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JCQs requirements talk about a device being used for the exam to ensure it has no previously stored data. I'm just confused how you get around this when presumably the pupils own device still has all of their school work on? I understand exam.net locks down into secure exam browser and I understand moving out of the app is blocked but if there were a way to get out of that, a student could just open up their revision work and have complete access to previous work and syllabus? I can understand using a standalone device for exams which they login to exam.net to access the exam, I understand that because it's more closed and the previous work isn't available, I just don't understand how that is feasible using their 1-1 device that JCQ deem that as acceptable. Just to clarify this is genuine curiosity as I've never worked with an exams officer who would consider allowing students to bring in their own device (1-1 included) due to these JCQ requirements I'm discussing.

Is JCQ happy with that distinction? In my eyes I'd feel concerned about the ability to place an unfair advantage onto the computer ahead of the exam even with secure exam browser locking it down. I believe that's the opinion of my exams officer and smt also.

As in for External Summer Exams? If so is your exams officer not concerned about the JCQ requirement to not use their own devices? "• candidates are not allowed to use their own computers or other electronic devices, e.g. mobile phones."

Sorry for necroing the thread, what was the outcome of this? Did you manage this successfully? We are in the process of cloud migration and exam laptops are my only remaining domain devices. I have a few ideas. We already have a restricted SSID with a internet blocking policy, I suspect this might need to be loosened slightly to allow intune management. I understand there's some oma-uri codes to restrict who logs into the devices (Restrict which users can logon into a Windows 10 device with Microsoft Intune | Peter Klapwijk - In The Cloud 24-7) which I hope is still relevant. Then probably applocker to restrict apps other than Read/Write and EWP. We have an ever changing fleet due to the nature of our students, EWP on some, Read and Write and EWP on others and then outside of exams they get used for entrance exams where they use an online examination which we'd deal with by having a separate Wi-Fi enabled SSIDs for exams, this means I probably can't force a wifi network annoyingly unless I consider different groups for their different uses but then I'm at the mercy of the Intune Minute if(and when) I don't get told until the last minute.

I worried this may be the case, we have certain tools that aren't on all students devices but only the lower years for example which is what I was trying to achieve. Such a shame as it seems so obvious! Tags seems to be a way to do this but still involves an incredibly manual process of actually mapping devices to the tag to then tag to a group. Might just have to be like that...

I'm keen to know if anyone has tried to make an intune dynamic group for all devices of a certain year group? So for all Year 7 pupils and their devices to have a group so I could assign specific software to them. I'm struggling to find anything I can do beyond manually assigning them to groups...

Are you buying and fitting yourself for this price? I got a few quotes and the screen alone was about £1000-£1200

Bit of both but increasingly, it just doesn't work, you cast and they just fail to connect. Sometimes restarting them helps, sometimes it doesn't. It's my biggest callouts. The worst areas I changed for wired and never heard from them again.

I agree don't worry, when you go for the business panels you may as well go for touch screen with everything built in. The ms dongles are now out of support and are slowly losing their reliability for me.

Just to say, we got recent quotes and a iiyama screen fitted was about £1300-£1500 a classroom. Interactive boards have gone down alot but obviously nothing is cheaper than a consumer grade tv and a casting tool. Our projectors are rubbish though.

Following, same situation, I've suggested hard wiring but this was not wanted as staff like to "walk around the classroom" new head and new academic deputy starting in September which I'm sure will change this requirement. I've mentioned touch screens, we are still running projectors.

You need a cloud filter, and if you have managed student laptops or you have laptops that come into school for work you need to be cloud filtering to be fully KCSIE compliant. We use lightspeed which is excellent. Smoothwall have a cloud filter but last I checked it was chrome only so you'd need to ensure you had applocker and other policies in place but even then personally you need a whole of device filter which is what lightspeed offer with their agent. There's senso and many many others, I'd argue Lightspeed is the best of a bad bunch though, they all have their weaknesses. Lightspeed are also heavily developing, they've just introduced AI image filtering and also will be releasing a function to detect AI prompts and their outputs which will save me a lot of work if that is going to truly work like the way they claim it will.

I spent an hour on hold being passed around teams. We've decided to sack off BT Cloud Voice and are now moving to 3CX. The cost was hugely cheaper and BT Support was non-existent. Not to mention the fact I got absolutely harassed by a 3rd party vendor trying to renew me despite already having an account manager, I'm talking 6 calls a day multiple to my mobile. Nice to know BT shared my personal mobile (which they forced me to add to access the admin portal) with 3rd party sales companies.

@loxford01Thank you, apologies if I wasn't clear, I understand that it is licensed based on number of users but what I mean is that I'd like to make the device license assignment slicker. Currently it involves me finding the device, then going into classroom cloud, assigning it to a group and then the group assigns the license. I'm hoping for a way to smooth this process. Classroom Cloud does allow for Dynamic Device assignment based on certain scenarios but I wondered how others have done this. Students are AAD joined only so no AD group that I can lean on. Even that that would be user and not device. Just spitballing ideas really for this. Considering perhaps device year groups in Intune to allow me to do some other device assignment etc but again this is a manual process as I'm not quite sure of the anchor other than the device. Saw online Device Category was mentioned which I was planning to use for something else but I suppose I could use it for this instead. Again any advice would be handy perhaps just device management and not classroom cloud specific.

Hi All, Wondered if any of you have dealt with this that might be able to enlighten me. I inherited Classroom Cloud and it's quite a mess. I have reached out to Classroom Cloud support but I wondered how people dealt with device licensing. I'm not a fan of lots of manual moving parts and we have only got enough licenses to license years 7/8/9. I understand there are dynamic device group allocations which can be based on Entra ID but I'm not really understanding how that is really helping me? Our devices are named "PREFIX-SN" so can't use a name but could I maybe use a group based on the assigned user? Just trying to make this an easier process that it is. Any advice accepted.