St Ignatius of Loyola Catholic College uses a blend of approaches to learning and teaching, including using digital technologies to support or facilitate learning. To allow us to engage our students in a broad, rich, cohesive and local curriculum, a BYOD device is essential for each student.

We aim to grow capable digital creators through our learning programmes. When a device is owned by the student and goes home with them every day, it allows for anywhere, anytime learning. We use the Google suite of products which allows students to save their work to the ‘cloud’ so it cannot be lost and can be accessed from home, or any other computer with internet access. 

This provides opportunity for increased collaboration between students and further opportunities and new methods for teachers to provide feedback to students. It also provides occasions to communicate and share learning in a way that will prepare students for the future, including NCEA online examinations.