noelmm

PowerPoint, simple to use and it works, unless there is a reason why you can't use PowerPoint.

We have a set of 15 dedicated laptops for exams which are on the domain so we can use Group Policy to lock everything down. Just like you we use ExamWritepad however we save to the local D drive so that if the network should go down the student wouldn't even notice as once the laptops are logged in the network is not required. When it comes to printing each student copies their file onto a pen drive and prints it to a local printer connected to a dedicated laptop. Only when the document is printed and student and invigilator is happy the document is deleted from both the pen drive and local D drive.

We simply use ExamWritepad running on startup. The internet and calculator are blocked and only the local drive is available for saving work to, we also have group policy blocking everything else just to make sure everything is locked down.

Your exams officer should have an up to date copy of the guidelines.

We use it with no issues.

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Are you able to setup a rule to do what you want?

Can you not just put this information into your MIS?

We tested Senso while still running Impero with no problems. I think it's a sensible option to take so you can actually compare the 2 products next to each other in your environment.

Your right, however teaching staff could also do that. Sometimes we have to educate the students and staff and then trust in them to do the right thing, plus as already said most people don't think of that.

We allocate a certain amount each month to our students, if they need anymore credit one of their teachers need to email us requesting we add more credit on, at this point the credit is added onto the account for free. I don't believe you should charge pupils who are using the printers as intended i.e. school work, if the students are printing other stuff off you should be able to run a report to verify what is being printed and the lock the students account if needed.

I would start off with speaking to your manager and asking them what they have in mind. Are they willing to train you up for this role? For what network managers do that would all depend upon what your network consists of and the requirements placed on you by the schools you're working with.

I thought I read somewhere that the parents could pay for the app to stop seeing the adverts after they have installed it, this was designed to reduce the pricing for the school who would have to pay for the licenses otherwise.

Our TVs are hardwired to the network and staff can only connect to them if their devices are connected to the main school SSID, this stops any students connecting with their own personal devices. We don't install the software on the student laptops so again they can't connect to the screens even when connected to the correct SSID. The way we stop staff accidently connecting to them is by having a randomly generated 4 digit security code on the TV screen that resets itself after a teacher disconnects their session, this means the member of staff must be in the room when connecting to read the code. There is occasionally a problem where staff walk away and forget to disconnect from the TV , although this is quite rare. In this situation we can reboot the TV remotely or physically pull the power to the WePresent box for a few seconds to force a reboot.

The advantage of WePresent is that the teacher can walk around the room and carry their devices with them and teach interactively if they wish. As for the cost of the device they come installed into the smart TV's we purchased, I think you can buy external units but not sure. If you don't already have the TV's with the units installed a cable would be more cost effective.

We use laptops here (Surface Pro 3's) and the convenience far outweighs the odd problem we see. We don't provide docks in classrooms, our teachers use WePresent to connect to their TV's and the wireless network for everything, as you can imagine we get the occasional member of staff reporting wireless issues with speed but we quite often find they have 15 Power Point's open and 15 webpages open. The main thing if you move to laptops will be the culture of change, for example when we had desktops all teachers had a DVD drive to play videos etc. but since moving to laptops they don't so we now make use more of our online systems for video playback. If you prepare your staff for the change the majority of them will be ok.

Have you checked the date and time on the iPad? If they are not correct it won't activate.

As already said I think remote sessions would be better as that would be easier for many of us to take part. Also if the remote sessions could be recorded and the recordings made available so we can watch them back at a later date that would be great.

The fact that you're concerned about putting the projector back into a room tells you everything you need to know. In my mind it doesn't matter what caused the problem only that you no longer trust the use of the device from a safety point of view. I would not put it back into use anywhere until I knew 100% that there is no fault, this goes for any machine I take out of service due to faults.

If I'm reading this correctly wouldn't the simplest thing be to use the WebMerge option and ensure the word template you're using has a blank page at the end. Doing this would allow you to print off any of the pages required or you could print them all and the you can split the students individual reports into envelopes (I'm assuming this is to send them home).

Hi, Not sure if it's what you're looking for but there was a recent thread looking at Senso Vs Impero here http://www.edugeek.net/forums/network-classroom-management/182272-senso-cloud-vs-impero.html

We've used Stage Electrics here in the past, they're based in Bristol but are willing to travel.

you're right. I've been staring at that for the last 30 minutes and missed it. I must have deleted the \ during the script edit and hadn't noticed. Thanks for such a quick reply. - - - Updated - - - as soon as I put the \ back in it worked, can't believe I didn't spot it.

Hi everyone, I wrote a script some time back to copy some files from one machine to another which worked (script below). $machines = Import-Csv .\lockscreencomputerlist.csv ForEach ($machine in $machines) { $ComputerID = $Machine.computername $Source1 = '\\taw.org.uk\zone7\Homes\taw700staff\user1\test.jpg' $Source2 = '\\taw.org.uk\zone7\Homes\taw700staff\user1\test2.jpg' $path1 = '\\' + $ComputerID + '\C$\Windows\web\screen' $path2 = '\\' + $ComputerID + '\C$\Windows\web' Copy-Item -Path $Source1 -Destination $path1 -Force Copy-Item -Path $Source2 -Destination $path2 -Force } Today I have had the need to copy 2 files from the following location \\domain\zone0\homes\staff\user1\Senso Version and Config files\FILE LOCATION.txt To this location c$\Program Files\Renato\senso.cloud' on the remote machine Having done this before my first thought was to modify my script so it looks like this $machines = Import-Csv .\SensoUpdate.csv ForEach ($machine in $machines) { $ComputerID = $Machine.computername $Source1 ='\\domain\zone0\homes\staff\user1\Senso Version and Config files\FILE LOCATION.txt' $Source2 = '\\domain\zone0\homes\staff\user1\Senso Version and Config files\Version.txt' $path1 = '\\' + $ComputerID + 'c$\Program Files\Renato\senso.cloud' $path2 = '\\' + $ComputerID + 'c$\Program Files\Renato\senso.cloud' Copy-Item -Path $Source1 -Destination $path1 -Force Copy-Item -Path $Source2 -Destination $path2 -Force } Having done this I receive the following error message Copy-Item : The network path was not found At U:\Documents\Batch and Script Files\Powershell Scripts\Scripts Folder\Final Working Versions\Copy Senso files from computer1 D drive to remote machines.ps1:22 char:5 + Copy-Item -Path $Source1 -Destination $path1 -Force + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: ( [Copy-Item], IOException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.IO.IOException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.CopyItemCommand Copy-Item : The network path was not found At U:\Documents\Batch and Script Files\Powershell Scripts\Scripts Folder\Final Working Versions\Copy Senso files from copmuter1 D drive to remote machines.ps1:23 char:5 + Copy-Item -Path $Source1 -Destination $path1 -Force + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: ( [Copy-Item], IOException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.IO.IOException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.CopyItemCommand I have ran the script line by line and the errors are definitely showing as a problem with the copy function and not being able to find the destination however I don’t know why. I have verified the remote computer is on and can be pinged, the unc path of the files to be copied are correct and obtained via path copy long unc path name. My csv file is made up of a single column with the header computername and the second row is just a computer name e.g. PC001 Can anyone spot what I’ve done wrong and maybe tell me how to fix it? I can use a batch file with xcopy if I need to however I would rather start using PowerShell where I can so I become familiar with it. Thanks for any help you can offer. Noel

Every 12 months here, the LA require it.