timothy

I've just automated this (both students and teachers) with a sketchy python script. I'm sure it could probably be done in three lines of code, iterating through the SIMS report 1000 less times, if you actually know Python. - but it works! I'm even less familiar with C#, otherwise it would have made more sense just to extend James' code... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aCCeJpoxefam0QVIhjHlrCDiStFOUSJL/view I've packaged up the python version I'm using because I got different results when I ran with python 3. I'm running "python/python.exe runme.py" from the command prompt. The 'runme.py' script and the usual inputs for James' app will need some love to make them suit a different environment. Tim

Hi Roger, I'm using James' app. Works well.. CommandReporter is my next step. Wondering if you've managed to automate the generation of teachers.csv? How do I go about doing the 'flip', two rows, RM second row, remove top 4 lines, insert email addresses? :-) Cheers, Tim

I had wondered if that might be the case. Ta for your thoughts. Will see what else I can find out.

I'm not too worried about that. I have a reasonable relationship with the IT lads, so I'd get a polite request to stop tinkering long before anyone threatened to take my laptop away from me! (keeping in mind that we use exclusively IWBs these days and some of the rooms I teach in don't even have marker boards!) I know they will have been asked not to disclose the key though (if it's even been shared with them), so I don't really want to put them in an awkward position by asking for it. I'm only talking about freeing up some space and dual booting the machine, either through a seperate partition or a loopback filesystem a la Wubi. I don't want to destroy the thing! Getting my EeePC on the network and helping all my colleagues who don't want to tote the 3kg behemoths we've been given would be an added bonus! Anyway.. I should have known this topic was too taboo for this forum. I have been reading it sporadically for a long time! Thanks, Tim

How authoritarian! I saw that sort of response coming I suppose. I'm aware of the implications, thanks. RM offered to charge a colleague 150 quid to get their macbook on the network. With a few key details, I'll happily cut those 'administration' costs. Oh, the joys of outsourcing IT eh! If anyone could shed some light on whether or not it is this "My Connect" application handling the connectivity, that would also be of use. Thanks, Tim

I might not find many sympathetic ears (eyes?) around here for this one, but I will ask anyway... In my favour, I think people will understand my motives: I'm a teacher in a school that has just had RM roll out Vista (what's the excuse for that?!) across all staff and student laptops and I would like very much to try and get a decent operating system on mine! Obviously, it'll be useless to me if I can't get some sort of network connectivity (I appreciate the WPA key would only be the first hurdle). I'm familiar with Nirsoft's WirelessKeyView that grabs keys from c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Wlansvc\Profiles\Interfaces\ and that correctly identifies my home network's WPA key. However, it doesn't find the school one. Presumably because network connectivity is handled by some of RM's software. "My Connect", maybe?? (I've not worked in an RM school before) Has anyone got any thoughts on where/how that key might be stored? Cheers, Tim