TechMonkey

We looked at inTune a few years ago so only used it on a few devices but it has come on leaps and bounds so we are going to start afresh and maybe look at all devices going on it. We shall see.

Which content specifically is it you are after?

Ah, no it doesn't, missed that requirement. Timetabler is purely a build a timetable and publish deal.

We have hammered it into users that their OneDrives are not for sharing work that is 'live', but letting others look or collaborate, with exactly your examples as reasons. Sharepoint is where live work is placed and if you want to update you take a copy and work on it elsewhere first.

Not a single piece of software but Keith Johnson's TimeTabler has all the bells and whistles to make timetables and then the timetable can be imported to our MIS which has the ability for pupils to have a portal to see things like their timetable.

Yep, we are nearly there. Personal drives to OneDrive was the first thing we did. General Staff area was meant to be completed by last Summer but with COVID getting in the way I'm not going to get rid of it just yet. The local shared area is Read-only so no one can add to it. Finance team were the slowest to do any thing but COVID helped as they realised it was a real pain to access their departmental documents compared to their personal documents. The only local drives we have left are a mail merge dump area, as Office doesn't like doing merges from Sharepoint or OneDrive, a few IT ones for Applications and tools, and our Media drives.

My first thought is that if your DSL has a particular folder where things are kept, everything in there is marked as Child Protection and given high security to prevent any accidents. They would then have to manually lower the sensitivity, you could even set it to demand a reason, if they need to pass it on to anyone. Alternative is Accounts folder could be marked as sensitive or as having financial data.

I've not used it but you may want to speak to @localzuk about his experiences recently...

Have you set an internal DNS pointer? If your traffic is going out to external DNS and then trying to come back in it causes issues.

https://www.qr-code-generator.com/ Out of curiosity, what are they doing with QR Codes?

We checked with the parent what email they wanted to use and then made sure every email, parent portal, contact and username, was the same. Don't understand why ISAMS have made username seperate from email and allowed the contact to be different, it is just adding confusion. It also means when a parent changes their email we have to remind or chase the office staff to make sure it is changed everywhere. We have already had an instance where a parent was having an issue because everything front end was showing the correct email but in their backend it was linked to the wrong parent.

Not sure if you have solved this yet but just came across these Govee bells and saw in the reviews that you can link multiple receivers to a single push button. https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0836SKX26/ref=smi_www_rco2_go_smi_1386836776?_encoding=UTF8&ie=UTF8&qid=1604135789 The review had a three sounders using two buttons, a front and a back. No idea how many it can be linked but that may help solve them all being able to hear it.

We had this issue with Parents Evening System. We had to go through and adjust parent emails as we found them, in consultation with the parent. Very annoying but no way round that I can tell.

In Settings > Google

Won't you just get pupils connecting to the Guest wifi to get better access then?

I got one of the phones that screen calls. Allows programmed numbers, blocks known bad numbers, blocks unidentified callers and announces everyone else. It is brilliant and I have had 1 spam call get through in the time I have had it and that was because I was intrigued so allowed it through. The robocallers get flummoxed as it answers but no one is there to do anything. Can highly recommend.

IRIS has announced they bought iSAMS. I'm not sure how to feel about this but as I understand they own PS Financials and have been hearing horror stories about that, I am a touch worried.

Why not use channels? Have a carousel Team and divide the subjects by Channel?

This. Lobby should be used for any guests, one to stop randoms getting in and two to screen names.

These were the Alexa ones, probably not for the kids.

Yeah I am tempted, but not sure where else I can use them! Also tempted by the Show 8, the earbuds and an Oasis kindle!

Staff notebook? Pupils will only see the notebooks they have access to. Do you mean the Class Notebook?

I'm following Rhianna Pratchett's example

Thank you!! It was because I was trying to cram it all in a table, not using a Matrix. The between is a good call and much more elegant. Many thanks!

Well this is an example SELECT txtAdmissionsStatus, COUNT(txtAdmissionsStatus) AS statusCount FROM [TblPupilManagementPupils] WHERE txtAdmissionsStatus !='' AND intSystemStatus=0 AND intEnrolmentSchoolYear=@AcademicYear Group BY txtAdmissionsStatus So where it has intEnrolmentSchoolYear=@AcademicYear I would like that to be different for each of the columns, which would be 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, etc. The column names I can see how to do easily, I have a current academic year variable already so it is just a matter of +1, +2, +3 etc. The issue is can I change the data in that column based on that variable? The simplest way would be to replicate that query x times and do the calculation in the SQL. It just seems a waste to carry out 5 queries when I could do one and filter the result in the table. I was looking at using Column groups, but I had to adjust the SQL and currently this then creates a massive grid and each count is in a different section of the table. Any ideas?