Managing file content

[Bezwick]

Hello all

 

We are having a slight problem with certain student bringing in files on their phones or USB sticks and transferring them to their homespace. Some of the these files can be inappropriate, ie sexy racist or violent images. Offensive lyrics on MP's etc.

We have had a couple of instances of these kind of files in a few students homespaces.

Now the SLT want me to browse the students homespaces regularly and scan for this kind of thing. That means potentially having to look at Billions of files, which is obviously impractical.

How do you all deal with this kind of thing? Are any of you aware of a piece of software that could flag up potentially inappropriate files and let me know, so I could examine them without having to search every folder on our file servers?

I would also like to point out not all of these files have dodgy sounding names either, they could be called something like Picture1.jpg. But have someone having their head cut off in it.

We have an AUP which prohibits this kind of thing, but no real way of discovering if its being violated, other than a teacher catching them looking at it.

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

[Sheridan]

This is a problem we've noticed with moving storage to the cloud. In the 'old' days we controlled what went into students home folders. Now they can upload pretty much anything they like into their GAFE google drive and theres nothing we can do about it!

 

For example, they can upload pornographic images to their drive, and then download them to their homefolder. As you say, short of being caught in the act theres nothing you can do. This is the new world of cloud storage and reduced visiblity.

[asc]

Is there even a reason to permit Mp3 in a Home Drive? The only mp3s used in schools are usually by Music and Languages (MFL) departments so should be stored in their Shared Network Drive.

I'd suggest using File Server Resource Manager (open it and click on File Screening Management) to ban executable files and mp3s.