With bring your own device firmly in fashion, Ed Macnair offers some tips for ensuring a safe and secure online working environment for students.

 

The use of tablets and laptops in the education sector is providing students with the flexibility to extend their learning outside of the classroom and alongside this, the introduction of bring your own device (BYOD) in schools is seen as a key learning development tool.

The implementation of BYOD requires a platform that can secure, unify and deliver content to various devices and operating systems. If schools are not set-up with a robust web and content-filtering solution that supports BYOD, it is possible for some tech-savvy students to find ways to bypass school web-filters, spreading the knowledge fast among peers. Here are seven steps to help keep on top of the problems.

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