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would it not just be the same as installing any linux onto any laptop?

Chromeos also has this plugin available: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/file-system-for-windows/mfhnnfciefdpolbelmfkpmhhmlkehbdf?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher-info-dialog Mileage will vary though and it's probably not a good idea for students.

+1 one for Onedrive or google drive. the is also MS direct access: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd759144(v=ws.11).aspx

Class note book is designed for classes. you create your shared resources and add your students to it. If gives you a quick way to share resources with those students, mark their work etc. I can't see it working on a whole school level. Have a whole school onenote and using that to copy copy resources into a class notebook could work though.

Yes I'm happy to being on a working group.

I would be interested in join this group. However it's very easy to argue that the £600 price tag is well spent. Think of the price of a technician needed to support this product. They will possible need some open source skills: linux, git, coding, webserve etc. Versus install it on a windows server and pick up the phone to their support if there are any problems. I've seen these again and again. I've pushed hard to use free products and told no. In my experience many techs in schools and college don't have FLOSS skills. They are microsoft / cisco certified and don't really want to touch FLOSS. There are also products like: Open Source Student Information System | Home Which is an open source MIS. However from talking to people over the years it appears it doesn't fit the very specific needs of UK schools and Colleges. Dan

We have system created in house that uses a usb visualiser to take pics of documents and upload them into a folder on a share that has the student id number attached. We use it for collecting Quals on entry but it could work for a task like this.

do you need to install it locally and not just install it centrally and give students a DB?

Just wait for Russia to kick of in few years and you'll be able to record the new one. There might not be many people to play it to though. or this: Who, What, Why: What would the radio broadcast in a nuclear war? - BBC News

Hello Does anyone have any information on how to create live tiles in a site in Office 365? I want to create tiles that pull in information such as attendance and other metrics from our databases. Dan

Isn't google classroom a VLE?

So the way we do this in PHP for our webapps is: User goes to the site Simplesaml checks if the user is already logged in The site will try to SSO - it not it pops up a login page/ box Username and password are sent via simple saml > ADFS ADFS checks their login and passed back username, name, email and some other stuff and crucially AD group membership as an array simplasaml now has the user details We then have some Auth classes which check if the user is in a certain group so if they go to the staff page, the class checks if they are in the staff group and lets them in or bounces them. We do this with a database table to hold the groups. So 'staff' might map to 'allStaff, Contractors, sessional' etc. That way if we need to change access we just change the database and not the code. I think the bit you've missed in your post above is that ADFS can send back any of the fields from AD - it's not just authentication.

It depends on your setup. With have some linux server running PHP applications and we do the auth with ADFS > simplesaml. That lets us do single sign on and pull in any info from AD that we need. We also use ADLAP which is a PHP class that fills in a few gaps for us.

chatroulette for the classroom :-)

Good point and one I hadn't thought of. However the we do have over 18's and it might well be that we steer them towards different games.

Hi we've been approached by some student who want to run a lan party in our college. Fundamentally we have no problem with this - we've got some alright PCs and and network that can happily cope. In particular they want to play counter strike - source or GO. How we're not sure about the best way to go about getting the games on to the machines and managing them. We use SCCM and image all or deployments. However we don't particularly want to re-image a bunch of machines on friday, install CS or steam and then install the games, and then reimage the machines again on the Monday. Does anyone else do this and do they have any tips about to do it?

Which instructions are you following? for ubuntu sudo chmod -R 775 /path/to/moodledata and sudo chown -R adminaccount:www-data /path/to/moodledata should work for you.

That's an old post They run mostly linux now: https://www.quora.com/What-Linux-distribution-is-used-in-computers-aboard-the-ISS

plus one for check_mk Especially if installed with: https://labs.consol.de/nagios/omd-repository/index.html It becomes an apt-get install omd and your up and running.

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I've have fiddled with it int he past as well. I finally settled on : Open Monitoring Distribution - start

For £15 a year I'd get it hosted as it's out of your hair. I'd only host it your self if you've already got a server you can just pop it onto as a new virtualhost.

check if the 1.9 courses have any assignments on them. If they do then check here: https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Course_backup

You could use proxmox as a hypervisor as that is free and gives you pretty much all the benefits of vmware. And then use the cluster for student labs as people have suggested.

Take a look at OpenStreetMap they have tools for taking traces from a GPS and applying them to a map that might point you in the correct direction