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That's great! Thank you ... Will give that a go. :-)

Hi there We have a student who uploaded some files as part of an assignment which we would like to delete. The teacher could see these files via the assignment itself and also in the Classroom Drive folder. The teacher then deleted the files directly from the Classroom Drive folder but when they go back into the assignment, the files are still visible in the student's 'handed in' part of the assignment. So I'm just trying to understand the relationship of what the student uploads and where that actually is?! Do the files exist twice (once in the Student's Drive folder and again in the Classroom Drive folder) either physically or via sharing rights that are added when the files are uploaded to the assignment? How can we remove the unwanted files from the assignment itself - is the only way for the student to do this from their side of the assignment? As Admin, is there any way to see inside the student's Drive folder? Thanks in advance!

Hi there We have a few members of staff that have left, so I have suspended their accounts (rather than delete or remove) as I don't seem to have the option to Archive but I can't see how to stop sharing any drive folders they may have shared with other people (either inside or outside the organisation). Is there a way to see if users have shared any drive folders? If so ... Is there a way to remove those sharing permissions? I checked with Google online help as I thought that by removing 'Drive' for those users might help, but all that does is remove their access - any folders they have shared will still be accessible by the collaborators. Could anyone shed any light on how I can control this as Admin?! Thanks!

Great! Will take a look at doing this. Thanks.

Ooo great - thanks. Will put the kettle on and get reading!

That's great - thanks. I will give it a try. Is there any way to change the settings of uBlock - or is it just on or off?

That's great! Thanks [emoji106]

OK - no worries! Is it something that can be done with Windows Group Policy?

Great, thanks. Is this something I can deploy via Google Admin?

Oooo I like that!! Although I'm not sure the teachers will all be bothered to edit the links on their planning documents! But I love your suggestion and will use it where/when I can! Thanks!

Hi Is there any way to stop/block the adverts that play before YouTube clips? Our teachers use YT a lot and it would be great if there was a way to not have to wait for the ad to run before playing the videos. Thanks

That is perfect - thank you! I did try and search for this before I posted my question ..but I guess I wasn't searching for the right thing! :-)

Hi there We have been using a URL to sign I to Google which pre-populated our school domain into the Google Sign-In box so that the children didn't need to type the '@school.sch.uk' part. We were doing this by appending the Google URL with this: classroom.google.com/a/school.sch.uk This worked fine up until now... but the teachers have said the domain no longer pre-populates. Does anyone else use this and have you seen the same thing happen? Is there another way to get the domain to show in the sign-in box? Thanks!

Hi there, sorry for bringing this one back but was there any info on how to get filtered Vimeo? Thanks!

I think we are going to shut our servers down - the fans are at full speed and the surrounding area is very warm ... not helped by the amount of heat being kicked out by the servers! No aircon here!

How is everyone keeping their servers cool? We have two servers in a cabinet near a classroom and the temperature is rising in the vicinity!

Just jumping in on this thread ... would anyone have contact details for Sharp they would like to share please? I don't think they are on the CCS Framework unless I'm looking in the wrong place? Thanks

Hi there, I have just visited the Schools and Academies Show website - but can't see the session you mentioned in the Agenda ... could you point me to it please?! Thanks

I'll need to check if there are any limitations - as it was part and parcel of the DfE Chromebook order, so not sure if it is something I can use for all my users or just those that get the DfE devices. Shiny new OU now retired!

Just spotted that one! Must have passed in the ether! Yes, my structure is almost exactly the same .. with the exception of the nice shiny new OU I created for the DfE Devices just under the main domain OU! But the more I think about it, you are probably right in that I am over-complicating things! All the other pupils will be using whatever devices they have at home - laptops, ipads, phones, etc - so these won't have anything "school managed" in the way of filtering. I was under the impression that it was just the DfE supplied devices that we needed to provide filtering for?

And I think I also had it in mind that I would need to have the DfE devices in a separate OU in order to get the Cisco Umbrella extension installed on just those devices ... but I've followed the guide on the gov.uk site and I'm not so sure that the apps are applied to Devices .. I think they are applied to Users ... so now I'm wondering if I need to put those children who are being allocated a DfE Chromebook into a separate OU under their Student/Intake OU (as I don't think I need to push it to all my students - just the ones we are supplying devices to)....?

I think I just had in my mind to create a separate device OU just to keep things "tidy"! I think I would prefer to keep it like that and would then change the Device Settings in the Device OU and the User/Browser settings in the Student OU. I think my GPO head might be taking over now as I have User Policies and Computer Policies and don't tend to mix the two!

Ah, so would I bebetter off putting my Device OU as a child of my Student OU and setting all the policies at the Student Level so that all my Student users get the same settings - and the ones with DfE Chromebooks get their usual settings, plus a few extra device-specific ones (such as only allow users from our domain to login, guest mode disabled, auto-complete domain, etc)?

OK, I think my confusion is around a policy I have set on my Device OU - inside which I have configured some of the settings in the "User & Browser" section not just the "Device" settings. I think my best bet would be to revert any of the user settings I have changed back to being inherited from my top level and then relying on the ones inside my Student OU to do the user side of things. Is that the best approach?

That's great - thanks. I have configured the settings inside the OU where my dfe Chromebook devices are (they are the only things inside this OU) - however as the settings are divided into the tabs of "User & Browser Settings" and "Device Settings" - should I only be configuring Device Settings at this level and then rely on the "User & Browser settings" that are applied to my Student OU to take care of that side of things? Or should I configure both types of settings in the OU where my devices reside? If I do that however, am I in danger of contradicting some User & Browser settings that have already applied to my Student OU? Or should I move my DfE Device OU to be a child OU of my Student User OU - and then just set Device Settings and let the existing User & Browser settings filter down to it? Hmmm .. I feel I may have confused myself now!