synaesthesia Posted January 9, 2015 Posted January 9, 2015 There's a facility in SIMS to click a button to locate an address. The trouble is, it opens Bing Maps, which is blocked (quite rightly) due to Bing's inability to correctly filter anything. Is there an option to change that to Google Maps anywhere?
localzuk Posted January 9, 2015 Posted January 9, 2015 That's kinda odd - Bing has shown itself to be better at filtering inappropriate things than Google for us! I mean, I can't even search for the term "Naughty" without it saying that its blocked by the Safe filter. Don't think there's a way to change that link though - it'll be hard-coded I'd guess.
pow Posted January 9, 2015 Posted January 9, 2015 If the request goes out via the SIMS server can you just unblock Bing maps for the SIMS server? Only staff should be using that bit...
synaesthesia Posted January 9, 2015 Author Posted January 9, 2015 Not a bad shout. However, it's just as important that staff are suitably filtered as it is for students. After all, however much you tell them not to, staff are more likely to do live, untested searches on their whiteboards in front of 30+ students.
pow Posted January 9, 2015 Posted January 9, 2015 There is only so much you can do, 90% ICT intervention, 10% staff education. Can you just unblock bing maps and leave the search blocked?
synaesthesia Posted January 9, 2015 Author Posted January 9, 2015 (edited) Better yet, we found an option (Tools, setups, user options) with dropdowns to change to multimap etc Quite happy to leave Bing blocked regardless of how the filtering improves; it's ruddy awful! Edited January 9, 2015 by synaesthesia
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