Issues for Schools
To cater for every school’s ICT budget, Parago provides a highly cost effective solution to the following issues that schools face -
Issue 1 - Software Asset Management
- Are you exceeding the software licences you have?
- Are you spending too much on software?
- Are you spending too little on software?
- Who is accountable if schools are not license compliant?
- How would you know if your pupils were installing unauthorised software onto their machines or network machines?
The Parago Software Licence Manager provides an effective and efficient solution!
Issue 2 - Procurement/Resource Planning
- How do you know when to replace software licences?
- How confident are you that you make the right procurement decisions?
- How confident are you that you are making the right investment decisions at the right time?
- Does your local authority advise you on procurement issues?
Parago Software provides schools with the tools to make informed decisions!
Issue 3 - Audit/Asset Tracking
- What do you currently use to audit, track and record your ICT assets?
- How often do you complete an ICT audit?
- How easy is it for you to maintain an accurate up to date audit of ICT infrastructure?
- How long does an asset audit take?
Parago automates the ICT audit with regular, accurate, up-to-date information!
Issue 4 - Insurance
- Do you have an accurate list of assets?
- Is your insurance premium correct?
- How aware are you that your premium correctly reflects your asset status?
- In the event of an insurance claim would you be able to report an accurate inventory?
- In the event of theft or fire would your data be safe?
All school asset data is stored in a secure remote hosting centre!
Issue 5 - E-Safety - Protecting Your School
- How do you know that your students are using safe and appropriate internet and related communications technologies?
- Is your school computer network guarded by firewalls?
The implementation of Parago provides administrators with an alert of any newly installed software on computers at school and home, on a daily basis. This even includes computers that are not connected to the school network. As an internet based product, Parago monitors and sends information to the school account via the web.
Parago is an ideal solution for monitoring computers under Laptops for Teachers (LfT) and Computers for Pupils (CfP)!
Issue 6 - Software Floods the Classrooms
Over the past few years schools have been swamped with curriculum software. It has been announced that this year's £50m allocation of eLearning Credits (eLCs) will bring the overall total of funding to £500m, since the Curriculum Online Project started in 2003.
