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We use hosted SLG and unfortunately we have had parents reporting the same issue. Additionally we have had complaints that Firefox is saying that the certificate isn't secure. I just installed the latest Firefox on my PC and I seem to be getting the same thing. Is this a known issue with hosted SLG?

Thanks for the feedback on this! I do like the interface on the learnpad and it would be a shame to have to write it off because of the hardware. I'll see about getting the Toshiba hardware if we go ahead with anything.

Actually we just received a LearnPad on trial (I think it is a v2, I'm not sure) and the wireless performance is pretty bad on our Ruckus system. Were you able to find an answer, TechSupp?

I don't think I had to do anything with Google Wallet. I just signed in to my Google account when I first set up the thing and now when I go to buy something from the Play store, there is an option to pay with "Google Play balance" which had the £15 in it.

Just wondering, is the parent view block being updated to work with Moodle 2? Right now that is about the only thing keeping us from upgrading our setup

I think FOG automatically takes the system partition in to account. It may need the Host OS section to be set to Windows 7 before you upload the image, but all of my Windows 7 images are set to Single Partition and I've had no trouble deploying them. It's preferable to use Single Partition where possible because FOG can automatically resize the partition for you.

It's not a bad idea to prod people to upgrade, I'm not sure that this is the best way of doing it though. More important than website compatibility is computer security - your antivirus software (or more likely Windows Security Centre) flashes up that you're open to invading nasties when your definitions are out of date, maybe the same should happen for your browser. Alternatively there's the Google Chrome route - stealth updates

Thanks for pointing this out! I don't usually browse the training forum (being that training is something that I don't actually receive and can't really afford to pay for myself), but I happened to see this. Lucky because there's only one day left of the introductory offer! I'm all signed up now and hoping I can get work to reimburse me. So I would just click the thanks button, but by bumping this thread I hope I can help somebody else see this because time runs out

I don't see it as a vanity issue for us. We use a .org address simply because using the .sch.uk and by extension the email addresses given to schools in our area is absurdly long and cumbersome, and the longer an address is the more chance of people making typing errors. As an example, email addresses look like [email protected] k. Yes, some schools actually have a 30+ character domain! So for us, changing was a no-brainer. edit: Oops, didn't realise this thread was a month old. Apparently I'm still living in April.

Well.. I think I've solved the problem. It was quick, easy, and didn't involve any "accidents". I root...sorry, "jailbroke" the ******* thing. It was quite good timing in a way because the jailbreak tool for iPad 2s only came out last week. Once done I just installed SBSettings and Activator. I used SBSettings to hide everything undesirable (including SBSettings itself), and set Activator to set a button combination that would launch SBSettings so that I can get back in if needed.

Do you try to make sure that students don't find out that passcode then, Pyroman? Because as far as I can see, once somebody knows a passcode there is nothing to stop them changing it to something else.

Hi, We're looking at introducing iPads for student use, but as far as I can see there is no way of blocking access to settings. I'm aware of the Restrictions menu and the iPhone configuration utility but these don't cover some of the important things. The first/biggest problem is the passcode issue - either we set a password which then has to be entered every time before a student can use it, or we don't set one at all which then allows a student to come along and set one. Then the iPad requires a trip to my office to restore the backup. The other problem is that even with restrictions set and regardless of whether or not a passcode is set, students can still go in and set airplane mode, change international settings, and just generally bugger things up for the next person who comes along. Am I missing something or are you all constantly restoring backups of your iPads? How do you manage them in your school?

I'm no expert so I don't think I'll be able to help I'm afraid. I'm not familiar with the M2 cohorts setup either but I'm just thinking that wouldn't it be easier to run with the year group option and forget about key stage? The reason being it might make things easier when it comes to the end of the year process. With key stage, you'd have to move those going up a stage out of their current group and in to the next group up. With year group wouldn't it just be a case of renaming the group to change the number as the membership will stay the same? Plus it can't be that much more effort to add a few year groups to a course instead of one year group, and would give more flexibility. Unless I'm misunderstanding completely which is entirely possible.

That's great news that it is being updated! Can I ask is this just for Facility to Moodle, or is the Parent View block going to get the Moodle 2 treatment too?

It's a shame about the My Files not working because that's one of the best features, but I think TMG supports basic authentication so it might not be an issue for us. Only one way to find out Thanks for your work on this!

Awesome, thanks!

Hi, I've been evaluating HAP to see how well it would work for us and it looks pretty neat I've had a quick look but couldn't find any mention of being able to use IIS's Integrated Authentication. Is it possible to authenticate to HAP using that instead of the form somehow? The reason is that we're using a Microsoft TMG reverse proxy setup for access to various things on the network, and it would be nice to not need to log in more than once. Thanks

You could do a search and replace on the registry entries for the shares. Entries for all of the shares are kept in HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\services\Lanmanserver\shares. You could export that and then do a search and replace on the CSCFlags value which governs caching. Then import your modified registry file and reboot. Be very careful that this doesn't affect the value on any shares that you do not want to change - and in fact, just be careful in general. Make sure that you keep your original registry export in case something goes awry and you need to put things back how they were.

I'm not sure about the speed of the connections - I'm hoping for 100mb but I haven't had quotes in yet. Linking the ADs as a forest may be an option at some point but the main objective is to provide schools with internet access, secure access to a central finance system, email, and possibly remote backup and linking phone systems over VOIP (depending on what connection speed we end up with). It's all delightfully extravagant which means that it probably won't happen. On the subject on web filtering, it would be nice if each school was able to set up and manage their own white/blacklists. I figured a nice way of achieving that might be to route each school out on a different public IP and use OpenDNS. Another reason for the separate public IPs is that some providers of online material restrict access by IP address and they get a bit uptight if your IP is shared with other schools.

Ah, good thinking on the broadcast traffic - that would be the point that I'm missing so I'd definitely need a router at each site. Then if I'm thinking right, I would need a suitable router to handle traffic between the different sites, and also out on to the internet. It's not exactly the most simple setup, but I think I'm getting my head around it

Actually this was another thing that I wasn't certain of - if each satellite site needed a router also. I haven't dealt with leased lines before but as I understood it they are just glorified fibre links. I figured that because you don't need a router to link two buildings with fibre, that I wouldn't in this case either and that I'd only need a router to handle traffic between the subnets. Did I get this wrong?

Yes, but which! I know my way around IPCop but that only supports 4 interfaces, and I have no experience of anything that might be able to handle 7.

I don't think I understand why a VPN would be necessary? The connections between the schools would be via leased line, direct in to the school and not over the internet. In that respect it would already be a private network. I might be missing something, but I think the issue is finding the best way of routing between so many subnets.

Hi all, There is a chance that we might end up with up to 5 feeder schools connecting in to our site via leased lines, and we would house various services here for them to access and be used as a gateway for internet access. The schools also need to have the option of being able to connect to each other. Each school has its own subnet, so I'm thinking that I would need to be able to route between the 5 schools, a DMZ, and the internet. My question is: what is the best way of achieving this? Does anyone know of any particular hardware that would handle this well?