Notebooks for School Staff Program

Program-provisioned notebooks

Program-provisioned notebooks are owned by the department and allocated to schools, as the custodian, who provide the notebooks to eligible staff for their use whilst they are working at that school.

When the staff member leaves that school (for any reason), the notebook must remain at the school for reallocation.

A notebook allocated to a school will not be replaced if the school allows the staff member to which it has been allocated to take it on leave.

Staff members cannot take a department owned, program-provisioned notebook overseas.

If a notebook is returned to the school during the last week of the term and cannot be reallocated within the school, it must be locked in a secure location or returned to the department.

Where a notebook is program-provisioned there is an option for a Windows notebook and VCE Apple notebooks (for eligible staff delivering specific VCE subjects/VET certificates). Current eligible subjects/certificates are:

• VCE subject
  • VCE Art Creative Practice
  • VCE Arts Making and Exhibiting
  • VCE Visual Communication Design
  • VCE Media
  • VCE Music Contemporary Performance
  • VCE Music
  • VCE Music Inquiry
  • VCE Music Composition
  • VCE Music Repertoire Performance
• VET Certificate
  • VCE VET Creative and Digital Media
  • VCE VET Music
  • VCE VET Information and Communications Technology
  • VCE VET Applied Fashion, Design and Technology
  • VCE VET Visual Arts.

The eligible subjects are provided by the Curriculum and Assessment Branch, from the Learning and Teaching Division, and data of schools teaching those subjects is provided by Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA).

To ensure schools receive their correct entitlement it is vital that subjects are reported in alignment with VCAA reporting requirements and timelines.

In addition to the above eligibility requirement, the school’s entitlement for a VCE Apple notebook is subject to the school’s entitlement calculation at the time of a tranche opening.

The program tracks the number and type of notebooks allocated to each participating school through the program’s Asset Management System.

Program-provisioned notebooks are provided to schools at no cost and include warranty and accidental damage or loss insurance for the life cycle of the notebook – refer to the Warranty and protection chapter in this guidance.

Schools who have opted for the school-provisioned option can nominate for a VCE Apple notebook, centrally funded by the program for eligible teaching staff delivering specific VCE subjects.