covid-19

To support remote learning in schools around the world, the Microsoft Education team has created an open global community for academic institutions to connect with each other and our Microsoft education experts, on best practices, tips & tricks, and personal learnings on how to enable distance learning for schools.

Google are making advanced features in Hangouts Meet available to schools around the globe using G Suite for Education, so that educators can continue connecting with students and facilitating remote learning. This will include the ability to record meetings, livestream up to 100k people and add 250 people to a Hangout. These features will be available at no additional cost to all G Suite for Education customers until July 1, 2020. The team is expediting approvals in the most highly impacted markets, and providing ways for sales team members to request exceptions.

Guidance supporting schools to teach their pupils how to stay safe online, within new and existing school subjects.

These resources provide you with a really good starting point and outline some good practice principles to help inform your own planning and processes.

A useful resource from Mind outlining things to try that could help your wellbeing.

Guidance on device decontamination

School admins can quickly and securely prepare their school's Chromebooks to go home with students. Chromebooks are remotely managed through the Google Admin console, making it simple for schools and IT administrators to deploy and manage thousands of devices. For example, Admins can restrict device access to managed student accounts or set "Off Hours" when students can sign in with their personal accounts. They may also use URL blacklists to set content restrictions and ensure that students are held to the same responsible-use policies off-campus as they are inside their classrooms.

Updates from ucisa on how members are being supported and represented on the coronavirus (Covid-19)

Useful guidance from the team at ARS TECHNICA, covering productivity, health and your sanity.