As digital integrations continue to grow in school learning environments, ensuring pupil safety online remains a top priority. With the increasing reliance on technology, schools and MATs must provide safe and compliant digital spaces for all users where teaching and learning can take place without exposure to inappropriate content.

Skolon’s tools are designed to meet these needs; we’re firmly aligned with the latest safeguarding regulations, including KCSIE 2023. To learn more about how Skolon’s filtering and monitoring systems ensure a secure online environment for pupils, personalised dashboards and effective account management, read on.

How Skolon’s login system enhances accountability

Skolon Pass, Skolon’s innovative QR code login system can be an integral tool across schools and MATs for several reasons, yet one of the main functions is that it helps to ensure accountability. By providing pupils with their own distinct and secure digital fingerprint to enable access to digital resources, Skolon not only eliminates the time wasted and lesson disruption caused by forgotten passwords, but it also removes the ambiguity that can occur when more than one pupil shares devices without personal logins.

Preventing misuse with account management

In schools where students share devices, a common challenge is tracking responsibility for accessing inappropriate content. Without sufficient management, it’s difficult to determine who may have misused devices.

Skolon Pass helps mitigate this by providing every pupil with their own unique QR code to log into their account, ensuring that any activity within the Skolon platform can be traced back to specific users. Furthermore, Skolon makes it easy for IT teams to manage accounts through its extensive integrations with MIS systems, as well as Microsoft 365 and Teams and Google Classroom. This ensures seamless account setup and maintenance, saving valuable time for IT staff. However, Skolon does not actively monitor activity outside of the platform, such as searches made through a device’s browser. Any tracking of external activity would rely on other surveillance or logging systems implemented by the school.

Skolon and KCSIE 2023

The latest updates to the guidance, such as recommendations to understand data protection and clarification that schools continue to be responsible for the safeguarding of pupils, emphasises the importance of ensuring there is a robust filtering and monitoring system in place.

Skolon aligns with these regulations because our platform ensures that pupils can only access content that has been pre-approved by the school account administrators. This is essentially a digital fence that keeps pupils within safe, secure digital boundaries whilst enabling them to exercise their digital independence to explore learning resources that meet their educational needs.

Skolon’s approach to safeguarding supports KCSIE 2023 to ensure that schools and MATs using Skolon meet the required standards for pupil safety in their digital spaces. By providing controlled access and close monitoring, Skolon gives schools and MATs peace of mind that they’re protecting their students whilst fostering an effective, safe and enjoyable learning environment.

Enhancing your school’s digital safeguarding

Skolon is easily integrated into school workflows and is therefore an essential tool that can provide a safe, secure and productive digital learning environment for school pupils. From user authentication, to personalised dashboards for teachers and administrators, Skolon helps schools and MATs guide pupils through online learning in a safe and effective way.

To join the thousands of schools benefiting from Skolon’s secure platform, use the button below to discover how Skolon can support your school in meeting its safeguarding and educational goals.