Kirklees Ednet - Information and resources developed for schools in the Kirklees area

Information for ICT Subject Leaders

Further information about the ITCAS Centre and the services provided by ITCAS.

Drop in sessions are held at ITCAS between 4.00 p.m. aand 6.00 p.m. for anyone to visit the centre and talk to the ICT support staff. Dates for these are sent into schools regularly and posted onto Ednet.

The Kirklees email system.
All schools are provided with a set of generic email accounts, one of which is for the ICT co-ordinator. All schools have a generic email account which is ict.schoolname@kirklees-schools.org.uk and most ICT information is sent to co-ordinators this email. Further information about the system is available on Ednet. In order to find your email user name and have the password reset contact ITCAS (860 5724). We strongly recommend that you use the options in the web mailaccount to forward email to your own personal email account.

Kirklees-Ednet
Support information for ICT is provided on Kirklees-ednet. The ICT section is organised in four areas, covering General ICT; Primary ICT, Secondary ICT and Management Information systems (MIS). Some pages are password protected. Each school has a user name and password which can be obtained by emailing amjad.ahmed@kirklees.gov.uk.

Software purchases. As part of the service provided for schools software can be purchased through ITCAS and schools obtain a discount on the price. Further information can be obtained by ringing ITCAS.

YHGfL Broadband
Kirklees is part of the Yorkshire and Humberside Grid for Learning for the provision of Broadband services. Broadband is being rolled out to schools on a phased programme, covering all schools during 2005. Technical support information about Broadband can be found on Kirklee-ednet.

Sophos anti virus is available to all Kirklees schools through YHGfL at an extremely low price and is used by most Kirklees schools. Sophos can be purchased through ITCAS.