E-Safety features
E-safety on DB Primary : An overview
•Through DB Primary your children are able to experience the communication tools available
on the web in a safe and secure environment.
•By introducing concepts like email and forums in a simple and structured way, students can
learn about the important dos and don'ts of on-line communication in the safety of the
classroom.
• Children should know that DB Primary is a safe environment and that should it be necessary
any action taken on the platform can be tracked by teachers and administrators. Also, pupils
have the ability to highlight any unsuitable comments or use.
E-Safety Features
Objectives that will be covered:
1. The Whistle Monitor: reporting inappropriate content
2. Email: Safemail
3. Email: The Email Monitor
4. The Profanity Filter
5. Moderations: what can I moderate?
6. Moderations: Notification of pending moderations
7. Forums: setting up moderation
8. Blogs: setting up moderation
9. Wiki Contributions: moderation
10. Moderating files in the gallery
11. A pupil’s view of moderations
12. Viewing actions taken by a user
13. Ready-made E-safety communities
The Whistle Monitor
Reporting inappropriate content
If a child finds any content they believe is
inappropriate, they can report this to a nominated
"Whistle Monitor" at the school by clicking on the
whistle icon.
This will email the details to the nominated member
or members of staff. The email will contain a link and
brief description of the offending page.
Setting Whistle Monitors
To set teachers as whistle monitors, login as
superadmin. Visit the teacher’s settings page
(Administration>Accounts>Staff Account Folder>Click
on the pencil to the right of their name)
If you now click on the settings panel you will see the
option to set the teacher as a whistle monitor.
The Whistle Monitor
Reporting inappropriate content
When a child in their community clicks on the whistle,
this teacher will now receive a notification email.
Email
Safemail
In DB Primary children can send and receive
written messages, voice recordings, video
messages or drawings to their friends or
teachers in a simple to use system.
Starter Email
‘Safemail’ is DB Primary's way of keeping children safe
when using email and free of unwanted messages and
spam.
Pupil accounts automatically have safemail enabled.
This guarantees that no emails from outside the
platform can get to their inbox. It also means that they
are restricted to only emailing other users within the
school.
Email
Email Monitor
The teacher in charge of a community or superadmin is able to gain an overview of all emails sent by participants in that
community. They can search for emails by date, recipient, sender etc. Even if an email has been deleted by a pupil and
deleted thence from the pupil’s ‘bin’ it will be accessible for a further 30 days.
The Profanity Filter
DB Primary uses a profanity filter which will stop users saving inappropriate
words onto the learning platform.
If a user does attempt to enter a filtered word, this attempt will be recorded
and shown in a profanity rejections report.
Teachers and admin accounts can access this report. To do so, visit the
Administration area and under the accounts section locate the appropriate
folder. Select [Actions] from the right of this folder and choose 'Show
rejections' from the drop down list that appears:
You will then be taken to the Profanity Rejections report which will show you the time, place and content of the rejected entry:
Moderations
What can I moderate?
Different areas of the platform can be moderated. The following are optional:
•Posts and comments on the forum
•Community Blogs
•Wiki Contribution areas
The following are already set up to be moderated and cannot be changed:
•Files that are published to a community gallery
•Surveys that children create in a improver community
Moderations
Notification of pending moderations
Notification of pending moderations is also shown on the
teacher’s homepage, as long as the Class Activity tile is
enabled.
When you have clicked on the Moderations icon all
pending moderations are listed. These can be approved or
declined by clicking on the thumbs up or thumbs down
image.
To visit the file or forum post click on the titles.
Moderations
Forums: setting up moderation
To moderate the forum, visit the forum area of your
community and click on the cogs at the top right of the
screen.
Click on forum properties.
You are now given the option of what you would like to
moderate. You can either choose to moderate Topics Only
or All Posts. The latter refers to both the topics and all
comments subsequently made on these topics.
If you enter an Administrator email to this address, DB
Primary will forward notifications to this email of posts
awaiting moderation. Otherwise you will receive an email
to your DB Primary email.
Blogs: setting up moderation
Once moderation is enabled, community members will also be able to write
blog entries. Without moderation, only leaders can write entries.
Moderation of blogs is set up in the same way that forum moderation is set up.
Visit the blog area of your community by selecting the Blog button at the left
of the page. Next click on the cogs at the top right of the screen.
Click on Blog properties.
All posts
To ensure that nothing inappropriate is
published you can choose moderate all posts
and comments on student blogs so that
nothing is published until approved by a
teacher.
Blog entries only
If you don't think it will be necessary for you to
monitor comments this option lets you
moderate just the posts.
If you add an administrator email address this will be the email that will
receive a notification email for any pending posts and comments
requiring moderation.
Comments only
If you don't think it will be necessary for you to
monitor posts this option lets you moderate
just the comments on posts.
Moderations
Wiki Contributions: moderation
When you use the advanced page editor, you will see a collaborate
button on the tool bar. This lets you add a forum-type feature to any
of your pages.
When the children click on Contribute they will be able to add text
and pictures to the page.
By default moderation is already enabled for wiki
contributions. You will have to visit the page in order to
accept any contributions.
To remove moderation, when in the advanced page
design, click on Home in the page hierarchy area.
In Page Properties you can uncheck the Moderated check
box.
Moderating files in the gallery
Pupils can share files by publishing them from their mywork area on their homepage.
Files can be published to the gallery of any community they are a member of , but they must first be approved by the teacher.
Teachers can either approve these files from the Class Activity Tile on the teacher homepage or from within the
gallery by clicking on the file.
Approve from homepage
Approve from gallery
A pupil’s view of moderations
When a child attempts to make a post on a forum or blog that is moderated or publish a file to the community gallery they
will shown the following notification:
When the post has been accepted or declined they will receive an email notifying them of this.
Viewing actions taken by a user
The superadmin user can access an individual user's stats by visiting the Accounts view in the Administration area and
clicking on the scroll icon to the right of the user's name:
You will be shown all recent user activities
including logins and logouts and deletions
and additions. Clicking on content will give
you further details of any additions made by
the user.
Hovering over any of the coloured dots will
show a colour key as shown.
Ready-made content
E-Safety Communities
KS2 Community
KS1 Community
In the Learning Library you can find a KS1 and a KS2 online safety community which can be downloaded to your own
portal.
Each activity contains three stimulating stories with colourful DB characters that provide a context for learning about the
aspect of keeping safe online. At the end of each section the children take a short quiz to test what they have learned.
Aspects covered:
KS1: Keeping your password secret, avoiding cyber-bullying by using the whistle monitor, using appropriate language and
avoiding txt speak.
KS2: Chat rooms, the do’s and don’ts of giving out personal details, spam emails
If you would like any more information then please click on your ‘Need help?’ button on
your homepage.
Otherwise please contact our support team on:
Telephone – 01273 201 701
Email – support@dbprimary.com