Latest news and updates

Coconnect is excited to be exhibiting at BETT 2022. Come down to stand NN31 to talk about School Broadband and Online Safeguarding. Coconnect is exhibiting at BETT 2022 at the ExCel London on 23-25th March 2022. BETT is the global community for education technology. The event allows leading education solution providers to ...

Our friends at Novatech spoke to a Hampshire college regarding future-proofing their IT; we have taken the key bits of information as an informative learning resource.   Due to the pandemic last year, schools across the UK were desperately trying to organise a remote learning infrastructure in a matter of ...

How could the Metaverse change UK Education? In the last month, there has been a lot of talk about the Metaverse, since  Facebook rebranded to Meta as Mark Zuckerberg wants to be known for building the Metaverse. With the technology to make the Metaverse is in development, we can ask, ...

A guide for Governors and Trustees on Online Safeguarding    With the government latest statistic that 9 out of 10 Children are online every day Online Safeguarding is as vital as ever. Coconnect understand that safeguarding is as important as the network and therefore we supply safeguarding solutions carefully engineered into our ...

What is content filtering and how does it safeguard and enhance education for students? Keeping students safe from the internet is paramount in any school safeguarding policies, with legislation requiring schools to have an appropriate filtering and monitoring service. Schools need to ensure they have a system in place. Finding ...

In May 2021 the definitions of ‘appropriate monitoring’ for schools and colleges were updated by the UK Safer Internet Centre. The new definition advises that all schools and colleges should consider some sort of digital monitoring, except if those of considered low risk or with a 1:1 supervisory setting.  There are many ...

A guide for Governors and Trustees on choosing a School Broadband service   School broadband can be confusing, with many different things Schools and Multi-Academy Trusts need to consider when finding the solution that best fits their requirements. As Coconnect specialises in providing Broadband and Cloud Managed Services to Primary ...

How proactive monitoring can help tackle the sexual violence and sexual harassment culture in schools and colleges?  Earlier this year, Ofsted’s ‘Review of Sexual abuse in Schools and Colleges’ revealed that sexual harassment has become ‘normalised’ for children and young people. Many students admitted that they do not report ...

Our friends at Novatech produced a blog on what schools are considering for their IT for the next 3-5 years; We thought this blog had lots of helpful information to share. Future-proofing is a term that has developed a whole new meaning in the last 12 months. The implications of the ...

Situation Cantell School is a secondary comprehensive with just over 1000 students. A foundation school, based in Southampton. They have recently moved school broadband providers to Coconnect. We spoke to Mr John Heagren, network and media manager at the school to find out how it went. Problem “it’s a slightly ...

What is Cyber Security and what are common Cyber-attacks in School and how to prevent cyber-attacks in schools. We felt like it would be a good idea to provide Schools with more information on Cyber Security and Cyber-attacks, with it being a hot topic. This article will include what Cyber ...

Coconnect are excited to announce we now offer Microsoft Office 365 Cloud-to-cloud backup with Barracuda Coconnect is a specialist School Broadband provider in UK Education. With over 200 Schools currently partnering with and a (98%) renewal rate, we continue to grow and provide cloud-managed solutions to Schools. See what our customer says about ...

Digital Proactive Monitoring – What is it? And how it is an essential Safeguarding tool. Since considering the UKSIC revised guidelines for Appropriate Monitoring, Schools and Multi-Academy Trusts are first learning about Proactive Monitoring. Proactive Monitoring is an essential tool for schools to use in safeguarding and protecting children from harm. ...

We sat down with Mathew Setchell, the IT Services Lead for Lourdes IT, to discuss why Cyber Security is essential in safeguarding children in Schools. Here are the key takeaways: Lourdes IT is a part of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Multi Academy providing IT to the Academy and other ...

UKSIC has revised its guidelines on appropriate monitoring and filtering. Here is everything you need to know. UKSIC has revised its definitions of what is appropriate filtering and monitoring. These guidelines are offered to support schools in implementing correct filtering and monitoring systems. To help you understand this, we have ...

More and more conversations are happening with Schools and Educational Professionals regarding a VoIP Phone system but what is it and why should schools acquire this solution? Schools and Multi-Academy Trusts in the last few years have started to migrate to a VoIP Phone System. There have been a few ...

The Biggest Challenges of Remote Teaching To say the last 12 months have been a challenge for the education world would be a major understatement. While the COVID-19 pandemic has touched all of us in one way or another and its impact has been felt in every corner of every industry, ...

Sometimes, the technical alphabet soup surrounding cloud services can be impenetrable, even to technical folks! Here, with thanks to our colleagues at Novatech, is the Coconnect guide to unscrambling these terms. Azure Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and ...

With the world essentially being told it’s been a naughty boy and needs to spend a few months in its room to cool off during lockdown, it’s never been a better time to be a gamer. We might bemoan the fact that the coronavirus pandemic has robbed them ...

Schools and IT professionals have talked for years about technology “moving into the classroom”. What nobody saw coming was technology replacing the classroom, albeit temporarily. The COVID-19 crisis has had a huge impact on the relationship between education and IT. The rate of adoption has increased and technologies that were ...

IT reviews are no easy task. Where do you start when it comes to ensuring your school’s tech is future-proof? This checklist will help. Work with a specialist Keeping up with the latest technology and best practice is hard. This can leave you paying more than you should for ...

Start thinking about how this crisis ends: How to build future-proof IT for schools and universities Remote learning is not a new phenomenon. In fact, the first remote learning service was delivered by radio in Australia almost seventy years ago. But remote learning on a nationwide scale – as prompted by ...