You might remember, six months ago, how all the blogs about school websites (us included) – and indeed all websites – were talking about Google’s impending “Mobilegeddon” – the change in their ranking algorithm that would prioritise mobile-friendly websites and penalise those that aren’t mobile compatible. No doubt you received countless emails from providers (ourselves included, again), offering to fix the problem, but six months on we have to ask – was it a genuine threat to your website?
Following the acquisition of Bloxx by cloud services company Akamai, Bloxx have announced that their current product set will no longer be available for sale and renewals will only be offered until January 31, 2016.
A very quick video introduction to School Jotter, the easy to use School website and VLE solution.
Students being radicalised by on-line material is now a sad reality. In the UK, legislation has recently come into force that specifies that schools have a duty of care to prevent pupils being radicalised. In Australia the ANZAC day terror plot involving teens in the UK and Australia communicating via social media highlights the issue.
Demo video - First steps with UCS: AD services with UCS and Samba 4
We take a look at the Blog App, the multi purpose blog hosting service that can be used by students and teachers.
Webanywhere CEO Sean Gilligan addresses the question: What is… the Webanywhere One Drive App?
The latest Univention Corporate Server release provides various security updates and bug fixes and now uses Dovecot as the default mail server and adds the facility to define LDAP filters for policies.
Using a simple interface, Portfolio allows students to show off their best work in a secure, closed environment. The ability to create a private website means students can learn valuable skills about design and e-safety. Check out the video to learn more.