Cover staff and Teams and stuff...

[leegcvcc]

Afternoon,

 

Just wondering what people do with Cover staff from Agencies with regards to accessing the Cover work and delivering it to students from an IT perspective.

 

Whilst it's been good during lockdown that every teacher has a laptop, it means that we are disadvantaged for Cover staff and iT provision. I mean disadvantaged in terms of not having static teacher PCs in the classrooms. This would be fine if we did.

 

Supply/cover walk into classroom, login with generic username, access Cover Team resources for example. Already connected to Projector/sound.

 

I thought an iPad would be good; already configured to access Cover Team from the TEams app, can connect to projector using lightening to VGA/HMDi and show the content. USe a bluetooth boombar for sound (we have a load of non-hdmi projectors still.)

 

A quick test showed that this could possibly work, but the sound wouldn't play through the teams app. It played through every other app on the ipad, just not teams. I looked at everything I could settings wise.

 

The other option is a laptop, but they have to login, go to the team, connect to projector using HDMi/Vga adapter maybe. Possibly duplicate screen to projector, and it all just seems like a massive potential IT overhead for the simplest of things. Not all cover/supply are overly IT savvy from what I can see!

 

All staff will be member of the Supply/Cover Team and will upload cover work to the files area where the Supply/cover staff will access it and show to the class.

 

Anyone have any workable solutions? Or solutions you currently use? I get what needs to happen, it's just how practical each solution is and how much overhead it will be.

 

Thanks

[leegcvcc]

hmmmm... just me then

 

Doesn't anybody have this requirement? Surely not everyone has teacher workstations in every classroom and cover/supply is needed at some point?

[3s-gtech]

Yes, we have this requirement. I’ve just ordered some laptops for the cover staff that will work with our docks. They’ll be given the laptop guide, then I will be mysteriously unavailable for the rest of the day.

 

Seriously, supporting some staff would be a full time job if I let it be. Log in, plug in the USB-C, go! Not a chance.

[Boredguy]

All our cover staff logon to the workstation in the classroom with their dedicated user account, and work (or instructions on where it is) are e-mailed to that account by the admin lady responsible for cover. We do have 3 members of staff employed purely as cover supervisors so we don't need many agency staff in a normal week.

[Roberto]

Afternoon,

 

Just wondering what people do with Cover staff from Agencies with regards to accessing the Cover work and delivering it to students from an IT perspective.

 

Whilst it's been good during lockdown that every teacher has a laptop, it means that we are disadvantaged for Cover staff and iT provision. I mean disadvantaged in terms of not having static teacher PCs in the classrooms. This would be fine if we did.

 

Supply/cover walk into classroom, login with generic username, access Cover Team resources for example. Already connected to Projector/sound.

 

I thought an iPad would be good; already configured to access Cover Team from the TEams app, can connect to projector using lightening to VGA/HMDi and show the content. USe a bluetooth boombar for sound (we have a load of non-hdmi projectors still.)

 

A quick test showed that this could possibly work, but the sound wouldn't play through the teams app. It played through every other app on the ipad, just not teams. I looked at everything I could settings wise.

 

The other option is a laptop, but they have to login, go to the team, connect to projector using HDMi/Vga adapter maybe. Possibly duplicate screen to projector, and it all just seems like a massive potential IT overhead for the simplest of things. Not all cover/supply are overly IT savvy from what I can see!

 

All staff will be member of the Supply/Cover Team and will upload cover work to the files area where the Supply/cover staff will access it and show to the class.

 

Anyone have any workable solutions? Or solutions you currently use? I get what needs to happen, it's just how practical each solution is and how much overhead it will be.

 

Thanks

 

If your normal staff would use a laptop and the rooms are geared up for laptop connections, why not have a couple of ‘pool’ laptops and logins for cover staff? You’d want to reset the password and maybe sanatize these after use, but that can still be relatively low stress if you have twice the number of accounts as you expect to have cover requirements so you can have time for this.

 

Giving them iPads, if that’s not standard issue for normal staff, feels like setting everyone up for failure before they can even try.

Edited March 6, 2021 by Roberto