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Please, if you're a school affected by this, make a report to the ICO. Shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes and may force them to start taking things seriously and do better for any future issues.

Considering power usage, physical size, more things to go wrong etc a decent CPU with built in graphics will be more than enough grunt for Fusion. Ryzen G series for instance should make short work of it.

Straight up example of why this can be an issue. Child A has moved schools due to legal complications regarding a relative. There are restraining and contact orders in place. Relative must not know the whereabouts of Child A at any point. Relative has a child at another school. Relative logs in to see their child's data on ClassCharts, yet they are presented with other childrens information. Including Child A. Relative is now aware of Child A's location. It's tenuous, but it's a good example of why this can be a MAJOR issue and should be treated as such.

We're going with EE 5G. £28 a month, unlimited data (within reason, the people we spoke to assured us that even if we hit a TB a month it wouldn't be an issue and I have that in writing just in case!) and no setup/install fees. 12 month contract.

Why on earth are they saying YOU need to lock people out? On discovery of such a breach THEY should be shutting it all down until resolved... https://ico.org.uk/

Should be instant - just be sure you're doing the right reader as typically there will be 2 readers per door (inside & outside)

This is false information. What about those DVDs that one department won't let go of, full of Flash resources and downloads from Sparklebox? Without which, entire curriculums would fall apart!

This is a per-door setting, so you'll need to go onto the net2 software and deactivate the beep from there. Not heard of a card to do that!

No, but commenting and remaining interested as Fastrak (Iris) are one of the worst people we've had the misfortune of dealing with!

Suggest looking at the EE plans - under 30 a month for 4/5G unlimited connectivity on a business rate, with hardware. Something we're looking at for backup connectivity option here.

Absolutely, I'm gutted I didn't do the same! I did pick up a random Amstrad 286 laptop before Christmas for £20, unbeknownst to me containing a special and rather rare card meant for hardware emulation of a Sinclair QL!

Many of them, I have a large and growing collection of classics My current favourite is a BBC Master which belongs to my school, have been re-learning basic on it

Thanks - this indeed covers the MDM side of it, and it appears as if the only way to supervise them is if you buy via DEP - not something we'll be doing as a) this model isn't fit for purpose and b) if we replace, we'll get the ethernet enabled models

Yeah, we're using Mosyle and will likely just have to manually add it to there, I'd just like to be able to add it to ASM too.

Cheers - unfortunately thats an article I've already stumbled across, and it negates one large issue - once you go through the setup far enough to allow pairing, Configurator requires you to erase and start again, and no longer paired

Does anyone know if it's possible to supervise AppleTV 4k WiFi (no ethernet port) via configurator please? Ethernet models are easy but going round in circles with this model and Apple support aren't interested if they're not being used at home.

Ooooh thats interesting!

Kids should be being told not to give their passwords to ANYONE. Parents, teachers, other pupils, that dodgy uncle, the Police, CIA, MI6 or Jason Bourne. Anyone saying otherwise is undermining years of work to help people secure their digital lives. I'm not aware of a "parental access" for Teams. There is usually an app like Go4Schools, Edulink, ShowMyHomework etc where the homework is set and marked complete which they would usually have access to.

I feel your pain!

I seriously hope not, this has been on the cards for 10 odd years - anyone that hasn't already made plans is seriously lacking!

Get where you're coming from exactly - the absurdity is just that you'd be doing that work for effectively more money than just getting an interactive panel by the time you've added it all up, the fact you'd be replacing TV's twice as often as panels, spending more time resolving issues, power management and lack of network management options etc. The TCO is more relevant to the school than immediate purchase cost, and even then if you're in dire straights then many companies have leasing or lease to own options which may soften the blow. Frankly financing in education is absurd, but a good business manager should be able to help get around that with a decent 3-5 year plan in place. And a crystal ball, lottery win and a change of government

With ever increasing resistance against MITM systems from just about all the major players, it appears one of the only really likely ways forward are managed browsers rather than MITM filtering - a case of you can't have your cake and eat it for privacy & security as well as safeguarding. It's certainly getting more and more difficult for companies like Smoothwall to offer protection otherwise, so interested what the general consensus is here.

Doesn't take long before you're hitting the price of an interactive panel anyway - just over a grand gets you a sturdy, for purpose interactive from the Promethean LX range or Viewsonics without having to do any special work to make them workable. They're designed to be left on for long periods which TV's otherwise are not unless you pay for signage displays, which usually cost more than interactive ones anyway. Plus you can have interactivity and do away with what is frankly an absurd idea of writing on perspex with whiteboard markers! TCO is probably less by doing it properly.

Dont know for Watchguard sorry

If anyone is involved in redaction or going through any of the data, make sure you are paid and titled for this appropriately - otherwise hands off. Collate & provide data is where the line should be drawn for IT otherwise not involved in GDPR. Been there, done that and it is NOT worth a TLR alone; it should absolutely be done by someone senior level if not in-house DPO.