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Birth of the School Management System Q&A with The Man Behind the Code
Phil Neal’s aversion to paperwork, instinctive talent for coding, and teammates with a flair for marketing just happened to be the perfect storm that created a solution to an age-old problem.
GDPR Intro: privacy law affecting school data security for schools.
The General Data Protection Regulation is the EU’s tough new privacy and data protection law designed to significantly strengthen all EU citizens' rights and security relating to the data you store about them. This includes students, staff and parent's right to legal action against the school or ‘student information system’ supplier and the right to compensation regarding misuse of their personal data.
School Management Software to help bring your school community closer
Why use MySchool school management software to run your school? Let's take a look from a few different stakeholder perspectives and show you how MySchool can be the glue that helps binds the school community. School Administrators Communication through MySchool is powerful. It's as simple as selecting a class, year or the entire school and clicking 'send' to deliver emails, questionnaires and SMS messages. You can also create custom groups of parents, staff, teachers and students in just a few clicks.
MCA technology award finalist!
We're particularly excited today to find out we've been chosen as a finalist for the 2016 MCA eBusiness awards, 'Best use of Technology in Business Transformation'. Every year, the MCA eBusiness awards celebrate and acknowledge the best examples of web based technology & innovation in Malta. The awards aim to encourage digital innovation and growth across the width and breadth of the country's industry and society.
EU GDPR Summary for Schools
You may be wondering why we need new privacy laws. As it stands, data privacy laws vary from country to country within the EU, with little harmonisation. This causes confusion, reduces trust and ultimately undermines the effectiveness of data privacy laws. The GDPR is intended as a 'one-stop-shop' bringing with it a high level of alignment across the European Union. This of course also makes it far easier to administer and enforce. The following are the key elements of the GDPR. We'll be going into the details of each one of these in future blog posts. If you're not already subscribed, you can get email alerts as soon as we publish new articles.
Consent in the GDPR
Consent is not a new concept and has been a core part of data protection & privacy laws for decades. However the GDPR raises the bar considerably on 'conditions for processing' personal data. Simply put, 'consent' means obtaining clear permission to hold and process a person's data for a specific use. Although it is already required, practices such as 'opt out' have become common-place, e.g. pre-ticked checkboxes to receive marketing material, making it more of an assumption of consent rather than explicit permission. The GDPR is far more explicit about what constitutes consent and aims to entirely remove this kind of deception. Article 7 GDPR Conditions for consent
Why it’s time to commit to just one School Management System
Everybody has an opinion about technology, and teachers are no exception. Here are three typical schools of thought: It’s awesome, and I couldn’t live without it! It’s a necessary evil. Everything was fine before computers. Any of these represent you? Maybe all three at some point or another. Let’s take a look at a teacher’s point of view and see how effective her school’s management system is.
Choosing the Right School Management Software
Any seasoned education professional knows that when the time comes to upgrade or invest in a school management system, finding the perfect solution to suit your school’s specific needs can be far from simple, and a few key points need to be considered before making that all-important first step into the future. To streamline that search, just keep these 3 key aspects in mind when choosing your school management software.
1.2 MySchool Update
Over the past couple of months, we’ve been reviewing our services, the way we work, and how we can make MySchool better. As a result, we’re redesigning many of our work processes to be more efficient, upgrading our support infrastructure and redesigning our product and service pricing to be more flexible and easier to understand. We're currently in the process of rolling out the 1.2 update and a few of you have already been upgraded. We'll have everyone onboard by early 2016.