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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.

Thank you Psydii. I've done some initial testing on this. Setting the Anonymous users can join a meeting to OFF will resolve the issue of intruders joining the classes. However, it will prevent guests from joining any meetings organised from the MAT's tenancy. Will test the impact of the Allow guest access in Teams setting next...

Morning All, I wonder if someone can help please. Similar to all other schools, we have been experiencing lesson intruders during live lessons in schools within our MAT. Due to this, in addition to enabling the lobby feature, we would like to disable Guest access within our O365 tenancy. Looking within the Teams Admin center, under Org-wide Settings > Guest Access there is an Allow guest access in Teams setting. This is currently set to ON. In addition, under Meetings > Meeting Settings, the Anonymous users can join a meeting setting is also currently set to ON. I understand that if we set the Anonymous users can join a meeting setting to OFF. This will stop external people from being able to join meetings or class teams scheduled within our O365 tenancy. Is this correct? Lastly, does anyone know what the impact of setting the Allow guest access in Teams setting to OFF will be? Do we need to also set this OFF in order to stop the lesson intruders? Just in case, we have existing subject collaboration Teams where some of the members are from schools outside our MAT and O365 tenancy. Will they lose access to these Teams? Thanks.

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?