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  A Plain English Guide to the K-12 Onboarding Wizard So your school wants to use Adobe Express?. Great choice. It's a genuinely powerful creative tool for students and teachers alike — and here's the bit that often surprises people: it's completely free for K-12 schools . No budget codes, no procurement headaches, no per-seat licence negotiations. Adobe Express for K-12 is free and unlimited. But — and this is the bit that catches schools out — "free" doesn't mean "just download it and go." You still need to set things up properly so that students log in safely, accounts are managed centrally, and your school stays in control of who has access to what. That's where the K-12 Onboarding Wizard comes in. Before You Start — What Do You Actually Need? This is important, so read it before you click anything. The wizard requires the IT Admin to have either a Microsoft 365 Global Admin account or a Google Workspace for Education Super Admin account...

If you've been using Windows 11 over the past couple of years, you'll have noticed one thing more than anything else: Copilot, Copilot, everywhere. Buttons in Notepad. Buttons in the Snipping Tool. Suggestions in Photos. A sidebar that nobody asked for. It felt less like a feature and more like an aggressive sales pitch every time you opened a basic app. Well, Microsoft has finally blinked. What's actually happening? Microsoft's President of Windows and Devices, Pavan Davuluri, published a blog post committing to reduce Copilot AI integrations in some apps, starting with Photos, Widgets, Notepad, and the Snipping Tool.  The language used was telling — Microsoft wants to be more "intentional" about where AI appears, focusing on experiences that are "genuinely useful." In Notepad, the Copilot icon has been replaced by a "Writing tools" menu with options to rewrite, summarize and adjust tone or length. Settings labels are also being rename...

Data Centre's built to be resilant against cyber attacks but not cruise missiles OK, let's be honest. When most of us think about a conflict in the Middle East, we think oil prices, geopolitics, news headlines. We don't immediately think "is my Microsoft 365 subscription going to cost more?" or "will my AWS server go offline?" But here in April 2026, that's exactly the conversation happening inside the boardrooms of the biggest tech companies on the planet — and it should be on your radar too. Let me break down what's actually happening, and why it matters even if you're running a small business in Norfolk. The Targets List Nobody Expected This is the bit that genuinely stopped me in my tracks. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued a formal threat naming 18 tech companies as targets — including Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft — in retaliation for what it describes as their role in enabling US and Israeli milita...

Deploying Adobe Express for Education – new-clickz new-clickz plain-English tech for people who know enough to be dangerous Adobe · Education · Deployment Getting Adobe Express into Schools — The Right Way It's free, it's powerful, and Adobe have made it surprisingly straightforward to deploy at scale. But there are a few traps waiting for the unwary. Here's what you actually need to know. Kev Sait  ·  April 2026  ·  6 min read If you work in or around school IT, you've probably been hearing a lot about Adobe Express for Education lately. It's Adobe's web-based creative tool — think design, video, and image editing in a browser — and for K-12 schools it's completely free. That's not a trial, not a limited tier. Free and unlimited. Adobe have been rolling out some significant updates to their K-12 offering in 2026, including a new add-on collection that dropped in early April. So if your school has been sitting...