Clayton Hall Academy using Senso

Monitor students at home

During the pandemic a plethora of issues arose, including being unable to monitor students use of school devices and students not having devices to use at home.

This is a major issue as part of our aims is pastoral support, what we could no longer provide as we didn’t know what the students were using their devices for.

Monitoring Solution

As a Primary Goal apprentice, I was given the hero of the day Senso. This partnership enabled us to develop and deploy devices we could manage with Senso allowing us to Intune the DFE laptops with Senso on, this provided us a monitoring system, that shows us when they last logged on, screen shots of violating keywords and able to access their device and observe in real time what they were doing.

This was a major help and as the Department of Education laptops were only given to disadvantage children, thus the one’s who are in most need, this allowed us to sustain pastoral support through violating keywords and created an excel spreadsheet for usage, as we use both of these as a metric for their well being and who will need further support.

Support for Students

Senso has allowed us to continue to support students regardless of their location. Additionally, Senso has already helped us and the students a great deal, as our safeguarding officers have been able to provide psychological help due to the violation logs will email us if there is an urgent violation, allowing us to act swiftly and aide the students who are typing ‘suicide’ in Google search.

I can’t mention names of any of the students for GDPR reasons, but due to Senso numerous students have been helped in these troubling times.