Remote Learning- Google Classroom
We have Remote Education Guidance for Parents to outline how we support children with their learning online. We provide online learning via Google Classroom for homework activities throughout the year.
Should our school need to close, we will provide a mixture of live teaching, prerecorded teaching and online tasks. If the school is closed we will keep close links with children and parents/carers via our School Cloud meeting platform where teachers will meet to discuss welfare, access to remote learning and progress being made. This is in addition to general newsletters, letters to parents and website updates.
Remote Education Guidance for Parents
Infant Department User Agreement
Junior Department User Agreement
Google Classroom in GSuite for Education
We use G Suite for Education - a set of education productivity tools from Google including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Classroom. Pupils will use their G Suite accounts to complete assignments, communicate with their teachers and learn 21st century digital citizenship skills, using mostly Google Classroom. We use a special version of the core G Suite Apps to provide a secure learning intranet for our pupils and staff. Children use a Gmail login to access our system servers and the intranet and internet in school. With school Gmail and Google Docs, for example, work and emails cannot be shared with external email accounts, only with others within @stvincentsprimary.school - the school’s Google domain.
Google Cloud does contain much of the electronic work that your child completes in school. By logging in at home, using the same login as at school, your child can continue working on projects started in school, often using one of the main apps of G Suite, Google Classroom. Our pupil accounts have a particular set of security settings to reflect the fact that the system is being used by a child. On leaving the school, we can transfer your child’s digital learning record to his/her own gmail account through the Google TakeOut system - the school does not then retain any data. This can be a wonderful souvenir of learning. Google accounts are deleted after a child leaves St Vincent’s.
Google’s Privacy Policy for GSuite can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy/update
The information below from Google provides answers to common questions about what they can and can’t do with your child’s personal information, including:
- What personal information does Google collect?
- How does Google use this information?
- Will Google disclose my child’s personal information?
- Does Google use student personal information for users in K-12 schools to target advertising?
- Can my child share information with others using the G Suite for Education account?
G Suite for Education information for Parents and Guardians
This notice describes the personal information we provide to Google for these accounts and how Google collects, uses, and discloses personal information from pupils in connection with these accounts. Using their G Suite for Education accounts, pupils may access and use the following “Core Services” offered by Google Classroom (described at https://gsuite.google.com/terms/user_features.html):
- Gmail
- Calendar
- Docs
- Sheets
- Slides
- Forms
- Drive
- Sites
Google provides information about the information it collects, as well as how it uses and discloses the information it collects from G Suite for Education accounts in its G Suite for Education Privacy Notice. You can read that notice online at https://gsuite.google.com/terms/education_privacy.html You should review this information in its entirety, but below are answers to some common questions:
What if I have more questions or would like to read further?
If you have questions about our use of Google’s G Suite for Education accounts or the choices available to you, please contact Mrs Needham. If you want to learn more about how Google collects, uses, and discloses personal information to provide services to us, please review the G Suite for Education Privacy Center, the G Suite for Education Privacy Notice, and the Google Privacy Policy. The Core G Suite for Education services are provided to us under Google’s Apps for Education agreement.
Consent Form:
Children have been made aware of online behaviour, however it is relevant that you are also aware.
Pupils need to know:
Pupils will follow school policies for appropriate use when using Internet based services like Web 2.0 applications & Google Apps. These services are considered an extension of the school’s network. Pupils have no expectation of privacy in their use as school and service administrators have the right and ability to monitor user accounts for policy and security enforcement, whether they access these in school or at home.
Parents need to know:
Pupils email is archived and the Pupil Acceptable Use Agreement (PAUA) will be enforced. School staff will monitor pupil use of applications when students are at school. Parents are responsible for monitoring their child’s use of applications when accessing programs from home; the school cannot take responsibility for home Internet access and its setup. Pupils are responsible for their own behaviour at all times. Please login and access the parent area and the survey titled "Google Classroom in G Suite for Education" form to record your permission of use.
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