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As someone who’s worked with many schools who have been in the trenches of school website management, I know just how overwhelming it can be. There’s always something that needs attention鈥攌eeping content up-to-date or ensuring the site is secure. These responsibilities can really pile up and stress out senior leaders, teachers, administrators, IT staff, parents … Continued
In my extensive experience working with schools, I’ve seen firsthand how the digital landscape has transformed the way parents and pupils find educational opportunities. When a question arises, one of the first moves is to turn to Google. This shift underscores the critical importance of having a Search Engine Optimised (SEO) website for educational institutions. … Continued
From my years of experience working with schools and rolling out successful websites (let’s not mention how many 馃槵), I’ve seen firsthand the clear importance of a school’s website. Consider your website as the digital gateway to your school. It鈥檚 not just a first impression for prospective families but a continuous source of information. In … Continued
The realsmart knowledge base is an amazing way to learn about your website, check out our user guides to get more familiar with shortcodes and web elements! Realsmart User Guides
The Google Guardian feature connects parents and guardians to students Classroom information. Because guardians are not part of the student’s School domain they must receive an invitation using their own email address. Once they accept the invitation they become Classroom guardian. realsmart sync with your MIS to automate the process of getting those parent email … Continued
Lots of Schools have been requesting a sync for Staff and Students MIS Profile Photos to realsmart and google. When you add a profile picture, it personalizes your account and makes it unique. It also helps people recognize you online and lets you know when you鈥檙e signed into your account. This guide will help you … Continued
We’ve seen a lot of attempted spoof emails recently and recommend checking SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MTA_STS settings to protect your school. Here is a link to a knowledge base article with our recommended settings to help prevent spoof and phishing emails coming through to the school. https://realsmart.groovehq.com/help/prevent-spam-spoofing-phishing-with-gmail-authentication
Turning on 2SV is one of the most effective ways to protect your online accounts from cyber criminals. This simple guide walks you through the process of adding 2SV to your google admin area and sharing with your staff how they can enable it for their account. https://realsmart.groovehq.com/help/allow-users-to-set-up-google-2-step-verification
All schools must publish specific information on its website to comply with the School Information (England) Regulation (2008), it is vital to ensure that your school website is compliant.聽 This guidance and checklist gives an overview of those requirements and the further information that the Department for Education (DfE) recommends that schools and colleges publish … Continued
Orphaned classes can be a result of suspending or deleting a teachers google account. If a leaving teacher owns classes, it鈥檚 recommended that you transfer ownership of those classes to another teacher or a placeholder account (maybe your admin user?) This will prevent classes from becoming Orphaned (locked) where users cannot access or manage a … Continued
