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Just bouncing this post. Application Deadline is this Friday. Thanks

Yes, I can confirm that it is. I am the current post holder and I would certainly recommend the job. It is an excellent school and a really good IT Services team in place. I have been offered a roll outside of education that was too good an opportunity to turn down but I can recommend this job. The best I have had in Education and I have been very happy here.

There isn't a direct link on the web site and a search is required. Hopefully this one works for Indeed: Bradford Grammar School jobs and careers | Indeed.com

This can also be found via the school web site here: Bradford Grammar School Jobs

I am pleased to share a link for the role that I will soon be vacating. Bradford Grammar School is an excellent place to work and I heartily recommend them as an employer. This is a great job and an opportunity to direct IT for the school and lead a fantastic IT department. https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?cmp=Bradford-Grammar-School&t=Head+Information+Technology&jk=c5ad3d748fe5e91a&q=company%3A(bradford+grammar+school)&vjs=3

This wouldn't really help for us. I can understand how it does that as the section names are stored in SharePoint but the actual notes are elsewhere, associated with the user but perhaps in blob storage. No use at all if it cant recover the pages though. I have spent some more time on this today. User backups of the Class Notebooks seems to be the answer: Save a copy of a Class Notebook or Staff Notebook - OneNote (microsoft.com) No way we can assure they are doing this regularly though, no administrative controls.

Just wondering if we are the only school experiencing problems with this. We are using Teams and increasingly teachers are making use of their Class Notebooks. They are being used in assignments, for collaboration and also general classwork. Some of these Class Notebooks are vast with a class of children and all subjects sections, they can easily run into thousands of pages. If page content is accidentally deleted, it is easy to go back to an earlier version. The problem arises when pages are accidentally deleted. This ha happened for us where staff have accidentally deleted students work. There is no versioning on sections, to restore deleted pages. According to Microsoft guidance, deleted pages can be restored from the authors OneDrive:Recover deleted Class Notebook files from the OneDrive Recycle bin - Office Support (microsoft.com). In our experience, this does not work if a teacher deletes the page that they distributed and then the student added content to. The deleted pages do not go into either the teacher or the students OneDrive and there is nothing in the OneNote/Notebook recycle bin. It disappears into a blackhole. This seems to be worsened by the fact that a Class Notebook is a consolidation of content from several places. Some content is in the underlying Teams SharePoint stored in Site Contents, other content is in Site Assets and the actual students work hidden in their OneDrive!? This makes impossible to restore from backup (unless anyone on here knows a way). We have Barracuda Cloud-Cloud backup for our MS365 but there is no way it can cope with restoring this. Why on earth Microsoft see this as acceptable is beyond me? All the content needs to be in one place so that elements or the whole thing can be easily restored. There is a user voice around this here. Please add to it if you have experienced this issue: Ability to EASILY restore student deleted pages and Sections in Class Notebook – Welcome to OneNote and Sticky Notes Suggestion Portal! (uservoice.com) For the time being I have advised staff that pupils should draft work in separate files, Word, excel, whatever and save to OneDrive. They should only then add that into classnotebook and as such they have a backup. Some won't do this as it is easier to just write straight into Class Notebook and it is difficult for some content to be drafted. How are your teachers using it? There is then the complexity of accessing the content next year for multi-year and exam courses, when SDS will recreate the Teams sites in the summer . That's for another thread though! I would be grateful for your experiences, feedback and any workarounds for backing up and restore.

When it works, it works very well and is untuitive. We have had several successful events. Hopefully this is an isolated incident!

Yes, it is back up but we had already had to cancel the evening as we have no assurance if it will continue to work when all of our users (teachers and parents) log on. The outage message was still on their support phone line too.

@SchoolCloudSystems any ETA on this being back up? Thanks

Schools Cloud Parents Evening System is down today, just in tine for our Year 8 parents evening! Anyone else effected?

We had our 5th Parents Evening using the SchoolCloud system yesterday evening and we had the same issues. The previous 4 have all been fine. We have a 1GB link and our bandwidth reports are coming back fine with no other internet issues reported. I have contacted SchoolCloud. Looks like an issue at their end.

Just to close this off, the issue is with the usb-c power output on the Surface Dock 2 rather than any problem with the BenQ screens. The dock doesn't throw out enough power to give a reliable connection to the screen on a HDMI cable. Has anyone else come across this deficiency?

Hi, I have recently returned to Edtech after a few years in the engineering industry. Last year we moved to the HP ProBook series (G6 i think) for our staff. They were fairly robust and with a good build quality. The business had previously used Toshiba and the HP Probooks were certainly a step up in terms of speed and reliability as well as being cheaper. Most ataff were happy with the 430s if they had an external screen to connect to. Hope this helps.

One user referenced it happening during a powerpoint but that doesn't appear to be a consistent cause of the issue. Useful to know though, thanks

We have had 27 screens fitted over the summer and as teachers have started to use them they have found that they are randomly dropping the HDMI signal and losing connection. We have upgraded drivers, tried different cables and a number of different settings but can't seem to find a configuration that works. Our classroom setups are either: A PC connected to a screen by display port or VGA and the BenQ connected by HDMI A Surface Go 2 connected via a Surface Dock to a monitor via a USB C adapter and the BenQ connected with a HDMI to USB C adapter. We are experiencing the issue with both of these setups. Any ideas? THanks

This was an issue with the service running in SSM, now resolved.

We are using SIMS ID to populate MS Teams using the OneRoster API. We have gone through the setup and it appears to be working but only for Registration and Year Groups. Subject Classes do not appear in the Preferences | Groups in SIMS ID and therefore are not being picked up in School Data Sync. I have a support request out with Capita but like all things this time of year, this is urgent. Has anyone come across this fault and no how to resolve? Thanks.

Job title: Microsoft 365 Engineer Date posted: 08/06/2020 Application closing date: 25/06/2020 Salary: £26,640 Package: Pension Scheme. Private Medical cover at cost. Free school lunches during term-time. Free Parking. Salary Sacrifice Schemes. Employee Discount Platform Job Job description: Bradford Grammar School is seeking a talented, experienced, Microsoft 365 Engineer to join a newly focused, aspirational small IT team that provides wide ranging essential services to teachers, support staff and pupils alike.As the Microsoft 365 Engineer you will support end user hardware and software with a focus for helping to embed and develop the adoption of Microsoft 365 applications to improve the school systems, processes, teaching and learning. You will be responsible for the SharePoint environment, Microsoft Teams, Stream and other key applications.The successful individual needs to be adaptable to, and thrive in, the fast-moving environment of the varied IT challenges that arise on a daily basis at this busy 1,000 pupil independent day school. The person should have a desire for continuing professional education and must be forward thinking, yet grounded, in their IT ambition for the school.Working closely and collaboratively with the small team of individuals that make up the IT team the successful individual must also be able to work happily on their own, must be a first-class communicator and must be able to manage multiple tasks at a time while paying strict attention to detail.Further details can be found athttp://www.bradfordgrammar.com/recruitment/Microsoft_365_Engineer-Candidate_Brief.pdfPlease note CVs cannot be acceptedClosing date for receipt of applications is 9:00am Thursday 25 June 2020.

Job title Systems Engineer Date posted08/06/2020 Application closing date25/06/2020 Salary 35,682 GBP Package Pension Scheme. Private Medical cover at cost. Free school lunches during term-time. Free Parking. Salary Sacrifice Schemes. Employee Discount Platform Job description Bradford Grammar School is seeking a talented, experienced, IT systems engineer to join a newly focused, aspirational small IT team that provides wide ranging essential services to teachers, support staff and pupils alike.As the Systems Engineer you must be capable of feeling equally at home dealing with technical matters (mainly 2nd and 3rd line support) as well as dealing with colleagues across the school, or in discussion with members of the Senior Leadership Team about project delivery. You will be responsible for virtual and physical infrastructure, key operational software and dealing with administrative and security matters.The successful individual needs to be adaptable to, and thrive in, the fast-moving environment of the varied IT challenges that arise on a daily basis at this busy 1,000 pupil independent day school. The person should have a desire for continuing professional education and must be forward thinking, yet grounded, in their IT ambition for the school.Working closely and collaboratively with the small team of individuals that make up the IT team the successful individual must also be able to work happily on their own, must be a first-class communicator and must be attentive with a careful eye for detail.For further details and to apply online please visit our website http://www.bradfordgrammar.com/recruitment/Systems_Engineer-Candidate_Brief.pdfPlease note CVs cannot be acceptedClosing date for receipt of applications is 9:00 am Thursday 25 June 2020.