Digital Learning Hub

It all starts in the Digital Backpack

The Directorate's online learning platforms are provided in a one-stop-shop portal called 'The Digital Backpack'. The Backpack enables students to access their learning at school, at home and through the growing network of publically available Wi-Fi in the ACT and on their own device of choice.

Students access the Digital Backpack by going to https://backpack.ed.act.edu.au/ or if using a school issued Chromebook, the site will launch automatically.

What's in the Backpack?

G Suite for Education (GSFE) is a cloud-based education platform offering online productivity tools for learning and classroom collaboration. GSFE provides students and teachers with unlimited cloud storage in Google Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides. Google Apps also provides student email and other modern online learning tools like Google Classroom. This is where we do all of our online learning.

Our Google Apps platform is hosted by Google on a separate ACT public schools domain called 'act.edu.au'. This domain is only accessible by known users from our schools. Student accounts are also managed by our internal ACT Government identity systems. This means our students are part of the Directorate's domain where we have enhanced security controls to provide a safe and supported online learning environment.

OLIVER - the Library Management System where students can search the library's physical collection or access eBooks and Audiobooks.

CLICKVIEW - A collection of educational video resources.

CYBERSAFETY HELP provides students easy access to cyber safety information from the Cybersmart website.

There are also a number of other applications in the Backpack that are available to students to access.

SOURCE: https://www.education.act.gov.au/public-school-life/learn-anywhere-ict-for-students/resources-anywhere-digital-backpack

Let's explore a little further

Frequently asked Questions:

Q: Can parents have their own log in to the Digital Backpack or any of the Google Suite?

A: No, the Digital Backpack and the programs within it are a secure Teacher/Student environment. You can ask the teacher to add you to the Classroom Guardian email list where you will receive a daily/weekly summary of activity.