The College has two mobile phones which can be accessed by staff who are taking students out of College on trips or visits. Below will give information on the phones, how they should be booked and where in the world they will work.
About the phones
Both Phones are Nokia Lumia 630 devices, running Windows Phone. Both phones typically get about a day worth of charge with normal use (this is fairly normal for smart phones).
Nokia Lumia 630 Green
- Telephone number: 07793146296
- Email Address: NortonTripsGreen@outlook.com
- Password: Contact IT Support
Nokia Lumia 630 Orange
- Telephone number: 07599740300
- Email Address: NortonTripsOrange@outlook.com
- Password: Contact IT Support
Booking the phones
Staff should book the phones well in advance of the trip using the normal College online resource booking system https://nortoncollege.roombookingsystem.co.uk/. In addition, please also book the day before your trip to enable you to ensure you’re familiar with the phones workings and you can ensure the phone is charged prior to you leaving.
Portable battery chargers for the phones
We have also recently purchased two portable batteries which can be used on the go to re-charge the two phones. They are ideal for re-charging the phones in case you need the phones in use longer than a day, for instance travelling to and from a European destination. These can also be booked on the normal Online Booking system, and like the phones should also be booked for the day before travel to ensure they can be fully charged and you know how to use them.
Adding Parent contacts to the phone
For certain trips/visits it’s likely that you’ll wish to have parental contact telephone numbers stored in the phone. As these are Windows Phones, and linked to a Microsoft email address, this process is made fairly easy. Staff simply need to login to https://people.live.com/ with the phones unique email address and password. Addresses which are added to this list will automatically sync to the phone. It is for the member of staff running the trip to ensure that the correct details are entered.
Removing Parent contacts to the phone
Once you return from the trip, and before returning the phone to IT Support, you should ensure you remove the parental contact telephone numbers from the phone by logging into the phones email account and deleting the parents you added.
Costs/calls/texts and Internet usage (UK)
The phones are primarily provided to enable staff to make or receive emergency calls. As such, staff do not need to worry about the costs involved in using the phones in these situations. However, it is worth noting that, when used in the UK, that both phones can make unlimited UK landline calls and texts and have 1Gb of data attached to them. The data limit is ideal if you wish to install Twitter or Flickr Apps on the phones to enable you to tweet or add photos to the College Flickr account when you’re out and about.
Costs/calls/texts and Internet usage (EU)
Both phones can be used in mainland Europe, in the countries the College normally has trips in (France/Germany/Italy/Spain and others). As noted above, staff should not concern themselves with the cost of using the phones in the EU, as they are there for emergencies. However, we do also have the ability to use limited data when abroad for non-emergencies. If data (Internet/Apps) is used in the EU, the College is charged £1.66 per 50Mb of data. Obviously, it is better to use data when you’re attached to Wi-Fi (say in the hotel), so please try to do so.
Twitter and Flickr Apps
The College has both Twitter and Flickr accounts, which can be used on the phones. It may be that you might like to use these Apps to keep parents up to date with what you and the students are doing during the trip. Please be mindful that some students may be on the list who should not have photos put online. As normal, the office keep a list of these students. If you feel you’d like to use Twitter and/or Flickr on your trip, please ask IT Support for the usernames and passwords (if you don’t have them).