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Yes it was the slow login time that prompted the user to come to me. I have also just found a bunch of ripped music from someones cd collection on the staff network drive! Just had a brief chat with a teacher about it, just said "well I need it", turned his back and walked away! Nice.

So when having a bit of a look at some of the staff provided laptops, 70% seem to have installed their own itunes accounts with their own music. We have always been fairly relaxed until now on restricting laptops through group policy. However, now I getting teachers coming to me saying they ‘need’ a new laptop as theirs is slow. Then I find their itunes folder on the desktop at 108gb. I now need to apply more formal guidelines and ensure they are implemented. Because they have obviously been able to do what they like up till now, I’m going to get some grief when I start uninstalling stuff. Anyone got any links to legal info or policies that I can quote about having private accounts/files etc on a school laptop? Cheers Rich

Currently a mixture between interwrite and smart notebook. The majority are just using the screens as a projection only, as the pens have stopped working.

So have finally been given some money to replace our 10 year old RM classboards. I need to put together our requirements. Do I go smartboards 880 with short throw or something like a 65" ctouch ? Has anyone run into any issues with moving to a smaller screen from a 77" smart board? We have an 880 smart board in our hall so the teachers are familiar, but have never seen an LCD alternative. A demo unit for a couple of weeks would be good I suppose?

My little one found this in our garden today. Reminds me of a teacher I know.

Yes it is a huge workload. I have my AAT,s from a previous role so that helped. Also have Prince 2 which they seemed more interested in. Line managing the caretaker should be fun!

Obviously salary plays a part, at my place SBM is two grades higher.

Anyone else ever considered this? I'm in the process of going from ICT Manager to School Business Manager. Lots to learn still but jumping into the deep end. I do have finance experience from previous roles 10 or so years ago. Can't help but feel is it the right thing to do....

Hey Just looking at options to replace 30 5 year old dell optiplex 760's. Anyone using any finance or leasing options they would recommend? Also any one going for all in one solutions? If so what brand? Cheers

After an initial issue with multiple policies via their web filtering product - surfprotect, we are now very happy with their product. I have not yet had any issues with the line going down and its been up for a year now.

Im venturing out of ICT for a couple of days a week to project manage a new initiative at my school. Does anybody have a sample Project plan they are prepared to share? Thought it might save some time if I could adapt someone elses Thanks

The Broadband / reliability is great, no issues with that. The issues seem to be with the configuration of Surf Protect. I would like to point out that we deal with a third party that deal with EXA, so the issues Im having may be with the thrid party and the speed that they respond, rather than EXA themselves. Mark, I will give them till the end of the week to resolve this issue (it has been going on for months), and then I will contact you for a chat, if no success. I feel a bit bad for naming your company now as I did not intend to when starting this post.

Exa Networks and Surf Protect.

Hi All, I’m not currently very happy with our provider as the content filtering side of things is poor. Anyone have any recommendations? Cheers

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