Digital Housekeeping
The start of a new Academic Year is a perfect time to carry out some digital housekeeping in your online environment.
Deleting old files, teams and groups, supports with increasing productivity, improves security and gives you peace of mind that your digital content is up to date.
Have a look at the advice in this page that will support with this process.
Manual Glow account housekeeping.
It is important to regularly carry out housekeeping on manually created Glow accounts in order to reduce the number of redundant accounts in your area.
Click on the dedicated news post on the right hand side to find out more about this process.
Advice and Guidance Support
Microsoft
Microsoft 365 Housekeeping
The new academic year is an ideal time for digital housekeeping in Microsoft 365. This includes deleting unnecessary files, teams, and groups to enhance productivity and security. Users are encouraged to organize their OneDrive, review shared items, and comply with data retention policies while ensuring smooth transitions for shared resources and tools.
Google Housekeeping Top Tips
The content provides a guide for managing Google Classroom and Google Drive effectively at the start of a new academic year. It emphasizes removing old files, organizing folders by value, utilizing sub-folders, labeling folders for easier identification, and ensuring new files are placed correctly to maintain organization. Regularly cleaning the Drive is also recommended.
Blogs
Digital Tidy Up of Glow Blogs
Glow Blogs require regular upkeep to maintain functionality and relevancy. It’s recommended to remove old media and unused blogs, manage user permissions, and conduct a housekeeping exercise to archive inactive blogs. This ensures smooth operation and enhances performance. Further details about housekeeping efforts will be provided soon.
Seemis
SEEMiS Housekeeping
SEEMiS Sync involves an annual consolidation and resynchronization of year/registration group data by SEEMiS and RM Education. This process addresses the potential data inconsistency that can arise after the turnaround. The resync activity is scheduled for Wednesday, 4th September 2024.
Useful Links
Top Tip
Essentially, treat your digital environment in the same way as you would treat your physical classroom environment.
