GREAT TORRINGTON SCHOOL GOES FOR GIGABIT WI-FI TO SUPPORT IPAD-ENABLED LEARNING
Academy-status school Great Torrington School in Devon has deployed superfast 802.11ac Wi-Fi from Meru Networks to support 500 wireless devices, including Apple iPads, and help transform the way the school educates its 750 students. The wireless network was designed and deployed by RM Education, an ICT specialist for education. “Our existing network was delivering snail-like speeds,”
says Jon Buss, network manager. “It was taking up to 15 minutes to log on to a laptop and authenticate. Now it’s almost instantaneous. Pupils and staff can also move seamlessly from classroom to classroom without losing connection and having to log on again and again.” The school, which is adopting a 1:1 learning environment, is
also using Apple TV for bandwidth-hungry media streaming, which it was not able to do before. It has also signed up to Show My Homework, an online engagement portal that allows teachers to set homework and students to do homework online.
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NEW RAG DASHBOARD FEATURE GIVES GREEN LIGHT FOR IMPROVED MESMA SOFTWARE
New features added to the online Mesma software make it even quicker for schools to rank their status against key criteria and identify areas requiring urgent atention or improvement.
A newly enhanced RAG status ‘dashboard’ has been
incorporated within the Self Evaluation Report (SEF) feature of Mesma. This enables the user to see at a glance how a school’s evaluation compares against a series of key questions based on grades to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses. A new SWOT analysis has also been added against each key
question along with the ability to move these individually to the Section Summary at the click of a buton. The screen has also been reformated with the 'Aspects' appearing down the left-hand side and their associated 'Key Questions' to the right of the screen. RAG and SWOT reports can be produced and downloaded to
complement traditional SEFs for sharing and integration with improvement plans. The new features are an integral part of Mesma, which is an intuitive, beneficial and engaging management tool to encourage greater participation by staff in the self-evaluation process. The web-based resource allows the user to rapidly set-up dedicated accounts and allocate important areas of the self-assessment report and improvement plan to authorised people within schools. The Mesma software is available through an annual subscription
and is tailored to meet specific requirements and individual needs. W:
www.mesma.co.uk
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