In school we use G Suite for Education which is operated by Google. Students from 1st class on will have a weekly allocated supervised time to use the chrome books, and junior and senior infants will be set up for future use. Students would use their G Suite for Education account for the following:

• Login to their own account on Chromebooks/laptops: each child will have their own G Suite credentials (username and password) to allow them to access their own personal account on our school Chromebooks/laptops. This allows them to save their work to the cloud after each lesson making it accessible to them from other devices within the school. With these credentials they can also use other Google tools such as Google docs, email, calendar.
• Digital portfolio: students will keep the same credentials for their time in Moynalvey NS. This means that by the time they leave they will have a store of learning to look back on from their time in primary school.
• Access Google Classroom: Google Classroom is a virtual learning space. This learning space would be led by the class teacher. Google Classroom allows the teacher to set activities for the class to work on either individually or collaboratively both in school and at home during Home Learning.
• ​Learn 21st century digital citizenship skills: our aim is to provide students with the skills required to develop good digital citizenship. For example, children will gradually acquire privileges for their accounts, a new one being added each year/two years. In First Class children will just use the credentials to open the Chromebooks, whereas by Sixth Class, the aim is that students will have learnt how to comment on each other’s posts and content appropriately and be able to send emails.

Within the school we recognise the value of the internet as a resource, we must also acknowledge the potential risks to students. We feel the answer is not to ban the use of the internet in school but to teach pupils to recognise the risks and to become INTERNET Wise. We also allow limited access to ‘You Tube’ on a strictly supervised basis. This is to allow access to a huge range of educational material. The filter to prevent access to unsuitable material on You Tube is also in operation.