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SMART Notebook 11.4 and Flash based content
paulkerton replied to Chuckster's topic in Educational Software
No. Flash is gone on the web and on the desktop and what is left is a piece of animation software that can output in HTML5 (amongst other things) Don't try to bother with workarounds either. All you're going to be doing is introduce backdoors for people to attack your network, which schools definitely do not need to be doing. There are enough ransomware attacks focusing on schools as is. I know teachers will demand and insist that they've paid for a resource and expect it to work, but the answer is Adobe, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla, Canonical, SUSE etc have all taken this route to secure systems around the world. It's over. -
From their registers. They can type the name in to invite them, and it'll autocomplete as they go.
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Well, you see... There is a level of that inherently baked into the Matrix, as Neo was the sixth incarnation of "The One" in The Matrix's sixth reboot. However, they're clearly going along the line here that both Neo and Trinity's bodies were kept by the robots, and the robots are somehow bringing these virtual copies of the originals back to life for a purpose. I mean look at the visual look of The Matrix Resurrections in the trailer. The colours and lighting are skewing far more to the visual look of the seventh reboot that we see Sati and The Oracle observing it at the end of Revolutions. It clearly isn't going to be a clean simple rehash, and it's going to be a story about the seventh reboot descending into a new war - but not necessarily with the robots and humans on opposite sides from what I can see. Also, surely Sati is the character being played by Priyanka Chopra Jonas? I'm not sure Yayha-Abdul Mateen II is playing Morpehus as we expect it though. I think we'll get Fishburne, but they're keeping him quite secret. Lana Wachowski, David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas not Peep Show) and Aleksander Hemon have wrote this story and screenplay. None of them are the "Let's just do a new retelling" type, at all.
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It's on the way. When? Well, like most software developers they've learned to announce it when its close - but there are more admin controls on the way. GAM is your answer here, however.
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Wrong Geolocation From ISP so News and Interests are for somewhere else!
paulkerton replied to Fazza's topic in Windows 10
The geolocation information comes from a couple of places. One is your ISP, the other is the wireless networks around you (the Bing and Google Maps cars are constantly recording triangulation of wifi networks for that purpose) Users can set their locations manually usually. It will fall back on your IP geolocation when there aren't other options. I'd suggest users set their location if they are that interested. Not entirely sure you want to geolocate your IP otherwise. -
Moodle and Firefly are other solutions people use too. But Microsoft and Google are by far and away the most popular tools.
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Coronavirus: General discussion (see opening post for rules)
paulkerton replied to Dos_Box's topic in General Chat
The new guidelines which mean students can come in even if their household has Covid are about as useful as a chocolate fireguard (around a fireplace badly sold to you!) It's only a matter of time before the new guidelines produce absolute chaos in schools. -
Securly - Is it all that?
paulkerton replied to TheRobins's topic in Internet Related/Filtering/Firewall
Honestly, it's just personal preference when it comes to interfaces. We are still in the middle of evaluating them (it takes a long time here) and I would honestly be happy with either product. For filtering there really is not much between them at all, if anything. It's really down to what products outside of that core filtering we're interested in. Those are decisions outside of my remit as I wouldn't be using those particular tools. -
Can it be used publicly facing though? It's more for an Open Evening than a Parents Evening, where we already have the parents in the MIS. It's more we want to open 10 slots at 5pm, 10 slots at 5:20pm etc and people can book 2/3 people to come along and take the tour. I suppose an every day ticketing system would work?
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We did last Friday. Completely fell down, right as our new catering system was being installed. The backup line didn't kick in. To be fair to SBB/TS the fault was with the carrier as our main connection fell down, but the backup line was on them. Still haven't heard from those who handle it what the issue was with the backup line. When the connection works, it works well. When it goes down, it falls down hard. Still have massive misgivings over Netsweeper and it's qualities (or lack their of) though. Really wish they'd done a deal with Lightspeed or Securly and moved to cloud filtering, rather than go backwards to Netsweeper.
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Hi everyone. So, we're looking at having an on-site open evening (with the caveat it might go online should infection rates increase in the area) We are thinking of offering a number of available slots per time and a number of times across the evening (So say 20 minute slots from 5pm to 8pm with a maximum of 10 families per 20 minute slot) Does anyone know of a free/cheap system that will let us do this? I've looked at things like Choice Eliminator 2 in Google Forms, but it's a little flakey at handling things like this. The crucial thing being that this is for new people, so isn't something we want linked to MIS or require some kind of school based login to use. What do you all use?
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Migration to GMail from 365 - thoughts anyone?
paulkerton replied to AndyWoods's topic in Cloud Services
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Is mail merge available in the online version of O365?
paulkerton replied to cheaptonersucks's topic in Cloud Services
Not in Word Online no. -
Push Homework details to Bromcom from Teams
paulkerton replied to ridleyrumpus's topic in MIS Systems
I don't know if it's possible, but I'm personally of the opinion that information should generally only flow one way, out of your MIS for things like that. That leaves your MIS as the source of truth, rather than writing back to it. -
The use of initials is an attempt to make comments pseudonomynous, and as such you're bumping into similar initials becoming confusing... So they're trying to circumvent that and you're well within your rights to refuse it, as far as I am concerned - especially as it might reveal information they do not have the right to see. But as always @GrumbleDook or your DPO are the people to speak to.
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Migration to GMail from 365 - thoughts anyone?
paulkerton replied to AndyWoods's topic in Cloud Services
I didn't migrate from 365, but I migrated a few years ago from a hosted Outlook solution (by Capita) to Gmail at an old job and haven't looked back. Then again, I'm a Google fan-boy. You could try a split delivery setup maybe? -
Coronavirus: General discussion (see opening post for rules)
paulkerton replied to Dos_Box's topic in General Chat
And what about the 40s to 60s? They seem to have the most vocal component when it comes to being "antivax" 70% of the (eligible) population has had it's first jab, so 35-39 seems in line. -
Google classroom - archive old classroom or delete old pupils?
paulkerton replied to TwistedHelixis's topic in Cloud Services
There is a tickbox in Bromcom that will add the year as a suffix for you. -
KS2 Logons - Generic or Individual?
paulkerton replied to LeMarchand's topic in How do you do....it?
Safeguarding wise, children should have their own individual logins. -
Yes, I'm getting "Verify your age" too, even though we have already done so. Guess it hasn't rolled out on 1st September as expected.
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Google classroom - archive old classroom or delete old pupils?
paulkerton replied to TwistedHelixis's topic in Cloud Services
Archive all the way. Ours are synced from the MIS, so I have no doubt there might be a level of class reuse rather than re-creation from that... but archive is absolutely the way you should go! -
I believe so, yes. I've not come across a blocked video as yet to allow - but this is the solution Google are putting in place to fix issues we were facing with content last year.
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It's literally setting OUs as to whether all the users are over or under 18. By default everyone will be set as under 18, you just need to update the ones that are for over 18s. Really simple to do.
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Microsoft will release Windows 11 on 5th October 2021
paulkerton replied to Arthur's topic in Windows 11
Wow. So they're going to roll it out over 9 months are they? Oldest customers last (cause you're not paying I assume)! -
GCDS Working, User password change alert on sync
paulkerton replied to Warbreak3r's topic in Cloud Services
GCDS doesn't do anything in regards to password changes. Are you using password sync?
