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You can set managers in exchange. Then as part of automate it looks up the manager and sends for first approval. I side stepped it and just added a manager e-mail field in the form. I'm getting the person completing the form to submit the manager e-mail then using that for the approval process

I've done a short term solution using forms and automate. Staff member fills in the form. Automate hold the approval and rejection processes then e-mails based on the outcome. Its not too bad. I'm going to sit and learn some power apps though, it has a lot of potential for a lot of things.

Thanks jthompson. They are leave of absence forms and leave forms. Approval or denial is normally quite quick but its good to know if we start adding in order approval process. I've just got to get the kids to leave me alone now so i can concentrate

Hi Sorry for the long delay in my reply. Many thanks for the replies! I'll have a go at making this today. Clareq if you have any good guides or youtube vids to hand that would help me please share. Thanks

We have the usual school forms we want to digitize and add in a digital approval process. For example. A leave of absence form Teacher currently gets a physical form from reception, fills it in, leaves it in a pigeon hole. Person who approves them picks them up. E-mails person if approved or not. How do i do that process digitally? The only guidance i can find online doesn't have privacy in the process. they're more business based. Others can see the request. The form would obviously need to be confidential Any pointers or help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Intune has come a long way and has a long left to go Are you pushing O365 aka office.com and teams?

Yes we're expecting them to have a short lifespan The kids breaking the iPads are the most annoying one. £70 a go to replace the screen and we have maybe 3 a week 🙄

That's a lot of iPads. We've stopped our sixthformers bringing in they're own devices now. We given them a nice CB though with a touch screen. How do your year 10s and 11 get on with the iPads and coursework? do you provide KB cases? I'm guessing the Google experience is very similar to the O365 experience on an iPad. Do your students take them home or do you store and charge in the school? We've struggled to get our teachers to adopt the iPads for teaching. The majority of them seem to just use them to check e-mails on and take the odd register. Do you have the same problem? We're paying £70 each for the screen repairs using service Birmingham. Cheapest i found online was about £120. I'm looking into changing screens internally. I just can't find a good reseller for the parts.

Oxford from Brum is not a quick trip I think if you're google using CBs its a bit easier than using O365 and CBs. Its taken us a while but i think we're finally got some decent guidance together on how they can work Its just shame that need to work in Chrome and they can't work natively. The OneDrive client for CBs cant upload data, its read only.

Once you've moved to the 1 to 1 model get another tech term time only. Jobs increase massively! The best thing we did was move from the department based model. The term work is much easier and overall all students get better access to devices. The CB setup is quite easy to setup and use if you're already google based. If only Windows did an OS that was as good on a low powered device!

Hi Everyone We currently have iPads for all KS3 and CBs for all KS4 and 5. Staff have a 2 in 1 style Windows device and an Apple Air. We're using O365 for everything even on the CBs. We've disabled most the Google stuff to keep it simple. I'm currently looking for other schools that do the same thing to explore what you do and how you currently do it. The intention is to broaden our horizons from what we currently do compared to what others are doing. More from a teaching and learning point of view. The technical side in hand but again if someone is doing something better it would be good to know and compare it. We're a girls school in Birmingham. I'm also interested in finding a school that uses iPads for KS4 and or 5. We chose CBs because KS4 and 5 is more coursework based and we thought a traditional laptop style device would be better for them. Many thanks

Have a look here Ed Tech (ed-tech.education) They also have showcase events which can be very useful if the example schools fits yours Showcase Events (ed-tech.education) I will say its a long process to move we've been doing it since early 2019 now and are only just at the end of our journey. It involves a lot of change

We are a nearly fully cloud school using O365. We have 1:1 devices throughout but need to maintain a few IT rooms for fixed IT for some software/lessons. The students have iPads KS3 and Chromebooks KS4. So we need Access, 2D design, Adobe etc The IT rooms are the last piece of the puzzle. I spent the week before last getting everything we need packaged and have set policies to the point where I'm happy. I have used the user based options for settings where available and pushed it to users accounts. I have 2 issues 1 - A decent amount of these polices apply on first log in but a decent amount don't apply until the student logs off and on again. Probably not a massive issue as the students sit at the same machines each lesson. Anyway i can get around this? 2 - second issue is the speed the policies apply on first login. There's a delay of up to maybe 10 minutes in the worst cases, 3 - 5 minutes if its behaving to just get the policies to apply. Wondering if there was a way around this also. Maybe a powershell script to force the device to sync Thanks

I'm having trouble with a very simple script. I'm failing at the first hurdle lol I think its how i'm going about the ps session We're using exchange online I want to switch a rule on and off without having to do it manually as i keep forget to do it. The rule is a simple one to stop the kids e-mailing each other. With prohibit this in the day as it causes issues. We disable it at night so the students can share resources etc. My code is $UserCredential = Get-Credential$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirectionImport-PSSession $SessionEnable-TransportRule "Student email block" I got this from a few sources one being from this forum. So far i'm not able to connect to the exchange session. Am i using an our of date line. Any help would be really appreciated. Scripts aren't my strong suit

Just a small change so the onedrive app can be writable rather than read-only and it would show in the downloads as a pinned drive. Google have this summer added in a setting to default set the option to prompt where to save a file when downloading a file which has helped.

Basically at the moment its for them to download to google drive and upload to their OneDrive in office.com if they want to. We're advising when they use teams that they need to copy and save in a new location rather than trying to download. Its unfortunately down to MS improving their OneDrive App for the CB. I can't get the Firesystem for OneDrive thing to work at all here. I don't think our filtering likes it

Is there a way to allow users to save files to OneDrive in the Chrome broswer when using a Chromebook? I've installed the OneDrive app and pinned it to the taskbar. I can see OneDrive in the files app, it lists as read-only. I've changed the download setting to ask where to download the file. When i download anything the download to box appears, I can only see my files and the google drive. No OneDrive.

jmak I think thats what we're doing wrong. We're nearly 100% cloud now. All our staff use teams as department spaces and teams for class work. We're currently making OneNotes in teams which is great as it doesn't affect a team when someone leaves. We're not doing the same for forms though. I'm not to sure how we go about creating forms that are associated with a team rather than a person

Thanks for the replies. Does anyone deal with forms stuff? At the moment when a staff member leaves we're losing the forms quizzes they've made. How do we move the quizzes? Maybe we're doing them wrong to start with?

What do you currently do with your leavers files? We are 100% cloud now using onedrive, teams and sharepoint for files. We currently have an account named Leavers which we use to transfer Onedrive files to for a year after they leave. Both staff and students. I'm wondering how to also back up something like a OneNote, a forms maybe even e-mail in some special circumstances? Anything along that line. I'd be very interested in what other are currently doing. Thanks

I'm trying to enroll some older ipads to intune. We already have intune setup and working. They come DEP joined from the supplier. We have some i need to join manually. I've checked the model of iPad is compatible. I've found a few guides that are all using different MDM solutions. I'm trying to find out what MDM address i need for intune. I have the standard thing from Azure but it doesn't work https://enrollment.manage.microsoft.com/enrollmentserver/discovery.svc Any help would be great. I'm only stuck here. One the Ipad is up in Apple School manager and Intune can see it i'm fine.

Its going on about a on site mesh option that moves the data securely internally. I agree with the cloud key option. Surely they could add in more to papercut MF to enable it to to talk to azure better and release prints better. I don't mind it hosting on site which would be cheap. Short term i just need it to have my users authenticate against Azure and not AD

I'll have a little look at Hive. See if i can get a demo of it going. We're dropping AD completely and just moving to Azure. I can see there's a way to sync in users from Azure but that wouldn't sync in passwords or anything. I think i can hash something together during the summer that will do the job and then look at something more permanent that will allow azure logins etc.

i've been having a look at printix which looks quite good I just don't know how it works with our printers. I've been talking to our lease company who have said Papercut will work ok without an local AD you can just manually import users. Solves me short term problems but doesn't give me a long term solution. The print company don't have much to offer in terms of cloud either just just offered to host the papercut box for us at a cost

At the moment we have a standard papercut environment. Papercut on the print server. Papercut pulling ad users and groups. then printing through a follow me print queue to MFDs that release prints based on users credentials. We then bill etc based on the groups. We also utilise the web print stuff that uses a windows 10 VM to translate and print upload documents. A fairly standard setup Do any of you have any advice on the best approach to move to cloud for printing? Papercut don't really have one. I want the same function or close to the same function as Papercut but i want it to work from the cloud and authenticate using azure user accounts rather than AD. Is that achievable or like with Intune do i need to forget what i had and work with what i can get and then make that work?