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We kinda leave it open to staff. We didn't use Google Chat at all really before the lockdown, but opened it up to staff during lockdown to help them with communicating. We've left it open. Some use it a lot, others seem to barely acknowledge it exists. I guess it's departmental, as to how it will be used really!

The link to the vacancies page doesn't work. You've missed the .cornwall out. Both here and on the advert on the website.

What? 😂😂 How many under 40's do you know that were rushing into a Jeager or a Dorothy Perkins?! You do realise that not all businesses will be going under, and city centres are more than just shopping locations. All of these businesses who are going bump were massively struggling anyway, and they're going bump now to make sure they avoid the tax liability changes on going into administration that kick in this week. Let's not pretend Arcadia, Bon Marche, Edinburgh Woolen Mill and Debenhams were pictures of business health before the lockdowns. They were struggling, and struggling badly. Even John Lewis was. Other stores are doing perfectly well, because unlike every one of the ones that have gone into administration, they offer things people are interested in, and evolved with the times. Yeah, some businesses will have found it hard during the lockdown, but others will have operated pretty well, and survive out the back of it fine, even if they have less capital. Some businesses will operate more in a work-from-home situation, but many will still need and operate some kind of office spaces in city centres for staff gatherings, group meetings and work situations where face-to-face is still preferable to video calling. We will still have lots of cultural space, with live performances and gig venues and places to go out and socialise with each other. And wouldn't it be nice to have cities and towns with unique shopping experiences rather than just offering the same shops with different layouts up and down the country? City centres are going to change, they aren't becoming ghost ghettos.

Used to run coding clubs, and Minecraft clubs for KS2 in my old job. Probably will do some similar things in my new job once the coronavirus wildness has calmed down.

As you can see on the Edugeek homepage, Iris Education (who own ParentMail) have just purchased iSAMS and are talking about an MIS revolution themselves so... I think whoever buys SIMS is relying on intransigence and need to think about moving quickly on their own development, considering Bromcom, Arbor and iSAMS are out there... let alone the primary focused MIS's that exist...

Montagu's portfolio is a bit eclectic to say the least, but I can see them using SIMS as a trojan horse for that customer database to feed towards: OASIS Group for record and information management (Get those GDPR Euros rolling in!) Wireless Logic & Legrand for data networking, mobile connectivity etc. Galileo Education could find ways to expand into the 11-18 space Biffa for waste management services Host Europe for domain and server hosting Linpac for catering products Establish a B2B service under the Maplin brand Volution for heating and air conditioning solutions So theres potential for them to take on Education Software Services, rename it to SIMS as the customer facing brand name, supporting the SIMS 8 development, and leveraging the customer portfolio for their wider businesses to provide more services to the EDU space. There aren't many companies who have custom in as large as percentage of British schools than Capita ESS. Perhaps Wonde are the only company close to being as widely used these days.

The hard part seems to me that generally, the customer base wants it to change, but at the same time wants it to stay the same. Capita seems to have got stuck in between a rock and a hard place when it comes to 7 to 8 migration, and what people expect from the UI. Last I heard, they got a split down the middle when it came to "it's changed too much" vs "it needed to change". They also have an expectation that SIMS 8 should do everything SIMS 7 currently does on release, and I think the Frankenstein nature of 7 has got them really stuck when it comes to what 8 is supposed to do, especially as 7 does load a lot of the query processing onto the client, whereas that really wouldn't be feasible in a web based product. Development is hard, but not as hard as Capita have made the development of SIMS 8. It shouldn't take a long as it has. It's been 4.5 years since they were testing SIMS 8 in Ireland.

Call the Midwife Strictly Come Dancing Julia Donaldson (but let's face it Axel Scheffler as it's all his art style we're seeing) animation Michael McIntyre EastEnders Mrs Browns Boys So the 7th year of exactly the same things on the BBC for Christmas Day then? At least Black Narcissus will be worth a watch if it's anywhere near as good as the 40's film!

Absolutely agree on that. They should have the password for long-term security purposes, but not for doing things to the system directly and breaking them. If they decide to use it to break things, then that shouldn't then come back on the MSP at all. Well, unless they want to pay above and beyond for fixes!

They are entitled to a copy of that password, but it should be stored in a safe location (quite literally a safe) and only be accessed in an emergency, for example, should you be incapacitated in some way. I'd be very wary of them having the passwords to be able to install anything, personally. It's a recipe for ransomware and viruses... Though if you're a company brought into support them, they're absolutely entitled to ask for that information and do what they want to.

Oh so we rely on instructions and guidelines for the children when handling that kind of information, but we must use technological solutions with the staff that make life harder, even though everything in place is already compliant. Got it. 👍🙄

Don't they? I'm assuming your pupils have never done a survey as part of coursework then?

I mean, at a basic level that would be sound, however you're also asking users to use a different password than their main account, or even keep the password in place, or remember to log off. You know that won't happen. You're better placed by enforcing regular password challenges. Encryption is also fruitless. Once the device is on, it doesn't matter that it's encrypted if the issue is other members of the household accessing things when they shouldn't. That's like locking the door once the burglar is inside your house. No amount of technical solutions will stop someone being negligent with their account access around other members of the family. If the worry is the device will be stolen or dropped, then yes. Encryption. But that isn't the issue here. Thought encryption as standard should be your goal, all the data that is stored in the cloud will be encrypted until use anyway. You've got a technical measure in place there. Asking for it to be enabled on indiviual user devices is almost certainly just papering over the cracks and swinging technical jargon in the hope the ICO won't see through it. I can imagine what I'd say to you as a user if you told me that you were encrypting my device that I purchased, and locking out admin rights and assuming them for yourself... The second word would be off

That'll be dust getting onto the LCD.

But which one's better? There's only one way to find out...

Your Governor is very mistaken. It is data compliant, as its secure and encrypted. You can also audit who is downloading files and where they're downloading them too. Now, if someone breaches by downloading from the platform, that's different but the platform itself, and anywhere access is absolutely, 100% data compliant. If it isn't data compliant on the device, it doesn't matter what profile on the device they're using. Your Governor is very, very mistaken here. All sounds a little bit Dunning-Kruger! The answer is to set session lengths on accounts which enforce people having to sign-in again to verify their use. https://support.google.com/a/answer/7576830?hl=en And to audit your data for downloads, also using Shared Drives and disabling the ability to download files from them.

Oof. That's new then. Haven't had any emails about it!

It's definitely not £30. Much less than that! It was £24/25 RRP. Somewhere in that range. Plus Chromebooks were supported for 5 years at that £19 RRP. Now its 8.5 years, so per year, its actually cheaper than it used to be.

Well, as a heavier set gentleman, I think that'd be kind of terrifying!

The License was £19 a year RRP, and it will be going up to around £24 at the end of the year. That's probably where the price differences come in, as it was supposed to happen in March, and then they delayed it till the beginning of 2021

https://workspace.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/products/cloud-search/

The whole idea of Google Classroom was that it was supposed to be a teacher led and managed tool, not something that the admins had to get involved with. However, what that has led to, is intrasigence on both the teacher side not expecting to manage their software, and Google insisting that it is a teacher tool and is something admins shouldn't get involved with.

We're currently testing ChromEx with an eye on using it more if the test is successful. From my use so far, you can specify whether individuals can use speech-to-text or text-to-speech as part of an exam. https://www.chromex.io

It's through the Device Settings https://admin.google.com/ac/chrome/settings/device No, you can't state the holiday periods, just the days... but you can easily just go in and turn it off on the last evening, and back on for the first day back.