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This really saved us. Thanks!!

This is brilliant, thanks so much!

Hi everyone, We are looking at trialing GSuite for our IT Teachers. Just before the holiday I'd created a GSuite admin account, verified it against one of our domain names and created a few test users. Upon creating my 11th account, I got a little popup telling me that I'd reached my 10 license limit. (It looks as though I'd signed up to a trial of a paid version instead.) Running through some of the help articles, they mentioned it would be possible to downgrade my account if I was within the 14 day trial. I'm outside the 14 day trial. Looking into it further, it does seem you can sign up for a free GSuite for non-profit organisations (these include schools). Source: https://www.google.com/nonprofits Q: Is this where I should have been looking all along? Q: If so, should I attempt to cancel my original account and create one here? (I did see in the notes that the original free GSuite Legacy basic wasn't being offered to new customers after 2012...) Thanks!

First can I thank latenitetech, this is spectacular faultfinding. Workaround: We have managed to get around this problem by plugging the NIC into a seperate POE switch. (We had a couple of unused 8 port netgears around.) Some people might get around this with a POE injector if it's a one off. This all seemed to happen to our 10 year old small form factor machines that are used as spares. (PSU model TFX-250SAV). Thanks again.

Wow, reading this just makes me feel like a scrooge. We tend to only buy new Stone machines for our IT suites (two IT classrooms of 32 machines each). (They last well.) Up until this year, we've replaced both suites every five years and reused the old desktops for the areas that also use computers, but not as intensively as IT. In this case our Library, Art, Music and yes staff. Teaching staff get their own laptops. We did have a bad experience with refurbs a few years ago, so I've tried to keep to a "buy new, buy cheap" rule. I've been gradually replacing between 5 and 8 crappy refurbs per year with i3's. This actually seems to work out okay (spec is fine for what they use them for), but I still flinch every time I see a member of teaching staff carrying a laptop around by the screen. (We use sarcasm or evil glares until they take the hint.) With regards to what another poster said about missing keys and vandalism, we have a couple of banks of laptops that occasionally have this problem. My solution is to keep a bag full of old laptop keyboards and replace the keys that our little darlings rip off - even if they are the wrong key. (We either scrape the lettering off, or use permanent marker to blank them off). If they rip the rubber "nipple" off the keyboard membrane, we just cut out one off an old keyboard and glue it in place, reattaching the key over the top - works fine and doesn't cost anything other than 10 mins of your time. If the department complains, or the problem becomes too frequent, then we start telling them that we will buy new keyboards but it will come out of their budget. Telling them that they have to pay after so many times something goes missing, or gets broken does focus the mind somewhat. As for staff using their laptops at home, we've never really had any problems with this in regards to viruses or dodgy installs.

Hi folks, I've not read the last few posts so please forgive me while I ignorantly weigh in. I found this link useful: https://www.ramblingtechie.co.uk/2016/09/16/old-smart-boards-windows-10-make-friends/ 1) Download/install the SMART 12 Drivers/ink from https://support.smarttech.com/en/downloads/product-drivers/12_10-and-ink-5_3 2) Looking in Device Manager showed that it still hadn't installed the correct driver. So Update Driver and point it to C:\Program Files (x86)\SMART Technologies\SMART Product Drivers\Drivers\x64 (or 32 depending on your machine) 3) Mine found the driver just fine and I was able to install the old 11.4 version of Notebook without any issues

Late to the party, but I found this thread useful. The self-review framework sounded like a really good option until it asked me to register and pay £50 per year. (Some form of trial would have been helpful). Anyway, I did find a handy PDF from 2014 that helps: https://www.naace.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Self-review-Framework-v1.67.pdf

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We had the same problem! the issue was all the PC's were facing the teacher instead of around the room really. I remember getting our German work experience chap to hacksaw up a few old PC cases into neat little squares so we could physically bolt them to the cases (covering the open bays) which had had the drive bay covers smashed in. (Once we did this - no problem; though it was a bit "sledgehammer vs nut" ) ah the pre-nwm days... (German work experience chap loved it - not sure how he wrote it up though

I came here wondering the exact same thing. I did hear horror stories of patches causing BSOD's for machines where the AV's hadn't been properly updated. Also performance hits of upto 30%... some of our stuff is creaking a little already. I'm a bit wary - anyone else patched yet?

We're getting the UEFI problem and have even had the 6's thing. The main problem for us is that we've had several where the screens have just stopped working altogether. (Will display through the HDMI fine.) Each case we've sent off for repair. The documentation that comes back is terribly vague. I pity the chap who'd bought 150+

I've managed to find a work-around to get it to run, but it's a bit nasty because you have to run it under different credentials (as the other poster said, it's a permissions problem but I haven't the time to track it down properly): * On the/each local machine create a local account with *ordinary* user privs (eg. account:testact, password: testpwd) * Replace the shortcut to logicator with a batch file containing: @runas /user:%COMPUTERNAME%\testact /savecred "%PROGRAMFILES%\Economatics\Logicator 2004\Logicator.exe" Then log on as this new local account (otherwise, when this gets run for the first time it will take *ages* to load because it's busy creating the account on the machine for the first time etc etc), and log off again. Get the student/test user to log on and run the batch file. The batch file will prompt for a password, so just key in the local account password (testpwd in this case) and it works! The /savecred switch in the command line will save the password so that this only need happen once (per account, per machine). The only real drawbacks are that any mapped drives are lost because you're effectivly on as a different user (so, in the program, file > save as will not give you your mapped network drives to save to, but a USB memory stick will work fine). Also it's giving the little darlings the ability to log on as a local user (if they put 2 and 2 together and work out the logon details that is) which may not be desirable even if they do only have normal user privs. LOL if anyone has found a better way I'm open to suggestions =P

Okay so I'm asked by a teacher to get logicator 2004 installed in a classroom and this 'absolute paths' error occurs when the app is run. I have tried everything from altering the path of the shortcut to assigning full permissions to a test student account to get it to work without any luck. So far the only temporary measure that works is getting the kiddiewinks to log on locally to run it, even though this is technically what happens anyway (the app is installed on the local machine, only the shortcut is on our server so that it can be mapped to which ever group logs on etc). I then try asking God (aka Google) for some answers and guess which is one of the first results to pop up? The one posted here by my boss ^_^ I was just wondering - did anyone ever manage to find another way around this? PS glad you like my wallpaper ^_^_^

rofl! I don't think so!! I did all this on a machine with a standard XP build, IIS was not installed. Not sure if the program installs it's own little webserver in the background - though I doubt it looking at the software =) If we could decompile the application itself.... hmmm maybe a little bit of a legal grey area lol ^_^

Being sad git that I am I tried to see if I could find a way around it myself. Although I failed this might be worth knowing: When you click on a link that leads to a flash file in IPS it tries to open a webpage with the filename of what its trying to open as an argument at the end of the URL (so it'd be something like flash_viewer.htm?src=myflashfile.swf for example). Now I did try editing the flash_viewer.htm file (located in the documents directory in the year 7 version) to try and make it launch IE7 with this variable after it as an argument (the equivalent of going to the run bar and typing in: iexplore myflashfile.swf etc etc). This was shot down in flames when I found that the variable that should've contained the name of the flash file actually contained nothing at all... *shrug* (if you're bored, you can just edit the file and use alert(variablename); to bring up a message box of what each variable may contain when you load/refresh the page... if you're bored =P) Sooooooooo possibly the fastest workaround would be to replace the flash_viewer.htm file with a webpage that just brings up a list of direct links to each and every document. Is a long task, but then again you know how teachers can moan... =)