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Only other suggestion would be to add SYSTEM and CREATOR OWNER, then give them both full permission.

Or, more likely, the sharing permissions on D:\Staff Shared Area\

Have you checked the Share permissions? IE, click on the sharing tab on your first screenshot and then permissions.

I'm having issues with some laptops not mapping students My Documents correctly so when they login, their My Docs points to C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents. Whilst I would like to solve the main cause, as a back up I would like to put in a script that, on log off, would copy everything from C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents to C:\Backup\%USERNAME%\Documents so students don't lose their work when they log off, the laptop is rebooted, and the delete user folders script kicks in. However, I am very poor at scripting, so any help on this would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks for the update @PhilNeal, we're looking forward to receiving the update from ScoMIS (hopefully over the next week or so). Could we ask whether Capite/SIMS are calculating the KS2 fine levels or whether it is an input parameter to the report?

We're looking at this for our internal school analysis but it will also be part of the portfolio for Ofsted.

Yes we are asking the questions for the purpose of calculating predicted Attainment 8 scores. I think the critical sentence is "I don't think it is clear yet how the Dfe intend to round the decimalised level" However, I do think it is important, because we need to be reporting on a Progress 8 figure that is as accurate as it can be at this stage of the game.

If you round up, look at what happens to the points at the whole level boundary:- An APS of 23.75, would generate a fine level of 3.958. With the logic above, this would round up to a fine level of 4.0. So, you would have 23.75 generating a whole level of 3 (its less than 24 points), a sublevel of 3a and a fine level of 4.0. This seems inconsistent

The question was actually based on a value of 26.26, so therefore would you round up or round down?

I'm raising another thread from the dead, so apologies. My Data Manager is coming across an issue when calculating Progress 8 (Our Attainment 8 appears to be fine). I'll copy her question here: I am looking for some clarity on converting KS2 point scores to Fine levels for the purpose of calculating Progress 8 for current year 10 students. There are clear Dfe guidelines for converting point scores to whole levels – Level 4 is 24 points to 29.99 points There are also clear guidelines for converting point scores to sublevels – Level 4b is 26 to 27.99 points So, as an example, a student that has an aps of 26.26, would be a whole level 4, a sublevel 4b but what would the fine level be? Ideally need a table that shows each of the fine levels to 1dp (eg 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 etc) and the equivalent point score boundaries. If anyone could shed some light on this, would be most appreciated!

Raising this thread from the dead again... For anyne struggling with this issue, Google has released a Safe Search VIP address which will force safe search on your network. For a guide on how to implement it, see here: Implementation guide Though I found the easiest method is to add (or in my case, change) the Host record for Google and Google to point to 216.239.38.120

Definitely, gf already warned I may be unavailable for long periods of time! Dragon Age Keep is brilliant, but damned if I can remember every interaction my Grey Warden made. Be very interested to see how the choices made on that tapestry affect Inquisition. Anyone playing the browser based Mini game on Dragon Age Keep? Made by the same people who did Fallen London, quite interesting so far...

I'm not sure it's the money that I cringe at (though I strongly suspect with the amount of games, consoles and PCs I've bought over the last 20 years I must be near £15,000...) it's the amount of time. As Steam has an evil tendency to tell you how many hours you've spent on a game, I've plugged in 300 hours or so on three Football manager games alone, and I've played FM before Steam came along, and even Championship manager before that. Then I think of the RPGs and JRPGs and the numbers go skyward very rapidly...

Hmm, time to look at this again then. After Half Term.

Am I the only one that's found that adding a printer via GPP has meant it's bypassed Papercut? I've had to go back to GPO because of it unless I'm missing something obvious! As I understand it, GPP adds the printer as a device to the computer itself, whereas GPO adds the server share of the printer (and thusly can be monitored by Papercut). Would be gladly proven wrong!

Added from a recent forum post: But I'll also add that ensuring you have a fast wireless connection is vital. I've recently bought 5Ghz cards for some dell laptops and the speed and reliablilty increase is phenomenal. I'll also add that make sure your offline files are set correctly in GPO. I used to have them really locked down, but this caused a lot more grief as Windows really likes to be able to use Sync centre (assuming your on Win7). I now have the following two GPOs set for students and my performance is far more reliable, with less issues of folders not redirecting, drives not mapping etc: Admin Templates - Network - Offline Files - Remove 'Make Available Offline' - Enabled Admin Templates - System - Folder Redirection - Do not automatically make redirected folders available offline - Enabled

I've blogged about this issue here: Wireless and Power settings - Blogs - EduGeek.net But I'll also add that ensuring you have a fast wireless connection is vital. I've recently bought 5Ghz cards for some dell laptops and the speed and reliablilty increase is phenomenal. I'll also add that make sure your offline files are set correctly in GPO. I used to have them really locked down, but this caused a lot more grief as Windows really likes to be able to use Sync centre (assuming your on Win7). I now have the following two GPOs set for students and my performance is far more reliable, with less issues of folders not redirecting, drives not mapping etc: Admin Templates - Network - Offline Files - Remove 'Make Available Offline' - Enabled Admin Templates - System - Folder Redirection - Do not automatically make redirected folders available offline - Enabled

Time for a cheesy emoticon

Could start to deny devices IP addresses by Mac address? Very easy to do with Server 2012 (right click the entry - Add to Filter - Deny), slightly harder with 2008 or 2008R2, but essentially create a file called MACList.txt in %WinDir%\System32\dhcp and use the following as a template: First part is the Mac Address, the part after the hash is ignored, but allows you to identify what device you've blocked (in case you accidentally block something important!). Once created and filled in with relevant data, restart the dhcp service and it should block those mac addresses from receiving ip addresses. Had to do this before we were moved off of the county network.

With Office 365/Exchange you can technically recall an email, as long as it remains unread and it's to either another exchange account or your own internal exchange account (I can't remember which) but definitely not if it's to another type of email account (Gmail, virginmedia etc). I remember looking this up when the someone high up sent the wrong message to a parent...

"This is what happens when you google Google..."

I'm banking on my retirement for that... only 38(ish) more years to go!

Good shout of Danganronpa, I'll definitely be looking into that, but had something of a Nintendo fest recently, Got Hyrule Warriors, Wind Waker, Mario Kart 8, SSMB 3DS and Mario Golf to play through (plus a stupidly large Steam library to work through!) I did get the 'proper' ending to 9 hours, 9 persons, 9 doors, and as long as you don't mind a lot of reading, the story is brilliant, if a touch far fetched...

As I was typing that sentence that very thought popped into my head!

Our deployment of iPads has been very mixed, however some good uses that we've found are: PE/Dance - Recording students and instant playback of their technique/choreography in a sport has been useful. Music - Garageband is a useful app, though it hits the wall of "How do I prevent other students from deleting this work?" But it is a good app, and students like using it. Again, the recording of performances using the iPad has been a good addition. English - Literacy apps to help the weaker students have proven very popular this year. This is a set of four iPads that are closely monitored, though we're expanding to 6. As a general point, Meraki is very useful for removing the pesky access codes students set without a factory reset, but I've not used the rest of its functions in anger yet. I can't say I would welcome large sets of iPads though, truly believe something along the lines of a chrome book, but tied into our Office365 environment, would be far better suited.