Help! overworked teacher/sysadmin

[johnnyreb]

Great maybe you could pass me in those details. Thanks. John

If you fancy a chat with a few others in similar positions I can point you to a few folk on twitter.

[dhicks]

I tried out wpkgbefore and had problems getting it working, was quicker to install the software rather than waste time and hope I would get it working.

 

If you don't have time to figure stuff out yourself then you should hire someone in to sort out your system for you, but I'd aim to get someone in as a one-off event to set you up with a working network - it sounds like you can run a working networking yourself, you just don't have the time to mess around configuring things. Hiring someone full or part time will just result in the teaching staff finding more problems for them to fix - better to spend your money on making sure you have up-to-date equipment and some expertise to get it working rather than hiring someone to run around trying to patch together years old kit.

[DarrenM]

We have tight policies for staff but an area on the network where exe's are allowed to run from which only technicians can copy files to. You may need to grant elevated privileges to staff for exe's but that is better then chucking them full admin rights.

 

Good luck!

[Guest Guest]

I'm surprised you are the only IT Bod in a school with so many pupils. I do a similar job to you in a 400 primary, and I spent a year fire fighting, and this summer made it very clear to my boss that I couldn't carry on the way things were working - my IT Teaching was suffering and getting worse because of the constant nagging / crying / interupting from staff. I made it clear to the Head that he employed a teacher FIRST, and if he wanted an IT Technician then we'd have to make significant changes to what was taught - that brought him on side.

 

This summer we did a massive re-install, I'm now volume licensed and we have a tech support company who come in twice a week. I actually spend my non-teaching times preparing lessons.