Purchasing+Together

=**What can we buy together?**= 29-Jan-2010 **: This is now complete. we have settled on HP to supply access points, core and edge switches. Please talk to Kev prior to ordering anything.

Original: Switching Equipment and Wireless access points.** We are in the process of mapping our primary school networks. Once we have a requirements document from every school, we will look for groups of switches and access points and go to tender.
 * Kev to get all of you copies of what we need;
 * secondary schools are welcome to engage in this process with us.
 * Looking to go to tender by mid November.

**29-Jan-2010** Our installation was completed yesterday. It was actually completed in Mid December but it has taken till yesterday to get our faxes running on the new system. Done now.
 * Phone Systems**

Original: We settled today on a Samsung phone system for TCEO. 12 schools already have Samsungs. If you intend purchasing a phone system, there are opportunities to use SIP trunking to make free calls between schools and TCEO.

Is anyone prepared to commit to a Brand and model? We can then see how many are required and if possible get a volume discount.
 * Laptops/Notebooks**


 * Classroom Management Software**


 * 29-Jan-2010 ** On Monday this week, Jordan attended the second HeuCampus installation. It was at Holy Spirit. we have purchased the Heu campus licence on behalf of the diocese and you all have the rights to install on all devices at your sites. Please talk to Jordan if you require more information.

Original: With the prospect of 1:1, there is a call from teachers to have software such as [|HeuCampus], NetOp Vision6, [|NetSupport School] or [|NetControl]. These packages allow: We are trialling HeuCampus at St Joey's the Strand. It gets installed this Friday (16th October 2009.) Please feel free to add any comments or experiences you have had with any of these packages. We will go to market for a whole of Diocese price.
 * teachers to send a message to all screens saying "Come Back To Class";
 * Sharing a particular student screen with all others in class;
 * restricting students to a white list of Internet sites for that lesson;

**29-Jan-2010** All our schools (except 1) are on the Microsoft Agreement. We will pay the bill and on-charge you. To find all things Microsoft, you can search "microsoft" on DataJug ([]). To find the numbers used for Microsoft licensing for 2010, type "Microsoft numbers" in the search.

The Diocese is in a three year deal with Microsoft for the School Desktop Agreement. Our Microsoft Partner is Insight. Our Contact is Ben Pascoe ( Ben Pascoe | Business Development Manager - Queensland | Insight Australia | Fax: 07 3025 3312 | Mobile +61 437 395 553 - [|https://shop.insight.com] ). To find all things Microsoft, you can search "microsoft" on DataJug ([]). To find the numbers used for Microsoft licensing for 2010, type "Microsoft numbers" in the search.
 * Microsoft Agreement**


 * Portal Services**

**29-Jan-2010** All our staff across the diocese are now on Google Apps. they share the domain tsvcath.net. All secondary schools have been setup with their own Google Apps domain for students and all primary students have been set up to be in one domain.

Burdekin Catholic High: https://www.google.com/a/bchs.tsvcath.net/ Columba Catholic College: https://www.google.com/a/columba.tsvcath.net/ St Anthony's: https://www.google.com/a/sacc.tsvcath.net/ Good Shepherd Catholic High: https://www.google.com/a/goodshepherd.tsvcath.net/ Gilroy Santa Maria: https://www.google.com/a/gilroysm.tsvcath.net/Abergowrie College: https://www.google.com/a/abergowrie.tsvcath.net/St Margaret Mary's College: https://www.google.com/a/smmc.tsvcath.net/Ryan Catholic College: https://www.google.com/a/ryan.tsvcath.net/All Staff in the Diocese: https://www.google.com/a/tsvcath.net/ ** (DONE) ** All primary students in the diocese: https://www.google.com/a/primary.tsvcath.net/

Why is it done this way? 1. Each domain has an administrator. This setup allows secondary schools to administer their own students 2. All primary schools can be administered by the office OR ICT reps at each school can be given ADMIN rights over the entire domain. Dane is hoping to add this to our LDAP functions so that all account provisioning will happen automatically from maze. 3. The trial is only with staff at present. We don't want any students using this until schools get the chance to discuss with their P&Fs and have the policies in place to support the resource. The big change from MyInternet is this suite allows students to be the creators. We have to make sure we communicate to students that with power comes added responsibility. And we have to make sure our behaviour management systems are ready for this. Mostly, we need to make sure parents are aware of what this entails.

Original: The Diocese Offers DataJug as a locally developed portal service. It integrates with Maze then passes credentials to an LDAP server in Sydney. This is then used to populate MyInternet or any other portal service delivered at CENet or CNA. This gives us a link between our locally created student identities and the identities in use on any of the Portal services.

On the 14th and 15th October, CENet is hosting a conference in Sydney to discuss future strategies for the procurement of central services. The choice of future portal services will be critical in this discussion because the portal will be the interface to the central services. It would make sense to have a portal that interoperates with other services according to defined and recognised standards.

In the past, all schools in the diocese have inherited the Diocesan choice. This will continue to be the case. School experiences of these services should be dramatically different once fibre is installed as your tail to the WAN.

**29-Jan-2010** : All our primary were migrated to CNA over Christmas. So was Ryan, Good Shep Mt Isa, St Anthony's Deeragun. All other secondaries will be online in April this year and failing that, in June.
 * Catholic Network Australia**

Original: This is something we have joined along with most Dioceses in Australia. For our schools, it is delivering ADSL2 connections to the WAN for our primary schools and fibre connections for all secondary schools. The core will also delver a range of educational services on-ramp. At its heart will be an identity management service that will allow dioceses and schools the capacity to integrate data between different systems. The current schedule for roll out appears below.