Strengths of Djanogly City Academy

Strength
We currently have a wealth of training expertise at the Academy. Our key trainers are not ICT Specialists, but subject staff who have acquired excellent knowledge in a variety of software and hardware applications. With an excellent history of CPD in ICT, training at the Academy has always largely been managed and delivered in-house. We have teachers, trainers and technology specialists - all under a single job description.

Service
Djanogly City Academy is a training centre for staff, the community and business. We are a Microsoft Regional IT Academy and can currently offer residential courses for the well recognised MOS (Microsoft Office Specialist) course, to MMI (Microsoft Master Instructor) level. We will also be offering the MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer)qualification from next year. We plan on developing a range of courses as part of our eLearning strategy and will aim to deliver a lot of the CPD sessions via video conferencing or online.

Delivery
We can offer a half-day on developing a portfolio of ICT skills and good practice. This can be offered as whole-staff sessions, or in departments with a more focused look at how ICT might impact upon specific subjects.

Strength
With every teacher having a Tablet PC, every room having a wireless projector & every student having 1:1 Tablet PC access in generic lessons we are overseeing a fundamental shift in how learning takes place.

We have a number of staff involved with the Microsoft Innovative Teachers and Education Community pilot programmes. These initiatives focus on the development of new and exciting ways to use existing programs in a Teaching & Learning context to push progression and achievement forward in the classroom.

Service
The Academy is able to offer strong cross-curricular training and support for KS3, KS4 and KS5, particularly Mathematics, Science, ICT and Humanities.

Delivery
Contact us to discuss how ICT is underpinning our moves towards breaking down those traditional barriers between subjects and fostering a real air of collaboration in the teaching & learning at Djanogly. If you wish to know more, we'd be happy to arrange a visit for you to come and see for yourself!!

Strength
We currently register, assess, record discipline and monitor students online using the Serco Facility CMIS Management Information System. Teachers have access to a wealth of student data in an instant via the Internet, providing invaluable access to critical data from any computer at any time! We were early adopters of CMIS and have pioneered some innovative and exciting Administration tools.

It's time to move forward from existing systems and look at how a school can successfully make use of new methods for managing information.

Service
We have several years of experience in Managed Learning Environments (MLE), and have now run all MIS activities in CMIS. We can provide a personalised insight into it's functioning. After over a year with CMIS, we can now offer a real-life, realtime showcase of it's use in a Secondary school.

Delivery
We can show you a live system from any internet connection. So, before you contact CMIS, get in touch with us, and maybe even pop in for a half day and see it really in action. We'll definitely give you an honest insight!

Strength
Bored of using over-burdening spreadsheet assessment systems? Tired of working through complex database monitoring systems? Fed up of having to do all your assessment in school?

We currently do assessments online - this means from anywhere at anytime. You only see the students you teach, rather than wading through thousands of names. Departmental systems link in with school assessment systems and provide a 'traffic-light' reporting system linked to student data, giving immediate visual reports highlighting areas of concern and where intervention is required. 

Service
We can offer advice on setting up an online, less tedious method of collating student assessments.

Delivery
Sounds to good to be true? Get in touch!

Strength
Effective eLearning requires an appropriate environment - one that addresses physical, technical, organisational, professional and pedagogical elements.

By definition, eLearning involves a movement from traditional distance learning methods and looks at how the learning process can be enhanced, managed and maintained. We currently teach a large group of students in China. We only see them for 1 year of a 2 year course. eLearning works!

Service
The Academy has extensive experience in eLearning and is able to offer an excellent insight into setting up and establishing a formal system that can be used in house or applied across an international model. We have a dedicated Leader of eLearning who is able to provide schools with the opportunities to play a key role in implementing their own systems.

Delivery
Call us up for any advice or support you may be after from people who have been there.

Strength
We currently have a well established MLE (Managed Learning Environment). The system enables us to combine the school management system with the learning systems. This is being managed through a number of systems including Microsoft Class Server. Class Server has been in operation in the Academy now for over 2 years.

We have a wealth of resources and, when combined with the Management Information System (Facility CMIS), we are able to start looking at more innovative and effective solutions.

Service
We are able to offer advice about aspects of Independent Learning through ICT agenda, and demonstrate the systems we have in place now.

Delivery
Give us a call or come for a visit to chat about how and why we arrived to where we are today, and where we see ourselves heading in the future.

Strength
Through wireless technologies we are changing the architecture and philosophy underpinning teaching and learning in the 'traditional' classroom. Bringing in technologies such as RFid, we are starting to step into the the exciting future of ICT in schools.

Service
We can talk you through the cost effectiveness and innovativeness of Tablet PC's and wireless projectors. Is it time to say goodbye to Interactive Whiteboards? You decide

Delivery
Why not come over and see the embryonic classrooms of the future? See the technology in action where it matters, then chat to our Network Services Manager about the 'nuts & bolts'.

Strength
We can provide a detailed insight into running a very sophisticated and efficient network in a school environment. We have over 1800 users, 5 sites, wireless networking throughout, over 900 laptops and desktops, over 160 tablets PC's and a several wireless projectors.

Combine this with dedicated servers for the admin system, archiving and storage, SQL servers, web servers, intranet servers, ePortal servers and servers running a whole host of dedicated hardware and software. Note the fact that we have had less than 1 day in server downtime in the last 2 years, and that the 'Blaster' Worm was contained very quickly.

Service
We have a very sophisticated network with a wide range of expertise in house. We can give you advice that will help you to achieve this in your school.

Delivery
Give us a call or come for a visit to chat about how and why we arrived to where we are today, and where we see ourselves heading in the future.

Strength
At the Academy we have extensive experience of wireless networks. It is easier to use wireless laptop computers and they are less intrusive in a classroom! Students using wireless laptops show much greater integration of the technology within lessons than when using PCs - even when PCs are arranged in collaborative clusters. Wireless networks provide great freedom for the users - offering anytime, anywhere learning.

It allows students greater movement, permits easy showing of work to fellow students and offers greater opportunity for collaboration. Students can use wireless laptops wherever they are learning! Wireless networks provide constant access to critical information (e.g. for teachers to access student assessment records). A combination of laptop computers and wireless networking provides great flexibility for different class sizes. Wireless networks allow smaller more mobile devices that save space in the classroom and allow better teacher vision. They also help reduce the tangle of cables.

Using lapsafes we have been able to offer mobile learning in classroom for several years now.

Service
We have a wealth of experience of setting up and making use of wireless networks that we can share with you

Delivery
Give us a call or come for a visit to chat about how and why we arrived to where we are today, and where we see ourselves heading in the future.

Strength
At Djanogly City Academy we believe a web site is more than just a means for a school to brand itself online. It provides the opportunity to reach new worlds, to provide means of two-way communications. It provides a link to parents and the wider community.

Businesses and commerce are now doing great things with the Internet. The worlds of eCommerce, eLearning and interactivity have yet to be fully utilised in schools. This is our next step with our website. Though we have a fully functional eLearning system in place, we are now looking at other online means to enhance teaching, learning and communication. Consider, parents being able to top-up student smart cards via the school website. Parents tapping into student attendance data at anytime in the day. Students managing their work areas as intelligent web spaces.

Service
The opportunities are simply waiting for us in schools to realise and implement them. Why not join us on this journey towards more effective online systems.

Delivery
Give us a call or come for a visit to chat about how and why we arrived to where we are today, and where we see ourselves heading in the future.