Hi How can I use a school laptop at home?

[tiernk01]

Sorry to be a bore but I am running out of options. I worked at a school in Bedford (Holywell Middle School) All teachers had a laptop and usernames; one for school and one for home. At school you joined the server. If you took the laptop home you logged on with a different username and only got local programs that were on the machine. You completed your planning and lesson preparation at home and when you logged on back at school with your school account the data transferred and all was well in the world.

What is this magic and how can I emulate it down here in Kent?

Any help greatly received

KT

[6Foot2]

It sounds like you want to create a local user for use away from the network.

 

Logon to the laptop as the local administrator. In Control Panel select 'User Accounts' then 'Manage another account'

 

From there click 'Create a new account' Once you have named the account and given it a password logout as administrator and login using the new username/password.

 

[strawberry]

Have you spoken to your tech person yet?. This does require some setting up ( its not just a push a button thing) .

[elsiegee40]

This is something you need to discuss with your network administrator who may well be a member of edugeek already. There are many of us Kentish techs o here; I can guarantee you aren't one of my colleagues by the way, so you're safe

 

If they aren't already an edugeek, encourage them to join and we can help you and them find a middle line that works for both of you.

[speckytecky]

Ah, now if only that message were more widely understood by Teaching Staff - most of mine are convinced that it happens either by default, wave or a magic wand or is just something that naturally happens:)

 

Have you spoken to your tech person yet?. This does require some setting up ( its not just a push a button thing) .

[MrFrostmaul]

It depends how the system etc is setup/works, every school is different in how their IT is setup and runs.

[Arthur]

All of our teachers use the same username and password for both school and home. Less hassle that way.

[mthomas08]

We currently have it setup so when Staff logon to the laptop, they can then logon to that account at home. The Startmenu etc is all copied locally so there is no difference between Home/Work when it comes to the profile.

 

Only issue is the Staff member must first logon to the domain on that laptop to create a profile. We always remind Staff to do that after we have imaged their machines.

[tiernk01]

The replies I have received are much appreciated and helpful. Whilst it is understood by me and other good teachers that IT setup is important, it is also important that communication is only part of a teachers job. The main priority is and will always remain the teaching and learning of children. If teachers struggle in understanding the world of technology then it is and opportunity for learning and not a place for testosterone wars.

[witch]

The replies I have received are much appreciated and helpful. Whilst it is understood by me and other good teachers that IT setup is important, it is also important that communication is only part of a teachers job. The main priority is and will always remain the teaching and learning of children. If teachers struggle in understanding the world of technology then it is and opportunity for learning and not a place for testosterone wars.

 

 

It is indeed - although as a female I'm not sure "testosterone wars" quite fits the bill here!

 

I think the point is that if you do struggle to understand the tech then that is when you communicate with your IT team. I am sorry if they aren't very helpful, and the replies here are testament to edugeek's helpfulness, but really setting up the system for using laptops at home pretty much HAS to be done by the IT team - an individual cannot set up their laptop differently as they won't have the permissions.

 

Us techs try hard to do our best for teachers but it is difficult when we often don't get told of a problem, - we just overhear someone bitching in a corridor about how a printer hasn't worked for months, or about how dreadful the IT team are!

We are not perfect but I think most are very happy to explain technology if we can.

[abillybob]

It is indeed - although as a female I'm not sure "testosterone wars" quite fits the bill here!

 

I think the point is that if you do struggle to understand the tech then that is when you communicate with your IT team. I am sorry if they aren't very helpful, and the replies here are testament to edugeek's helpfulness, but really setting up the system for using laptops at home pretty much HAS to be done by the IT team - an individual cannot set up their laptop differently as they won't have the permissions.

 

Us techs try hard to do our best for teachers but it is difficult when we often don't get told of a problem, - we just overhear someone bitching in a corridor about how a printer hasn't worked for months, or about how dreadful the IT team are!

We are not perfect but I think most are very happy to explain technology if we can.

 

Yup agree with this. Just a simple thank you goes a long way too, I can't remember the last time I've had somebody say thank you for doing X for me. Instead all we tend to hear is the bad things X, Y & Z isn't working it needs fixing, make that a priority, kind of attitude. Which makes it difficult to get out of bed in the morning when all people do is complain at you.