Pond is always improving and the new Personal Homepage is a great way to keep track of all your Pond activity. We’ve been listening to your feedback and some of the most common requests include more personal space that pulls Pond things together, easier access to...
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Changes on the Internet & Ensuring Student Safety
Did you know that around 60% of all web traffic across the N4L Managed Network is via secure websites - and growing?! This changing trend is important for schools to be aware of and we recently contacted all schools to recommend that they review their existing web...
The results are in! N4L Customer LifeCycle Survey Report Published
The results are in from the N4L Customer Lifecycle Survey and we’re very encouraged by the feedback! In June this year we invited the principal of every school that had been using the Managed Network for more than six months to take part in a survey to tell us how...
SAML Authentication Now Available for Individualised Filtering
Schools wanting to implement Individualised Filtering as part of N4L’s Web Filtering are now able to do so using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) as their authentication method. This means school now have 3 options when implementing Individualised Filtering -...
N4L has a new and improved Remote Access service!
Remote Access allows staff to remotely connect into school servers and work as if they are at school - from any location, as long as they have an internet connection. The service is available to all schools using the N4L Managed Network, although it’s schools that...
Congratulations to Ed Hodgkinson and Lakeview School – winners of a new drone!
If you follow N4L on Twitter or are a member of the Pond community, you will have seen the recent competition we ran to win a drone. We got some encouraging feedback about why people use Pond, as well as some great constructive feedback about what would make more of...
Google changes for schools using Secure Website Inspection or Individualised Filtering (Chromebook login impacting)
Following the below email we have identified that schools using Secure Website Inspection or Individualised Filtering after the 5th of November 2015 will have problems signing into Chromebooks if no action is taken by your Web Filtering administrator . If you are the...