Lewys

ICT Technician at Hymers College, Hull Salary: Around £15,500-£16,000 - dependant upon experience.

We do the same. Never had any issues with Namecheap, Comodo or the certificates.

Have you got a Smoothwall box already then? So you could just by a license for the anti-spam bit... We use Barracuda. Don't you get inundated with spam?

Where did you download the IPSW from?

Personally use 1Password https://agilebits.com/onepassword - very slick experience especially as a Mac user. They have a Windows version too along with iOS and Android apps.

Ahh I see! Can't help you there, as I don't know. Would be useful though

What web filter do you use? In Smoothwall it's fairly straightforward. You add the search term to the search term filtering section.

Could still be updates. There have been a number of fairly big ones in the last couple of weeks (although not 12GB big), and OS X has a habit of just downloading them whenever it feels like. You can turn off notification here: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18740?locale=en_US or for an unoffical, kill all switch - Permanently Disable Notification Center in OS X Mountain Lion (should work with Yosemite too).

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. The major advantage to using VPP is Apple Configurator. In a school with more than about 30 iPads; it becomes a godsend, easily installing and restoring en masse. You also have the advantage of MDM roll out for apps.

You can via single app mode on iPad. But I would have thought that would be a bit of a pain to do every single lesson. Not sure how useful one of these would be: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/prevent-program-closing-disabling-close-button/ - for Windows

Is it just student's that are having an issue? Staff/yourself are fine? Can you remove all the policies related to Chrome. Best to get it working first, before starting to apply those.

Yes it will I'm afraid. On the 'Supervise' tab in Configuator, when the iPad is connected, you can right click on it and select 'Unsupervise'. The bad thing here is going to be, you'll have to connect the devices, which will be wiped and Configurator will restore it back to the state it was when it was originally supervised. Only then will you be able to Unsupervise it, which will actually wipe the device again... I don't know another way around it I'm afraid.

I suspect (I know) that is the reason why Configurator wiped the devices then. When they were supervised you must have checked 'Erase be installing'. You'll need to remove the supervision if you want to manage them through iTunes and/or untick that box.

Had the devices been supervised in Apple Configurator previously?

As long as there isn't any flashing or flickering material being projected, they should be fine. The lighting in the room should be more of a concern. Fluorescent strip lights and light bulbs can trigger a seizure when they start to go or are faulty. I have worked with people with photosensitive ep. and projectors have never been an issue. Like TV's; as long as their isn't anything flickering being displayed on them.