Mrluckhurst

Another vote for ICTDirect - we now buy everything from them and couldn't ask for better

Not helpful I know but I had a random HP that would switch back on 30s after turning off all by itself. Never did figure out why

Just another vote for Easter - started the process in January for staff training etc. and then moved over at the end of term 4. We then delayed the parent app for a month to allow us to iron out what we needed to before it all went live. 99% of staff have never looked back. Federation of Junior and Infant school - about 1000 pupils

Octonauts (sorry - young kids!!!!)

We use Studybugs to do this and allow parents to report absence etc. it ties in nicely with Arbor

Hi - after many years my staff are now beginning to plan collaboratively online rather than downloading docs and emailing them My head is now talking about some big screens in the SLT and planning rooms to enable easy collaboration I am thinking TVs as they don't need to be interactive but wondered if anyone had any experience of these - especially ones that are easy to cast to in a windows environment Thanks

I had to log into the admin center using the email address I had used to purchase the licenses rather than the admin login - they were all there and deployable. It may be something similar .... or not..

When I had trouble with ours I contacted https://allen-martin.com/ They were incredibly helpful - to the extent of emailing me the remote software I needed and talking me through the installation without charging us. I would highly recommend giving them a call

We use it in our Junior school - our attendance officer loves it. It writes to SIMS (don't judge) and is simple for parents etc. to use. Weekly reports are ok for a quick check on certain pupils but could do more

Hi from a 1000ish kids primary school We are looking at how we manage our after school clubs bookings - not our wrap around care, but the clubs our teachers run. Does anyone have a particularly good app or process that they use rather than our current method of lots of bits of paper! Thanks

Don't know if this is the right place so apologies if it isn't! We have an oldish wired HIKVision CCTV system where a couple of the cameras have died. One of them has wires strung precariously across, under and through some fencing which have unsurprisingly perished. Not wanting to dig up and replace loads I have been thinking about a stand alone solar powered system that would connect into our recorded. Has anyone done this? Do you know anyone who can advise/install it for us? We are based in Ashford in Kent Thanks

My first memory was hooking up a Commodore 4 (I think) to a black and white TV, rewinding the tape so it was in the correct spot and then dodging snowballs falling from the top of the screen. It used to take me about 20 minutes to get to a point where I could play but I haven't looked back since!

I have a computer that has a very strange glitch Anyone know what the white circles at the bottom of the screen could be? I have tried swapping monitor and VGA cable with no change Thanks

Thanks Aprice so maybe a couple of these? https://cpc.farnell.com/pulse/bm-38/boundary-condenser-mic/dp/MP33852

Hi edugeekers Having sat through a couple of nativities with children who can be loud everywhere except on the stage what strategies do people use for whole stage amplification? Also as a side note we would like to record the choir etc so the same kit would have to accomplish this Thanks

Thank you - I think this is what we are going to have to do. Did you ever discover a method of stopping it? - - - Updated - - - I do agree.......

Some of our teachers use publisher (professional plus 2019). When you open (rather than downloading) a publisher file stored on sharepoint it seems to create some sort of temporary file. Subsequent attempts to open publisher cause this temporary file to reopen. Saving them or dismissing them have no impact on them opening I now have some users that have 10 or more temporary files opening up every time they launch the program Any ideas how to stop this? Thanks

FT Technician needed for a school in Ashford, Kent https://www.kent-teach.com/Recruitment/Vacancy/VacancyDetails.aspx?VacancyId=104192

My amazing technician is leaving at the end of the term - moving on to new and betterish things with a telecommunications company. I would like to get him a great (but not too expensive) leaving gift. Does anyone have any genius ideas? Thanks

I think that this would take pride of place in my living room and then the family and I can just gaze at it lovingly

Hi, We have helpfully informed by our vendor that our 4 year old ruckus R510 access points will stop being configured/managed by our zone controller (cloud system bought through them rather than an onsite one) in 2023. Only finding out about this now rather than when we purchased the system is a bit of a pain but that is another story. Given that the system is fine for our needs now and projected needs in the future there is no budget to replace it. On reading it seems as if the APs can have the firmware upgraded and be configured to run in 'unleashed' mode - standalone aps Has anyone done this or have experience of it in a school environment. We are currently running 20 APs. If not, is there another way out of this dilemma? Thanks

Me please!

Thanks @Omega_NL I have read through that thread several times but have to admit I got a bit lost....

After being inspired by a thread on here somewhere about training opportunities for IT staff within schools I am looking for some appropriate training for our technician. He has been in role for 5 or 6 years and seems to have a great understanding of the day to day admin of our windows based server and the networks that go with it. What training / development would you recommend as being particularly useful? I also need to add that I don't have an unlimited budget for this as, once I have an idea, I need to sell it to the SBM and the Head Thanks

Just collected from reception. Thanks!