embc Learning Network Services Launch Event

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embc Learning Network ServicesLaunch Event

• Compered by Andy Hvass,
• Sales and Marketing Director, Synetrix

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Connecting people to learning Mike
Kendall Managing Director embc
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What is embc?

• Local Authority owned Company
• Procures, manages and brokers
• Partnership of LAs and schools
• The agent of the LAs, schools and learners
• Its about people and learning
• NEN provider for the East Midlands

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National Education Network
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Company Vision

• to assist Local Authorities and schools in
  meeting their educational aims and obligations.
• to provide access to a range of educational and
  LA services that exploit and create opportunities
  through the provision of and access to the East
  Midlands National Education Network.
• Its about connecting people to learning

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Connecting people to learning

• Safe and secure
• Flexibility and choice
• Robust and reliable
• 21st century learning

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With a stronger focus on

• Shared understanding
• Developing new opportunities
• Creating solutions
• Communications
• Teaching and learning
• Anywhere anytime learning
• Updating tools and services for users
• The right mechanisms for delivery
• Responding to technological innovation and change

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• A view from the chair
• Isabel Merrifield
• Chair of embc Board
• Leicestershire County Council

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What has changed for us?

• A new contract with new opportunities
• Better supplier relationship
• Some ongoing service issues
• BUT
• Better prospects for schools and learners

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Where do we want to go?

• Develop closer relationships with our suppliers
  and our schools
• Get the best from the new portal
• Review how we communicate with schools
• Develop and promote added value services

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Challenges for the company

• Meet the challenge of the new structure
• Focus on the pupils and learners
• Deliver the benefits of aggregation across the
  region
• Better resilience
• Better deals for schools and learners

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The future

• Robust performance monitoring and challenge
• Working on the national stage in partnership
• Sharing and shaping new developments
• Leading to.
• The best value, learning and experience for our
  children and young people.

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The netiquette competition winners

• Congratulations to
• Belvoir High School
• Mountfields Lodge School

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Crashed
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How to look good online
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Congratulations
Belvoir High School Mountfields Lodge School
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Keynote Speaker John Davitt
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embc Software Services Today and tomorrow

• Jay Neale, Commercial Director Software Services,
  Synetrix

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Where are we today?
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What Next?

• Enable next generation VLE services
• Realise MIS integration
• Provide meaningful access for parents

• Flex existing service through content and VLE
  integrations

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Service Catalogue

• Launch of the embc Services Catalogue on the embc
  portal
• Find out about value added services
• Find out about services coming soon!
• Order services online

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School Portal

• School Portal
• MOSS Portal dedicated to school
• Give schools full control
• Class sites with full teacher control
• Paperless office
• Full MOSS Functionality
• Create site and collaboration
• Forums, Wikis, Lists, Workflow, Infopath
• School website
• Online presence
• communicate with parents

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Assessment for Learning

• An online solution combining online and offline
  practices
• Combining MIS and online e-learning data
• Providing data analysis across class, year and
  schools
• Improving Planning and Practice
• Through anywhere access to key performance data
• Providing Tools for feedback
• Peer to peer and teacher communication methods
  integrated with embc communication technologies
  such as e-mail
• Emphasis on achievement and motivation
• Through rich presentation and graphical
  representation of progress
• Better Target setting and understanding
• Through better access to information and data

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School Portal
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Extended VLE

• Builds on basic Sharepoint Learning Kit VLE
  functionality (assign, grade book, SCORM) to
  provide
• Rich Silverlight UI
• Drag drop etc
• Harnessing MOSS tools in context
• Teachers build courses inc. online and offline
  tasks
• OWA Integration

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MIS IntegrationCreating a sustainable data
infrastructure
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MIS Integration Why?
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SIF How it works
SIF Zone
MIS

• Zone Integration Server (ZIS) (Located at embc)
• SIF Agents
• Applications
• SIF Data Objects

E-mail
Library Automation
Content
Embc AD
Data Analysis Reporting
VLE
Instructional Services
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Vertical Reporting
Government
LA
embc
LA
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Parental Access Real Time ReportingWhat are
the building blocks?
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Parental Access and Real Time Reporting

• Whats needed?
• Parent Accounts
• They need an accounts to view their childs info
• You need a solutions where a school positively
  affirms parent/ guardian identity and distributes
  accounts
• MIS Data harvesting/ Integration you need
  something to show them!

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What to provide access to?

• Presentation of data
• Raw data display
• Attendance
• Behaviour
• Assessment
• Comparative/ data analysis
• Requires data warehousing
• Data analysis against class, year, school, LA,
  regional average
• Risk analysis
• Graphical representation
• Student Work (via School portal/ Extended VLE)

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Real Time Reporting To Parents

• MIS data used for comparison trend analysis

• Rich Silverlight UI to engage parents, teachers
  pupils

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Thank you

• Well keep you posted on developments
  please let us know about new service ideas you
  would like us to introduce
• Thank you
• Jay.neale_at_synetrix.co.uk

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Leighton Searle Business Manager UK
Schools Microsoft Ltd
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The shape of the world has changed
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RD Investment Themes

• Provide best of breed productivity, communication
  and collaboration
• Streamline educator and student tasks to free up
  time
• Enable new pedagogies making learning interactive
  and engaging
• Enable seamless digital lifestyle and workstyle
  for students
• Provide tools enabling rich interactive digital
  content
• Community platform for frictionless ideas and
  learning
• Enable best of breed on-premise and SaaS
  institutional solutions

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Connected People
Microsoft Learning Gateway
Parents
Citizens
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Connected Systems
Microsoft Learning Gateway
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Desktop to Datacentre
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Future Direction

• Heavy Lifting
• Simplified data integration with existing MIS /
  ERP systems, including standards support
• Fully integrated current and planned Microsoft
  cloud services
• Seamless End-to-End user experience

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Simplifying Technology
The New Platform
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Live Mesh
your devices work together your data and
applications available from anywhere the
people you need to connect with just a few clicks
away for sharing and collaborating the
information you need to stay up-to-date and
always be available
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Thank you

• leighton.searle_at_microsoft.com
• www.blogs.msdn.com/ukschools

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Event demonstrations

• Standard services available to schools
• VideoConferencing demonstrating Click to Meet,
  HD etc
• WAT (Web Administration Tool) demonstrating
  admin functions
• MySite demonstrating how to customise
  MySite/Workshop
• Service Support Talk 2 Synetrix/Cacti Graphing
• Plus
• School E-mail Statistics receive printed stats
  on e-mails spam performance
• Feedback Post Box Area for schools/LAs to post
  their feedback
• Netiquette competition winners - short films from
  schoolchildren staying safe online
• JISC - embc