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Frequently Asked Questions

How does our school get started with Edujam?

Simply fill in the contact form. We will make contact to confirm your requirements and provide a clear quotation taking into account any special pricing arrangements for your area.

How can we help our pupils get the most out of our membership?

Easy Start up
As part of our managed service, we can pre-register your teachers and pupils with an extract from your admin database. This is by far the quickest and best way to ensure your pupils get going with their own Jam Studio. Each class will be linked to a Creative friend of your choice ( usually their class teacher) during this process.

Onsite Introductory Day
The first steps with edujam are the the most important steps to building a sustainable creative community and raising attainment through creativity. We have put together a special onsite service to make sure your pupils get off to a great start.

An agenda for this day includes sessions that are are interactive and informal, covering the basic functions of edujam and use of visual and audio media capture devices. These sessions are instrumental in helping members of staff feel confident in applying the use of edujam into existing schemes of work. Don’t worry about the pupils, this special day will help the first half dozen get started and experience shows the rest will soon follow.

Ongoing Service
Our services will extend in line with the needs and priorities expressed by the Edujam community, providing further CPD opportunities, consultancy, training, competitions as well as technical help to ensure Edujam is of maximum benefit across your school. There is an ever increasing range of resources and tutorials in the Edujam Staff room as well as curriculum tags and searches available to support teaching staff.

Who can enjoy our School Stage?

Your school community of pupils, creative friends and parents, also a community of schools if you choose to be part of one. A world wide audience will enjoy work displayed on the world stage if you choose to be part of this. It is entirely under your control.

What about the display of any personal information ?

Under no circumstances are any real personal details about pupils displayed on a your school stage. The Jam User ID ( the pupils’ edujam nickname) is the only information displayed. Information about the display of pupils’ profile data ( a few words about themselves) to other pupils in your school, or community of schools is included in the Edujam Privacy Policy.

Edujam is built to the applicable BECTA guidelines.

What about the use of real pictures?

Increasingly Head teachers are seeking and obtaining permission from parents to use real images of pupils on notice boards, newsletters, publications or the schools’ own website. Any display of real pictures is the totally under the control of the school.

How do our pupils record their audio and video?

For portable use we can provide you with easy to use roving reporter / director kits that can link straight into your computer. For class based recording we have a special studio quality Inclass Sounds kit. This is ideal for Jam teamwork with edusounds and a range of voice and music activities, Why not record the singing in assembly and upload onto the school stage?

How do our pupils edit their audio / video ?

Their are a number of easy to use open source software packages you can use. Edujam is a member of the open source consortium and we cover the options in more detail in the Edujam staff room, training and resource materials.

Where are the Jams hosted?

Jams are hosted and backed up on our servers, we deal with all technical issues associated with this, so your pupils and staff can concentrate on enjoying using Edujam as a natural part of your curriculum activities.

We can’t download files such as MP3, MPEG 4 files in school, how will we enjoy pupils’ work in school?

The Jams play through a variety of standard media players so that you do not have to download anything to listen to them. If we need to liase with any technical support teams to solve any firewall issues then we will manage those issues for you.

Is there a limit to the number and size of Jams for any Jam user.

Not at present. We want your pupils to feel empowered to be as creative as possible. However, if in the future, Jam users are regularly producing epics the size of Lord of the rings we may need to review this.

Can we link up our school with other schools?

Yes. We can set up your school to be part of a community of schools,so that they have a community stage as well your individual school stage. If you wish you can allow your pupils to invite pupils from other schools in this community to be a Jam friend and then collaborate with bulletin and comment facilities in an extended yet totally safe community.

This feature is designed to help link school communities, international projects, support collaboration and yr6 to yr7 transition.

We already have our own website and we can publish pupils work on it, what is different about this?

Primary schools are keen to place kids at the centre, be inclusive, offer every pupil the opportunity for them to show their talents and achievements in an online theatre. With individual Jam Studios, a range of artforms and a school stage, Edujam offers this without the enormous development cost in time and effort to build it yourself and then manage on an ongoing basis. Please see the case study video to hear staff views on the benefits of this.

Primary schools already find updates to even the basic information for staff and parents, on their own websites, to be an expensive and time consuming exercise. Edujam offers an appropriate way to extend an existing website because it is simply about pupil’s creativity, their outputs. It can help a school harness their pupils own energy in a personal way, with a range of artforms and ICT tools. It is fully managed, kept updated and vibrant, because it is a natural part of curriculum activities in the school, without the need to spend loads of staff time managing or updating. It also offers parents a deeper sense of involvement in their childs’ enjoyment and achievement whilst at your school.

Edujam is much quicker to get going with, doesn’t have an enormous development cost, it is inclusive and energising for pupils in your school and in a wider community of schools. It raises aspiration and provides an audience on a world stage.

As a community interest company dedicated to Primary School learners, parents and educators , Edujam offers the easiest and most affordable way to source open and portable technologies, training and CPD opportunities for teaching staff as well as an exciting way to firmly place pupils at the centre and surround them with creative opportunities whilst learning.

What do I need to use Edujam?

Edujam has been designed to work on all web enabled computers. Edujam has been designed to work with the following minimum requirments:

Sound enabled PC or Mac
Internet Connection - broadband
PC: Internet Explorer 5+
Recommended Screen - 1024x768

How can I view pdfs on my computer?
You can download the pdf reader from adobe site here
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

I cannot seem to play the .avi flies on my computer?
Goto the site http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/

And install the Xvid codec for windows or Mac