SchoolNet Launches a Health Page on World Diabetes Day (14th November 2011) Given the importance of Health to the School Community, SchoolNet in association with Diabetes Association of Sri Lanka has launched a Health Page. As the first step, the page will provide information about Diabetes, a disease which is slowly but surely affecting Children in Sri Lanka.
National ICT Excellence Award 2009/10 - National and Provincial Winners Announced After a length evaluation process, National and Provincial Winners have been announced. National winner gets Rs. 5 million worth of ICT equipment to upgrade their facilities. SchoolNet congratulates all the winners. Winning Schools can get detailed information about the list of ICT equipment they are entitled to through SchoolNet Administrator page.
Call for Applications for e-Swabhimani Awards Deadline - 5th September 2011 - For More Information visit www.eswabhimani.lk SchoolNet is back online [2nd June 2011]
SchoolNet network migration has been completed and it is back online. Thank you for your patience during the last 24+ hours. We hope you will be feeling the waiting time worthwhile as now SchoolNet is an autonomous network connected to Internet using 100Mbps. If you still have issues in using SchoolNet services, please contact the SchoolNet NOC for technical assistance. SchoolNet Blogs - Attempt to capture passwords We have temporarily disabled the SchoolNet blogs as there has been an attempt to capture passwords. All SchoolNet users who have created blogs are strongly advised to change SchoolNet issued email passwords immediately. Please contact SchoolNet NOC (011-2650650) for technical assistance. SchoolNet Service Interruption to continue for a while SchoolNet Internet Link is being upgraded and as a result Internet is still not accessible. We are working to restore the connectivity as soon as possible and apologize for the inconvenience caused.
Interruption to SchoolNet Services on 31st May 2011
There will be an interruption to SchoolNet services starting from 17:00 - Mid-Night on 31st May 2011 for a network upgrade. This means that during the above period, access to Internet through SchoolNet and access to all sites hosted at SchoolNet will not be possible. While apologizing for inconvenience resulting from this interruption, we invite SchoolNet Community for a refreshingly new experience in connectivity once the upgrade is completed.
Sri Lanka Canada Friendship Foundation Scholarship 2011 Call for Applications Application in Sinhala Instructions (Sinhala) Pathfinder Schools 2011 - Call for Participation English Sinhala Tamil Pathfinder Application Instructions Provincial Innovative Teachers and Students Competition 2011 Sinhala Tamil
Announcement from Ministry of Education - Time Magazine Poll on 100 Most Influential People 2011 Ministry of Education wishes to draw the attention of the SchoolNet Community on the recent internationally acclaimed poll on most influential 100 people conducted by Time Magazine where H.E. the President of Sri Lanka is now ranked at 4th place. For further information, you may visit The 2011 Time 100 Poll .
Junior Inventor of the Year (JIY) 2011 Interactive Multimedia Educational Material for G.C.E O/L & A/L
Interactive Multimedia Educational Materials related to few key subjects in the G.C.E (O/L) - Grade 10 and Grade 11 G.C.E. A/L (Grade 12 and 13) are now available from SchoolNet. The subjects covered are Mathematics (O/L), Science (O/L), English (O/L), Agriculture (A/L), Geography (O/L) and History (O/L).
Oracle ThinkQuest International Competition 2011 The Oracle Education Foundation Invites Students and Teachers to Join ThinkQuest International Competition 2011.
Intel Launches Engaging Online Education Platform for Students in Sri Lanka called skoool.lk The official web site of the skoool™ learning and teaching program was inaugurated at a ceremony on 29th July 2010 which took place at the official auditorium of the Ministry of Education located at Isurupaya, Battaramulla. The web site would provide valuable tools that are set to revolutionize the level of learning. MoE felicitates Ganindu Nanayakkara - Intel ISEF 2010 Winner and other team members
Ganindu Nanayakkara of Ananda College, Colombo 10, Sri Lanka who represented SLSEF through JIY competition of IESL won First Place - Intel ISEF Grand Award for Computer Science category and several other prizes and the other team members of ISEFteam were felicitated by MoE during the launch of Intel skoool.lk web portal at an official ceremony held at the MoE Auditorium. Heartiest Congraduations to Ganindu and other team mebers!!
sch.lk Domain Registrations tops 2000
Domain name registrations under sch.lk domain through the SchoolNet Online Domain Registration System tops 2000 on 17th July 2010. Read More UNESCO Science Olympiad 2010
Deadline : 25th July 2010
Web Development Software and Joomla Howto
Schools hosting their web sites on SchoolNet can now download the most popular web site development software (E.g. Joomla & Drupal) directly to your Schools' web folder. School IT Administrators: Just login to SchoolNet Administrator Panel and follow the instructions there. Also we have prepared a "Joomla How To" for Schools developing their web sites using it.
Innovative Teachers' and Students' Competition 2010 - Extension of Deadlines for Submission
- The deadline to submit the Students' software within the school -30/06/2010
- The deadline to submit the Teachers' software to Provincial Project Office (EKSP) - 30/06/2010
- The deadline to submit the Students' evaluated software to Provincial Project Office (EKSP) - 31/07/2010
Mailing List Support now available for Schools
Pathfinder - Innovative Schools Program - 2010
Guide in Sinhala /English
National Level School ICT Competition 2010 Circular in Sinhala /Tamil , Document Set Innovative Teachers' and Students' Competition 2010 Circular in Sinhala /Tamil. Poster
New Web Hosting Framework @ SchoolNet [16th March 2010] As announced earlier, we have experienced a security compromise within our present hosting framework. Most of the sites are now back online and SchoolNet NOC will be contacting individual schools for full restoration of the affected sites. We have made this opportunity to move into a much more secure and scalable hosting framework. Web folder concept has been dropped in favour of FTP/Secure Shell access to each web site. More information will follow soon. New WebMail Client at SchoolNet Tired of using existing webmail clients @ SchoolNet? Try SchoolNet RoundCube Webmail client and feel the difference. It is very fast and has a sleek interface that is similar to Thunderbird, Yahoo! mail. IDEA Challenge 2010 Deadline for Submission : 23rd April 2010. Download Application forms
Application forms for Junior Inventor of the Year 2010 Circular /Application Forms
Temporary Unavailability of Web Hosting Services for Schools [[22nd February 2010] We have discovered a security compromise that has taken place on 19th February 2010 - Friday night. At the moment we are investigating the matter further. Current findings indicate that there is some data loss and some of the backup files have been affected as well. We will be restoring the available data from the backups and NOC staff will be contacting individual schools to update them the exact impact of this event on their school web site. [Read more.. ] Stop Spreading of Dengue Education Circular on Dengue (Sinhala/Tamil)/Dengue Control Programme (Sinhala) Video on Dengue Control (Flash - 47MB-watch using vlc player)/DVD format - 896 MB )
SchoolNet hosts Ubuntu Releases and Archive Mirror SchoolNet is now hosting Ubuntu Releases and Archive Mirror. With this a long felt need of local Linux community has been addressed. Linux Users can now get updates or download new releases from these mirrors. SchoolNet launches Moodle Network In addition to the primary online Learning Management Server (LMS), LMS for each province has been setup and networking feature among these LMS has been activated. SchoolNet launches FTP Server SchoolNet now hosts a FTP server which contains many educational resources and the latest releases of Open Source software. Accessis available through both http and ftp. Past Notices
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