At long last the results from the online user IT survey are available (apologies for the delay). You can view illustrations of the responses here. All responses have been greatly appreciated, especially the criticisms and suggestions for using the VLE. Please be aware that all comments have been made available to senior management and feature as briefing material for upcoming ICT and E-Learning strategic planning work. We will shortly be publishing an article covering issues, suggestions and reasons why some things are as they are.

Winners of the prize for best suggestions to improve the VLE are:

Ben Yelverton
Simon Russell
Aliyy Siddiqui
Krishn Trivedi
Chloe Cheung
Shivani Sheth
Dean Ammi
Laura Bishop
George Hames
Neel Raja

Prizes will be distributed via form tutors.

Safer Internet Day 2010
The Internet is a great thing but there are some things in cyber space you'd be best to avoid. Check out the ThinkUKnow site for up to date advice on being safe online. The Youth Advisory Panel (who are a group of teenagers from around the UK) have been hard at work updating the content. There are now new videos, games and information on how you can be involved in the thinkuknow project.	www.thinkuknow.co.uk

Thanks to all those who have entered their details in our computer survey, aimed at helping the School provide better IT based services to its students and staff.

Entries are now being analysed, and prize winners for the best suggestions for improvements will be notified shortly - watch this space!

We will also be publishing the results of the survey for everyone to see.

Please be aware that an upgrade has to be applied to our Moodle system tomorrow morning, starting at 7am. Given previous experience these upgrades are completed very quickly (usually within 30 minutes) but the work may take until 9am. Please do not use the system within this time slot.

The rapid nature of the upgrade is because this is a security based requirement to add the latest fixes to the system. No new functionality is being added, and no other changes are being made to the system.

The School is launching use of its ClickView Video system this coming term. Information about the system can be found here. The ClickView player application is installed on all PCs within the School and the link is in the root of the All Programs list on the Start menu.

Initially videos will be available for viewing within the School network, but once our ERA licence is upgraded the videos can be linked on VLE pages and viewed from outside of School.