Structured Cabling
This is nearing completion, but a number of schools are awaiting an electrical upgrade. This work is scheduled for completion before the arrival of the network teams.

School Network Deployment Eight teams of technicians have been formed to visit all nursery, primary and primary schools on a scheduled programme (distributed to schools in November 2002) to install two servers, establish internet connection and re-build every computer accepted as being suitable for the purpose.

Desktop set-up
A user name and password will be established for staff and pupils. Up to and including primary 5 there will be a class account and this will extend to e-mail.
Work folders will be held on a server and users can log onto any networked computer to retrieve their work.

Software included
This includes Granada Toolkit (version 2), Microsoft Office 2000, Publisher and Encarta. Internet Explorer will be the web browser and GroupWise the e-mail application.

Internet Access and Protection
A second server will hold WebSense software which will filter access to websites and scrutinise the contents of e-mails leaving and arriving at the school. This will be supported by remote filtering and firewall services held on Council IT servers at a central site.
Teachers' e-mail accounts will be in the form
firstname.secondname@fife.gov.uk
and teachers will have access to relevant sections of Fife Council's address book whereas pupils' e-mail will take the form
primaryx@schoolname.fife.sch.uk or roomx@schoolname.fife.sch.uk.

Similar accounts will apply to nursery and special schools.

ICT Coordinators
The teacher designated as the school's ICT coordinator will be kept informed of developments either through direct mail shots, via their e-mail account or through a series of meetings where issues arising and future developments can be discussed.

Fife Council Service Desk
A direct telephone link is being established to enable the ICT coordinator to report faults, request the installation or removal of software and to raise a purchase order for new hardware and consumables. Details of the equipment's unique Computer Identification Number (CI) will be required at this point.

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Although a considerable amount of training has been delivered through the NOF programme a level of familiarisation with the new network configuration is required for all nursery, special and primary schools.
To meet this need the Education IT Unit at Auchterderran will, on completion of the network, liaise with every establishment's headteacher to arrange a time at which it is convenient to visit the school.
Staff training will be provided in the following areas:

Log On, user names and passwords
Work folders and printing
E-mail and diaries within GroupWise
Internet Access
Filtering software for both web access and e-mail messages
Procedures to follow when contacting the ServiceDesk
Notifying the Service Desk of new hardware and software