paulkerton

No need to apologise to me. It's you who is missing out! :laugh:

They actually did it, and SLT let it happen?! I would just keep confiscating them and hiding them if I were you. This is utterly ridiculous.

If you're a Google school, just get them a Lenovo Duet 3

Oh....

Have you got SPF/DKIM and DMARC set up?

We will be moving our model to 1 to 1 with Chromebooks shortly. We currently have a departmental based model, which doesn't work for us now. We're a completely Google school though, so it works perfectly for us.

Because thats the new product, and its not ready yet.

So are Raycon ear buds, and they're... not great.

Our decree absolute has finally arrived from ESS. We're finally free! We're so happy! ;) UPDATE: Hold on, I've just seen the date.

Yes, but there is a big difference between it being rolled out and someone finding a trick to find the HTML 5 client. Also we could go around in circles on this, but it's clearly just the Windows client. It's hardly truly "web based"

You think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark, James Dyson was born into it, molded by it...

[ChromeOS] With the Department based model we currently have, we have a login screen background based on each department. We don't limit staff and students backgrounds currently, they can have whatever they like. We limit them in so many different areas when it comes to personalising thing, we give them some freedom with their desktop wallpaper.

Sims Connected. It's the hosted SIMS you have now but you'll be able to access it through an HTML5 RDP client rather than something installed on your machine, being offered to all schools from Q1 2022. Of course it's Q2 starting tomorrow, so once again SIMS has sold a promise they once again haven't delivered on.

I think the idea is that you take this to your management and say "Look the DfE are telling us we have to have this". Of course they're not going to make sure you're properly funded for it they're expecting schools to find it out of the existing budget. No doubt they've been influenced by very well funded Mega-MATs for this and assume everyone can do it from existing budgets. Of course, if there is no one actually checking whether you do it, so it's all probably a moot point.

Do audiobooks count as reading here? If so, Jurassic Park. If I wasn't already in doubt about it - Michael Crichton could not in any way shape or form write women. At all. In Jurassic Park they're either supposedly really intelligent yet do very little and are there merely as something for the male characters to ogle, or they're whining and annoying children. Other than that and his science cynicism, I'm kinda enjoying it.

Forcing a regular password change is not recommended anymore anyway. https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/passwords/updating-your-approach

You can still put policies in place and standards of expectation, even if you're fee paying. After all, if someone misses a payment I'm sure the red headed letter isn't slow to appear! If have groups of parents who are diametrically opposed to each other, you can't please them all or have free-for-all either, can you? So you need to have some kinds of policies in place. Is there a behaviour free-for-all too?

There are plenty of ways to manage BYOD. However, if BYOD is a problem a simple solution is not to allow BYOD.

Device level client for filtering on top of your network level one, surely?

Whilst I'd like to agree with that statement, I'm not sure its entirely true when you look at the safeguarding clauses in the DPA 2018!

When I set it up to demo when I worked with a partner, I used these instructions: Setting up Wonde as your Google Workspace identity provider for Chromebook / Google Workspace logins | Help Centre Remember, you can also do this at OU level now.

Fascinating reaction here. Big differences between: * How they manage their inbox and deleting files * How your data retention policy is set * Deleting content about a SAR after the SAR is requested Basically no matter what a user does, the organisation should be able to retain the data for the length of your data retention policy seperately.

Ultimately? If they're not willing to support the tools you use, then don't support the product - ultimately.

I travelled from Oxfordshire (which some consider a home county - I don't) and even leaving this house at 9am outside of rush hour and off-peak it still took till 11:30am to get to Excel. The biggest problem for anyone who isn't from East London is where it is. Its a lovely large venue, but its so so hard to get to. You hope the Elizabeth Line will alleviate that issue, but we were hoping that for BETT 2018 and its not likely to be fully operational from Reading to Abbey Wood till BETT 2024! The 8pm finish Thursday and no Saturday makes it even more difficult for people outside the immediate area to go. They should've moved BETT to be at the NEC with The Education Show rather than move The Education Show to BETT, or alternate the show between the NEC and ExCeL a long time ago.

Some of the bigger news out of BETT - A big win for Bromcom as they've picked up the 200+ schools in West Sussex County Council. All of the maintained LA schools are taking the full MIS, Finance and Budgeting suites as they've gone for the "one stop shop" option offered by Bromcom. If this is showing that Local Authorities are now confident of moving away from SIMS wholesale, it could really stir up changes in the market... especially after ESS has basically thrown their LA contracts under the bus if LA schools want "Connected SIMS"