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I'd guess they may only be available to education establishments. This would keep their consumer range at the higher price.

Apple is ready to fight Google’s Chromebooks with cheaper iPads...https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/26/17155190/apple-education-event-2018-cheaper-ipads-chromebook-war

Yes that method will always work but then at that point you'd be in a position of getting yourself sacked.

I'm just referring to to the four points outlined in the OP.

You can get this level of protection with Azure rights management.

https://home.smarttech.com/legal/privacy-policy

We have Shure microphones in most schools which are good quality and a bit cheaper than audio technica. We also loan stuff between schools sometimes as they maybe only use a few times a year.

That's good to hear.

There is a massive difference between primary and secondary use of boards. Teachers in primary use them for everything, secondary and HE not so much.

This help How to reset the lamp timer on a Hitachi projector

Chromebooks can be used with office 365 apps now. Windows S mode is still being made up as it goes along at the moment!

Modern day alternatives would be Chromebooks or devices aimed at running Windows 10s mode.

Did you see this info... "Will I have to make changes to my Proxy Filters? Some establishments use proxy servers or content management filters to restrict Internet access. In order to get the app to work with these filters, it is necessary to "allow" the following addresses though the filter or proxy server: Access all ports for the following addresses: http://*.2eskimos.com https://*.2eskimos.com api.appcelerator.net Please make sure ports 80 and 443 are opened If you prefer to use IP addresses rather than domain names the following IP addresses should be allowed through your proxy filters: 31.193.7.97 31.193.7.125 31.193.7.124 31.193.14.99 159.253.211.93 https://www.2simple.com/faqs

Could you get parts only and fit yourself?

We've not had those issues but SCOMIS appear to use a different method for mapping the printers.

Scomis provide an MSI for their rdp client and an msi for the driverless printing software. It was pretty easy roll out for us. https://faq.scomis.org/kb9079/

Internet connected cameras connected to cloud storage etc are the way forward but need to be implemented securely.

I'm in Portsmouth and my schools have our SIMS hosted and supported by SCOMIS in Devon.

We have user with less restrictions that we enable and disable when needed.

I'm fairly sure it's just an app for ios, google etc no windows version.

I'm not sure what you can do as it wasn't something we could get at to change. The only option they gave us was "Google Drive".

This is the approach we have been taken and found no issues so far.

This whole situation is a shambles for schools with conflicting information everywhere. One person says one thing, someone else says another. Trying to advise schools on this is difficult!

Our LEA informed all schools in Portsmouth they need a DPO by the 25th of May.

This help? https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202944