 Extended Schools and Extended Schools Consortia Web Sites and Email Services
This help sheet outlines for extended schools, the support which is on offer for setting up a web site and email services from the Hertfordshire Grid for Learning (HGFL). Please also refer to the communications toolkit which is available on the Hertfordshire Extended Schools web site:
Web Site Hosting
Each extended school consortium has web space available for hosting their web site on the HGfL web server which is managed by Research Machines (RM). Individual extended schools are expected to use their existing school web site to promote their activities. A domain name for all Hertfordshire extended schools has already been registered as:
www.hertsextendedschools.org.uk
Each extended school consortia web site will have this domain name followed by their consortium name e.g.
www.hertsextendedschools.org.uk/extendedschoolconsortia
Users will be issued with a username and password for accessing their web space.
Extended schools consortia will need to agree their name for their web address, according to the process outlined in the communications toolkit, before the web space and email can be set up by the web hosting service. Once agreed please inform Dee de Bruin so that HGFL can raise a request with RM for setting up the web space.
Email Services
Email accounts which use the HGfL email system ‘Easymail Plus’ will be set up for extended school coordinators. The Easymail system is accessible via the web browser so it is accessible from anywhere – home or the centre. An email account will be set up using the following format:
coordinator.extendedschoolname@hertsextendedschools.org.uk
Each individual email account has 20MB of space. Additional space can be allocated. Dee de Bruin is the administrator responsible for setting up the email accounts. Help for users is available through the HGfL help desk run by NTL on 0800 0521 386.
Web Site Support Services
We provide advice and support for web site development for extended schools through training courses, onsite visits and telephone help.
We offer an initial visit which will involve some basic planning and guidance on site structure and content and enables you to focus on the goals and aims of what you want to use the web site for. This is usually followed by a longer visit which involves building the web site and adding the content which has been put together following the initial visit. It is a good idea to book the visits around attending the Dreamweaver training course.
Dreamweaver Training Courses
We offer one day training courses in building and updating your website using Dreamweaver software.
‘Dreamweaver – New to Managing and Updating your Website' is for Extended Schools staff who are new to web site design and and are intending to build their own site from scratch or may have recently taken over responsibility for a existing web site which has already been built using templates, tables and stylesheets.
Details of courses available to book online (select term and Subject - ICT to search for the Dreamweaver courses)
Dreamweaver Software
Extended schools consortia may need to obtain a copy of the latest version of the Dreamweaver web publishing software. Schools may already have a copy of the software with the appropriate license, but may need to purchase additional licences. The software can be purchased from Hertfordshire Business Supplies. Tel: 01707 292300.
Preparing for Your Website Support Visit
- Refer to the Communications Toolkit available on the Hertfordshire Extended Schools web site.
- Refer to the Preparing Content help sheet available on the Hertfordshire Grid for Learning School Web Site section.
- Look at some of the existing extended schools web sites for ideas for content - www.hertsextendedschools.org.uk
- Collect information on things like services, activities, partners, latest news and get permission for using images.
Contacts
School Web Site Support
Alison Bellerby
Tel: 01438 844811 (Monday pm, Wednesday pm, Friday pm)
Email: alison.bellerby@hertscc.gov.uk
To arrange an appointment, please email in the first instance as Alison is mostly out at schools and will pick up messages when she is next in the office.
Further Information
Further information and guidance is available through our series of helpsheets available at:
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