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I know it'll be tomorrow for a response. it does seem to be random across different users, which is why its such a weird problem. I'm wondering if it's an issue with home routers/ISP as there seems to be nothing our send to distinguish between users.

We are currently teaching online our 7-12 school in Melbourne of about 920 students. We use Meet for all our classes and meetings, and for the most part it is going well, with teachers and students all working from home. However, we do have the situation where occasionally a user joins a Meet but are immediately kicked off. Sometimes they click/join/get ejected multiple times and can never join, and sometimes the do manage to get on. Sometimes this lasts for an entire afternoon then seems to resolve itself. This seems completely random - we can't determine anything about the user, the Meet, the browser, the extensions. We've tried upgrading OS/disabling all extensions, different browsers etc. The one constant is that it occurs on a Mac (we are a Mac school). Anyone have any ideas, or have experienced something similar?

I'm a teacher as well as having some IT admin responsibilities and I deal with a lot of work email after hours. If I'm working at home I would rather get the email and deal with it then if possible, rather than wait till 8:30 the next morning when a load arrive and it might not be until late afternoon or evening when I can deal with things. And when I've dealt with someone's problem or answered their question I want to send a "done" email immediately. In short, it would mean more work, not less, to have restrictions on sending (and thus receiving) out of hours email.

This is ours made in Google Sites. Student's is similar but with embedded Google Docs daily notices that the office edits.

We use Spanning backup. Quite expensive, but we only do it for staff, not students.

We're a girls' secondary in Melbourne (yr 7 - 12) and we've had unblocked YouTube for about 4 years with no issues.

Somewhat patronising. And we wonder why there's a recruitment crisis in education.

We use Spanning at $US20 per user, but we only back up staff/faculty/shared accounts, not students.

If going down the Google Apps route I strongly recommend Hapara Teacher Dashboard. It costs (here $5 per student) but worth every cent - makes sharing/distributing/checking work seamless for both students and teachers. Your most IT-illiterate teacher will be able to use it to have access to student work done in their subject. It sounds dramatic but Teacher Dashboard revolutionised our use of GAFE. Classroom does something similar (but I don't think as well) for free. I wouldn't try to use GAFE (sharing between teachers and students for work) without one of those two tools.

I'm surprised your school lets teachers talk to kids - you never know what they might say.

I've done the education ones ie Google Certified Educator: https://www.google.com/edu/training/get-certified/ In general, harder than I thought and lots of "gotcha" type questions - ie questions like "how many users can edit a document at the same time". Besides knowing "lots" the specific answer is not really important in terms of using the applications well. But the admin exam looks interesting. I would only recommend if you have been actively administering a domain for a while.

Does that mean it made no difference, or it made a great deal of difference?

Installing now. Will be interesting to see what its like. The old version hasn't started to feel outdated to me yet, not like Pages etc before the last update.

I've just done some quick testing. We have G+ turned on for those year levels that are 13+, but all year levels (organised in Sub Orgs) have YouTube turned on. With a newly created account in a Yr 7 sub-org (no G+) I can access youtube (and be signed in) and watch videos but not upload a video or create a channel. This might be because a brand new account can't be in good standing immediately - I'll have to see some of our kids at school next week. I didn't know about the G+ thing so this wold be news to me.

Can you expand on what Salamander is please?

Email all the students who have left saying they have one week to migrate all their data using Google Takeout before their accounts will be deleted and all data lost. After a week suspend their accounts (just in case) and after another little while you could then safely delete the accounts.

We have our students enrolled in different OUs corresponding to their year level, so it is straightforward to turn on G+ based on age, which in fact we have done. However, we thought students and teachers would start using private communities as a sort of classroom discussion board but this hasn't really happened. Also, once G+ is turned on students can change their name to whatever they want - so Susan Smith can change her name to SuzyWoozy and this gets propagated through. So if you have contact sharing on people can longer find "Susan Smith" when emailing or sharing documents. As the communities thing hasn't really worked out and we don't really use the photos aspect I've even been thinking of turning it off as the name issue is a hassle.

Could you please explain what you mean as i think DavetheITguy's issue is quite common (I have it, anyway) and I don't know what "Security Group/Level" means in GAFE.

Go on then, ascribe a sentiment to me that I did not express. But in general terms, 1) grass is green 2) motherhood and apple pie are both nice 3) if you are in a school play someone will take your photo and it might ned up on social media regardless of your wishes. Regardless of what you want, or would like, you have two choices. Ban photos altogether and enforce that ban, or expect that photos will appear on FB. No amount of education, pleading, cajoling, threatening etc will change that. Thinking it will is wishful thinking and you will end up being blamed if you pretend you can stop it and someone ends up unhappy.

We have quite a few of the Epson short throw interactive projectors, displayed on standard low glare whiteboards. I would say that besides for demo purposes they have never been used interactively - but teachers do like projecting an image and then annotating/labelling with standard whiteboard markers, and for this reason many prefer them to LCD panels. We have tested quite a few standard (ie TV) LCD panels and they work well, if you also have the room for whiteboards. You can get away with a smaller LCD image than a projected image as text is much crisper and easier to read. If an architect ever tells you that there will be no reflection/glare issues in rooms they design DO NOT BELIEVE THEM.

I think society is at the stage where you can safely assume that if you are appearing in any sort of public performance you can expect that photos will appear on social media, and we are past the stage where you could expect to stop it. If you act as if you can stop it then you can sometimes expect parents to be upset with you when you can't. A school play is by definition public - ie the audience will have more than staff and students present. I would assume that very few schools would even restrict tickets to family, so there will always be friends, step parents, step de-facto parents etc. If a child's image is so precious that a photo of a scene from a play with him or her in it would be so damaging then it is up to the parents to ensure that their child does not take part in such events, and their offspring's artistic talents are restricted to drama class at school. If you feel strongly that I am wrong you have only one option - ban photography and enforce the ban. With enough manpower and will power you probably could. Otherwise photos *will* appear on FB.

That was only a couple of days ago, so you're not too far behind. Lots of new things get picked up and commented on on various Google+ forums dedicated to GAPPS, such as this one: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/111138038754004333717 or this one: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101802680117484972712

I think the files will also appear in the Classroom folder, but Classroom has been designed so that the management and assessment of assignments etc is done through the Classroom app, not through Drive. If your teachers would like to remain Drive-centric but have the functionality of Classroom then you should investigate Doctopus and/or gclass folders which set up shared folder structures for teachers and students. And again - for the most part incoming should be ignored unless there is a specific reason a user is looking for a file that they know has been shared with them and has no other way of finding it. And once the file or folder is found it should be dragged into My Drive.

1. Teacher creates a document 2. Through Classroom, teacher "gives" a copy of each document to each student 3. In the background, Classroom makes individual copies of the document, placing each one in the students' classroom folders 4. Classroom folders have been automatically set up so that the teacher has access to the contents - the new files are thus automatically shared 5. As there are multiple new shared files, each of these appears in incoming

I think your problem is that the teacher is using "incoming" in a way it is not designed - this folder will have everything that is shared and I believe that 99.9% of the time for 99.9% of teachers it should be ignored as in a school situation as it rapidly become too unwieldy, as you have discovered. Users should create a proper folder structure within My Drive. If something is shared that is important the sharer should have the "send email" box ticked so the receiver gets an email and can choose to move the document to My Drive, or the sharer can copy the link and paste into a normal email. If you have lots of documents that are shared on a "just in case" basis I suggest doing one of two things: - have a website with links to the shared documents that users can click on if they wish, moving any documents into My Drive. Sites can have embedded folders that work the same way - set up shared folders (ie faculty folders) that teachers can save documents into. Users need to be taught to move the shared faculty folder into My Drive and then when teachers save/move files into the folder all faculty members will have access to the files. In schools that actively use Google Apps it is inevitable that the incoming folder will contain hundreds or thousands of documents, without structure, and will be unusable whether you want it to be or not - just think of people sharing documents with a mailing list "just in case". As an aside, we use Hapara Teacher Dashboard as a method of having class folders created automatically for teachers and thoroughly recommend it. Classroom is similar but not as functional, IMO.