropriate action taken. PCE contains comprehensive libaries of words and phrases likely to indicate inappropriate behaviour and/or misuse, based around different subjects such as those below:
Internet Time Management It is possible to configure access to the Internet for different user groups on a time basis. Categorised Scanning PCE contains built-in web content filtering service which restricts access to web-based material based on different themed "categories". It is possible to allow or deny acces to individual web sites for groups as well as the ability to restrict a group to a pre-defined list of web site
Chat Logging PCE will record and store the entire transcript of chat conversations if one takes place on a machine where the PCE client is installed. All side of the conversation are recorded, allowing it to be viewed in its entirety at a later date.
Boot up and Application Policy Display PCE can force the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) of your school to be displayed at boot up , each login or tied to specific appications. The user must digitally "accept" the AUP to use the computer or specified application. All accept and decline responses are logged.
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Framework for IT Support Are you in the process of sorting out the paperwork and processes in order to implement the BECTA model of FITS? Would you be interested in a paperless system which follows the BECTA philosophy for incident recording and problem management? The DJP Associates FITS system This system has been developed using Filemaker Pro Version 9. This powerful relational database offers flexibilty to enable data entry through the software or via a browser. The FITS system gives your school: A browser based system which enables Incident recording Firsline access Second line access Owner access Add-hoc task requests Non-Browser access If you are interested in finding out about this new product please contact us. info@djpassociates.co.uk
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