Connexus Schools Network is ‘the most advanced internet solution available to Australian schools’.

Connexus Schools Network provides:

‘Intelligent’ content control and filtering
Detailed reports on student usage
E-mail archiving on DVD
Virus and spam control
Simple upgrade process from your current network
Business-grade, highly reliable network (1:1)!
Availability Australia-wide, including country areas

Key Features of Connexus Schools Network

‘Intelligent’ Content Filtering

Our filtering goes far beyond traditional ‘blacklists’: CSN scans the content of each page in realtime before delivery to your students. The advantage is that you won’t need to block entire domains or worry about new ones popping up that your filter doesn’t know about—just let CSN take care of it! You still have full override control to block any website or content you wish.

Virus & Spam Control

Connexus SafeMail is one of the most sophisticated anti-spam gateways in the world. Whether you host your own mail server or will use CSN mailboxes, SafeMail will irradicate viruses and spam messages with incredible accuracy. Like everything Connexus, SafeMail is flexible and configurable to suit your needs.

Usage Reporting & Cost Control

Detailed reports can be viewed by user, group or the whole school. The granularity of the reports can be adjusted to even show what search terms your students are using on search engines, e.g. view every search ever made by a student on Google, Yahoo etc! CSN Cost Control allows you to limit student usage by MB or a dollar amount.

E-mail Archiving on DVD

Connexus sends an encrypted copy of every e-mail sent to or from the school’s domain name to the principal each month for safe keeping with permanent school records. E-mail messages (stored by user) can be easily re-imported into a mail program for restoration after crash, auditing or security purposes. A free service included with CSN.

Connexus Schools Network Feature Checklist

Free upload traffic—No charge for school hosted content (e.g. websites) or traffic sent upstream
Free Google Earth—Ulimited usage of this great resource at no expense to the school
Half-price (50% off) Home ADSL—For school IT Manager, Principal and TSIB
Discounted Home Broadband pricing—For all students and staff
Intelligent content filtering—Safer and less restrictive filtering technology developed by Connexus
Student usage reporting—View detailed usage analysis by student, group or school over any period
Search-Engine query log—View detailed records of search terms entered into Google, Yahoo etc.
Online Invoice access—Download all current and historical PDF invoices
E-mail Archiving—Monthly encrypted DVD-ROM or CD-ROM archives
Cost Control—Limit your students’ usage by MB or dollar—updated multiple times per hour
Easy management of student records—Importable and exportable by CSV, manipulated in bulk
Student status page—Page for students to track their internet usage
Connexus MailBlaster—Mailing list manager for school newsletter
MailWeb—Web access to staff and student e-mail at your school’s domain name
POP3 mail access—For e-mail clients such as Outlook
Two commercial anti-virus engines—Removing viruses from e-mail before they reach you
Connexus SafeMail anti-spam filtering—One of the most effective anti-spam solutions in the world
E-mail address filtering
MPLS VPNs—For multi-campus schools
Dialup access—Students may use their school accounts with a dialup modem for internet access
Personal calendar and timetables
School website—Hosting environment including webstats and tools PHP, ASP, Perl, CGI etc.
School photo & artwork gallery
School discussion forums
Friendly Help Desk support (8am–9pm Monday–Friday)