2025

Technology has the ability to enable all learners to personalise their learning in the classroom, supporting a wide range of diverse abilities. Apple are running an optional, full day workshop to provide an in depth exploration of iPad tools that can help remove barriers to participation and create more inclusive learning environments.

Throughout the day, participants will:

• Explore the powerful built-in assistive features of iPad that support vision, hearing, motor skills, and learning needs.
• Experience how students can use iPad to learn in ways that suit their individual strengths.
• Discover valuable resources, apps, lesson ideas, and practical tips to reach every learner.

This is a hands-on session and is an oportunity for those teachers who may have aligned PDP goals or are supporting school wide goals in this area. 

Where possible, please bring your iPad to fully engage in the interactive activities.

Click Here for more details and registration.

At the end of every school year, it is a good idea to archive your online classrooms, unless they are being used in the following year.

If you haven’t had the chance to do this for your 2024 classes, it’s a good idea to look in both your Microsoft Teams class teams and Google Classroom locations for any spaces which still may be active.

The Digital Support Team has some helpful videos to guide you through the archiving process. This won’t delete any information and can be easily restored if necessary.



 

The exciting “Safe Refuge - Rethinking Shelter for Tomorrow” competition, invites students aged 8-12 to design innovative, disaster-proof shelter solutions using Canva. Teams of 2–4 students will create a media campaign, showcasing their designs, including a poster, a 10-slide presentation and a short movie or animation.

The challenge helps students develop critical thinking, digital fluency and multimodal storytelling, while aligning with the Australian Curriculum. It’s the perfect opportunity to engage students in STEM, English and Digital Technologies, while fostering collaboration and creativity. Prizes include Canva print vouchers and training for school staff. The best designs will be celebrated at the showcase event on 28 August 2025. Register here by May 25, 2025 to join this hands-on, innovative competition. Let your students design a safer future!

Microsoft will end support for its “Remote Desktop app” for Windows on May 27, 2025.

Users will need to transition to the new “Windows App” for continued access to services like Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD).

Windows App is already available on all DoE managed devices.

You can find it in the Windows search bar. Follow the steps in the guides below to use it, instead of the Remote Desktop app.

Windows App - MacOS

Windows App - Windows devices.

Shape learning today and every day, with fun and creative lessons that ignite excitement and deepen engagement with any subject. Several new creative lesson ideas are now available at the Apple Education Community.

You can find more activities like this to spark student creativity, as part of the Apple Everyone Can Create series. We can’t wait to see your creativity take flight!

The Digital Support Team have continued to update and add new content to the T4L website.

This includes updated resources for schools that use Google Chromebooks, as well as inclusive and assistive tools, and features built into our devices and applications to support users with various needs. 

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