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I know we have to deal within the rules, but given they seem to be... Open to interpretation? I am the only one that thinks "just give this kid the laptop" ? The poor kid has just been taken into care. What other chance have they got of being bought a laptop that's needed for their education? A school has some hope/funds for buying an extra laptop if someone decides it's a priority.

Because you don't spend enough time here?

IMHO, I think you could come unstuck on a GDPR basis. You are required to only keep data for as long as you have good reason. You could put it in your retention policy and justify it that way, but I think it'd be quite a hard one to make a good case for.

I went through this 10 days ago: /showthread.php?p=1864408 It's annoying and although it is explained if you look hard enough, reviews on the app store show that it's not widely enough known or understood. Hopefully the recent update will help.

The basic statistic is that around 1% of people who catch Covid-19 die. If we don't have a way of stopping people catching it, we don't change the number who end up dying. That could be over a short period or a long period. The issue with a short period is that thousands more will die because the health service will collapse, meaning that 1) the Covid-19 death rate goes up because people don't receive the treatments we've found to be effective and 2) people will die of other things due to lack of capacity in the health system. 3) It will also cause economic carnage because so many people will be ill at the same time that industry and business will collapse. Remaining options are 1) decide what an acceptable rate is and keep a partial lockdown so that we don't change the final death toll, but we avoid collapse of the health service and the economy. To consider: the level of lockdown we've had over the summer has not been enough to achieve this, hence an exponential rise in cases now. 2) hedge your bets. You could hope to keep the exponential rise slow enough to avoid societal collapse until we have a vaccine. Issues with that approach are a) we don't yet have a vaccine and b) the level of lockdown we've had over the summer has not been enough even to maintain a sufficiently low exponential rate to keep us out of health system and economic collapse until the earliest conceivable date a vaccine might be ready. 3) have a test, track and trace system that keeps the level of transmission at an either constant or decreasing level. The up side of this is that it's shown to work - see South Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand. It also allows normal social and economic activity. The down side is that it is more intrusive to personal freedom: South Korea uses GPS tracking to identify potential spread and there is very strict enforcement of quarantine. It also relies on a low level of infection in the community. New Zealand's system is less intrusive, but they locked down until cases were effectively zero - the upside is that they can now hold sports events with stadiums full to capacity. They have isolated themselves from international travel though. At the minute, we're on our way to option one. The scientists from SAGE recommended a full lockdown three weeks ago based on a reasonable worst case scenario based on their modelling. The current situation is worse than their worst case estimate from three weeks ago. If we don't want option one, the longer we leave the lockdown, the longer the lockdown will need to be, the death rate in the mean time will be higher and the economic impact will be worse. Germany appears to have been more successful in achieving a compromise than we have; somewhere between the Draconian measures taken in the countries where there have been almost zero cases, while preventing unmanageable infection rates. This seems to be down to their test and trace working better, which has allowed more freedom with fewer deaths. However their cases are now increasing at a concerning rate. It will be interesting to see what they do next. The decision is political. It is reasonable for politicians to follow public opinion, but public opinion should be properly informed.

Surface Pro 7 i5 8GB £659 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Surface-12-3-Tablet-Platinum/dp/B07Y5M67K7/ref=mp_s_a_1_1_mod_primary_lightning_deal?dchild=1&keywords=surface+pro+7&psr=PDAY&qid=1602589918&s=prime-day&sbo=Tc8eqSFhUl4VwMzbE4fw%2Fw%3D%3D&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&sprefix=surface&sr=1-1 It's a lot of money, but a big discount.

I was trying to do similar on Google Sites and you'll be pleased to hear it also has quirks. I ended up converting the documents into "Sways". It was a bit of a faff, but I found it worked well on different sized screens and browsers. Once you show the staff how to do it, they can edit them just as easily as of they were in Word. sway.office.com

I posted it here and it was entirely deliberate. I started with "this is why I prefer the NHS app". I put it in this thread as there'd been discussion above about the benefits of the NHS app and data privacy concerns about sharing your details with individual venues, while other participants were resistant to using the NHS app.

I obviously wasn't clear enough in my original post. I was trying to make the point that the NHS app is much BETTER from a privacy point of view at least. All of the ones I've used just use the QR code to direct you to a web form. You just fill in your details and pass them on. No app to install or sign into. Presumably by pressing submit, you agree to whatever terms and conditions they haven't shown you and you just trust them to do the honourable thing... Until the NHS app was launched as an alternative, your only other option was not to go into the venue.

Hi You'll need to provide a bit more detail for a full answer (what software you're using, what your data source is, what you're printing on to). Once you've got your report, most word processors have a wizard that takes you through the steps. Hopefully the following will point you in the right direction: First create your report; most MIS will have a "generate report" function. Pick the fields you need and select csv as the output format and save it to a location that's accessible from the application you're using to produce the labels. Make sure that the columns have headers that make sense to you. Open the word processing application and find a document template that matches you labels. (Most labels will have a code on the box. If yours don't, search for Avery and pick one that has the right number of labels per row and column.) Start the mail merge process. You'll be asked for a source. Select "use existing file" and pick the file you've just created. In the document insert fields that match the column headings you used. Preview the output and then print. Hope that helps.

And this is why I prefer the NHS app to any of the other contact gathering methods: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/contact-tracing-data-sold-on-coronavirus-141855189.html (Apologies for the Yahoo link - the original story is in the Times behind a paywall.)

If anyone's actually interested in buying: 1 You need to register for an account and then get approval before you can bid 2 It looks like collection only, which is from the construction site, not the auctioneer's (between Cambridge and Huntingdon) 3 You need PPE to get on site (including hard hat, work boots and hi Viz trousers!)

I thought "2 sheds Mike" might want a secure metal shed with toilet and wash basin [emoji23]

Bit of a random one.... I've come across an auction of equipment from a massive road building project. Why post here? Includes Meraki wireless points, CCTV, digital cameras, tablet charging cabinets (and that's on the first out of 35 pages). https://www.ppauctions.com/auction/304/a14-integrated-delivery-team Most things starting at £10 Edit: unless you're after 8 pallets of assorted traffic cones, or 600mm diameter concrete pipe, it's the first few pages and last 4 pages that might be of interest. I could imagine your site team being interested in a shipping container or some barriers

There are still a few decent deals on the Google Pixel 3a around for about £250 from reasonably trustworthy sources (lots of places seen to be trying to sell it for £350 which is the same as the 4a [emoji2369]). https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/google-pixel-very-silver-5-32gb-unlocked-sim-free-g-2pw4100-32sil/version.asp I reckon that's probably better than the "low end"phones at £200 to £250. As an Android user for the last 12 or so years... I've pointed a couple of friends towards the iPhone SE recently. At £450 I think it's good value for the build quality and 5 years of support - although almost double what I've ever paid for a phone, but apparently that's mid-range nowadays.

Strongest arguments against are logistics - teachers knowing which students are using which system for what and the fact that you'll have an extra system to manage. Having said that, IME, G Suite is much more straightforward to manage than O365, so it shouldn't cause you many issues, especially once you get SSO set up (which isn't a major challenge). I had both systems running in parallel due to $reasons without any great difficulty. I'd suggest getting File Stream (for GSuite) and Files on Demand* (for O365) running and then all of everyone's files will be available through File Explorer and the context menus in applications. *Worth getting the Group Policies set up to map SharePoint Online libraries as mapped drives.

Can you not insert an image with a picture of the thumbnail and hyperlink it to the actual YouTube URL as a workaround? (Apologies if this is a red herring as I don't have a system to test on.)

No contention with the principle of being cautious with use of multi way extension leads. However, the 2 amps being used for charging is at 5V. The 13 amp limit of the extension lead or socket is at 230V. Even 30 devices charging at 2 amps would draw a load of 300W. The extension lead is rated to cope with almost 10 times that. Last time we bought a charging trolley (which cost over £300) for 16 iPads I found 4 bog standard 4 way extension cables screwed to the inside of the cabinet and wired via a junction box to the single cable coming out of the back. I wasn't impressed - it wasn't my choice of product. Edit: that device you linked to looks like a much better solution that several chargers plugged into a socket and seems really good value.

From an article in Wired that seems to give a fairly comprehensive explanation: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/nhs-covid-19-tracking-app-contact-tracing

This could equally go in the Annoying Things thread, but thought it might be useful for someone here: I got this notification a couple of hours ago: Turns out it's a system check by Google. https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-some-users-of-nhs-tracing-app-incorrectly-given-covid-19-exposure-alerts-12086225 It'd be useful if the notification said something along those lines. Apparently if it's a genuine notification it should take you into the app and give useful instructions. This one just disappears when you click on it.

The Draytek 2600 series can do all of that. Rock solid - not unreasonable to describe them as semi-professional grade and prices are reasonable. Also support VLANS and mobile network backup if you need it.

I'm thinking that the 54,000 that haven't been updated for 6 years probably haven't got a tech maintaining them. It did make me smile that they express surprise/disapproval that 77% of Exchange 2019 don't have the latest update. And in the meantime, MS are investigating issues with O365 exchange online and OWA, with buggy updates being one of the candidates for the cause of the problem. I wonder why sys admins don't install the latest patch straight away... Also from that article (but not really on topic [emoji849]) it suggests that if you want to use Azure AD Connect to sync AD with mail accounts you need an onsite Exchange server. Did I read that wrong or is my set up magic?

Nice to see some support from SLT. Says a lot about the level of faith the deputy has in the staff that each message is repeated several times...

Much less true than 6 months ago. Personal preference would have been for a PC in every classroom and a laptop for those who work at home regularly (which is a lot of staff nowadays). Compromise now would be laptop for everyone and a docking station in every classroom, but you need spares to allow for supply teachers. If it's boot time, maybe their phone? (Which if it is actually rebooting, isn't much quicker than a PC.)

What about a 60ish inch at the front and then a couple of 40" just over ceiling mounted screens half way to the back of the classroom. I think that'd be much cheaper and at least as easy to see in big classrooms.