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Something like this would do what you want. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CY5BVFCP

What kind of doorbell do you have at the moment? Most of the systems we looked at are designed to interface with and/or be powered by the "ringer" unit from a conventional wired doorbell. If you don't have one, then you need to think about how you're going to make the doorbell chime in your house and how it's going to be powered. Having a (or multiple) chimes independent from our phones (which might be left on silent on in another room) was a must for us and we don't have a wired ringer/bell and didn't wand the fuss of installing one. So we went with the Ring so we can use the Alexas as chimes and it was battery powered (USB Charging every 6-8 months), we thought about the solar booster addon, but didn't go for it as our front door is in shade most of the day). It is worth noting that there is enough lag between the bell being pressed and the Alexas/phones going off for the posty to scarper. If you want another contender, nest do a nice doorbell camera that you can make record to your own networked storage so no subscription required, but as far as we could see they don't do a battery powered one.

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ICT direct is great, and probably the best way to stretch the shoestring budgets that are hitting at just the wrong time. But... For general Office/Classroom PCs your best option is go slow and replace a few at a time in a rolling program (by the time you've done the whole school, it's about time to turn around and start again). For ICT suites, talk to the bursar/business manager about trying to get it on as a capital expenditure project on the next budget. Those budgets tend to be healthier, but also get snaffled up by building works and the like.

Of course a GDPR risk assessment should be carried out before the installation of any "live view" screens (or export stations). "Live view" would be pretty low risk but you should still document why and how your restricting access to just what's necessary.

But that's like 2 big secondaries.

We're using ACT for access control and triggering the lockdown on from the ACT side. Our Bodet system has some switch relay inputs and we've got an output module on ACT that closes the relay to trigger the Bodet input. It should work the same with any system that can output to a basic on/off relay.

+1 for Bodet Harmony. We've had it for about 7 years now using the speakers for lesson change and PA, and recently got it linked into our access control system for physical lockdown and the alarm on the same trigger.

With 10s of schools in a single 365 tenancy is there not the worry of hitting up against storage limits? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/microsoft-365-storage-options#:~:text=Every%20institution's%20tenant%20has%20a,to%20the%20pool%20of%20storage.

From a technical standpoint... You probably want to keep the schools as separate 365 tenants otherwise you could run up against Microsoft's new (or coming soon) size restrictions: /forums/cloud-services/234047-bye-bye-14-35pb-a1-plus.html So it becomes more a matter renaming the tenants/domains into something consistent across the trust and setting up Multi Tennant management and federation: If all the schools are part of the same trust and are all on board with this, then bring the secondaries' network managers in on the project and get help from their teams. Heck, even without this project it would probably be good to get all the school's support teams communicating and helping each other out. Once you're knowledge sharing standardization across the schools becomes a lot easier, and could even happen fairly naturally.

For us CCTV is managed by the site manager (or, in their absence, the second most senior member of the site team). Pupil support can request to be shown footage (for example, if they want to see which student came out just after the toilet vape alarm went off). But this would be done by them going to the site office. Only SLT can request footage be removed from the system (for example, to be shared with the police or shown to parents). This is done through a restricted file share with the understanding that the data will only be removed from that share with specific consent. The one time we've actually had to send footage to the police, it was done by the DPO through a sharepoint link with anti-forwarding policies in place. The ICO website is your best bet for finding specific guidelines. https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/cctv-and-video-surveillance/guidance-on-video-surveillance-including-cctv/ But generally speaking GDPR guidance would be to make sure that any data shared from the system is limited (as much as possible) to what is required to meet a specific goal, and you need to have processes and agreements in place to limit any further sharing of this information. And ideally you should have documentation to prove that. I hope some of this is helpful for you.

Had a look at ours and if I'm reading this right, we have 100% staff uptake for MFA. Call me cynical, but I don't buy it.

Hi all, I've been asked to look into using Microsoft Copilot in school. When I try to use it logged in with my school account, I put a prompt in and it just sits on "Attempting to Reconnect". If I try to use it with my personal account, then it works fine. Anyone else having this? Anyone know if there's a fix?

Global OneDrive Sharing policies can't be more permissive than the SharePoint ones. Eg if you're Global SharePoint policies say "can only share with Guests", then that's the highest you can set the OneDrive ones. You should be able to set per-sharepoint site exceptions, but that doesn't seem to let you go more permissive than the global options.

Even so, there's an argument that, especially at primary/secondary level, teaching should be as platform agnostic as possible, rather than trying to teach to current industry standards might that have changed by the time the kids get into work. Teaching them the principles and basic techniques of creating digital art rather than training them to use photoshop. The specific training comes later when they're closer to starting work and you can be more sure you're teaching them the right product for the industry they're planning to go into.

AGNeovo still have a glass fronted range (but they look like they're mostly for industry/medical use cases). Or Dough do glass fronted screens. But they're both rather pricy.

Frog will do most of that (the real-time stuff might be limited compared to something like 365). Office 365 or Google Classroom will do all the student teacher stuff really well, but doesn't do the parent coms side of things so much (or at all).

Pages 43-45 of the doc linked in DMJ's post (also below) cover student use devices. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/655f8b823d7741000d420114/Technology_in_schools_survey__2022_to_2023.pdf

Lots of schools might not want to put computers into the practical art rooms where paint, clay, etc. is thrown around. From our point of view, if art wants to use Photoshop we have bookable ICT suites/computer rooms.

Logo under the username suggests UK so it's a reasonable assumption. Even wen we were looking at going 1:1 (we're not anymore), the idea was that the computers (laptops/tablets whatever we would have ended up with) would supplement paper and pen learning rather than replacing it. Although I do wonder if the kids of today will grow up into a world where they don't need to write anything down by hand.

I had one of these at university. I remember it having really nice colour reproduction for the time.

I'd probably screenshot google maps (or maybe https://explore.osmaps.com/ https://www.osmap.uk/ if you want a more traditional map style) and then use photoshop/gimp (or even just PowerPoint) to put the pins in.

Too few people understand the rules around pedestrian right of way at junctions, or just straight up don't know about it and assume the car always has right of way, to bother actually giving way to waiting pedestrians. If there's someone there I'll go in ready to stop should they assert their right of way.

If the best minds at Smoothwall can't come up with anything, I'm not sure how much help I'm going to be. But... How are the wireless device authenticating with the Smoothwall? Are they domain joined BYOD? Have you got any filtering locations set (eg for the wireless IP range)? Best guess is that the way the wireless devices authenticate with the Smoothwall guardian involves some weird quirk of your network that no-one remembers.

I assume this will only happen on Win11 compatible hardware.