VIVA hot spots Season 1

What's New with Stu?

• The Week 9 issue of news.T4L was released today!  Let's take a deeper dive.

• Share the link to the latest issue of T4L Kids with your staff! It's aimed at stages 3&4.

Laurens' Tip of the Day

• High schools - Should you consider Unreal Engine for your Stage 5 & 6 tech courses?

  • Learn How to Code - Create your first 3D game

  • Build a Virtual Rube Goldberg Machine

  • Get started creating Robots in Unreal Engine

  • Unreal Futures: Careers in Animation

  • Unreal Futures: Careers in Fashion

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Paul Jeffers - Stages 2&3 teacher at Moorland Public School

  • Paul coordinated 3MAPS - or the Three Mountains Alliance Public Schools - four schools, one destination: Quality Education initiative.  Let's find out all about it and what else is happening with tech at his schools!

  • Watch the quick 3MAPS video!

• Brett Kent - RFF STEM teacher and School ICT Coordinator at Hilltop Road Public School

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What's New with Stu?

• The brand new issue of T4L Kids just dropped! - Share the link with students and staff at your school!

• Anyone having problems with AirServer and connecting Chromebooks and iPads in particular? A couple of Viva Engage threads have popped up in the past few days without resolution:

  • (1) Viva Engage - Conversation

  • (2) Viva Engage - Conversation

• The School Visitor Check-In iPad app and Service NSW app had an update released last Monday afternoon. Some schools have reported that their app did not update, so further instructions were posted. If there is still no joy, it's been reported that "Erase This iPad" is the last resort, which allows Jamf Pro to redo everything.

Laurens' Tip of the Day

• Have you tried Google Earth Studio? Laurens checks it out to see how it could be used in the classroom.

Today's Viva Hot Spot 

• Grant Ward and Paul Green - Erina High School

  • Grant is the school's Head Teacher Administration and Paul is the Teacher Librarian. Together, they'll discuss technologies at the school and the strategies and specialist programs they have currently running. 

  • Erina High School's BYOD program

  • What is the Year 7 NEXUS Program at Erina High?

  • The Fire-Ed Up teaching program for bushfire education

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What's New with Stu?

• 2023/24 T4L Rollout - 

  • Instructions have been added to the T4L Rollout webpage to advise schools of the correct process to confirm your school's device deliveries

• Late on Friday, the security certificates for Internet@Edge's detnsw.net authentication portal were updated. Please be aware of the fix for unmanaged devices.

• Update on the Acer Travelmate B3 Spin (Base) notebooks F12-build issue:

  • Builds appear to be completing successfully now with the alternate Acer TravelMate option provided

  • The fix will be merged into the standard Win 11 and Win 10 offerings in time

• The School Visitor Check-In iPad app and Service NSW app have had an update released as of 3pm today

Laurens' Tip of the Day

• CoSpaces Edu enables students to learn by doing, with many options for use in class: 

  • Creation toolbox / Coding features / Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality / Class management 

  • What can you do with CoSpaces Edu?  Demonstration 1 / Demonstration 2.

• We've got a limited number of licences available for schools that will commit to using them. Find out more and understand the terms of use on our CoSpaces Edu page!

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Keira Fotakopoulos - Claremont Meadows Public School
  Keira is very busy as the school's English as an Additional Language/Dialect (EAL/D) AND Anti-Racism Contact Officer (ARCO). And on top of that, she's the schools ICT Coordinator. Let's get a tech update from her about this amazing school in Sydney's west.

• Christy Hutt - from Exeter Public School in the Southern Highlands is both a Stage 3 teacher and the school's Assistant Principal Curriculum & Instruction (APCI). Being a small rural school doesn't mean they aren't kicking big tech goals!

  • Check out Exeter Public School's podcast called The Bell

  • Ever considered the STEM Virtual Academy?

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What's New with Stu?

• The Week 6 issue of news.T4L was released today!  Let's take a deeper dive.

• Update on the failure to compete the build on some Acer Travelmate B3 Spin (Base) notebooks. 

Laurens' Tip of the Day

• A closer look at the RØDECaster Pro II mixing desk which is part of the new stem.T4L Podcasting Kit 

Today's Viva Hot Spot 

• Jessica McCarthy - Head Teacher, Teaching & Learning at Mosman High School
  Having very recently seen the opening of brand-new school facilities, let's find out all about tech at this amazing school!

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What's New with Stu?

• Chromebooks for NAPLAN testing - NESA has advised that the Android app will no longer be used on Chromebooks and that the NAP LDB kiosk app from 2023 will be reinstated. ITD has pushed this out to all DoE enrolled CBs, so please ensure you start them up to allow the kiosk app to deploy well before testing commences. Updated Chromebook advice is here.

• 97% of T4L Rollout devices have been delivered! Every school was emailed on Tuesday 20 February with the subject line: 2023-24 T4L Computer Equipment Rollout order status. This email contains important information about confirming your school's rollout order delivery. To date, only 25% of delivered devices have been confirmed by schools.

• There is still no formal resolution to the reports of failure to compete the build on Acer Travelmate B3 Spin (Base). While not affecting every device, a significant proportion seem to be affected, both with Windows 11 and 10 builds. Acer's technical team are now involved.

  • If you are facing similar issues with that model, specific advice from EDConnect was posted in that thread.

Laurens' Tip of the Day

• Has your school tried WeVideo? While Apple Macs and iPads have always had access to iMovie, Windows PC and Chromebooks are not supplied with an effective video editing app. WeVideo is a powerful cloud-based video editing app, and the stem.T4L team have made licences for WeVideo a kit that schools can borrow until the end of 2024!

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Maxine Johns and Aaron Campbell - Hilltop Road Public School
  H.Pop Studio has been running at Hilltop Road for a few years now, producing podcasts or all kinds of genres, using students from K-6. Maxine and Aaron have been the driving  force behind H.Pop Studio, so let's find out all about it!

  • H.Pop Studio on Soundcloud

  • H.Pop Studio on X (Twitter)

  • Photos shown on today's episode

• Sharon Raj - Specialist RFF STEM Teacher at Dee Why Public School
  Dee Why's Tech Hub hosts all kinds of STEM lessons from K through 6 with big projects planned for the second half of each year. So many great initiatives that we look forward to finding out about!

  • Schools Infrastructure NSW - Sustainable Schools Grant

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What's New with Stu?

• T4L Rollout deliveries are still happening as vendors get supplies for each model that was ordered. For an approximate delivery date of all device models, refer to the delivery timeframe spreadsheet 

• In schools where shipments have landed, some are reporting of failure to compete the build on Acer Travelmate B3 Spin (Base). If you are facing similar issues with that model, specific advice from EDConnect was posted in that thread.

• On Friday a very strange issue was reported with enrolling Chromebooks (any brand) into the Department's Google domain. After investigation, we discovered that it began on Thursday, but seems to be working today.  Concerns were raised with Google and they confirmed an issue at their end.  We are still awaiting more details from Google.

Laurens' Tip of the Day

• Laurens tested out a new type of headset after advice from his doctor. How does the type of computer technology we use impact our health?

  • Shoks Opencomm2 Bone Conduction Bluetooth Headset

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Ann Martin and Jessica Allison - While online NAPLAN testing has been happening for a few years now, school staff move around, different people become responsible for running it locally, and operational changes come through each year. So it's important that all schools focus on this important time for all students in years 3, 5, 7 and 9.  Ann is the Manager of NAPLAN in the Student Assessment and Online Reporting team and her NAPLAN work goes way beyond the two-week testing window. Jessica, from ITD, works closely with Ann's team to ensure the tech side for all device types is ready to roll. We chat to them both to get every school as ready as possible for when testing commences in Week 7!

  • View the NAPLAN slide deck and associated links discussed

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What's New with Stu?

• The first issue of news.T4L for 2024 was released today!  Let's take a deeper dive.

• The annoying issue with the new Teams client makes finding students to add to a team difficult has been resolved!

• The spell check function that suddenly disappeared in the new Teams desktop client is also resolved!

Laurens' Tip of the Day

• Blazepods are an impact-based technology that boosts student physical activity and give teachers data to track improvement and performance. Use Blazepods in PDHPE as a small group activity to build reflexes, create gamification, and help students see their own progress.  How do they work?

  • The Blazepod Youtube channel covers everything!

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Lauren Crockford and Dan Hart - The just announced NSWEduChat AI Pilot with 16 schools will help to ensure NSW Education delivers safe, secure and effective generative AI chat in the classroom for use by students.  Loz and Dan will tell us all about it and provide a quick demo

• Yvette Poshoglian from the T4L Team joins us again to fill us in on what's new in terms of T4L resources and what's coming!

  • We've got the Beginning Teacher Tech Guide for 2024!

  • The Teacher Librarian special edition of magazine.T4L! 

  • And our brand new School Administrative and Support Staff tech guide!

  • PLUS, always visit the T4L Website for all things T4L!

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What's New with Stu?

• A bunch of things have happened to start the year. Here's a reminder of several Viva Engage threads worth being aware of:

  • Self-Serve Print Queue Management is now in BUD

  • If you need different people managing your school's website this year, access is now granted through MSA

  • An annoying issue with the new Teams client makes finding students to add to a team more difficult

  • AssessedIT is now live and will help schools with the task of gathering parental permissions to use online applications

• Not one but THREE new special issues of magazine.T4L have landed!

  • We've updated our wildly popular Beginning Teacher Tech Guide for 2024!

  • To support our school libraries and teacher librarians, get the Teacher Librarian special edition of magazine.T4L! 

  • Our brand new School Administrative and Support Staff tech guide is now available!

Rob's Tip of the Day

• Tired of emailing spreadsheets with colleagues and fearing accidental edits? Rob McTaggart demonstrates how you can turn your data into an app with a single button press using SharePoint and Power Apps. 

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Hubert Lam - Rejoining us for the third time is the Head Teacher of Maths at Normanhurst Boys High School in northern Sydney. He's a prolific sharer on Viva Engage and has some great back to school tips for schools that extensively use Microsoft 365

• Mitchell Gibbs - is the Assistant Principal and Aboriginal Instructional Leader at Gorokan Public School on the Central Coast. He's a Google Workspace champ with some great ideas for using Workspace in primary schools.  

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What's New with Stu?

• When will Windows 11 be available for all schools via F12?  You said it would be today!!!

• Have you shared the FREE downloadable Microsoft 365 quick reference guides available here?

• NAPLAN testing will again be held in Term 1 (13-25 March) - There are some changes to one particular locked down browser.

• Greig is leaving us today! 😢 - Did you miss our special episode together last week? If you did, make sure you watch the recording!

Greig's Tip of the Day

• Metro Schools and Interactive Displays/MLD's

  • What devices best fit classrooms for teaching and learning in 2024 and on.

  • T4L MLD resources - Main Learning Displays - Technology 4 Learning

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Mikaela Cashin - The tiny Cabbage Tree Island Public School on the far North Coast was badly affected by floods and as the school's DCO, Mikaela focussed on growing staff confidence and competence with tech as the school was rebuilt.

• Tom McLean - He comes for the opposite end of the state's coast at Bermagui Public School, where as the DCO he brought about change across the whole school with his innovative work.  

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What's New with Stu and Greig?

• We had some big news just drop in the T4L team, and while we couldn't have a live session with our regular attendees, we knew we had to put this special episode of Viva Hot Spots together.

• As a key leader and member in the T4L team, Greig has made a massive impact on both the team and on schools across NSW. It's definitely worth checking this special short episode that we put together just with him.

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What's New with Stu?

• The last issue of news.T4L for 2023 was released today.  Let's go through it.

• A sneak preview of AssessedIT - the new tool that schools will be able to use at the start of 2024 to produce letters to parents requesting their permission for their children to use selected online learning tools in class.

Laurens' latest tech

• At very short notice joining us today, Laurens shared details of the new podcasting mic that will be included in the stem.T4L Podcasting Kit due to be released soon!

  • Maono HD300T

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Naomi Northey - She's a one day per week Digital Classroom Officer at Clunes Public School who's been making an amazing difference to this north coast school

• Melissa Robinson - How does a social science teacher and DCO at James Fallon High School manage to bring about change across the whole school?

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What's New with Stu?

• Reminder that at the end of this year, our current contract with Zoom will not be renewed.

  • But what do you really know about Google Meet as an alternative?

• Hour of Code is on next week! Lots of activities worth considering with your class!

  • The T4L team has many great offerings this week to get teachers going

  • If you're looking for more, the official Hour of Code site has you covered - Learn (hourofcode.com) 

  • Microsoft also has a special event - Minecraft: Generation AI

• Adobe has a special event on at the end of term in their Sydney Offices called Expressify Teaching and Learning

  • Tues December 19 - 1:30-3:30pm at Darling Harbour - let your interested staff know!

Greig's Hot Question for the day

• Wireless Webcams - do they pass the pub test?

  • There are brand new wireless webcams on the market. Greig takes a look at some.

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Scott Copland is a Teacher - Special Education and Digital Classroom Officer at Kelso Public School near Bathurst

• Tanya Riach is a Digital Learning Advisor in the Digital Support Team at Information Technology Directorate

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What's New with Stu?

• While Windows 11 is not going live just yet, the pilot has helped us to identify the impact of the move to Microsoft's latest operating system. Let's take a deeper look at some of the numbers.

  • For non-compliant devices, Windows 10 v22H2 will still be under Microsoft support until October 2025

• All users (staff and students) that hadn't already switched to the new Microsoft Teams desktop client should have seen a message today saying it was ready to be turned on. While you can switch back to the old, it's recommended you get used to the new. It's here to stay.

Greig's Hot Take!

• Video editing options on school Windows devices is a bit confusing these days. Windows Movie Maker is gone, the video editor in the Photos app is also gone. Microsoft want people to use Clipchamp which is available in the eT4L Software Catalogue. But Clipchamp is still a consumer product and is not well integrated in our Microsoft 365 offering. Greig takes us through where we are up to with it, and what alternatives there are for schools.

  • Adobe Premiere Rush is an Enterprise Software title in UDM for all staff and students

  • WeVideo is a fully browser based video editor that can be used on all platforms and has a limited number of licences available for classes as a kit to borrow through stem.T4L

  • For Apple devices (iPad and Mac), iMovie still reigns supreme

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• The Innvisioneerz are the five students from The Ponds High School in Sydney's north-west, who along with their teacher, Melissa Daveson won the secondary high schools competition in the 2023 Game Changer Challenge!

  • Students Sanjana, Saanvii, Sarah, Thehara and Diya blew the competition away with their amazing concept for an augmented reality app that uses artificial intelligence to correct the posture of people who work at a computer!

• Nav Virdi from the department's Braille and Large Print Services team, and Sandy Phillips from the stem.T4L team in ITD are getting together to tell us all about the Learning Access with Technology live event being held on November 29 after school at Rydalmere.

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What's New with Stu?

• Week 6 means another issue of news.T4L!  Let's take a closer look at it and what it all means.

• EDConnect today replaced its service desk system from Remedy with ServiceNow - for the vast majority of users of Remedy, it's a brand new system and they are still getting accustomed to it. If you are talking to an EDConnect rep, and digital field services rep, or a specialist team member about an issue you've logged, please be aware of the extra pressure they are currently under.  Please advise your office staff who have questions about Finance, Admin or HR that their support teams are in the same boat with the new system.

Greig's Hot Tip!

• Have you tried a To Do or Task app to help organise your day? Both Microsoft and Google have apps that link up the things you do in your other apps, Outlook, Gmail, Teams, Classroom etc and lets you keep organised.

  • MS To Do

  • Google Tasks

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• David Walsh is the RFF teacher and Digital Classroom Officer at Wellington Public School in the Central West

• Benjamin Wells is the RFF teacher and Digital Classroom Officer at Sanctuary Point Public School on the South coast

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What's New with Stu?

• The release of Windows 11 via F12 build is planned for this week, but must first pass change management on Wednesday. We'll advise via an announcement on Viva Engage if it is proceeding as planned or not. The trial schools uncovered a WiFi issue that the team is still sorting out.

• The self-service trial of the new Teams client that started in early September has proven to be very successful with few calls to EDConnect and better performance. ITD will now move to deploy the new client to ALL staff and students that have not yet taken the plunge. This will occur from 20 November. Schools that use Teams with students may want to alert them of the upcoming change, which they can jump into now by flicking the switch at top-left of the old Teams.

• Our managed Chromebooks should all now be receiving ChromeOS v117. A restart of each Chromebook will be needed to install the update. A more rapid monthly update process will follow for all future stable releases. Users can keep up with all the updated features of every new Chrome release from the Google team. 

Greig's 3D Printers Update!

• The stem.T4L printers currently are the FlashForge Adventurer 4 - These are now end of production. It's replacement is the FlashForge Adventurer 4 Pro - Almost full auto Levelling. 

  • The FFAdv4Pro is now available on EdBuy through Bilby 3D.

  • Upcoming is the Adventurer 5 M and 5 M Pro - these are their 'Fast' printers

• Alternatives:

  • Bambu Labs X1, P1, A1 mini and X1E - Bambu Lab | Unleash Your Creativity with Bambu Lab 3D Printers - Bambu Lab - also has an AMS system for multi colour prints. up to 16 colours.

  • Super large Printer: 500 x 500 x 500mm

    • Check out Ivan Miranda's Marble Clock. BUILDING A MARBLE CLOCK - Pt.1. - YouTube

    • All the components are 3D Printed with a ComGrow 3D Printer - T500 Large 3D Printer ,Z1 Pro Laser Cutting Engraver Machine | Comgrow

Today's Viva Hot Spot 

• Alex Motyka is a Principal Solution Designer in the Digital Design & Delivery team in Information Technology Directorate. But today, we have him on to talk about his recent trek across the Greenland ice sheet.

  • Alex's Viva Engage thread

  • Ousland Explorers - the Norwegian adventure tour company that Alex chose.

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What's New with Stu?

• An issue with Microsoft Edge appeared today, following an Edge update from Microsoft:

  • Tabs aren't loading with a strange URL appearing at the top: extension://acallcpknnnjahhhapgkajgnkfencieh/loading.html# ...

  • ITD are aware and working on a solution. Workarounds until the issue is resolved include:

    • Press F5 key if you see this when trying to open a link

    • Switch to using Edge in Private Mode

    • Switch to Chrome browser instead of Edge

• Are staff at your school looking for an electronic Day Book based on OneNote? Regular Viva Hot Spots viewer, David Walsh from Wellington Public School put one together for 2024 and shared it via Viva Engage! Let your staff know!

• Greig did a spot on Canva's Magic Studio last week, and then the T4L team hosted a webinar all about it and collaboration with Canva. If you missed it, the recording is now available!

Greig's Hot Tip!

Just like Canva and its new Magic Studio feature, Adobe Express is making leaps and bounds with new additions appearing all the time.  If you haven't yet checked out Adobe Express, it's worth doing! 

• Where to access Adobe Express - https://new.express.adobe.com/ 

• Some great quick tutorials covering some of the newest features

• Lots of new Quick Tools to create images from text and animations from audio, create funky QR code posters, simple video editing and much more!

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Laura Keech is the Stage 3 teacher and Digital Classroom Officer at Berrigan Public School in the NSW Riverina

• Kate Jones is one of Information Technology Directorate's Digital Learning Advisers

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What's New with Stu?

• A new term of news.T4L starts with a bunch of big news items. Let's take a look through them.

  • news.T4L - Issue 102

• T4L Rollout deliveries delay - more information will be provided as soon as available

• PL: Moving to the cloud - Google and/or Microsoft

  • Four modules on demand, with four more running this term

Greig's Hot Tip!

Have you tried Canva's Magic Studio?

• Looking at the new AI tools in Canva - Magic Design, Magic Design for Presentations, Magic Design for Videos, Magic Write and Magic Shortcuts

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Jarrod Miles is the STEM teacher and ICT Coordinator at Blue Haven Public School

• Dominic Bova is the Manager of the MyPL platform in Information Technology Directorate

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What's New with Stu?

• A glitch at Google's end is stopping Google Delegated Admins for selecting and deploying Android apps to enrolled Chromebooks. It's been happening since September 15.  Google reports that they will deploy the fix for this issue over the coming weekend and expect it to be resolved for use next Monday 23 October

• Enrolling or building Jamf Pro-managed MacOS devices is currently broken.  Jamf don't expect to be able to fix the issue until the end of the year, so the End User Services team in ITD is releasing a workaround fix which is being tested now. We expect general release on Monday 23 October.

• Earlybird info about Windows 11 - watch today's show to find out more.

Greig's Hot Tip!

Check these two Chrome browser settings!

• Google recently introduced new Ad Tracking defaults to the Chrome browser. It tracks your browsing more deeply and delivers ads that are more closely aligned. Here's how to turn it off - https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=l5Z6HNLuYk8 

• In addition, if you've ever clicked the option to Allow Notifications that pops up when visiting some websites, you can clear that setting you applied to your browser by choosing the ... menu top-right, Settings...Privacy & Security...Notifications and turning off or removing undesired sites where notifications have been allowed.

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Harshit Verma is the Business Manager at Sydney Distance Education Primary School

• Kiri Burgess is the Digital Classroom Officer and ICT Coordinator at Sir Eric Woodward School

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What's New with Stu?

• Things launched in the past week and coming up over the holidays:

  • Bookings are now open for stem.T4L Kits for Term 1

  • New eT4L Bootable USB Tool image

  • Latest advice for Jamf Pro-managed Apple Macs

  • School Holidays - ITD Maintenance window 6pm Fri 29/9 - 6pm Sun 1/10 

• Our current Zoom licence won't be extended after December - more details in week 3 news.T4L

Cybermarvel kicks off in Term 4!

• Mona Sidhu and Sharon Dancer join us to tell us all about that's happening with Cybermarvel in 2023

  • All the Cybermarvel resources

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Amy Greenwood is Teacher and Digital Classroom Officer at Longneck Lagoon Environmental Education Centre

• Mathew Bushell - Senior Network Specialist in Information Technology Directorate. specifically dealing with in-school network infrastructure. 

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What's New with Stu?

• The Week 9 issue of news.T4L was released today.  Let's take a deeper dive

Greig's Tip of the Week!

• Have you had a go at using Microsoft Loop in Teams?

  • Eventually we expect to see Loop components in Outlook, Word and even a desktop app for Windows

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Andy Klavins is a Secondary Science Teacher at Tumbarumba High School 

  • He manages school tech and is also the school's Digital Classroom Officer

• Aimee Phillips - Principal Education Officer for the Digital Support Team in Information Technology Directorate. 

  • The Digital Classroom Officers in 1,051 Rural Access Gap schools are directly supported by Aimee's Digital Support Team

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What's New with Stu?

• We switched on access to the brand-new Teams client! The client was rebuilt from scratch and now it loads and runs faster and uses much less of your device's memory - give it a go (but maybe not while we are on live)!

• Big change to Minecraft licencing!  On Friday afternoon, licences for Minecraft Education were turned on for ALL staff and students, K through 12.  All you need is the ME client installed and you can single sign-on

• There's an interesting new AI graphics generator that is free to use, unrestricted in what you produce and is currently unblocked for students. https://ideogram.ai lets you create square (1:1), portrait (10:18) or landscape (18:10) images using regular text prompts and unlike many AI image sites, handles text quite well (usually)

• The File3 VM on eT4L Servers in High Schools will be retained and updated to Windows Server 2019, meaning these schools still using that server can continue to use it.  Check the Staff Noticeboard article.

Greig's Tip of the Week!

• Most people have tried or at least heard of Canva, but did you know Adobe has an online alternative that all staff and students have access to? Check out Adobe Express!

  • Adobe Express is at https://express.adobe.com - Single sign on using your department email credentials

  • Access learning resources for Adobe Express at the T4L site

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Betsy Pickering is the Learning Support Teacher at Coogee Public School

  • Betsy's been working on a high-quality Podcast project with year 3-6 students with some great English, HSIE and Aboriginal Education outcomes!

  • Check out all of the episodes so far here - https://coogeeandthecoast.podbean.com/ 

• Kevin Elgood - Principal at Homebush Boys High School. He also leads the Technology Reference Group for the Secondary Principals Council, representing all high schools in meetings with ITD every term,

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What's New with Stu?

• Dave Smith - Acting Director of End User Services announced today that Teams v2.1 Client will be available to all Teams users very soon!

• The change when sharing files from OneDrive/Teams/Sharepoint came into effect last Wednesday afternoon. When sharing files now, you must nominate WHO you are sharing with (watch the recording to see the options)

Greig's Tip of the Week!

• Demonstrating Audience response from a Powerpoint presentation with the new Forms option

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Tim Grech - long time Viva Engage user, ICT Coordinator and now Head Teacher Admin Strathfield Girls High School 

  • Tim recently posted about the new audio and lighting system installed in his school

• Curtis Landesmann - TSO at Randwick PS and Georges River College - Penshurst Girls Campus 

  • Inventor of FARSIGHT now managing over 100,000 clients!

  • Latest round of new features - Profiles!

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What's New with Stu?

• Issue 100 of news.T4L came out today! What's in it?

Greig's Tip of the Week!

• Christina Potts from Narooma High posted a question about QuestionWell - AI for Teachers on Yammer this morning. It's an AI site aimed at helping teachers to generate questions, quizzes etc for things like Kahoot. Greig takes a look at it.

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Kimberley McPhillips at Grafton Public School - Teacher

  • Kimberley has been kicking some goals in the Digital Classroom Officer role at the school. Let's find out more about her.

• Adam Pullinger - Digital Learning Adviser at Information Technology Directorate 

  • Adam has been getting on top of the new Single Sign-On for Canva, so we have a chat about that, as well as him regular role supporting the use of tech in the classroom.

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What's New with Stu?

• T4L Rollout Ordering is complete with 100% of schools submitting their order!

• The Minecraft Education Teacher Academy provides self-paced learning modules that take you from Getting Started all the way through to Minecraft collaboration! 

• Do you know about all these ICT based communities to join in Viva Engage? So much great sharing happening across so many different areas - https://T4L.link/vivaengage 

Greig's Tip of the Week!

• Are you still stuck on Google Chrome?  MS Edge has some great features! Greig will demo the new Split Screen function.

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Carson (CJ) Whitney - Technology Support Officer at Hawkesbury High School AND Rouse Hill High School 

  • Carson is another of our young TSOs working out local tech support at two very different schools.

• Professor Scott Sleap - STEM Curriculum Advisor at Education Standards - Scott is one of Australia's leading STEM in education influencers:

  • He leads the department's STEM Industry Partnerships team 

  • He's coordinating the department's involvement in a international Computer Animation Festival

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Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Josh Roberts - Acting Chief Information & Data Officer for the NSW Department of Education

• Mark Greentree - Executive Director Digital Learning in Information Technology Directorate 

  • Schools Digital Strategy - The department's seven-year roadmap empowering schools to determine their own digital future and support them with the skills and tools they need to succeed.

What's New with Stu & Greig?

• We'll be back with regular news updates and tips from episode 101!

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What's New with Stu?

• Monday of Week 3 - that means it's time for another deep dive into the latest edition of news.T4L!

Laurens' Subject of the Week!

• Let's have a chat about Photogrammetry!

  • Personal demo - https://poly.cam/capture/f999622a-cbf5-46ae-8496-d31395890e12

  • Capturing and Preserving - https://sydney.pedestal3d.com/r/KMiqryz157

  • SketchFab - https://sketchfab.com/feed

  • Megascans as gaming assets -  https://unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/content-cat/assets/megascans?count=60&sortBy=effectiveDate&sortDir=DESC&start=0

  • ARTEXPRESS Virtual 2022 - https://artexpress.vr.artsunit.nsw.edu.au/

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Sam Nelson - STEM Coordinator at Southern Cross School of Distance Education - Sam delivers STEM and STEAM education at the school, offering students of all ages access to a wide range of STEM gear. Recently he presented at a STEM Education Conference and his presentation is highly recommended! - Sam Nelson - STEM Education 2022 on Vimeo 

• Grant Weatherby - TAS Teacher and College Robotics Leader &
  Warren Reynolds - STEM Project Officer and STEM Excellence Academy Leader - at Hastings Secondary College

  • Hastings Heroes win the international Melbourne Robotics competition!

  • STEM Academy 2022/23 brochure

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What's New with Stu?

• It's our first episode in a T4L world that no longer has Joachim Cohen in it! If you didn't see our special episode with Joe from 13 July, the link is below.

• The 2034-24 T4L Computer Equipment Rollout is finally here! Details at the T4L site. Notification emails going ut to all participating schools from today. Ordering window opens next Monday morning for two weeks. Deliveries commence mid-term 3.

• Variety NSW's annual grant for disadvantage high school students has re-opened. Full details posted on Viva Engage.

Laurens' Products of the Week!

• What's nReal Air?

  • XREAL Air | Elevate Your AR Experience with Cutting-Edge Smart Glasses 

• What's Spacetop?

  • Spacetop: Own Your Space - YouTube 

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Robert Melisi - Technology Support Officer at Bossley Park High School - Why on earth would a former student of any high school want to immediately come back to that same high school after they finish year 12 to work there? Let's find out.

• Andrew McMillan - ICT Support Team Leader in Digital Field Services, supporting the Albury/Griffith areas. - We've chatted to a few staff from our Digital Field Services teams across NSW. Let's find out more from another one!

  • Watch the Albury team in action!

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What's New with Stu and Joachim?

• We had some big news drop in the T4L team during the Winter school holidays, and while we couldn't have a live session with our regular attendees, we knew we had to put this special episode of Viva Hot Spots together.

• As a key leader and member in the T4L team, Joe has made a massive impact on both the team and on schools across NSW. It's definitely worth checking this special short episode that we put together just with him.

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What's New with Stu?

• The new Department logon page launched over the weekend.

• Did you miss The Beginner's Guide to Google Delegated Admin?

• CoSpaces is a stem.T4L kit!

• As part of our Enterprise Agreement with Adobe, we get access to exclusive professional learning from time to time. Coming in July, Adobe has much on offer and it's all free! 

• Hubert Lam from Normanhurst Boys High works a lot with SharePoint and has developed multiple systems in use by the school, eg his Staff and Student Learning Tracker.  He's sharing his expertise with anyone interested in learning more about SharePoint Lists:

  • Register to join an online Teams meeting next Tuesday, 4 July from 9:00-11:00am. It's a great opportunity to get some face to face tips on SharePoint and PowerAutomate 

Greig's Tip of the Week!

• Project Management Tools for you and your students

  1. MS Planner - MS 365/Teams online app

  2. Focalboard - Free - Focalboard: Open source alternative to Trello, Asana, and Notion

  3. Trello - Free to a point https://trello.com/

  4. Monday - Free to a point https://monday.com/

  5. Notion - Free to a point - https://www.notion.so/

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Josh Cauchi - TAS teacher at Leichardt Campus - Sydney Secondary College  - Trained as an English teacher, but switched to TAS. We're going to find out why?

• Kathryn Gibney - Technology Support Officer at Toormina High School - We've chatted with many TSOs over the years, and almost always they've been male. Kathryn's been doing this role for nine years now. Let's find out why she loves it!

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What's New with Stu?

• Another issue of news.T4L just landed - let's take a deeper look at what's in it

• For DoE-enrolled Chromebooks, we've pushed out v113 of Chrome OS.  It's a big jump from the last update we released, which was 105.

Greig's Tip of the Week!

• Chrome and Edge Browser extensions - Lots of rules around what you can and cannot use on managed devices, but this is your opportunity - share in the chat what your favourite extensions are and why?

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Steve Johnson - Vendor Operations Manager at ITD - he monitors the performance of our contracted user device vendors when it comes to their provision of warranty services and intervenes when issues arise

• Craig Jones - R/Manager School ICT Infrastructure at ITD - Working closely with State Infrastructure NSW, he makes sure that all new school builds and all major works involving ICT infrastructure are built to department standards

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What's New with Stu?

• The department's Online Marketplaces have grown with the inclusion of a new Student Wellbeing external programs Marketplace. This is in addition to the Online Learning Tools Marketplace and the Administration Marketplace Panel for Schools

• Sadly, we won't be having Teams Avatars at this point in time.  Here's why.

• There's been some discussion about getting unapproved Chrome Extensions allowed and the process for doing so.  Here's a reminder of how to do it.

Greig's Tip of the Week!

• Microsoft PowerPoint includes a cool new presentation feature called Cameo. It lets you include your webcam content live on slides while presenting, and you can then do a screen recording to capture it all to a video that can be shared.  Really cool feature. And students can use it as well!

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Chris Dodds - He's a Digital Learning Adviser working with many schools as part of the Rural Access Gap program and he's developed various digital teaching and learning resources and challenges that he'll tell us all about.

  • stem.T4L RAG resources

  • How Cool is My School? - sample resource from Albury West PS

  • Automated vehicle adventure

  • Digital Pick-a-Path Adventure

• Lisa Harmer - is the Manager of the T4L Rollout in ITD's Digital Learning. With the launch of this year's T4L Rollout happening very soon, let's have a chat to find out more about it!

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What's New with Stu?

• Another issue of news.T4L just landed - let's take a deeper look at what's in it

• There was a problem today relating to Scan-to-Email from multifunction devices

• There's already a nice feature update to Farsight following our chat with Curtis last week!

Greig's Tip of the Week!

• Microsoft Stream now does a really nice job with recording your screen and including your webcam and capturing system sounds as well. And students can use it as well!

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Susan Palmer - ICT Coordinator and very busy RFF teacher at Smithfield West Public School. Let's have a chat and find out all about her school and the cool things happening there with her 320 students.

• Mark Young - is the ICT Coordinator and Stage 3 teacher at Woy Woy South Public School - probably the happiest school on the entire Central Coast!  Let's find out what school life is really like for this burgeoning school of 630 students.

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What's New with Stu?

• The department updated the Yammer "Rules of Engagement" last week

• Fake Windows Defender security warnings are popping up

  • It's browser-based and could be related to a website you visited, maybe delivered by a compromised Extension that's installed, or part of Adware in a program or app that is installed.

  • Resetting and cleaning up the browser via Settings may resolve the issue, along with removing unneeded extensions

  • If unsure, please call EDConnect for advice

• Teachers, ICT Coordinators and TSOs are often asked by parents about Internet Filtering at home

  • Family Zone is one service provider that many parents used, but it's being replaced by Qustudio

  • This Yammer post uncovered some other options worth looking into

Greig's Tip of the Week!

• Microsoft's Math Solver in Edge browser is a handy tool to be aware of

  • Learn how to solve maths problems with the Solver

  • You can also get it as an app for iOS and Android

  • A quick demo of the tool in action

Today's Viva Hot Spot 

• Curtis Landesmann - he's the TSO at Randwick Public School and Georges River College - Penshurst Girls Campus. 

  • In his own time, he developed a tool for schools, called FARSIGHT to monitor their Windows fleet of devices and provide remote management options.

  • The FARSIGHT client is now available on eT4L Software Catalogue, making it simple to deploy to all of the school's Windows clients

  •  In this episode, we get a complete demo of FARSIGHT - what it does and how you use it!

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What's New with Stu?

• The new Dead-on-arrival procedure for devices purchased through rollout or received via various rollouts.

  • After much confusion, ITD's Vendor Manager worked directly with EDConnect and with our contracted vendors to streamline the process.

• JAMF recently updated the YouTube playlist of short instructions/tutorials for how to perform various mobile device management tasks in Jamf Pro. If you have any new Jamf users that need to get up to speed, this is a great self-paced starting place.

• eT4L Software Catalogue is playing up, particularly around accessing it. Some people can get in fine, others are seeing an issue around failed sign on via Microsoft.

  • Work has been going on at the back-end to move authentication to MS Azure and for some users, it's been problematic.

• A Sentral/3PI data sync issue was raised today by multiple schools in case you weren't aware.

Greig's Tip of the Week!

• Greig may or may not be joining us today from Cook School in the Sutherland Shire. You'll have to watch to find out!

  • Many thanks to Yvette Poshoglian who jumped in like a champion at short notice and saved the day!

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• Jacob Comber - he's the Technology Support Officer at Goonellabah Public School with their school affected indirectly by the Lismore floods, he'll fill us in on what happened and where the school is up to now.

• Shafqat Ali - is the brand new Technology Support Officer at St Marys South Public School who only started in the role at the start of this year. What's it like being a brand new TSO? Let's find out.

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What's New with Stu?

• The week 3 issue of news.T4L was released today - let's take a deep dive!

Laurens' Tip of the Week!

• Take a look at the Technology Integration Matrix from the University of South Florida.

  • Teachers can expand their professional knowledge to successfully integrate ICT by exploring how various models or frameworks explain elements of the teaching & learning cycle. The Matrix itself looks at the active role students and teachers play and presents opportunities for the use of ICT in each of the roles.  

  • Augmented Reality with Merge Cube

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• David Shrubb - Computing Teacher and ICT Coordinator at Nambucca Heads High School

  • In 1992, Nambucca Heads High School first opened, and David Shrubb was a foundation teacher at the school.

• John Doherty - RFF Teacher and Digital Classroom Officer at Bletchington Public School

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What's New with Stu?

• A new term, a new name and kicking off with the 90th episode!

• On eT4L Windows computers, there is no longer a FORCED default browser. Chrome was the forced default, but many users logged calls to say they wanted Edge since the Chromium version was released. Since April 12, users have been able to choose their own default browser - per device.

• The stem.T4L team introduced a new short term loan kit!

  • The Insta360 Pro kit

• A.I. Art & Photography - Yammer's newest community! You should join.

• Segment Anything is a cool new and ridiculously easy AI tool for isolating and extracting any part of a photograph and pasting it into other applications. Watch how it works.

• Laurens Derks shared another clever AI imaging tool called Blockade Labs Skybox - if you use Unity to code 3D worlds, you'll love it!

Greig's Tip of the Week!

• Networking the new FlashForge Adventurer 4 3D printer in schools

  • Discussing How To + Pros and Cons of networking your 3D Printers 

Today's Viva Hot Spots 

• James Jarick - Teacher Librarian and ICT Coordinator at Sylvania Heights Public School

  • Sylvania Heights Public School now streaming live assemblies

• Joachim Cohen - School Technology Innovations Lead in the T4L Team at ITD

  • What's coming up in term 2?

  • New stem.T4L Kits! LEGO Spike Essentials | Code Jumper | Telepresence 

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What's New with Stu?

• The Microsoft Education Store closure has been postponed

• So how is the Urgent Windows Security Update deployment going? And what needs to still be done?

• Managing your USB Ethernet Adapters appropriately.

• Episode 89 will be the end of an era with the final episode of Yammer Hot Spots. As Microsoft transitions Yammer into Viva Engage, we'll be kicking of term 2, and episode 90 with our new name - Viva Hot Spots!

Greig's Tip of the Week!

• What's Tinkercad Sim Lab? Just released, Sim Lab is a new feature that will help your students build momentum with their 3D designs.

  • Getting started information

  • Demonstration video

Today's Yammer Hot Spots 

• Brendan Daly - IT Admin at Westfields Sports High School

  • Famous sports stars in the WSHS Hall of Fame

  • What's Hudl Focus? - automated action video capture

• Mark Berger - LaST / ICT Coordinator and DCO at Medowie Public School

  • MUST WATCH - fascinating discussion on the use of AI text at the school

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What's New with Stu?

• Yammer is a very powerful communications tool inside the department. Today we're going to discuss the positives and the negatives of Yammer 

• So there was an urgent cyber security announcement posted by ITD right in the middle of last week's Yammer Hot Spots and it caused a stir. By the time I saw it, the discussion was already completely out of hand, so we needed some sanity brought back in quickly.

  • Within the hour, we posted this advice to shed light on the reason for the urgent action

  • The following morning, before school we posted some more advice about what you might expect to see and how you should act on it

  • And the next day, and every subsequent day, we provided updates on how the security fixes were going

• Then also on Wednesday, we demonstrated the right way to keep people advised when a problem was reported saying there were driver issues related to F12 rebuilds on a variety of devices.

Greig's Tip of the Week!

• Ever needed to extract text from a JPG or PNG image file? Greig will show us how to easily save retyping using Google and Microsoft tools we all have access to.

Today's Yammer Hot Spots 

• Aaron Gardener - Deputy Principal at Yandelora School

• Yvette Poshoglian - T4L publishing superstar talks all about the latest issue of T4L Kids magazine!

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What's New with Stu?

• Issue 95 of news.T4L came out today. Let's take a deeper dive.

Greig's Tip of the Week!

• Remember Amazon's drone delivery service that failed? Here is the next big development in Drone delivery services

Today's Yammer Hot Spots 

• Brent McLaughlin - Technology Support Officer at Broken Hill High School 

• Nicholas Dingle - Computing teacher at Denison College - Kelso High Campus

  • 3D Virtual recreation of the old school after the 2005 fire

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What's New with Stu?

• NAPLAN kicks off on Wednesday!

  • T4L's Getting devices ready page

  • The Yammer NAPLAN Team community

• Microsoft's 365 Updates that just arrived or are coming very soon!

  • Get the PDF here

Greig's Tip of the Week!

• LEGO EV3 end of life but not dead!

  • EV3 Classroom very slow to start - watch the Tip/Work around

  • EV3 Python Programming - MINDSTORMS EV3 Support | Everything You Need | LEGO® Education

• Microsoft Windows Store for Education is closing 

Today's Yammer Hot Spots 

• Gai Cross - Disability Support Adviser | Access Inclusive Education 

  • Curriculum planning K-12 Professional Learning

  • Accessibility eLearning course on MyPL

  • Understanding Personalised learning and support on MyPL

  • Disability learning and support - Statewide Staffroom

• Mark Collinson - Learning and Support RFF teacher and Digital Classroom Officer at Mullumbimby Public School

  • Flood affected in 2022

  • Mullumbimby PS custom staff page

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What's New with Stu?

• We have a solution for the missing world-facing webcam on Dell base Chromebooks and HP base Notebooks

• ITD's ICT Strategy team is hoping to gather details about local tech initiatives developed in schools.

  • Some great contributions have already been shared by many schools - check them out in the Yammer post!

Stu's Demo of the Week!

• ITD are currently working on the necessary replacement for eT4L's Universal Desktop Manager (UDM) as we eventually move from Config Manager at the back-end to Microsoft InTune. We are currently working on user-acceptance testing of a prototype of Cloud Device Manager (CDM) which will deliver functions that the InTune console will not deliver. Stu will  take us through a demonstration of the current prototype.

Today's Yammer Hot Spots 

• Lisa MacDonald - RFF STEM teacher and Digital Classroom Officer at Shell Cove Public School

• Glenn Tester - R/Head Teacher Admin, Stage 6 Industrial Technology Multimedia teacher and ICT Coordinator at Moruya High School

  • Xibo digital signage management

  • Rokoko Motion Capture suit

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What's New with Stu?

• The Week 6 issue of news.T4L for Term 1 -has been released.  Let's take a deep dive.

• 2023 PL offerings from Google for Education Australia are now available.

Greig's Tip of the Week!

• 3D Printing with 'Exotic' Filaments - beyond PLA and ABS.

  • Flexible filament demonstration with Bowden feed on Adventurer 4

  • Filament offerings on EdBuy from Bilby3D and MTA

Today's Yammer Hot Spots 

• Jessica Allison - Online Assessments ICT Coordinator in Digital Field Services

  • Get ready for NAPLAN testing by confirming all devices to be used have been prepared for use

• Andrew Balzer - Education Success Manager at Microsoft Australia

  • Check out all of Microsoft's free PL offerings for Semester 1 & 2

  • What's coming soon from Microsoft for schools?

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What's New with Stu?

• Google Drive File Sharing - some changes are coming soon

• Microsoft Visio on the Web is part of our enterprise agreement!

Greig's Tip of the Week!

• Main Learning Displays (MLDs) - Should teachers be using the built in Android OS, or an eT4L Mini PC?

  • Let's discuss it!

Today's Yammer Hot Spots 

• Tim Martin - Stage 4 IST teacher and new Digital Classroom Officer at Woodenbong Central School

  • An example of the use of VR with Senior Maths

  • The source code for this project can be loaded into Unity  to run the simulation

  • This version of the VR Vector project has been rebuilt for the T4L HP Reverb G2. It doesn't require Unity. Just run it from the folder where it is unzipped to. 

• Kelly Burke - Digital Learning Leader in the Digital Teaching & Learning Team at ITD

  • More details and resources at the Rural Access Gap website

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What's New with Stu?

• Did you know that all staff now have access to Google Workspace for Education PLUS?

  • One of the new included features is AppSheet Core. All staff can sign in using their DoE Google account and start creating responsive web apps that work across devices.

• Bookings with Me is now available in our Outlook webmail.  It's really easy to set up and works quite well. Worth checking out.

• During the Christmas break, teachers started hearing about ChatGPT and the "problems" it might bring in schools. There's an interesting Yammer thread about it.

Greig's Tip of the Week!

• Google Classroom - Originality Reports

  • What is it, why would you use it and what are the limitations?

    • How to use Google Originality video

Today's Yammer Hot Spots