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Thanks Warwick_tech - its almost a year on but this post helped me quite a bit Im warwick too, interested to know which parts your working in? PM.

This is exactly what we were after! thanks very much for your help

Ahhh what a great vid, think you might be right - grasping at straws!!

Hi All, Here's a weird one, its probably a silly question but we've discovered that when one of our clients creates a new staff member in SIMS, there "Role" (such as Employee, Teacher, user) doesn't come up as 'Employee' automatically. We are trying to add the "employee" role to these teachers, but can't find it anywhere. Anyone know where to go? Feels like its should be straightward but we just aren't finding it! Please see attachment for the bit i mean,Thanks

Thanks FN, not a bad idea! might include that option to SLT and see what they think

Evening all We have inherited a client with a shed load of 32gb asus t200ta tablets/laptops which the staff use as their main laptops. There are the usual challenges with updating since only the 32gb storage, we've been lucky enough to know someone very useful with a soldering iron, but the chips are basically made to stay, I heard even the manufacturer throws the board away with any bad solders for defects (as they are so cheap) With all the background out the way, my question is do you think its possible to: 1. Install windows 10 to a 64gb class 10 sd card (think we have this bit done already) 2. Boot to the SD card (the hard part) even in a fairly indirect way. The bios won't boot to anything other than USB stick or onboard emmc, my theory is to put just the bootloader/boot selection in the 32gb emmc and basically have that point to Windows on the SD card to live and run off there. Unfortunately splitting the OS and SD card by distributing apps and such isn't a good option for us, we'd ideally like the whole thing to run off the SD card via the bootloader We did some experimenting with Linux and got it to "select boot" from startup, but obviously from there is difficult as Linux and Windows, would imagine we could get Ubuntu working this way but not Windows....? Any suggestions really welcome, thanks in advance

Thanks everyone for amazingly quick, and detailed replies, Agree with all the points here; especially that where public money is involved then it should be transparent. When it comes to renewal dates and who the contact is for deciding/renewing said contracts, we all had similar thoughts here that this does sound like touting for business, and no doubt the schools will be pestered in the future with targeted marketing requests. I did think however, this might not necessarily be a bad thing if it helps keeps suppliers honest and competitive - just the method is horrible; using law to make already very busy schools take time to address marketers... As you've all said however, not much we can do and will advise the school to reply with the info requested! Thanks again EDIT: After replying I have read the latest 3 messages - this sounds like a very good route to go down. Especially Lonix hearing that your place already has this policy and is exercising it - should help weed out the insincere/unscrupulous requests at least...

Hi all, Sorry wasn't sure where to post this exactly, don't think there's a right place for it! A couple of schools we provide services for have been asked to provide the following details via Freedom of Information Act (FOI) Personally I don't have an issue with this being disclosed, but the school has asked me if i could find out the legitimacy and requirement to respond. Have done lots of reading and still can't find an answer. The person making the request has emailed the school(s) and asked for: - Which company/who provides IT support? - Who in the school looks after/deals with support contracts? - At what cost? - Renewal dates? The email is from a hotmail address and is signed with a full name at the bottom. I'm interested to find out if any of you have come across similar things and if anyone has information on how best to go forward? Do we need to fully comply, or partially? What does your school do? Thanks

Morning all, Strange problem this one, hoping someone can help and/or has experience with it. We've starting to use MonkeyJam recently and its working really well, expect for when it comes to loading and saving projects. The message we get is: " is not a valid integer value (The quotation mark here is part of the error message). It leaves the kids being unable to save their work or occasionally it prevents then loading it also - which is always a bit soul destroying. The problem was originally with Windows 7 SP1 and with redirected docs as standard; I did wonder if it might be to do with it not liking something in the default save path, a character or weird interpretation of spaces - something like that. Incidentally we've since wiped these machines and clean installed Windows 10 (build 1607) and added the minimum in terms of software's and policy; that's helped a bit - but still occurs in patches. Any idea's gratefully received!

Anyone ever had to get something set up for an assembly in 10 mins, which the whole assembly relies on, but it's going wrong and there are hundreds of children coming in.. Then the staff are saying to the kids "Hopefully IT man can get it working in time!". Then it goes quiet and everyone just waiting for you to sort it out so they can start. Woke up middle of night cold sweat with that one a few times

Can I borrow your Number 4 pls and replace my 2 and 3 with it

Some of these are brilliant, and made me extend my list to at least 15. Apple and flash being pretty high up now.

Know what you mean and agree with you. Actually I can safety say I'm pretty ignorant of teaching and behaviour management (as in; dont know much about it, wouldn't know the first thing if a class is kicking off). Not by choice, but the situation we are in by definition makes us all automatically ignorant both ways. we are all specialists and could not do each others jobs. In honestly don't know how teachers do theirs some days. If I'm having a bad day, at least I can spend 5 minutes out of the limelight, work on something a bit less frustrating that afternoon or something. Teachers literally have no escape (although I did hear of one a couple of weeks back "having enough of this s***" and literally going home mid lesson) still don't know what the kids did to them!!

Someone reported this to me this week too, glad to see it on here. My first question was "is it w10" but was expecting edge to be the problem and not chrome! We use impero in school, but is a problem at home for some using their own equipment

Sorry that should have read: *blissful ignorance