Action plan submitted by GÜLTEN KARATÜRK for HANIMÇEŞME İLKOKULU - 02.01.2023 @
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By submitting your completed Assessment Form to the eSafety Label portal you have taken an
important step towards analysing the status of eSafety in your school. Congratulations! Please
read through your Action Plan carefully to see what you can do to improve eSafety further in your
school. The Action Plan offers useful advice and comments, broken down into 3 key areas:
infrastructure, policy and practice.
eSafety Label - Action Plan
Infrastructure
Technical security
It is good practice that your ICT services are regularly reviewed, updated and removed if no longer in use.
It is very good that all your school devices are virus protected. Make sure you also have included a paragraph on
virus protection in both your school policy and your Acceptable Use Policy, and ensure that staff and pupils
rigorously apply school guidelines. If you need further information, check out the fact sheet on Protecting your
devices against malware at www.esafetylabel.eu/group/community/protecting-your-devices-against-malware.
Pupil and staff access to technology
It is good that in your school computer labs can easily be booked. Consider the option of integrating other digital
devices into the lessons as using them provides best practise for pupils in dealing with new media. Ensure that
safety issues are also discussed.
Data protection
There is a retention plan in place for your school detailing how specific school records are stored, archived and
disposed. This is very good. Ensure that the plan is followed and review it regularly to ensure it relates to the
Data Protection Act and other relevant legislation. Check the according fact sheet for more information.
It is good that all users are attributed a different password by the system in your school. Remind all school
members never to write their given password down anywhere, certainly not on a sticker on a computer! Also,
ensure that the Acceptable Use Policy reminds staff and pupils to keep their passwords secure and not share
them with others.
It is good that your email system is protected and that you have a policy for the transfer of pupil data in place. In
this regard, it is important to draw up guidelines so that all staff are clear about what to do if they discover
inappropriate or illegal content on school machines. For further information see the fact sheet on Protecting
sensitive data (www.esafetylabel.eu/group/community/protecting-sensitive-data-in-schools).
Software licensing
Ensure that all staff are aware of the procedure for purchasing new software and that all licenses are appropriate
for the number of pupils and staff that will be using them. The End-user license agreement section in Wikipedia
will provide useful information for understanding terms and conditions and comparing software agreements.
IT Management
There is a mechanism set up in your school that allows any staff member to make a request for new
hard/software - a request that leads to an informed decision within a reasonable amount of time. This is great as
this way teacher can benefit from new technologies while still staying inline with school policy.
It is good practise that your are training and/or providing guidance in the use of new software that is installed on
school computers. This ensures that school members will take advantage of new features, but also that they are
aware of security and data protection issues where relevant.
It is good practice to ensure that the person in charge of the ICT network is fully informed of what software is on
school-owned hardware and this should be clearly indicated in the School Policy and the Acceptable Use Policy.
The person responsible for the network needs to be able to guarantee conformity with licensing requirements
and that new software won't interfere with network operation.
Policy
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
It is excellent that eSafety is an integral part of several school policies. Do all staff make reference to it when
appropriate through their teaching? Look for examples of good practice and share these with staff and pupils.
Produce a short case study to highlight this good practice and upload it to your profile on the eSafety Label portal
via your My school area as inspiration for other schools.
It is good practise that whenever changes are put into place in your school, the school policies are revised if
needed. Note though, that also changes outside the school can affect policies such as new legislations or
changing technologies. Therefore please review your policies at least annually.
Reporting and Incident-Handling
Are all staff familiar with the procedure for dealing with material that could potentially be illegal? Is there a named
person from the school senior leadership team who takes overall responsibility in this type of case? The
procedure needs to be clearly communicated to all staff in the School Policy, and to staff and pupils in the
Acceptable Use Policy. Remember to report and suspected illegal content to your national INHOPE hotline
(www.inhope.org).
It is good practice to log cyberbullying incidents that occur in your school centrally, as you are contributing to
building a data base of successful incident handling practices from schools across Europe that you and others
can use in future. Make sure that pupils sign up to anti-bullying guidelines in your Acceptable Use Policy.
Check that your School Policy includes all necessary information for teachers about handling issues when pupils
knowingly or even inadvertently access illegal or offensive material online by going to the guidance set out by the
teachtoday.de/en website (tinyurl.com/9j86v84). If such incidents arise in your school, make sure you
anonymously fill out the eSafety Label Incident handling form (www.esafetylabel.eu/group/teacher/incidenthandling)
so that other schools can benefit from your experience.
Ensure that all staff, including new members of staff, are aware of the guidelines concerning what to do if
inappropriate or illegal material is discovered on a school machine. Ensure, too, that the policy is rigorously
enforced. A member of the school's senior leadership team should monitor this.
Staff policy Pupil practice/behaviour
It is good that pupils have the possibility to shape school activities when discussing eSafety, be it extra-curricular
and curricular ones, based on what is going on in their daily lives. This way they will be more engaged and it also
allows the teacher to recognise real life issues.
School presence online
Check the fact sheet on Taking and publishing photos and videos at school
(www.esafetylabel.eu/group/community/taking-and-publishing-photos-and-videos-at-school) to see that your
School Policy covers all areas, then upload this section of your School Policy to your profile page via your My
school area so that other schools can learn from your good practice.
It is good that pupils can give feedback on the school's online presence. Think about creating a space that is
entirely managed by pupils. It's a great opportunity to learn about media literacy and related issues. It also can
help to establish a peer network of support. Find out more about in the eSafety Label fact sheet.
Regularly check the content of the school's online presence on social media sites to ensure that there are no
inappropriate comments. Set up a process for keeping the site/page up to date, and check the fact sheet on
Schools on social networks (www.esafetylabel.eu/group/community/schools-on-social-networks) for further
information to make sure that good practice guidelines have been followed. Get feedback from stakeholders
about how useful the profile is.
Practice
Management of eSafety
Ensure that the governor or board member appointed for eSafety has the opportunity to receive regular training
and also to ensure that colleagues are aware of eSafety issues. Involve your governing body in the development
and regular review of your School Policy. See our fact sheet on School Policy
www.esafetylabel.eu/group/community/school-policy.
In your school, teachers are responsible for their own pupils' online activity. There are many network security and
user privacy, audit and procedural tool checks and balances that need to take place to ensure the safety of your
pupils and the school networks, and these should be laid down in your School Policy. See our fact sheet on
School Policy at www.esafetylabel.eu/group/community/school-policy.
To ensure this happens as efficiently and often as necessary, we advise that the Principal of your school
appoints one individual staff member to look after eSafety management in the school. This person will be
responsible for seeing that all aspects included in your School Policy are discussed and looked at with other
The Assessment Form you submitted is generated from a large pool of questions. It is also useful
teachers as well as with pupils in the classroom.
To ensure that every staff member, pupil and parent is aware of her or his online rights and responsibilities, see
the fact sheet on Acceptable Use Policy (www.esafetylabel.eu/group/community/acceptable-use-policy-aup-).
eSafety in the curriculum
It is good that these issues have been included in the eSafety curriculum. It is a good idea to regularly review the
issues which are being covered by your eSafety education in order to ensure that new and emerging issues are
covered.
It is excellent that consequences of online actions are discussed with pupils in all grades. Terms and conditions
need to be read to fully understand contractual conditions. This can also concern aspects of data privacy.
Another important topic is breach of copyright. Please share the materials used through the uploading evidence
tool, accessible also via the My school area.
It is good practise that in your school Cyberbullying is discussed in the curriculum with pupils from a young age.
Extra curricular activities
It is good to know that you are frequently using the online eSafety resources from your national Safer Internet
Centre. Have you found these resources helpful in your school? Please send your feedback on their use and
value to info-insafe@eun.org.
Sources of support
It is great that in your school pupils are actively encouraged to become eSafety mentors. You might want to
share your approach to strengthening this network with other teachers on the eSafety Label website via the
forum or your school's profile page, so that others can replicate it.
It is good to know that other school services are involved in eSafety issues (e.g. counsellors, psychologists,
school nurse). Are they also invited to contribute to developing and regular review of your School Policy? Publish
a case study about how this is managed in your school on your school profile page on the eSafety Label project
website, so that others can learn from your experience.
Staff training
It is good practise that you provide information to teachers on the technology used by pupils in their freetime.
This is important as this awareness is the first step in addressing the issue of powering down for school. At the
same time pupils should not be asked to do their homework using technology not available to them outside of
schools. You might want to have a look at the Essie Survey of ICT in schools.
It should be a real benefit to your pupils that all staff receive regular training on eSafety issues. Continue to
gather feedback from staff on the medium- and long-term benefits of the training and consult the eSafety Label
portal to see suggestions for training courses at www.esafetylabel.eu/group/community/suggestions-for-onlinetraining-
courses.
for us to know if you are improving eSafety in areas not mentioned in the questionnaire. You can
upload evidence of such changes via the Upload evidence on the My school area section of the
eSafety Portal. Remember, the completion of the Assessment Form is just one part of the
Accreditation Process, because the upload of evidence, your exchanges with others via the
Forum, and your reporting of incidents on the template provided are all also taken into account.
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