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All staff is about £25 per person per year (ish) Individual staff is about £45 per person per year (ish) So if you need more than half your staff to have it, but not everyone. It's cheaper to license it for everyone. And frankly, students don't need the functions so I wouldn't worry about licensing them ever. It's the hosts that need the features, not the people joining. 60/100 staff would be £2,700 (ish) 100/100 staff would be £2,500 (ish) Microsoft would be much more expensive. Equivalent features in Enterprise (like local numbers for calling into Meets and PowerBI vs BigQuery/Data Studio) are in A5 which is £84.60 a month or 60/100 staff - £5,076 100/100 staff - £8,460 Plus don't you need to be site licensed as a school to even get A1, or did that change? - - - Updated - - - No. Only for the people that need the features as a host. If a student goes into a Meet of someone that has Enterprise, they can access things like Q&A, Polling, Breakout rooms etc.

Its about £2 per user per month. I was paying three times as much as that for LA provided email services (1GB each!) before Google and Microsoft came along with their offerings. Enterprise users get: Q&A Polling Breakout Rooms Attendance Tracking Everyone gets: Hand raising Disable in meeting chat Disable the ability to share screen Stop participants from rejoining after being denied entry twice or being ejected Turn off quick access. This will then require anyone who isn't invited via Google Calendar to a Google Meet to request access before entering End meeting for all particpants when meeting is finished Require teacher to join first from a Google Classroom Link Meet Up to 7 x 7 Grid view (49 particpants at once on screen) Blurred background Replace background Jamboard integration in Google Meet I don't think that's a poor trade off, considering the things they've put behind Enterprise are more server use intense.

The 60 minute limit only applies to consumer Google accounts, G Suite isn't affected.

Depends on the sector. MATs and Academies are more than LA supported schools. SIMS still has a huge hold on the sector, but I'd say that is the natrual propensity for teachers to reject change, rather than a desire to keep using it.

If I'm being asked to use work devices, then I can see why someone might want to monitor the use of that device. But I find many people have been asked to work from home on personal devices over this period. Want to monitor that? Yeah, get stuffed mate. Also are they reimbursing staff for the use of their personal internet connectivity, electricity etc to get this work done from home? Do they discount the idea that someone could just have something running on another device and not the work one? Managers like this are usually awful people to work for, and will soon find out what a churn rate is.

I still find it uncomfortable walking into a shop and masking up. And then I find myself wanting to have that conversation with the staff in the shop too, but I don't want to freak them out when I say it!

I'm pretty sure the right to remove personal data only applies when it's no longer necessary for you to hold that data. You don't have to get specific consent if you're using a system that is required for day-to-day operation. So if they're still in school and the use of Classdojo, G Suite and LGfL is necessary for day-to-day operations, then they have no right to removal. MIS - well that's covered by the Limitation Act, KCSIE, The Education Regulations. All of that should be under your data retention policy... This is what the school's DPO is for. @GrumbleDook is the guy/tiger around here for this though

And this is why people should seriously consider moving to cloud based filtering solutions like Securly or Lightspeed Relay, especially for devices like Chromebooks and especially if they go off-site.

If you're going to all that effort, I would seriously investigate moving to a cloud MIS instead.

If they're using shared sheets encourage the use of filter views, rather than filters.

Sure. But also, - does a person in their office want to listen to the radio? Or some music? Or have a long-form YouTube video in the background while they're working? I can't see why that would be an issue if we previously allowed a radio, CD player etc. Its give and take isn't it? It's about balance for me. If you know they're watching a TV drama, that's different to if they're listening to a podcast that's hosted on a video platform. If you have limited bandwidth at your school, then bans on that kind of thing would be fair enough.

And this is yet another reason to move to a cloud MIS!

At an old workplace we used to use the software that has since become Smoothwall Monitor. It was so aggressive, it truly became overwhelming, and the screenshots were always slower than the input, meaning 90% of the time they were not relevant to the capture. It was almost a full-time job. In fact, until I lost my assitant to cuts - that's pretty much what he did all day. Check the logs. We had to let staff and students know that this software was in place as part of the AUP, and it alerted them anytime there was a capture. We had a lassez-faire attitude to staff looking at personal email, or checking things like the news. There is a level of when staff are taking the proverbial, and some will do so (one staff member you could always here the EastEnders drums playing from BBC iPlayer coming out of their office) but locking down every single service seemed foolhardy and unfair.

A lot of companies have started to limit exactly what they offer for free now. They've all switched on to schools taking advantage of the generosity to the point of breaking point for them. Happens WAY too often now. I know a few have gone to a "it costs now, but if you pay for something after, we'll discount the cost from the purchase" model instead. You'd struggle to find a company willing to do a free wi-fi audit these days, let alone an entire provision.

Can we get GrumbleDook his sceptre and crown as the deserved King of Education Data Protection already? Never seen this resource before. It's great! Thanks for sharing it.

They're not comparable, at all. Classdojo is designed to track behaviour, and behave as a communication with parents tool and as an e-portfolio. It replaces "evidence books" that teaching assistants used to spend all their spare time sticking and gluing into. Of course it's easier to give a teacher an iPad, let them take a photo of a finger painting a kid did in class and tag it with the kid's name. Classdojo is Instgram for schools, basically, and not a learning platform for teaching children skills they'll actually need. And they also lead with the wonderful "ClassDojo will always be free for teachers" which is a leading statement if ever i've seen one.

I know this is common practice, but the amount of times I've tried to explain this to senior leaders over the years - schools don't like this practice at all. I've seen Business Managers and Deputy's and Heads genuinely upset about it, as they can't possibly go through a best value procurement process if the first company to get their quote in will get a discount compared to the others. Of course, they then ask if you can go to the vendor and ask them to not do that for your school - but then you tell them the prices are likely to go up that way, rather than down... Ahh the battles we all have eh?

If your phone is running Android 5.1.1.1 then I would suggest that whilst you may have purchased it in 2018, then phone itself was released to market probably 3 years before you bought it. Lollipop came out in 2014 and was replaced with Marshmallow in 2015.

https://support.google.com/vault/answer/6099459?hl=en This document has some strange formatting, but it suggests that it can pull checksums from Vault. I guess your vault hold and retain would be based on the information you got from Drive (ie file type/date/etc) and then you'd find the matching checksum in the export maybe?

She definitely means the staff We use it with Year 3 up without any issues at all. Reception 1 and 2 we just send home books and use Google Sites for homework and such. Gives them the best of both worlds. You could investigate SeeSaw for the younger ones maybe? You can sign-in with Google using it too.

Oh that's really useful. Thanks mavhc. Worth keeping this one to hand. I assume that if you confirm the existence of that file, then the police would have to head to Google with a warrant of some sort?

They should, but you're better off uploading them to Drive and converting them to Google's format first.

Check the Google Drive audit log, and check the version history. See what that's saying.

You've already got it. They offer the mask instead of turning people away, and if people refuse, they turn them away. If they accept, which is a term and condition of entering, then they pay for the masks. If they don't, then they are stealing. What I'd really like them to do is have a cheap basic white mask with "ASDA" across the front of it so it makes people think twice about attempting to be selfish.

How do they deal with shoplifters?