Your students can now be protected from the worst of the web after school hours with N4L’s new safety filter. Parents can apply the filter to their children’s devices and schools can put it on any devices they send home with students after school. There is no cost to...
Wait… You didn’t get my email?! If your school heavily relies on email as your primary method of communication with parents and your school community, below are a few helpful tips to reduce the risk of your bulk emails being identified as spam: Run regular email...
Disclaimer: I’m tackling some of the questions we regularly get regarding online safety. I’ve purposely avoided getting too bogged down in technical detail. I’m also not addressing our core firewall and filtering service (there will be more to come on this...
Facts: Web extensions save lives (I use the term ‘facts’ very loosely). Recently a web extension installed by a school user was hijacked to redirect YouTube advertising to pornographic content. A hijacked extension applied to one device is capable of impacting...
My first job out of school was an administrator role at a local hospital (bear with me, I do have a point). I was excited about my new job because the money it promised would pay for my ‘new’ (read ‘old’) car - and the new mag wheels I had just acquired for it. The...
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...
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...