Marci

Nope... We don't use social networking for teaching & learning at all really, other than with Yr11-13, via twitter (particularly History dept). Twitter's terms state legal contractual age (15 in UK?), FB's state 13... too complicated for staff when you have a teaching group which straddles the age limit, so we rarely recommend it. For lower years, departments use Edmodo groups instead. But we do use all common methods for general news / marketing / PR, scheduled via Buffer...

Some users have already reported it as working (somewhere - on moodle.org in the comments I think), hence I haven't looked at it already... ultimately though, if no-one takes on maintenance of it beyond end of May (when our Facility license expires) then 2.6’ll probs be the last version it works with so may be worth in your longer-term plan considering the options available for ZiLink or Overnet etc

Possibly (if it doesn't already work with it - have you tried it?)... although I think this will be the last update it sees as work have decided to switch to SIMS so I'll no longer have access to a Facility setup to develop from. We've run it fine on uBuntu, CentOS and FreeBSD without issues.

Townley Hall is also just round the corner from it... 2 with one stone...

As long as the useful things are substituted for ones designed for the power situation... there's a difference. i have two large 3 way cool boxes that fridge / freezer can be emptied into, which run off 12v or gas. Kettle is switched out for an old fashioned stove-top one. Microwave - requires the generator firing up... and we have a camping hand-turn washer thingy. Meanwhile, 2x LED TVs, 2x sky+ boxes, router & wifi APs and all household lighting (switched out to LED just before Christmas, reduced consumption of all lights in the house from 850w down to 70w) runs fine off the leisure battery. Haven't sussed a decent solar/wind charging strategy for it yet, but am getting there... In meantime, if we have a power cut and batteries are fully charged I'm good for a day or two, and a calories gas bottle'll run the cool boxes for a week if not more. If batteries die, fire up the generator to recharge them.

Yup - crucial thing with fridges is the startup load which generally lasts for about 3 seconds each time the compressor starts. I have an undercounter fridge with 1200w startup / 110w continuous... My 800w generator simply trips as soon as you plug the fridge in and won't entertain it. Essentially, your generator needs to be rated for greater than that startup pull. I can run my whole house from a leisure battery with 500w inverter as long as I leave fridge / freezer / washing machine / spin dryer / kettle / microwave out of the equation.

If you have an Adobe Creative Cloud license, these days it tends to be quicker just to install Adobe Media Encoder CC somewhere on a spare VM / server, set up it's watch folders, and leave it to it.

Your iPads look for the FQDN of a server (Apple stuff always uses FQDNs rather than IP addresses) in the management profile, so as long as your apple server is publicly reachable on ports 80, 443, 1640 & 5223 via that FQDN at all locations, and with valid SSL Certificates installed, then it should work. But yes, expect the LEA's bits to get in the way.

Also, this applies to England & Wales only...

Sounds exactly like our website, intentionally designed that way... and if done correctly can provide all that information in a sensible manner. S'all about community engagement. I have to disagree with a lot of views in this thread. You don't HAVE to go with "current design principles". That's just the latest trend. Design in the best way to present the content you want to present to the audience it needs presenting to. Not to any fads. If the current flat / minimalist approach achieves those goals, great. Use it. If it doesn't, then don't. Having automated news cross posting to Social Media is a waste of time. People can spot an automated post a mile off and don't engage with it. Hand crafted posted to social media result in far greater engagement / click-thrus. We have photo rotators of students on the main page. No names accompany them. We create pages for all trips and events - these pages are automatically created from our internal Exchange shared calendar entries for those trips and events, and then recompiled into a publicly subscribable webcal link on the front page so that parents and students can subscribe to these calendars with their mobile devices etc and receive alerts & notifications should they so desire (this listing also includes exam dates and times etc, specifically requested by our sixth form students). Trips, events and news items are shared automatically (via bufferapp.com so they can be slapped up in advance and scheduled to trickle out throughout the week), but the content is hand-crafted for each social media account. General news is added to the site as and when it's released (usually sent piecemeal thru to me, I redraft, and if needed then forward on to a freelance journalist friend of mine who rewrites and proofs and returns it for me to then post on the site). Yep, it becomes a full-time job, and that is your issue. You need to put the case forward that the school needs to hire a full-time Web Administrator to manage the site, social media accounts, etc. I maintain all our web services & the servers they run from, and design & administer the site and the majority of other marketing materials (prospectus etc) and graphic design work required by the school. Schools are businesses, and need to run as such... if a PR / Marketing dept is needed, one should be created. Schools are typically slow to catch on to this requirement... but are getting there gradually. IT Support are not Designers / PR / Marketing, and shouldn't be asked to ask as such. It's a separate role, with specific skills and responsibilities attached (and also a suitable wage).

Something you may not have considered - Are accessibility features relevant? (Do you have students with visual impairment, hearing impairment, fine motor impairment etc?)

In workgroup manager, set the dock policy to be enforced once rather than always (I think).

We have a Data Manager, full-time, on Scale S01 who looks after Facility & SIMS (and a part-time Data Assistant on Scale-naffall)... but any backend database maintenance / updates etc are handled by our IT Support Team.

Known about for a few weeks... streaming to about 30% of classrooms this morning. We were informed of it via our English Department.

Delete all the non-local user folders from the Mac (assuming this won't lose your users any data). Shift the SQLite database it into the relevant spot in the User Template folder on each Mac (/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj). Now when each user logs in, and their local folders are created, they'll get your customised Launchpad. (NB: you'll need some judicious use of chmod & sudo to accomplish this as the User Template folder is set to 700 perms, or enable your root account) Or, if you can't remove the non-local user folders, do the above anyway to cover any new users, and then manually drop it in for existing users (script is thru ARD or similar)

Twitter requires users to be of legal contractual age in their country of residence. Beware. Encouraging staff to get students aged 15 or less on to Twitter may not be perceived as a good move. We only allow staff to use twitter with pupils in lessons if they're Yr12 or 13.

In our case via our VLE, which gives access to network shares and MyDocs via the browser for pupils. Staff use a suitable SMB-based app to map to their share on the server (e.g.: Filebrowser on apple devices). Printing - we have email to print queue via Konica Minolta, which deals with user accounting etc.

Enforce complex pass codes, enforce wipe after X failed attempts. Can set this up via Exchange or via Apple MDM / Configurator.

And thus I spent £170 with Lindy last week! Modular Desktop Mounting System - poles, arms & brackets for laptops & LCD displays | LINDY UK Been working exclusively on MBP for the past 2 years or so... and the shoulder and neck pain was becoming unbearable. Lifted all my monitors and the MBP up on arms, and yesterday and today have been the first pain free days in ages.

Sounds like it's in extend mode rather than mirror mode...? If you have the Airplay icon in the status bar, click it, and choose 'Turn Display Mirroring On' (regardless of whether you're using Airplay to connect to the projector or not), or head to System Preferences > Displays > Arrangement and tick 'Mirror Displays' underneath the arrange window.

Ah - apparently, open Keychain Access, find the stored entry for your HTTPS proxy credentials in the LOGIN keychain, and copy and paste it into the SYSTEM keychain...? https://discussions.apple.com/message/23757366?tstart=0#23757366?tstart=0

It's a well-known issue too... http://helpdesk.monivae.vic.edu.au/selfhelp/downloads/tuts/mac/other/Loading%20HTTPS%20websites%20in%20OS%20X%20Mavericks%20(10.9).pdf https://discussions.apple.com/message/23474534#23474534 Plenty other links out there documenting it. No guaranteed fixes, bar switching browser until an official patch is released.

Just download the latest version of the Lion DiskMaker app and use that... DiskMaker X

Run Workgroup Manager on the iMac, connect to directory, carry on as normal... or install the apps on the server. I always recommend a client Mac be kept to one side for Support use, specifically for doing stuff such as this.

Only other things you could check would involve stripping it down to get to the internals... replace dock connector module etc.