2. Assess ICT readiness
ISS needs to assess the current use and management of ICT. Then develop planning frameworks that
identify the elements of ICT and provide guidance on the progressive development of a schoolʼs capabilities.
3. Strategic planning
Our school should develop an ICT strategic plan. The plan needs to describe the schoolʼs vision and high-
level goals for ICT, and be consistent with the schoolʼs long-term vision and strategy.
IT department aims to ensure that every student has access to ICT. This objective needs to be incorporated
into the schoolʼs ICT strategic plan.
The strategic plan should set out the strategies and implementation details for achieving the goals identified
against each element of the relevant ICT planning framework. For each strategy, the ICT strategic plan will
usually describe:
• The intended outcomes, including the target level of ICT readiness
• The measures of achievement
• The evaluation processes.
4. Infrastructure planning
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Once the overall ICT vision, goals and strategies are determined, the school should plan its ICT
infrastructure in the following areas.
Access devices
Access devices are those items of ICT equipment (including software) that are directly used by students,
teachers and school staff. To reflect the decisions about teaching and learning practices set out in the ICT
strategic plan, schools need to choose:
• The types and capacity of access devices to be acquired
• The placement and allocation of the devices within learning spaces.
Network infrastructure
The network infrastructure needs to meet the requirements for connecting access devices to tools, services
and digital resources, some of which will be outside the school.
5. Application Software
Applications and software must support teaching, learning or administration. These includes:
Support resources
With an enhanced ICT infrastructure, the resources supporting the infrastructure (including people, skills,
processes, externally provided services and financial resources) may need to change.
Budgeting
Enhancing the schoolʼs ICT infrastructure will incur:
• One-off capital costs, including costs to acquire new hardware and software
• Recurrent costs for the ongoing management of the infrastructure, including technical support costs,
software licensing costs and telecommunications costs.
When planning infrastructure enhancements, the school needs to establish the changes that will be required
to its current and future ICT infrastructure baseline budget, and confirm that current and future costs can be
funded.
6. If budgeting shows that current or future costs cannot be met, the ICT infrastructure plan will need to be
revised.
Implementation
