eSafety Label - Action Plan
Action plan submitted by Canan MAT for Güzelbahçe 60.Yıl Anadolu Lisesi - 18.05.2021 @ 10:44
By submitting your completed Assessment Form to the eSafety Label portal you have taken an
important step towards analysing the status of eSafety in your school. Congratulations! Please
read through your Action Plan carefully to see what you can do to improve eSafety further in your school. The Action Plan offers useful advice and comments, broken down into 3 key areas:
infrastructure, policy and practice.
Infrastructure
Technical security
It is very good that all your school devices are virus protected. Make sure you also have included a paragraph on
virus protection in both your school policy and your Acceptable Use Policy, and ensure that staff and pupils
rigorously apply school guidelines. If you need further information, check out the fact sheet on Protecting your
devices against malware at www.esafetylabel.eu/group/teacher/protecting-devices-against-malware.
Pupil and staff access to technology
Ensure that the policy on mobile phones is being applied consistently throughout the school. Take a look at the
fact sheet on Using Mobile Phones at School (www.esafetylabel.eu/group/teacher/mobile-phones).
All staff and pupils are allowed to use USB memory sticks in your school. This is good practice, and your
Acceptable Use Policy should stipulate that all removable media is checked before use in the school systems.
Check the fact sheet on Use of removable devices at www.esafetylabel.eu/group/teacher/removable-devices to
make sure you cover all security aspects.
Since staff and pupils can use their own equipment on your school network, it is important to make sure that the Acceptable Use Policy is reviewed regularly by all members of the school and adapted as necessary. It must be discussed with pupils at the start of each academic year so that they understand what is in place to protect them and their privacy, and why. Base the policy around behaviour rather than technology. Visitors must also read and sign the Acceptable Use Policy before they use the school's network.
Data protection
Having your learning and administration environments together can create a security risk. Ensuring security of staff's and pupils' private data is a fundamental role of the school. We recommend that your appointed eSafety manager/ICT coordinator, together with the staff and a technical expert, define and implement a strategy for separating learning and administration environments or ensuring the equivalent highest level of security
between them. Read the fact sheet on Protecting sensitive data in schools at
www.esafetylabel.eu/group/teacher/protecting-sensitive-data.
It is good that your school provides training materials on the importance of protecting devices, especially
portable ones. Please consider sharing those with others through the in . Also ensure that your materials are regularly reviewed to ensure they are in line with the state of the latest technology.
It is good that your email system is protected and that you have a policy for the transfer of pupil data in place. In
this regard, it is important to draw up guidelines so that all staff are clear about what to do if they discover
inappropriate or illegal content on school machines. For further information see the fact sheet on Protecting
sensitive data (www.esafetylabel.eu/group/teacher/protecting-sensitive-data).
Software licensing
It is important to ensure that all new staff are briefed about the effective processes you have for the installation of new software. This will mean that the security of your systems can be maintained and that staff can try out new software applications that will help teaching and learning.
IT Management
It is good practise that your are training and/or providing guidance in the use of new software that is installed on school computers. This ensures that school members will take advantage of new features, but also that they are aware of security and data protection issues where relevant.
It is good practice to ensure that the person in charge of the ICT network is fully informed of what software is on school-owned hardware and this should be clearly indicated in the School Policy and the Acceptable Use Policy. The person responsible for the network needs to be able to guarantee conformity with licensing requirements and that new software won't interfere with network operation.
Policy
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
In your school policy issues are regularly discussed. This is good practice as it ensures staff and pupils are aware of them. Do pupils and staff also have to sign related documents to confirm their awareness?
It is good that you have an Acceptable Use Policy for all members of the school community. Regularly review the
AUP to ensure that it is still fit for purpose; to ensure that your AUP is sufficiently comprehensive, take a look at
the fact sheet and check list on Acceptable Use Policy at www.esafetylabel.eu/group/teacher/acceptable-use-
policy.
Reporting and Incident-Handling
Are all staff familiar with the procedure for dealing with material that could potentially be illegal? Is there a named
person from the school senior leadership team who takes overall responsibility in this type of case? The
procedure needs to be clearly communicated to all staff in the School Policy, and to staff and pupils in the
Acceptable Use Policy. Remember to report and suspected illegal content to your national INHOPE hotline
(www.inhope.org).
Please share the materials in which you tackle these issues especially with pupils and parents in the of the
eSafety Label portal.
Check that your School Policy includes all necessary information for teachers about handling issues when pupils
knowingly or even inadvertently access illegal or offensive material online by going to the guidance set out by the
teachtoday.de/en website (tinyurl.com/9j86v84). If such incidents arise in your school, make sure you
anonymously fill out the eSafety Label Incident handling form (www.esafetylabel.eu/group/teacher/incident-
handling) so that other schools can benefit from your experience.
It's good that you have a clear School Policy on handling out-of-school eSafety incidents; is the number of these
declining? Start a discussion thread in the community on what other preventative measures or awareness raising
activities could be used in order to reduce the number of issues further. Don't forget to anonymously document
incidents on the Incident handling form (www.esafetylabel.eu/group/teacher/incident-handling), as this enables
schools to share and learn from each other's strategies.
It is good practice to log cyberbullying incidents that occur in your school centrally, as you are contributing to
building a data base of successful incident handling practices from schools across Europe that you and others
can use in future. Make sure that pupils sign up to anti-bullying guidelines in your Acceptable Use Policy.
Staff policy
You have guidelines in your Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) on teachers' classroom usage of mobile phones.
Upload your AUP to your school profile as it is a model of good practice that can help other eSafety Label schools.
Pupil practice/behaviour School presence online
Check the fact sheet on Taking and publishing photos and videos at school
(www.esafetylabel.eu/group/teacher/photos-videos) to see that your School Policy covers all areas, then upload
this section of your School Policy to your profile page via your My school area so that other schools can learn
from your good practice.
Regularly check the content of the school´s online presence on social media sites to ensure that there are no
inappropriate comments. Set up a process for keeping the site/page up to date, and check the fact sheet on
Schools on social networks (www.esafetylabel.eu/group/teacher/social-networks) for further information to make
sure that good practice guidelines have been followed. Get feedback from stakeholders about how useful the
profile is.
Practice
Management of eSafety eSafety in the curriculum
It is good that eSafety is taught as part of the curriculum in your school. Ensure that all staff are delivering eSafety
education where appropriate throughout the curriculum and not just through ICT or Personal Social and Health
lessons. You/your staff may find some useful ideas and resources in the fact sheet Embedding eSafety in the
curriculum at www.esafetylabel.eu/group/teacher/esafety-in-curriculum.
It is good practice that all pupils in all year groups in your school are taught about eSafety. It continues to be
important to review regularly the curriculum provision to ensure it meets ever-changing needs. If you have a
curriculum review process of this kind, it would be helpful to other schools if you could publish this on your
school profile. To upload go to your My school area.
It is commendable that you are able to provide an eSafety curriculum that keeps up with emerging issues.
Continue to make use of new resources as they are made available. Can you upload to your school profile an outline of how you design the curriculum and links to some of the resources you use - this would be most helpful for other schools.
It is good that you are making a specific reference to sexting within your child protection policy as this is a growing issue that many young people are having to deal with. It is also important to ensure that you are providing appropriate education for pupils about this issue.
It is good practise that in your school Cyberbullying is discussed in the curriculum with pupils from a young age.
Extra curricular activities
How do you organise peer mentoring among pupils on eSafety? Check out the resources of the ENABLE project
and share your ideas in the forum of the eSafety Label community so that other schools can benefit from your
experience to establish a similar approach.
Sources of support
Ask parents for feedback on the kind of eSafety support which is being provided for them and consider
innovative ways to maximise the number of parents who are benefitting from, and accessing it. See the fact
sheet Information for parents at www.esafetylabel.eu/group/teacher/info-for-parents to find resources that could
be circulated to parents and ideas for parent evenings.
It is great that you have a staff member which is knowledgable in eSafety issues who acts as a teacher of confidence to pupils.
Staff training
It is good practise that you provide information to teachers on the technology used by pupils in their freetime.
This is important as this awareness is the first step in addressing the issue of powering down for school. At the
same time pupils should not be asked to do their homework using technology not available to them outside of
schools. You might want to have a look at the Essie Survey of ICT in schools.
In your school knowledge exchange between staff members is encouraged. This is beneficiary to the whole
school. Upload PowerPoints, documents or similar of knowledge exchanges on eSafety topics via the uploading
evidence tool, accessible also via the My school area.
The Assessment Form you submitted is generated from a large pool of questions. It is also useful
for us to know if you are improving eSafety in areas not mentioned in the questionnaire. You can
upload evidence of such changes via the Upload evidence on the My school area section of the
eSafety Portal. Remember, the completion of the Assessment Form is just one part of the
Accreditation Process, because the upload of evidence, your exchanges with others via the
Forum, and your reporting of incidents on the template provided are all also taken into account.
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