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Need a Parent AUP for your parent portal?

A few people have been asking for some ideas on putting together an appropriate Acceptable Use Policy for Parents as part of them accessing a parent portal. Please note that what I have put together below reflect access from their own technology and does not incorporate access to school owned equipment:   Parent Portal Acceptable [...]

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Transforming parental engagement with a Parent Portal

Now that I am on the train back home I thought that I would take the time to reflect on the session that Iain Williams and I delivered at the FROG conference yesterday, looking at how technology can shape transformational change with respect to how parents can engage in, and support, the education of their [...]

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Parental Engagement Presentation (transform) – FROG 11 (ICC 14 June 2011)

Hi everyone, I have managed to get the presentation that Iain Williams and I delievered at the National Learning Platforms conference uploaded onto Slideshare, ready for delegates (and anyone else!) to access. I’m sorry that are presentation was cut short by the previous session over running. I will be adding a narrative to the Slideshare [...]

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Parent Portal AUP

We did not feel we could launch the parent portal, without putting a specific AUP in place. Below is the AUP (Revision 1), I am sure that this will need to be tweaked and re-issued over the next few weeks, but it is a starting point. Feel free to lift it for your own use, [...]

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Parent Portal launches to Year 7 parents

I know it has been a while since my last post, and for that I apologise. It has been a truly manic few weeks back focusing on getting technology, protocols, pedagogy and practice right for our launch of the parent portal. I’m going to endeavour to put together some of the key elements we have [...]

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Parent Portal – Attendance

Attendance is one of the compulsory elements of online, real time reporting as outlined by the DCSF for one of the 2010 targets. Vision Parents can access attendance data – not just as a pie chart but as a yearly summary so they can actually see the assigned marks. Invariably when parents look at a [...]

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