21st Century Skills - Entrepreneurship Programme for 11-14 Year Olds
Magical Leaders is an online resource to teach 21st century skills through entrepreneurship. It is a peer-led education programme for 10-14 year old pupils. Pupils practice effective communication skills, teamwork, emotional self regulation, creative problem solving and critical thinking skills.
Features
- Peer led education programme
- 6 x 1 hour lessons
- Each lesson highlights a United Nation Sustainable Development Goal
- Aligns with the PSHE curriculum and statutory RSHE
- Delivered through the classroom computer and whiteboard
- Digital teachers manual and pupils books
- Access to the virtual world online software
- 1 hour remote teacher briefing session
- Dedicated support from the Zeeko Team
Benefits
- Narrows the attainment gap
- Increases social mobility
- Develops presentation and oracy skills
- Fosters a whole school ethos
- Supports careers-related learning
- Encourages parental engagement
- Aligns with the Ofsted Inspection Framework
Pricing
£594 to £594 a licence a year
- Education pricing available
- Free trial available
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 13
Service ID
8 2 7 9 3 0 7 0 3 9 3 4 4 3 1
Contact
CARAGLASS LIMITED
Joe Kenny
Telephone: 0044 (20) 80897234
Email: joe@zeeko.ie
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- No
- Cloud deployment model
- Public cloud
- Service constraints
- As a Cloud based solution, there are no service constraints.
- System requirements
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- 4GB Ram or higher
- Windows PC (Win 10)
- MS Edge, Firefox or Google Chrome browsers
- Apple MacBook or Mac with Safari browser
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- 8 hours
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Onsite support
- No
- Support levels
- The Zeeko Helpdesk is available during the hours of 08:30-17:00, Monday to Friday, excluding Public Holidays. There is no additional cost for the helpdesk.
- Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
- Zeeko provides teachers with a 1 hour remote teacher briefing session, to give an overview the programme. Participants have access to an online programme overview video and an online 'quick start guide'. There is also an online software tutorial to show teachers how to navigate the online virtual world.
- Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
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- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
- A request to helpdesk, will estimate the export requirement. All data will be provided in CSV format.
- End-of-contract process
- Customers are asked to renew their annual contract no later than 30 days before the renewal date. For customers who are not renewing, a client data request is initiated with a view to providing the data extract. All data is backed-up and an archive is created. The accounts are closed and service is terminated with all data removed from the cloud.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
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- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari
- Application to install
- No
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- No
- Service interface
- Yes
- User support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Description of service interface
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The Magical Leaders online hub is a robust, centralised web application that teachers and pupils can use to access the Magical Leaders online content and virtual world online software.
The service interface is restricted to permitted users and allows users to access the online content and virtual world online software. - Accessibility standards
- None or don’t know
- Description of accessibility
- Zeeko team have extensive usability experience. Extensive usability testing was completed on the application. The user interface for Magical Leaders is built to makes content more accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including accommodations for blindness and low vision, deafness, hearing loss etc. Zeeko user experience design process includes user research and design to ensure the UI of the application is clean and intuitive to use while taking into account industry guidelines regarding child safety and accessible.
- Accessibility testing
- Functional testing was completed to ensure the application was developed in accordance with the design specification which includes the accessibility requirements. No direct testing was done with users of assistive technology.
- API
- No
- Customisation available
- No
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- No, licensing is based on an annual contract.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- No
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- None
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- No
- Datacentre security standards
- Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Penetration testing approach
- In-house
- Protecting data at rest
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- Physical access control, complying with another standard
- Encryption of all physical media
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Equipment disposal approach
- A third-party destruction service
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- Customers contact the Helpdesk. A full database export can be provided on request.
- Data export formats
- CSV
- Data import formats
- CSV
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Data protection within supplier network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- 99.99% availability
- Approach to resilience
- Zeeko cloud resources are deployed as a fully resilient platform. Zeeko uses as a multi-server environment with load balancing in key areas. Maintenance windows are scheduled and maintenance procedures are executed with minimal service interruption to customers.
- Outage reporting
- Email notifications are provided to customers.
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- Access is controlled via username and key file/ password for the background cloud infrastructure. Access to support channels is via username and password.
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Management access authentication
- Username or password
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- At least 12 months
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- At least 12 months
- How long system logs are stored for
- At least 12 months
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- No
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- No
- Security governance approach
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Zeeko employs the COSO Framework to manage enterprise risks. The 7 components below verify and test internal and external controls in relation to Zeeko's operating environment.
1. Object Setting
2. Event Identification
3. Risk Assessment
4. Risk Response
5. Control Activities
6. Information and Communication
7. Monitoring - Information security policies and processes
- Technical teams including customer development, software development and operations report to the CEO. The administration and finance team report to the CFO. The CFO reports to the CEO. The CEO is responsible to the Board of Directors. Zeeko staff are governed by company policies and agreements. Information security policies apply to all employees and contractors. These are overseen by the CEO. Company policies are reviewed annually to ensure they are up to date. The CEO has operational responsibility for information security and related controls. This includes developing security policies, defining security standards and promoting security awareness.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
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Zeeko has a formal change management process:
- Proposed changes are the responsibility of the development project manager
- Each change is critically evaluated for risk and benefits
- Changes are prioritised based on cost, benefit, risk and alignment with the business strategy
- All changes are systematically tested at development, pre release and regression testing. The deployment includes a roll-back plan to restore live instance to the previous version - Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
- Zeeko monitors security advisories and alerts from CVE databases (https://cve.mitre.org/cve/). Risks are systematically evaluated based on issues identified during code review and quality assurance testing. Risks are detailed on tasks on the online agile project management software (Zoho Sprints) and assigned an internal risk level. Low and medium level risks are assigned and completed during sprint planning and development cycles. High level risks are rectified as soon as commercially feasible.
- Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
- Abnormal system behaviour (for example RAM/ CPU usages, disk usage, network traffic) is monitored and investigated by the network administrator. If a system is potentially compromised, it is investigated to confirm breaches or false positives. For confirmed breaches a short-term risk mitigation is immediately actioned. After the immediate risk is mitigated a critical analysis is carried out and a long-term mitigation executed if required.
- Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
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Incidents are managed through a detailed security response flow. The response flow includes both short-term and long-term actions that are dependent on risk levels. Incidents can be reported via Customer Support (email, telephone, portal). Reports are provided through Customer Support. The response flow includes:
- Incident identification
- Incident logging
- Incident classification
- Incident prioritisation
- Initial diagnosis
- Escalation, as necessary
- Incident resolution
- Incident closure
- Communication with the user community throughout the life of the incident
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Supplier-defined process
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Social Value
- Tackling economic inequality
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Tackling economic inequality
Magical Leaders is a 21st century skills entrepreneurship programme for 11-14 year olds. Magical Leaders aligns with the P21 Framework. The P21 Framework is a model for incorporating 21st century skills into learning. It was developed by a coalition of the US Department of Education, businesses including Apple, AOL, Microsoft, Cisco, and SAP. The framework supports the teaching of life and career skills, learning and innovation skills, and information and media skills. These skills allow pupils to be better-prepared for today’s highly collaborative, innovation-focused workforce.
Developing 21st century skills in primary and secondary schools across the United Kingdom will increase the skills level of the future work force to:
1) Take on the challenges and opportunities of new technologies and new ways of doing business.
2) Get better, higher paying jobs.
3) Create opportunities for entrepreneurship.
4) Address skills shortages in the technology sector, a high growth sector.
Magical Leaders is provided on a classroom basis. Teachers are trained via a 1-hour remote training session. These sessions are run weekly after school during term time. The impact is measured in the number of people-hours of learning interventions delivered under the contract, by UK region. Feedback for improvement is sought through an online survey after teachers complete the final lesson.
Zeeko will engage with teachers through free webinars in Opportunities Areas. The Opportunity Areas are part of the government’s plan for dealing with social mobility through education. Opportunity Areas are at the heart of the government’s plan to level up outcomes for children and young people in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the country. Providing 21st Century skills will remove obstacles that could stop children and young people from achieving their potential in some of the most disadvantaged regions in England.
Pricing
- Price
- £594 to £594 a licence a year
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
- The trial version includes indefinite access to the (i) quick start guide (ii) tutorial software (iii) digital resources for teachers and pupils for Lesson 2, "Effective Communication", and (iv) online virtual world for lesson 2
- Link to free trial
- https://zeeko.ie/magical-leaders-teachers-resources-free-trial