2026

Are you a student, teacher, or school interested in creating instructional videos to help others navigate our online and digital platforms? This is your chance!

What we're looking for:

• Students and teachers who love making videos, that incorporate digital design, to support our peers and colleagues.
• Creative ideas and a passion for sharing knowledge!

Here is an example video by one of our brilliant students - Student Portal Video!

To get involved, simply submit your Expression of Interest via this  form! Join us in making digital learning easier and more accessible for everyone! For more details, please contact us. Let's get creative!

Students and teachers using school‑managed or BYOD Apple devices, and any other BYOD devices, including Chromebooks, may experience issues accessing websites or opening web‑based apps if they haven’t signed in to Internet @ Edge for the day.

To ensure smooth access, please remember to visit detnsw.net or use the Internet @ Edge shortcut on the home screen of school-managed Apple devices to sign in before browsing or using apps that need internet.

If students are working on shared devices, they should log out at the end of each session by returning to the Internet @ Edge page. This helps ensure the next user can connect without issues.

For step-by-step guidance and troubleshooting tips, explore the available support resources.
 

In an exciting new update you can now craft stories tailored to your curriculum needs with Read Along in Google Classroom. Assign these custom narratives to boost engagement through personalised content and streamline your lesson planning.

This can help reduce the time spent searching for texts, but it also creates unique, relevant narratives that boost student engagement and interest.

For more information, head to this page for more instructions on how you can create content for learners using Google Read Along.

Your Apple devices are awesome learning tools in your classroom. How are you allowing your students to demonstrate their knowledge, skills and understandings in creative ways for you?

Have you explored the Apple Learning Centre? This is full of great ideas using the inbuilt applications, such as Keynote and iMovie. Why not have student's demonstrate their creative spark by showing off their photo, music, video or drawing skills?

Check out the Learning Center or Everyone Can Create resource for an array of new ideas and guides to use in your classroom.

The AssessedIT portal has introduced two new features to help staff stay informed and make clearer decisions when selecting services.

A new ‘watch’ feature is now available. By selecting the envelope icon next to a service, you can subscribe to updates and receive notifications whenever there are changes to that service’s information. This ensures you always have the most current details without needing to manually check the portal.

A licence type field has been added to each service listing. This clearly indicates whether a service is provided under a paid or free licence, where this information is available. Having this visible at a glance will help you understand any potential costs before using a service.

Please remember when using paid online learning tools, you must only select products approved in the Online Learning Tools Marketplace.

Your free Canva Education access via your DoE login automatically provisions you to your school team when you sign in. Any staff member or student who changed schools in 2026, including moving from a primary school to a high school, will need to sign out of Canva and sign back in via the DoE Staff/Student portal essentials tile to be provisioned to your 2026 school.

Remember to look for the blue tick in the team switcher as these are the Canva teams managed by NSW DoE and provide you with premium Canva access for free.

It is important to note that designs made in Canva are saved in the Project space of a team so if you would like designs from your previous school in your new school, you will need to copy them over.

Please use this guide to learn how to switch teams, and copy designs from one team to another.

Can you talk faster than you type? Then you should try using a dictation tool on your device. Look for the microphone icon in apps such as Word or Google Docs, on your mobile device or on your Windows device press the keyboard shortcut: Windows +H. This will enable voice typing wherever there is a flashing cursor.

Check it out in action in the video below. For more dictation tools available on iOS, macOS and ChromeOS, as well as other inclusive and assistive technologies, visit the T4L website.

Cloud Device Management (CDM) is being used by schools to manage their fleet of Windows devices. The team at End User Compute and Collaboration is seeking your feedback regarding the development of CDM and new features, mostly looking at the functionality of the dashboard.

Please submit your suggestions using the form.

NOTE: Not all requests and features will be viable due to technical constraints with some platforms or products.

Information Technology Directorate publishes three issues of news.T4L each term. Remember - share each issue with your staff! If you aren't receiving an email notification as soon as a new issue of news.T4L drops, then you're missing out! So why not subscribe?