AUP - recipe for success!

For the past month the second phase of ZSP schools have been working hard on their AUP.

What is an AUP? Acceptable User Policy. This is the document that regulates how the computer centre is organised, maintained, kept safe, how educators use the new facilities, and how the different responsibilities for the upkeep of the facilities are allocated to the ICT Committee.

This may not sound too important, but these policies are crucial in ensuring that the computer centre is used optimally, for delivering numeracy and literacy lessons and in supporting educators with their admin tasks.

As part of this process, it is important that the schools involved formulate policies that will help them to keep their computer centre functioning to the best of its potential and also minimise any risks e.g  how to stop viruses being spread via USB sticks.

The ZSP Team provided each school with a list of topics would need to be addressed by the AUP, we were also available to advise schools during their discussions.  In some schools the whole staff have sat down together to decide on their AUP.

By the time the technology arrives at the schools, this recipe for success will be in place.