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Hi All, We are looking to adopt ChatGPT for use by selected staff members, however I'm thinking of this from a GDPR point of view. Happy to pay for any of the suitable premium subscriptions - Plus, Pro, Team or Enterprise. Just checking to see if anyone has managed to set this up for selected users in a school or Trust - such that there's a dashboard overview of activities that has or currently taking place within the ChatGPT tenant? The idea is that if there's a likely breach, the system notifies the tenant admin or the admin can look at the logs to identify possible breaches and the user. Or is it just a case of creating individual accounts (using the school's or Trust's email address) with no centralised view of activities? I'm happy for suggestions of alternative AI products (general purpose preferred) that could offer the above. Thanks in anticipation.

Hi Mako, Thank you for your comments. Happy to know you are also looking to do more or less the same thing. To avoid paying twice for some agreements, we've nominated the school agreement that will lapse at the end of the month to be the Master Agreement. The vendor will then rename this to the MAT's name. In the future, we can add other schools as and when their agreements lapse. Fortunately for us, this will be from September onwards. Will check with our vendor that the Master Agreement will be tied to the MAT's tenancy. Thanks again.

Hi Boredguy, Yes, that's correct. All schools are under a single 365 tenancy with each school having their email domains within it. Glad to know consolidating the agreements won't break anything. Thank you.

Hello, I wonder if someone is able to advise please. We are looking to consolidate and therefore align the Microsoft Volume Licensing Agreements for all the schools within our MAT into a single agreement. To this end, our vendor advised that this can be done by nominating one of the agreements as the Master Agreement and then adding the others as and when they are due. However, they have also mentioned that we need to be renewing the Office365 for each of the schools annually so that each school can keep their email domains in Office365, as they do now. Otherwise Microsoft will only allow the use of a single email domain for all the schools within our O365 tenancy. This is where I got confused as to what this meant. In this regard, I have contacted Microsoft today to advise, but still awaiting a response. So I thought to see if anyone here has done the same thing, if there were any issues and how they went about this. It is a scary thought for all our schools to lose access to their email domains in O365 overnight. Just in case, all our schools are under our MAT's O365 tenancy, but each school have their email domains registered there. Thank you in anticipation.

Unlike Tuesday and Wednesday, thankfully we didn’t experience intermittent issues with Teams today. Hoping the fix is a permanent one.

We have also been having some issues with Teams since yesterday; intermittent drop outs every now and again. It seems to happen around peak periods in the mornings or mid day.

Hi Matthew, Thank you. Will have a look at Sage HR.

Hi DMurray, All our schools are running SIMS. Cheers!

Thank you, Simon. I actually read the review for this on software advice website last week. Good to see that you have deployed and using it. Will add them to the list.

Thank you. I was at BETT last Friday and visited Civica's stand to have a chat. The product seem to tick the boxes. Will arrange an onsite meeting/demo with them soon. Cheers!

Hello, Our MAT is looking to adopt a HR software. Just checking to see what other schools, Academies and Trusts are using out there. I have looked at Civica HR for Schools on their website, it seems to tick some of the boxes for employee self-service, absence management and reporting and analytics. So, it would be nice to hear from schools, Academies or Trusts that have actually deployed and are using this or any other solution. Thank you in anticipation.

I can imagine. The costs can easily mount up, especially for bigger MATs. Hopefully you get the best company for it. Thanks.

Wow, how many schools are you looking to migrate?

Good to know it went well for you; including the after support. I have actually dealt with them in the past with regards to installing our WiFi network some years ago. I didn't realise they are now into migration projects. Will definitely get in touch. Thanks. - - - Updated - - - Thank you Karldenton. Will get in touch.

Morning all, Our MAT is looking to migrate all the existing AD domains in its schools to the central MAT's Active Directory forest. To this end, I am after an experienced company/consultant that we can work with in order to achieve this. I would appreciate if anyone can recommend a suitable company/consultant. We would prefer a company/consultant that can provide us with reference sites that can be contacted. Just in case, we are based in the West Midlands. Thank you in anticipation. NM