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Oh, that's very useful, thanks I'll pass that on to my staff. It turned out that the staff member had whitelisted *.youtube.com for all protocols (obviously using the auto-whitelist function which can be a little over enthusiastic) and that's where they were getting in.

Hi, So, when a teacher adds a YouTube video as a resource (even using the Embed and rel=0 method), kids are able to tap the top left corner of the video to get to YouTube in all its glory (search and all). So, any solutions for this?

Thanks - I think I may have to approach it from a more scalable direction. I'm trying to simplify the process of creating resources for my users. I may stick in a rewrite on the proxy.

I don't suppose you have the APK that I can test on my tablets? Would be able to give you some diagnostic information at least. From what I can see, that's basically the exact models that they've tested with and have played with. The requirement to reach the play store could be problematic since the version of android that s hips with the learnpads doesn't appear to support multiple users. Hmm. Is there a contact person there that I can talk to and see if I can figure out what the requirements are exactly?

Here's whay my learnpads look like - they're custom distributed by Parrot and the stats are: Quad Core 1.3GHz Cortex-A7 10.1" 1G DDR3 RAM 16GB onboard 6000mAh battery So far they've been pretty solid and very snappy. I'd be interested to see what you guys are running as well. With regard to cases, I've been investigating some stuff as well and actually talking to a guy to custom manufacture cases like these: https://gripcase.com/index.php/ipad-cases/ipad-air2-gripcase-blue.html so if I get it right (or if you know anyone willing to custom make), we can see if we can get something going.

Is the issue just specifically with Mathletics or with other software packages as well?

They can theoretically be upgraded using custom roms but doing so may break functionality of the learnpad app. I'm currently building a custom rom for my bank of learnpads to see if I can get it going that way but I don't know if it'll work

There are a number of interesting things that happen with this problem. 1) The message we get is that "https://m.youtube.com/v=t68jllfp6u8&rel=0" is not approved, not https://www.youtube.com/embed/t68jllfp6u8&rel=0 2) If I whitelist m.youtube.com, it works. If I whitelist the video URL: https://www.youtube.com/embed/t68jllfp6u8&rel=0 it doesn't work So for some reason, this is being pushed as m.youtube instead of plain youtube. That's fine and all - but if my users get a URL from their desktops then they'll obviously see youtube.com, not m.youtube.com

Learnpad. Learnpad a thousand times.

Hi all, We've just completed our first stage of Learnpad rollout. Loving them so far but when accessing resources (that they've added in the portal) in a lesson staff are occasionally getting the message that the resource isn't approved. From what Learnpad have been able to tell me, that shouldn't be happening - the act of adding the resource should mean it's approved. Anyone else had this or have any clues?

Anyone use this? Is it useful? Am I even using the right terminology? We're getting 80 learnpads to test with this year and want to get the most out of them so if you have any experieneces or things you think would be useful to know, let me know please

And here I sit with no VPP so this stunning announcement means absolutely nothing to me. Blern.

Alright so answer for #1) No, chromecast is not officially supported (I'm still going to try and get it working) - the official line is that ClassConnect is superior to anything that Chromecast can do Does anyone run the local/caching server that can comment on whether ClassConnect runs better with it?

Hey, So, we've been approached by Learnpad and they look pretty phenomenal. I have a couple of questions though 1) Can you re-root them and install custom images? Clearly they're already rooted and running Learnpad as a custom image but could someone theoretically get into recovery and fiddle? 2) Do they work with Chromecast? 3) Anything else that's bad that explodes?

The only constructive information so far has been from a local school who did an iPad pilot. They bought 150 iPads through CAPEx and then effectively rented them out to parents at a reduced fee. They started off by not doing digital textbooks at all though and restructured the whole way the school worked in order to take advantage of the system.