paulkerton

This. It absolutely is not a job for IT. You cannot be the poacher and game keeper at the same time.

Nope. Ofsted don't even consider anything with IT, frankly. It's very rare you'll ever see it mentioned in a report. Name and shame em!

If the very first account they signed into the device with was their school account, then that'll be considered as the primary user of that device. If it isn't an enrolled Chromebook the answer is to powerwash it. Then they will need to use a personal account as the first one to sign into it once powerwashed. Then they can sign in with their school account after.

Usually because someone higher up with no grasp on the current and the future has decided they want a certain function. For example once I was told by a very senior decision maker "I don't like Google Docs because of how the tables are formatted, we should be Microsoft" Literally the cost difference was 2 full time teaching staff, but people have some very weird priorities.

Google are currently doing a live doing a session on Microsoft 365 and Google/Chromebooks https://educationonair.withgoogle.com/events/edu-on-air-k12-emea?tab=default-tab&expand=module:upcoming-sessions&category=2

I feel for ya. I've just started to reject anything that comes along as a fait accompli at this point. "Oh but you've already paid? Sucks for ya budget!"

You know what we're all going to ask don't you? Why was this procured if it requires you to go backward?

This is an historic problem with schools in general though... Has been for a while. It's the same thinking as when you see rewards schemes based on being given behaviour points - for example - school trips which are based on behaviour points, filled with the most troublesome kids. Meanwhile the good kids have to stay at school because they have to do something exceptional to get a point, but the troubled kids just have to behave as everyone else is expected. Same logic. Do a bad job, get extra funding for it.

I get your point - but I'm not entirely sure that someone on £28k a year FTE, which is then pro-rata'd to around £21k, is going to be owning a BMW or Modern Merc. 😁 Hell, they're gonna be hard pushed buying a brand new Dacia Sandero!

If you're in a MAT and that MAT is continuing, I believe it's the MAT's responsibility - otherwise I'd have presumed it is the responsibility the LA, as they're effectively the provider of last resort?

Yes, but on device, that takes a slightly different shape. By default it will create a local user on the device, that's 20 letters long at most (Windows limit) So if you have [email protected] and [email protected] for example, it will create a user based on the format username_domain Unless you specify in the registry settings to only user the shorter account name, those two users would end up having local users created called: bob_schoolname_sch_u and kevin_schoolname_sch If you set: Path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Google\GCPW Value Name: use_shorter_account_name Type Type: DWORD Value : 1 It would then create the local users on the Windows device called: bob and kevin We had to find a way with our filtering provider (not Smoothwall in this instance) for their software to pick up the email address from the GCPW login, rather than trying to use the local user name. I believe they found a way via GCPW's registry entries upon login. Don't ask me how, though!

Well their FOI is suggesting that this mandatory move Welsh schools are facing is from the individual local authorities not from Central Govt. So the answer is to FOI each of them AND the Welsh Govt at the same time with the same request, I'd suggest! Especially as two FOIs now say "We can confirm that the Welsh Government does not hold the information requested, as the use of Hwb is not mandated in Welsh schools."

Chrome 132 LTS was released last month. https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2025/04/long-term-support-lts-channel-for.html Anything that froze on 126 should be getting 132 at this point, as long as you've opted in.

Managed guest sessions: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/3017014?hl=en

I'm not sure why you asked advice, if you've already decided... Good luck.

All you're doing is storing up future pain. All you'll do is kick the can down the road and make people reliant on LibreOffice Draw. Get the conversions done. Let them know while they have nearly 18 months remaining to do so, and take the pain now.

We had it from multiple schools, on multiple site on multiple different ISPs. I'm in a PLN where many people were pointing it out too. It's not just us. They asked us to produce a HAR file, but the problem had solved itself at this point. Awaiting a response still.

Our set up is a little messier than that sadly, but that is essentially what we do - One OU for Staff, one for Student, per site. We then check any issues in the Device log events in the Investigation tool.

I'm sure she does. I'm guessing it's the same "Why isn't it free for schools, it's for children" argument you hear from teachers on £70k plus, also not volunteering their time for free? 🤣

Yes, and then you set the policies against the OU that account is in, and whenever those policies change - they will be pushed to anyone where that GCPW teacher account was used as the first login. Just remember the GCPW teacher acc would need an Edu Plus license assigned too!

I have a ticket in with them, so hopefully we'll get a response!

Has anyone else experienced issues with images loading on Workspace this morning? Particularly images in Slides and in Chat?

Its exactly this. The first one to log in is the enrollment user. Whatever settings are applied to the OU that user is in, will apply to all users.

Use an exams tool like Trelson or OrbitNote for Exams Trelson in particular is very cost effective.

Its the battle of mitigation vs instant gratification of features.