How Tring School is safeguarding students and empowering teachers while streamlining IT demands

Luke and the IT team now have tools that are fully cloud accessible and “completely hands-off in terms of maintenance.” Having all of the tools in a single integrated platform also makes their jobs much easier.

From a safeguarding perspective, Luke shares that "the reporting Securly Aware provides on safeguarding concerns is really good. We pass that information on to our safeguarding leads, and they're very happy with the level of detail they get. They're able to act on issues quicker."

Emma and her fellow teachers have a classroom management system that's easy to use and gives them the visibility and control they need to keep students on task. Teachers can see students' device screens from their own Chromebooks and redirect them back to lesson resources when needed. They even get an email summary at the end of a lesson, which provides a list of every site a student visited.

A teacher herself, Emma is a big fan of the visibility Securly Classroom provides. "I can't look at 30 people at once; I don't actually have eyes in the back of my head. So making sure that students were on task and doing what they're supposed to be doing was my biggest challenge. Securly Classroom lets me monitor what everyone's doing all of the time."

She also loves that teachers can set up their own block lists without needing to ask IT for help. But perhaps her favorite thing is being able to use the Google Classroom Class Visit feature.

She explains, "If another teacher is absent, and I need to cover a class that I wouldn't normally teach, I can visit their Google Classroom to see what their work is, and then that pulls through into Securly Classroom automatically. So I can teach a class that is not my own in Securly Classroom without having to manually add all of the students, which would take ages otherwise for a one-off lesson. Securly just does it automatically, which is like magic."

Luke is also relieved that teachers are now empowered with tools to manage their lessons independently. He shares that, before Securly, a member of his team used to be responsible for keeping track of what students were doing on their devices.

"It was almost their full-time job keeping an eye on students throughout the whole school, which is just unfeasible. Giving teachers the ability to monitor students on their devices with Securly Classroom has been a revolution within my department," he shares.

By partnering with Securly, Tring School is:

• Keeping students safe from harmful and inappropriate content
• Giving safeguarding leads timely insight into student wellness concerns
• Empowering teachers with tools to keep students engaged in learning
• Balancing technology responsibilities between IT and teaching staff
• Simplifying edtech management with a single vendor

Emma and Luke report that Tring School's governors and leadership team are positive about and supportive of their use of Securly. However, they admit that students aren't always as enthusiastic. Emma quips, “I think their favourite thing about Securly is that the extension colour changes when it's in use, so they know they need to be better behaved."

"On the whole, we've been really, really happy with Securly.”