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Short answer: yes [emoji846] To route mail to either, you'll need to provide an Mx record to your domain registrar so that they know where to route your email. The step by step set up does take you through it and it will tell you what record to add when you get to the stage of setting up email, so you won't easily break your current mail. Skip the gmail section during G Suite setup and it won't know anything about your emails.

Meraki usually have offers where you can sign up to a webinar and get a free AP to trial; Unifi is cheap as chips , so just buy one or three to test; Ruckus have friendly suppliers on here who I'm sure would help you with a trial. The only issue with that approach is whether your testing matches real life. You've got a new build, so presumably not occupied yet and possibly can't test in situ. Also, sometimes things don't work quite the same way when you've got several hundred users... Having said all of that, I'm a happy Unifi user and although we're a smallish school, our local secondary uses them too. They've had them for at least 4 years and only use the basic APs with over 2000 users.

I had a similar idea - our family holiday this year is a rail trip taking in Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland and France and the working title is Brexit Tour. Annoying that my kids aren't eligible because they're slightly too young. By the time they're 18, it'll be too late.

The second one looks much more like the one we use; as well as the planning resources for teachers there are online games and activities for the pupils. As for first year costs, I seem to remember that it included training. Our maths coordinator at the time just spent a day reviewing the resources and put together a guide for the other staff which she presented at a staff meeting. I think this brought the cost down to the same as a renewal. Always worth negotiating....

My driving licence arrived in 2nd class post with my name, address, DoB and photo... On the government's website, it explains the risk assessment and justification for doing it that way. Whether you agree with them or not, if the government is doing that, it's a tough case to argue that exam board should do anything better...

Your school is the data controller and the company providing the virtual office portal is a data processor. You need a formal agreement in place between the school and the provider setting out each party's obligations. Most suppliers to businesses or education are likely to have something in place which will at least be close to meeting the requirements - it's the school's responsibility to check. You should have a data flow map for the school - showing what data is passed to where - covering all suppliers that the school uses to process data and this relationship should be on it. You should also carry out a data protection impact assessment for every organisation you have an agreement with. This should be a school responsibility rather than a governor task - and the school should have a DPO in place who can advise you. The ICO has good resources: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/accountability-and-governance/contracts/ https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/education/ Hope that helps.

Two steps forward and one step back with this. I've had the Start Menu "partial layout" working the way I want it for a while (don't want to question why it works for me when so many others are struggling...), but I want to get the Taskbar shortcuts sorted too. I've used the script @Arthur posted above and tweaked it to match what I was already deploying and the restricted area is still populating the way I want it, but I'm now getting additional columns which have apps I don't want in them. Images and xml files below. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong? My working version gives this (spaces are where I don't have applications installed that are in my Start Menu - bottom section is user configurable) : xml file generating this is: - - - - - Almost working version gives this: From xml file: - - - - - - - - The Taskbar bit is now working - just could do without the extra column in the Start Menu Thanks

The forms I am asked to sign when my kids take part in events organised by outside agencies (and I'd include other schools in that) almost always have a consent box for photos. The simplest solution would seem to me to be to insist that participating schools gather the consent information before they turn up.

We use Purple Mash (online version of the old 2simple). We get great feedback from teachers. As well as loads more tools than the original software, there's a huge amount of curriculum topic based content. One of the upsides of it being web based is that it is kept up to date to match the national curriculum. The obvious downside is that you have to pay a subscription, so which realistically ties you in to giving them more money, but we reckon it's one of the best value products we buy. (I wonder if they do referral discounts [emoji6]) For early years, we use Busythings - very accessible for younger pupils and there is now KS1 content. If I could only have one, I'd choose Purple Mash.

The intention with SharePoint online/ Office 365 and current versions of Windows 10 is that you can set it up so that the libraries appear in Explorer like network shares/folders. Individuals can then choose to keep local copies of individual files, folders or libraries to their own machine. There is a proper way to set up a hybrid environment, but that's beyond my knowledge. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/SharePoint/hybrid/hybrid It has occurred to me to set up a VM on a server and use a service account to login and select the option to keep all the libraries. I could then share the folders as network shares and then have a GPO in standby to deploy in the event of internet connection failure. Pretty sure that's not how it's intended to work though and totally untested...

I would expect persuasive writing part of the English syllabus to be able to be addressed in school - although it possibly makes it more interesting and you might get a different view from someone in the "real world". However even if you kept letters for the English curriculum in school, I'd still expect the issue to need to be dealt with. One example that occurs to me is Year 10 pupils contacting employers to arrange work experience.

Sorry to leave you hanging - and for getting your hopes up... I didn't pay proper attention and assumed you were talking about SharePoint Online, which does work better from 1709 onwards. I don't have any SharePoint on premises, but from what I've read, although it is possible to map libraries as network shares, it actually got harder from 1709 because SMB1 is not enabled by default and mapping to SharePoint on premises requires it. Not an area I know about - sorry I haven't been more helpful...

From: Azure AD Editions Feature Comparison PDF https://msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net/media/2017/04/AzureADSKUsFeatureComparison.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjd9LCqnOTaAhWQVsAKHblJAD0QFjABegQICRAB&usg=AOvVaw00elqslsts5AOe3Vw3dQYl Free password reset for cloud users in Azure AD Free and O365. You need Azure AD Premium P1 for write-back to on premises AD though. License cost for education is quite sensible though.

We've just bought something similar from ESPO. £7.98 for a book of 100, so it will add up. It won't be anything like the cost of Inventry, but might put my suggestion of a device at reception running a Google Form back on the table...

Yes - although it works slightly differently in different versions on Windows. From 1709 onwards it should be relatively straightforward. There's native capability to show SharePoint libraries in Windows explorer. Users can also choose specific folders within the library to keep on their device, so that data held locally can be minimised. Earlier versions require more work, although I've seen it working on Windows 7.

It's been mentioned quite a few times in different threads on here, but you should have a read about the lawful bases for processing data and consent is only one of them: Contract Public task Legitimate interests Consent Special category data Legal obligation If you can use any of the others, you should as consent can be withdrawn at any time and it's difficult to justify changing your mind about the basis for processing the data. More info here: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/lawful-basis-for-processing/

Step 0.5: prepare your CV Not because I think you're going to get sacked, but you might be better off somewhere that the value of what you do is understood.

For home use, yes. You should also be able to make it available to pupils too. Speak to your reseller as they'll need to set it up. What you actually get is office 365 Pro plus that they can download for local install on up to 5 personal devices.

Yeah - I would have preferred to be able to create a SIMS ID, but didn't seem to be able to. I used my Google account on the basis I was doing it from my android phone, so Google already have the information. Anyone using Facebook realistically won't be telling them anything new...

Got an invite to "sign up" for SIMS parent app from my kids' school yesterday. If you had an existing SIMS ID you could log in with that. Otherwise it offered sign in with MS, Google, Facebook or Twitter. Realistically most parents who are using the internet at all will have at least one of those. I was impressed with how smoothly it went and I presume it will make it more straightforward for the school to get the data into SIMS.

Is it primary or secondary pupils? At the school my kids attend there's no checking at all. As per @Katy's school, it's the responsibility of the child to get on the bus. They also don't seem to have a problem with getting on a different bus or children who don't have a pass getting on. Works for me as they can go to a friend's house, but not sure whether there are any safeguarding or insurance issues.

The link to payments is the least smooth part - we put a link in the auto response telling them how much to pay. It's not perfect, but much better than Google forms/sheets as you can control how many tickets are available in total and per pupil or per showing, per family etc In Schoolcomms we put a matching item, but we can't stop people paying for a ticket without booking - or stop then booking and then not paying. We haven't had any problems so far, but it relies on parents not being stupid or awkward and we know how that goes.... I also checked and their data centre is UK hosted by UKfast.co.uk - having read about them just now, their offering would be a good response for someone who doesn't like Google but isn't 100% against technology.

In this instance, the school already has the data, but it can only be used where there is a legal basis relating to providing the child's education or the essential running of the school. However, as the parent's attendance at the school production is not essential to educating the child, you would need their consent to process their data for this purpose. (Based on my understanding from the documentation I've read. If someone can say what the legal basis for processing the data is with respect to tickets for school events I'd be happy to hear I'm wrong about it.) We use http://www.parentseveningsystem.co.uk by School Cloud Systems for both parents evenings and school event tickets. I'd suggest that we can continue to use it for parents evenings on a legal basis, but would need consent for school events. Anyone agree or disagree?

Even that wouldn't guarantee that the details don't end up with Google. We pay for various services and I'm sure they use MS, Google or AWS to provide the service. AFAIK as long as our contract says they process data in a GDPR compliant way, we don't need to (can't?) specify how they do it.