Bev

Anyway to get around the Hello, choose a language etc screen when you update the ios? I've just tried to add an App via Apple configurator, and they all needed an ios update. I now have to go into each ipad manually and select the language/country etc, and enter the WIFI password, even though I have a profile containing the wifi password (which is being picked up once they are connected to the wifi, useful!) we currently have 24 iPads, I can just about manage to do this manually, if they roll out to 100s I will be swamped.

It looks like the Vision amps we have are only 25 amps and they are never turned up very high so I think they Gemtune one should be adequate. I'm going to give it a go.

I don't really know how loud, other than loud enough to be heard in a room full of kids.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gemtune-SA-36A-Amplifier-Adapter-Standard/dp/B00NAVDZ58/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1441178870&sr=1-3&keywords=smsl+amplifier We currently have Vision Amplifiers in each classroom. In the past, we had DVD and VHS Players, as well as the PC's, and they all went through the amp to the speakers on the wall. The DVD & VHS Players are long gone, and the Amps are starting to fail. I'm wondering if I can replace them with something like the above, We don't need multiple inputs as they are only used for the PC (and Aux input for an iPad might be useful but not a bit deal), and something small would take up less room on the desks. But as my knowledge of amplifiers is pretty none existent, I'm not sure if I'm missing something obvious.

We use reflector, bought using the school credit card which does the conversion for you.

Yeah. been a long term.....

Just realised this thread is frorm July 2014, not July 2015! Hopefully, a solution has been found in the intervening year!

We currently VNC into the Raspberry pi. I have each Pi set to a static IP address, and they have to plug in an ethernet cable into the PI, and then they run TightVNC viewer, enter the Static IP (Written on the PI), and they can view the Pi. They have them on their desks, but the wiring isn't ideal. It means we have loose Ethernet cables on the floor when they aren't in use. I've actually come to this thread looking for a cable that will enable us to use our VGA monitors and connect them to both the PCs and the Pi. An added complication being that our monitors are fixed into desks so you can't easily access the back to change cables. It has to be something permanently attached.

We have Samsung Series 3 Chromebooks, they are 11.6in screens. We find them fine, so many people are using ipads/phones these days, that the smaller screen has never been an issue.

I have a similiar problem, it will work from the workstation as it detects the locally connected printer, but I can't get anything to print from the chromebooks. Interestingly, I'm sure I did have the chromebooks printing last year but all the printers now show as offline at all times and nothing prints. I think it's a firewall issue, but I haven't been able to resolve it. https://support.google.com/cloudprint/answer/6140513?hl=en

We use Matrep, it works very well for us and the staff all really like it. It doesn't use comment banks, but if the staff copy a report from another child, it will change all the appropriate names/pronouns etc. I used to use SIMS and it took me months but this is fantastic, I can turn them around in a couple of days.

We are a small middle school with 3 form entry, so we have just 320 pupils. I think it would be easy enough to split it by year groups but the initial setup might be quite painful. You can do a free trial though, I'm sure I set my whole school up before I committed to the system, as being a middle school we don't fit any of the usual formats so I needed to see if it would work for our situation. I would also add that I've found them very quick to respond to any questions, and more than once I've asked for a feature and it's been implemented within a few hours.

We use a website called Matrep. The staff really like it, it allows them to pre-fill some information, copy and paste levels from spreadsheets, and when they are writing the actual text they can copy from another child and it changes the names and pronouns etc. When everything is entered, it will produce the complete report, but I am not keen on the format provided, so I export all the results/comments etc and mail merge into a Word Doc, but that's not necessary, just me being fussy. Saying that, it took me a little while to set up the Mail Merge but now even that is very quick. Prior to this, we used excel spreadsheets which I imported into SIMs, it was an extremely painful process. This is fantastic in comparision.

I am understanding this correctly? We have 24 iPads all purchased 18 months ago from PC World. I have a VPP account, and use Meraki, does this mean because I bought the iPads from PC World rather than Apple we can't use the DEP and silently push apps to them?

Just thought I would add to this, I was using Rollgator to display our messages on the reception screen notice board but it kept crashing on a regular basis, so I've found an alternative. RSS feed widget free from FeedWind, the best RSS widget available It's designed to create a small widget, but if you set the width to 800 and increase the font size, it looks good on a full screen. I use the code this generates to create an HTML page and then I display that on my front screen. So far, it is much more robust, and it can cope with HTML in the descriptions, so if messages have bold, or carriage returns they don't need to be stripped out.

What are you using to display the RSS feed? I was using Rollgator, which is great when it works but i find it doesn't always work.

We use one of these iQ 16 Sync and Charge Cart | iPad Sync Cart | LocknCharge but I really like the look of those Zen Bags. Our ipads have to go outside to mobile classrooms, and a trolley isn't always the best solution.

We have 11 in Samsungs. The teachers don't use them, we just use them for the kids to use in class.

We use them, we were already set up with Google Apps and use Google Drive extensively. The kids log in with their email address and have access to their drive. I have very few issues with them, and much prefer them to the laptops we used to have.

Does this page exist if you try and vide it directly? http://IPADDRESS/messages/admin/all.php

I have found the CDATA command from one of the above links, and so far so good. Of course, I won't know for sure if until it breaks again! XML CDATA

It did take me a bit of tweaking to get it all set up, but we've had it running since January and for the most part it works very well. I use Rollgator to display the RSS feed on the front screen and I would like to get away from Rollgator and write my own screen for displaying the feed but that's currently beyond my technical know how.

Have a look in the add.php module, there is a line in there which needs removing. include 'includes/connect.php'; $name = mysqli_real_escape_string($con, $_POST['name']); $title = mysqli_real_escape_string($con, $_POST['title']); $content = mysqli_real_escape_string($con, $_POST['content']); $mon = $_POST['mon']; $mon = 0 -> I removed this line $tue = $_POST['tue']; $wed = $_POST['wed']; $thu = $_POST['thu']; $fri = $_POST['fri'];

I have mine specified like this but I also changed the links to the class pages Year 6 bulletin Year 7 bulletin I had to change quite a lot, as I needed different year groups. I don't know if I did it the way it was intended, but it seems to work.

We moved to Google Drive a few years ago, it took a couple of years for staff to get on board but now most things are kept on there and then shared with anyone who needs access. It works pretty well.