Since 2019, the Technology for Learning (T4L) website has been the go-to hub for professional development. As of Term 2 2026, T4L has entered a new chapter by migrating to the Department’s main education site. This move streamlines your experience, offering more intuitive navigation and faster results through integrated tools like EduSearch.

The department has launched our new Education Digital Strategy which provides a clear, action-focused direction for how technology will help drive excellence across the NSW public education system. Placing learners at the centre, it focuses the department’s efforts on 3 interconnected areas:

1. Strengthening digital foundations by modernising our systems and providing equitable access to technology and support across schools.
2. Building digital capability so staff, learners and the broader community are empowered to confidently and safely use technology.
3. Driving digital impact by using technology to enhance learning, simplify services, streamline administrative tasks, and make it easier to engage with the department.

The strategy directly supports Our Plan for NSW Public Education, is grounded in the School Excellence Framework, and was shaped by insights from more than 400 people, including school staff, students, education support staff and representative groups.

You can learn more about the new strategy and our progress to deliver it on the Education Digital Strategy webpage.

A new microlearning module on NSWEduChat is available now: How to - Customise the way NSWEduChat supports your students.

Did you know you can prompt NSWEduChat to respond in specific ways to better support your students?

We've just launched 'How to: Customise the way NSWEduChat supports your students' - a 20-minute microlearning module and the first in our new 'How to' professional learning series.

In this module, you'll learn how to:

• Tailor the support NSWEduChat provides to your students, and

• Craft, test and troubleshoot prompts that guide NSWEduChat to engage with your students in bespoke ways.

You'll also explore real example prompts, designed by teachers for students, that instruct NSWEduChat to quiz students on content, revise key vocabulary or simulate conversations for learning.

And when you're done, you'll take away a downloadable handbook to help you put it all into practice in your classroom.

Check it out today: How to – Customise the way NSWEduChat supports your students

Express has a new look and feel with all your favourites and new features to unleash your classroom creativity and learning.

With the new Editable Guided Activities in Adobe Express, NSW DoE teachers can customise instructions for their class needs and maybe sneak in some bonus steps.

Quick tip: Learn Design Principles with your students and elevate your creative outputs; Balance, Emphasis & Movement, Alignment & Juxtaposition.

Explore the Educator’s learning modules from the Express Learn Tab, check the latest how-to-guide in your Teacher Prep Pack + Ep#3 Innovator Spotlights from the Adobe K-12 Education Hub.

Have you ever found yourself searching on the intranet for a policy or Staff Noticeboard article but cannot seem to find it? Try EduSearch!

EduSearch is an experimental search application that combines AI and traditional search technologies to provide more relevant search results from the education.nsw website. Rather than relying solely on simple keyword matching, it is designed to deliver more relevant results by comprehending the meaning and context of search queries. For more information, check out the Introduction to EduSearch website.

Access EduSearch directly at search.education.nsw.gov.au and find what you’re looking for today!

Following a successful 2025 pilot, End User Device Refresh (EUDR) has moved into rollout. And what is the key to a smooth rollout? Accurate device data!

To make this happen, we’ve launched the device asset management portal within EDConnect.

Learn Grid combines thousands of ready-to-teach, National Australian Curriculum-mapped resources activity generation, into one connected experience. NSW curriculum will be coming soon. This allows educators, students, and families to plan, create, and deliver engaging learning from anywhere. Built to remove barriers of access, time, and relevance, Learn Grid makes high-quality learning accessible to everyone.

You can discover more about Learn Grid in Canva’s latest What’s New webinars here:

• Canva Create for school administration
• Canva Create for educators

These will be recorded and can be found here after the event: Canva Create Power Hour microsite.

There is so much happening in T4L this year that we decided to create some custom calendars for the events and tools you love to know about! You can now sync these key 2026 events directly to your Outlook, Google, or Apple calendar. This keeps everything from webinars to stem.T4L booking dates right at your fingertips across all of your devices.

Click the links below to download an .ics file which can be imported into Outlook Calendar:

• T4L Tuesday
• T4L Hot Spots
• stem.T4L booking dates

Head to the T4L website’s Microsoft Outlook Calendar page for either a helpful video or our 'how to' guide to step you through the process.

Digital Field Services (DFS) are your technology support team here to help you and your school. Each term they will be arranging scheduled visits to help resolve any issues you may be encountering. During the visits, some common areas of need have been highlighted by the team.

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In Week 9 of last term it was announced that CompNow will be the new reseller of Apple products to the NSW DoE. For schools wishing to purchase new Apple devices, you need to update the reseller ID within Apple School Manager. For more information on how to update the reseller ID, please refer to the T4L News for Schools Viva post.

Also, join Apple and special guest, Nicole Dyson, founder of Future Anything, for a discussion on future skills. Nicole will share how schools can make future-focused learning practical and measurable, drawing on her experience working with over a million students. Then hear directly from local industry leaders on the skills and mindsets they're hiring for today, giving you a clear line between workforce needs and curriculum decisions.

The summit will take place at Apple in Sydney on Tuesday 19 May between 9:30 and 12:30pm. For more information, visit the Future skills summit website.

Join the Cyber Security team to congratulate the teachers at Samuel Gilbert and Summer Hill Public schools and North Sydney Boys High School who have made a difference in their classrooms and empowered student learning.

About the challenge

Schools around Australia are invited to submit student entries that creatively show good understanding of cyber security and online safety concepts and issues and how they would advise their peers to keep safe.

Read or watch what students created.

In our commitment to inclusive education, we don’t always need to look for "extra" tools; often, the most transformative support is already at our fingertips within the Microsoft, Google, and Apple ecosystems provided to NSW schools. These platforms have transitioned from simple productivity suites into robust accessibility hubs.

Microsoft’s suite, led by the Immersive Reader, offers essential scaffolding for decoding and fluency, while Dictate empowers students to bypass mechanical writing barriers. In the Google Workspace, features like Voice Typing and Reading Mode foster independence by removing visual clutter and supporting those with auditory processing preferences. Complementing these, Apple’s intuitive hardware tools such as Guided Access to aid focus and AssistiveTouch for motor support are essential.

Check out the links above to the T4L Inclusive and Assistive Technology page to access some of the great tools available for you and your students to use in the classroom tomorrow.

Are you still using the U: drive on your school server or a USB stick to store your personal department files? Have you considered using cloud storage?

Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive are available to safely and securely store those files which are currently on a server or portable media. It is encouraged to migrate these files when you can to begin reaping the benefits of cloud storage, such as:

• Version history
• Collaboration and
• Ease of access across multiple devices.

The first steps to consider would be to choose a cloud location of your choice: either Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive. For assistance with this, please refer to the links below to the T4L website:

• Google Drive resources
• Microsoft OneDrive resources.

Keep an eye out for future webinars around personal cloud storage on the Events page.

Accessibility is key to fostering an inclusive learning environment where every student can engage with content effectively, regardless of their individual needs or learning styles.

By integrating accessible Google tools and features, educators can remove barriers to learning, allowing all students to demonstrate their knowledge and progress in ways that best suit them.

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