Overview

SchoolWorkSpace provides software services to Schools and Education Establishments. These services include Forms & Surveys, Class Layouts and Homework.

To provide these services an accurate list of parents/contacts, staff and students is required. SchoolWorkSpace integrates with Groupcall Messenger and/or Groupcall Xporter and maintains a secure copy of required data within the SchoolWorkSpace data store.

Transfer and Use of Personal Information

For the purpose of allowing authorised users to use SchoolWorkSpace, the system requires specific personal information.

1. Personal information about pupils who are currently on roll:

   • Internal MIS record ID

   • Name

   • Gender

   • Home/mobile phone numbers

   • Email address(es)

   • Year group, registration group, school house group

   • Class or lesson groups

   • School record photograph

2. Personal information about adults currently in the employ of the school:

   • Internal MIS record ID,

   • Name and title

   • Gender

   • Association with class, lesson, year, registration or house groups

   • Mobile, home and work phone numbers

   • Email address(es)

   • School record photograph

3. Personal information about pupil contacts with parental responsibility:

   • Internal MIS record ID,

   • Name and title

   • Mobile, home and work phone numbers

   • Email address(es)

   • Relationship with Student (Father/Mother/etc...)

4. Information about your school:

   • School name and establishment number

   • School phone number

   • School email address

   • Head teacher’s name

   • Full school address

   • Seating plans

5. Additional Data

   • Any data you upload manually into SchoolWorkSpace e.g. existing data in a Data Collection Form

   • Any data items that users enter into Forms that you send

   • Data that users enter into the system e.g. Homework Assignments and Submissions

Use of Data

The Use of Data policy is provided for schools to ensure that, as data controllers they have the ability to share data, and that they consider there to be appropriate measures in place, ensuring that the data is held securely and confidentially.

SchoolWorkSpace and its suppliers will be acting as ‘data processors’ as defined by GDPR. SchoolWorkSpace has taken all reasonable measures to ensure the safety and security of the personal information, and continues to review these measures on an on-going basis.

Data Security

The information from your school is held inside the SchoolWorkSpace web platform, which is hosted in Microsoft’s Azure platform in the UK South territory. The data in Azure is protected from exposure by multiple layers of fire-walling, authentication and physical access control.

Privacy Policy

We take care to protect the privacy of customers and users of SchoolWorkSpace. The full privacy policy can be found here.