keyboards Posted January 6, 2021 Posted January 6, 2021 I applied for four sites Monday We had one set come next day but one of our devices has been stolen in transit Two sites getting them tomorrow Nothing for the other site so far
paulellam Posted January 6, 2021 Posted January 6, 2021 Mine took 24 hours to populate the localadmin details this week.
StevieM Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 Is there still an issue getting hold of iPads? We ordered our allocation at the beginning of December and we've still received nothing. The head has just mentioned that the BBC is trying to supply devices from charity. Anyone else know anything about this?
enjay Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 Is there still an issue getting hold of iPads? We ordered our allocation at the beginning of December and we've still received nothing. The head has just mentioned that the BBC is trying to supply devices from charity. Anyone else know anything about this? Not through this scheme, but we ordered some iPads back in November and still don't have them.
TIOAOA Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 Has anyone been able to order since they increased our allocation back to original levels. I had an email to say they had put our allocation back up but nothing to say I could order, when I then go on the DFE site it tells me I cannot order any. Frustrating !!
enjay Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 Has anyone been able to order since they increased our allocation back to original levels. I had an email to say they had put our allocation back up but nothing to say I could order, when I then go on the DFE site it tells me I cannot order any. Frustrating !! Yes. Ordered our remaining laptops on Monday, had them delivered yesterday.
mrstrong Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 chromebooks ordered before christmas, turned up yesterday, dell 3100, 4gb ram, 16gb hard drive two usb-c charger ports (i.e. one on each side)
enjay Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 two usb-c charger ports (i.e. one on each side) That's a nice touch. My desk would be neater if my laptop could charge from the other side!
djm968 Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 (edited) Has anyone been able to order since they increased our allocation back to original levels. I had an email to say they had put our allocation back up but nothing to say I could order, when I then go on the DFE site it tells me I cannot order any. Frustrating !! Same here, had an email before Christmas for one of my Schools, placed an order for the 7 devices offered which arrived no issues. 4 days later, received another email inviting us to place an order for one of our other Schools, logged in to find the allocation had been increased and ordering was now open for all my Schools. After discussions with SLT at all Schools, not easy given the current situation and busy schedules, agreed the requirements and went to place orders but ordering had closed for Christmas! Couldn't access the site again until Tuesday morning, now I cannot place orders for any of my Schools. DfE sent a generic email response that had no mention of SEN schools, it is a complete shambles which was confirmed by guidance yesterday stating children who lack devices are ‘vulnerable’ and can continue to attend in-person teaching. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-maintaining-educational-provision/guidance-for-schools-colleges-and-local-authorities-on-maintaining-educational-provision[/url Update: Seems my rant has triggered some action, just been invited to order all devices for all my Schools. Cannot order any iPads until Monday though. Edited January 7, 2021 by djm968
enjay Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 Looks like I timed it just right by ordering after Christmas and before lockdown!
DrCheese Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 The HP laptops we got yesterday are a billion times nicer than the geobooks we had during the first wave! 1
saggu Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 Has anyone been able to order since they increased our allocation back to original levels. I had an email to say they had put our allocation back up but nothing to say I could order, when I then go on the DFE site it tells me I cannot order any. Frustrating !! I ordered in December. 5 days before holiday break and got delivered in 2 days. 30 iPads and 16 Chromebooks, 10 Windows laptops. The iPads appeared in my MDM next day. The licence for the Chromebooks were added to the G Suite next day too. I am actually very pleaded with the service.
MrBitey Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 I'm hoping to get my order in tomorrow. Hope to get 30 laptops (or maybe Chromebooks - still can't quite decide) and 8 iPads. iPads aren't available until Monday. Is it possible to place the order in two goes or do I need to do it all at the same time?
djm968 Posted January 8, 2021 Posted January 8, 2021 (edited) I'm hoping to get my order in tomorrow. Hope to get 30 laptops (or maybe Chromebooks - still can't quite decide) and 8 iPads. iPads aren't available until Monday. Is it possible to place the order in two goes or do I need to do it all at the same time? Yes you can do multiple orders, you do not have to order all devices at the same time. The windows laptops that are available are these at the moment. https://www.dell.com/en-uk/work/shop/laptop-computers-for-businesses/latitude-3190-business-laptop/spd/latitude-11-3190-laptop Dell Latitude 3190 BTX - Intel Celeron N4120 - Win10 Pro 64bit Nat Aca Strategic K12 EDU only - 4GB LPDDR4, 2400MHz - 64GB eMMC Hard Drive - 11.6" HD - Wi-Fi Edited January 8, 2021 by djm968
Rob_D Posted January 8, 2021 Posted January 8, 2021 Yes you can do multiple orders, you do not have to order all devices at the same time. The windows laptops that are available are these at the moment. https://www.dell.com/en-uk/work/shop/laptop-computers-for-businesses/latitude-3190-business-laptop/spd/latitude-11-3190-laptop Dell Latitude 3190 BTX - Intel Celeron N4120 - Win10 Pro 64bit Nat Aca Strategic K12 EDU only - 4GB LPDDR4, 2400MHz - 64GB eMMC Hard Drive - 11.6" HD - Wi-Fi Our order of laptops arrived yesterday. For (presumably) a super low budget laptop, I'm pretty impressed with the build quality in the Dells.
TIOAOA Posted January 8, 2021 Posted January 8, 2021 Do we have any guidance on filtering these devices, specifically the chromebooks?
LeMarchand Posted January 8, 2021 Posted January 8, 2021 The first batch of chromebooks had built-in filtering IIRC.
DGardiner Posted January 8, 2021 Posted January 8, 2021 The first batch of chromebooks had built-in filtering IIRC. If you had them in your domains they would only do what your google domain told them to. they cant be configured outside of that
LeMarchand Posted January 8, 2021 Posted January 8, 2021 If you had them in your domains they would only do what your google domain told them to. they cant be configured outside of that IIRC they came with a license for Cisco Umbrella.
Ditto Posted January 8, 2021 Posted January 8, 2021 (edited) This have gone in one of several threads, but this is probably best. It's my favourite tweet of the day so far. Edited January 8, 2021 by Ditto
Meldrew Posted January 8, 2021 Posted January 8, 2021 Anyone else finding the DfE cancelling their orders due to wrongly being detected as being exceeding the allocation? I've tried emailing the DfE to report this and never getting any response :-(
DGardiner Posted January 8, 2021 Posted January 8, 2021 Anyone else finding the DfE cancelling their orders due to wrongly being detected as being exceeding the allocation? I've tried emailing the DfE to report this and never getting any response :-( Primary? There on the back burner for another week. I managed to just sneak my last lot in before they enforced it i think!
keyboards Posted January 10, 2021 Posted January 10, 2021 (edited) Has anybody managed to apply for more without doing it one by one? I've no replies to my email to the DFE this week, I'd imagine they are snowed out Edited January 10, 2021 by keyboards
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