The need to adapt to technology in educational institutions can be seen in two ways - one is to improve the learning experience and the second is to manage internal resources effectively. Technology brings theories to life, enabling students to invest less time in understanding concepts, thus leveraging technology in education enhances the learning experience.
As with others, when the pandemic struck the education sector, the learning curve for in-person classes almost flattened. Digital learning gained increased significance and soon filled class schedules.
According to eLearning industry, students retain up to 60% more information compared to tradition learning methods. These innovations promise a future for the use of technology to facilitate learning, known as ed-tech, even after in-class teaching returns.
Proactive network monitoring at educational institutions ensures:
A good network monitoring tool tailors a holistic learning experience with automated administrative management.
High availability, optimum performance and scalable storage systems are undeniably the three axioms of a healthy network. This is true for educational institutions as well.
An IT team's primary objective in monitoring an educational institution's network is ensuring a good availability of all the network assets, including all network devices, learning platforms, associated websites, and service portals. Downtime suffocates accessibility to these inter-dependent channels.
Keeping an eye on the performance of various education applications and servers is crucial. A poor user experience places the functioning of your education infrastructure in crisis.
The next pain point an IT team should address is effectively managing storage systems. Learning resources require potential storage servers, including precise capacity planning, to help servers function effectively. Online classes or ed-tech based smart, in-person classes, the educational content stored on these platforms should be protected against all odds. Preserving the student-faculty database and securing it is fundamental for an educational institution.
A feature-rich network monitoring tool ensures monitoring schools, colleges and universities is a cakewalk for the network administrators.
Effective network monitoring software establishes harmony in the network, with seamless functioning of all the network components.
Availability monitoring helps track devices whether they are running or experiencing downtime, which helps IT administrators better understand the status of the network. With schools and universities supporting distant education, continuous monitoring ensures all the network assets are up and running, always.
Proactively monitoring storage systems helps your organization plan capacity effectively. Proper planning ensures sufficient rationing of resources for seamless network performance. An overflowing storage can cause your device to freeze and eventually loss of data.
Analyzing the campus bandwidth is necessary because it helps detect rogue devices, which is especially crucial during online classes and exams. A sudden spike in network traffic can indicate a hacking attempt. Proactive network traffic monitoring is essential if your institution has migrated to ed-tech completely.
Healthy hardware provides good network performance. It's vital to monitor hardware devices regularly to detect fluctuating voltage or an overheated CPU that might indicate a problem.
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a voice call made through an Internet Protocol. Jitter is the time delay in data transmission between the source and destination device. Proactively monitoring VoIP ensures less jitter. Jitter is a key metric to control as it can hinder your video and voice clarity during an online class session.
A delay between a network request and a response results in a poor user experience, especially during online classes.
With the world migrating to better technologies to improve the learning experience, monitoring the network of educational settings based on ed-tech has become more challenging. An effective network monitoring tool adapts itself to the evolving technologies.
Network downtime or poor performance can negatively impact educational institutions which are dependent on technology to achieve automated internal management. Failing to raise an internal request, or being unable to access a learning channel, might result in a poor user experience.
Poor capacity planning might result in overflowing servers. Servers form the basis of a campus network as they are used to store data of all streams, educational or people databases. A loss of this data damages an institution's reputation.
Policies like the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the GDPR help educational institution protect students' personal information. Not complying with these regulations, or not ensuring licenses are updated, can cost your institution more than you imagine—in terms of capital and reputation.
Online education is the new way of learning, and students are not confined to a particular network radius. A network monitoring tool that can manage networks distributed across the globe with a central probe guarantees an uninterrupted learning experience—anywhere, anytime!
Achieving greater visibility is challenging, but can be resolved with a tool that provides multiple visualization options.This enables administrators to visualize effectively and manage the network.
ManageEngine OpManager is an efficient network monitoring solution that simplifies the Herculean task of monitoring by providing a comprehensible set of features. Today's educational settings utilize more technology than in the past. New devices emerge to enhance the learning and teaching experience, thereby complicating the monitoring practice. With OpManager, any device connected to network through an IP address can be monitored.
OpManager provides what you need to monitor your educational institution.
Not adhering to industry-specific data privacy and protection policies might have negative impacts on the organization, leading to loss of reputation and customers. Policies like FERPA and the GDPR are framed to protect the personal information of students.
ManageEngine Network Configuration Manager, a seamless integration of OpManager, helps your network achieve domain-specific compliance. Network Configuration Manager allows you to create own policies meeting the compliance requirements. Be able to provide role-based access to people records, learning portals and curriculum.
Also integrate ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer to analyze the network traffic and ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer to improve the overall firewall performance.
