PiqueABoo Posted March 12, 2012 Posted March 12, 2012 Another reality check: I thought the Education Act said teachers can rifle through content on their *personal* mobile phones etc. [Haven't read it directly, so please correct if you definitely know otherwise]
AngryTechnician Posted March 12, 2012 Posted March 12, 2012 Another reality check: I thought the Education Act said teachers can rifle through content on their *personal* mobile phones etc. [Haven't read it directly, so please correct if you definitely know otherwise] Yes, but only if there is 'reasonable suspicion' that they are doing something with it that they shouldn't be. Fishing expeditions are still out. Teachers can now search for and confiscate a phone simply due to it not being allowed in school, but to look through it they need to have a good reason. For example, if an accusation of cyberbullying was made, or the teacher themselves reasonably suspected this was the case, they could search the phone for evidence of cyberbullying.
localzuk Posted March 12, 2012 Posted March 12, 2012 (edited) If you have an AUP in place highlighting that the storage area is for school work only, not personal files, then there isn't a data protection issue here as far as I can see - access to school work is part of the day to day running of the school, and as such covered by the normal data protection agreements etc... put in place to cover far more sensitive information (eg. the stuff in your MIS). Read only access is fine, and it is what I put in place at my last school. Edited March 12, 2012 by localzuk
enjay Posted March 12, 2012 Posted March 12, 2012 Our Head has recently told us to give him access to all staff My Docs areas. Document sharing would be easier, certainly - our Head and PA do everything in a (appropriately-secured) folder in the Shared Area for this very reason. Same goes for accessing resources when staff are unexpectedly absent. If it is because of a trust issue, or something, then it leaves a slightly different taste in the mouth, mind you, but that's not really relevant. Ultimately, so long as staff are told about this, then that's fine.
HarryMonkey Posted March 12, 2012 Posted March 12, 2012 Document sharing would be easier, certainly - our Head and PA do everything in a (appropriately-secured) folder in the Shared Area for this very reason. Same goes for accessing resources when staff are unexpectedly absent. If it is because of a trust issue, or something, then it leaves a slightly different taste in the mouth, mind you, but that's not really relevant. Ultimately, so long as staff are told about this, then that's fine. As far as I'm aware, they haven't been. I've certainly not been told.
Little-Miss Posted March 12, 2012 Posted March 12, 2012 I've got a communal area so if the teacher wants to see their work, they put it there...
sjpage10 Posted March 13, 2012 Author Posted March 13, 2012 Thx for the replies everyone seems to be split between Full read-only access with AUP stating no personal information to be stored A communal area where work to be marked can be saved (this is what we have always used) could do with a poll to vote on the 2 options being used - anyone know how to set one up on here ?
ihaveaproblem Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 How do people who use win 7 achieve this? The reason I ask is because user areas get renamed to documents so staff can't see who's area is who's.
AngryTechnician Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 (edited) When we moved to Windows 7 we also reorganised our user areas to match the Vista/7 pattern, so Pictures, Documents, Videos, etc., are not just all subfolders of My Documents, but separate folders as they would be on a local profile in Vista/7. The user shares that have our redirected folders are arranged like this: \\server\userdata\username\ \Desktop \Documents \Downloads \Favorites \Music \Pictures \Videos So while each redirected Documents folder does get appear as "My Documents", that doesn't matter because the \username folder appears with the user name as normal. Edited March 13, 2012 by AngryTechnician
enjay Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 A communal area where work to be marked can be saved (this is what we have always used) If you do this, you should probably ensure that pupils cannot modify anyone else's files. A third option which doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet is that pupils email work to their teachers.
enjay Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 How do people who use win 7 achieve this? Similar to AngryTechnician, except for us all the Videos, Music, Pictures, etc. folders are sub-folders of \\server\users$\students\year_of_entry\username\documents The slight drawback of this is that anyone whose area was imported from our old network has two My Pictures folders, but it did ease the data transfer.
ricki Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 HI We create a shortcut for staff we trust and not all staff and put it in there my documents. Richard
enjay Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 We create a shortcut for staff we trust and not all staff and put it in there my documents. Ouch. Whose decision is it which staff are trustworthy, and who explains to the others why they don't have the access?
X-13 Posted March 13, 2012 Posted March 13, 2012 Ouch. Whose decision is it which staff are trustworthy, and who explains to the others why they don't have the access? Maybe trust was a bad choice of word? I know there are some teachers here I wouldn't trust. [Totally making the same mistake...] Mainly because the chances of them accidentally deleting everything are pretty high.
bantonia Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 (edited) We use the equivalent to unix/linux links but within windows ntfs. Each student has a directory within their own home directory. Links are created in a folder elsewhere where staff have access. Overall staff gain access to this special folder but nowhere else within the students home directory. We do have quite a complicated setup as the staff accessible area is broken up first into year group, SIMS subject code, class code and finally the students name. Each students name is not a shortcut. I create the data from a SIMS report then feed the file into a Java progam I've written which creates a batch file. Run the batch and hey presto all sorted. Does require the students records to have their usernames as a user defined field in SIMS. Edited March 14, 2012 by bantonia
BatchFile Posted March 14, 2012 Posted March 14, 2012 Thx for the replies everyone seems to be split between Full read-only access with AUP stating no personal information to be stored A communal area where work to be marked can be saved (this is what we have always used) could do with a poll to vote on the 2 options being used - anyone know how to set one up on here ? Or both? we've got both available here*
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