Resources and Links for Parents

Department of Education NSW Links with Information for Learning at home

Learning from home

In this section

Advice to parents and carers

Advice and resources for parents and carers to support student success when learning remotely.

Delivery of learning

Supporting students who are temporarily unable to attend school and are learning from home.

Leading from home

Advice and resources for principals and other educational leaders planning a move to remote learning.

Learning on demand

Professional learning to ensure you have the support you need to continue learning from home and keep building your professional and collective capacity.

Wellbeing at home

Ideas for school staff supporting student wellbeing while teaching and learning from home.

Microsoft Office 365

Microsoft Office 365 is an online collection of tools available free to all department staff and students. The cloud-based software enables online collaboration and sharing in a simple and innovative way.

Core tools in Office 365 include:

OneDrive
Office Online
OneNote
Class Notebook
Staff Notebooks
Sway
Stream

G Suite for Education

G Suite for Education (G Suite) are online productivity tools that work on any device. G Suite let teachers and students create, communicate and collaborate in real time.

Teachers and students have access to tools that allow:

Collaborative word processing, presentation and website creation
Easy delivery and management of assessment
Time and task management
Unlimited online storage.

G Suite for Education is accessed via a dedicated DoE domain (via student portal) rather than downloading. Once an account is approved, set up and linked to this domain, it can be accessed from any device with internet access.

SkoolBag - App

Never miss an important update

Missed the swimming carnival? Forgot about the pupil-free day? Just want to know what the kids are doing? SkoolBag puts all your important school communication in one place - so you (or the kids) will never be in the wrong place at the wrong time again.

SkoolBag is free for parents and teachers, with no limits on content or notifications.

Find the direct links to Play Store and Apple App Store on the home page