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Hi! The head has asked me to go and find some timetabling software that they can start using. As with everything loads out there... What does everyone use / recommend using? (It's for a special needs school / classed as primary) Cheers.

Hi all, I've been tasked to do a little research project on helpdesk solutions for the main office/reception. In IT support we use ManageEngine Service Desk which is the most helpful tool ever as it lists all of the jobs we need to tend and can keep a record of the jobs we've done. Definitely keeps us on our toes, especially the first few weeks back into the new school year. The school manager who works in the main reception with the admin assistant's has asked if there is any kind of service desk software that they can use so they can keep track of the jobs that they need to get done in the main office as they're trying to minimize the traffic that is in and out of there. So I've had a little look about in the little time I have at the moment and there are plenty of names out there and many of them are focused on the IT side. Which solution, if any, would be best suited for the office environment? It needs to be super simplistic and straight forward... Or would ManageEngine be the best bet if there's nothing out there to cater to this need? Any names of software (whether it be installed or web based) that you may have insight/experience with would be extremely helpful. Thanks

Hi All, Apologies if this has been asked before & I've skipped over it! I've been asked by out Media Studies dept to source a couple of Blu-Ray players to allow them to play movies. We had a couple of internal Blu-Ray drives kicking about that I've bought enclosures for but I've now run into the problem of software that will enable the Blu-Rays to play. The drives came with an old version of Cyberlink 7 that seems to be stuck in a loop looking for updates. TL: DR have any of you guys come up against this issue before? What playback software do you use in school? Cheers, AJ

Exactly that. Currently Office 2013 site wide. Is it worth the upgrade to go to Office 2016 yet? I've installed it on my laptop and can't see many differences. Done a bit of research on it and again can't really spot any amazing must have features in it? Any opinions on it? I do however like to have the new shiny stuff!!!! thankyou!

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Dear all, My contract recently expired with CISCO but need a copy of the 7.0 software release. My 4404 WLC has a bug a need to sort this out ASAP. Please help if you can.

I love finding out about new websites that are useful or software that isn't that well known but hugely helpful. In that vain i would like to know about what sites or software you feel are worth sharing and why. My contribution ninite - lets me install software with little to no hasstle chocolatey - command prompt system to update/install software on a machine. Wox - really useful search tool for windows that acts a bit like macs spotlight

Hi all, Having a really weird issue with the video editor app where if we try to add add video it gives the error "video editor cannot import something went wrong" It seems to only do it when we have folder redirection in place. Does anyone know if video editor looks for a specific location that redirection could be messing up or able to offer any other advice. Thanks Dan

Hi I have been asked to deploy Python 3.7.4 by the head of Computer Science. After visiting the Python.org website it appears that there are no MSI installers available for download for recent versions of Python. I wondered if anyone has a Python 3.7.4 MSI that I could borrow please We are currently running version 3.3.2 Unfortunately we don't have SCCM or any third party tools to wrap the EXE. Thanks

Hey guys, Back again with some more wonderful questions to ask you wonderful people about: Currently the school I'm working with (Secondary Education) are using a piece of software called DataDisc and DataDisc Timing. The software is a science program, and allows for real-time data logging and data manipulation in Education (Datadisc family) This software is really, really old. So old that there isn't a silent installation for it anywhere. This makes it extremely difficult to automate and, as we use SCCM, renders that completely useless in the imaging process with our laptop cycles. To try and get rid of the software and destroy the beast once and for all, I'm looking for some more contemporary software that has the same level of functionality as DataDisc and DataDisc Timing, that allows for silent installation. What are you guys using in your schools? Any recommendations? Help me destroy the ancient beast, please! Thank you, guys. Alicia

Hello edugeeks We have come across an issue that I suspect has been there since we moved to Arbor a 3 years ago. You will want to check your systems too and please feedback to me. A new student this year has a massive long list of food allergies so has come to speak to the kitchen staff. When we checked his record on the Sharp tills it shows nothing at all about any warnings - This is a major issue as could have serious consequences something they think is ok to eat could contain nuts for example it could kill them. The way how Arbor has allergens it lists everything in brackets so for example: No Pluses (Beans, Lentils, Peas, Chickpeas), Dairy Free (No Milk/Yoghurt/Cheese/Butter) This is good as if we have a admin staff member helping out in the kitchen on tills due to kitchen staff illness they will at least know what pulses are if they don't have a clue for example. However Sharp software is just expecting No pulses, No Nuts, Dairy Free etc so very short fields for display warning when a student is at the till. Basically if the data is too long Sharp just ignore it no warnings or anything. Now we have investigated we have about 5-10 students that don't show on the tills at all. This is a low number but not the point. We can manually on the till data edit the students record to have limited text displayed but my point is then each time we have a new student start we would then have to manually check: do they have allergens that need to display on the tills and are they too long. What happens if a student then becomes vegan so that then takes their record over the character limit we don't know when people make a change to dietary requirements as IT. Sharp have said they have never had this at any other school before and can create a custom setup for us but will charge for it (don't know costs). We did not know we had issues before now and students in other year groups are also affected if this new student had not spoken to the kitchen staff we would be in the dark as would not know as you hope it just works. In my mind even if the till displayed an error to say data too long at least you know there is an issue that needs to be investigated. It does not help parents can use the notes field in dietary to say epipen carrier etc so that also tries to sync adding to the length issue. Maybe this is more of an Arbor issue and other tills may have same sort of problems with sync. Do people just manually check every record to make sure it displays (we only have about 160 students on the list out of 1100) but I want to know it works ideally automatically Thanks for you time If anyone has Arbor and Sharp tills please have a look for me and PM or post on here. Most work without issues we ran a report on all students with Dietary requirements and looked for the long ones.

New here, so didn't know where to post. My mother recently bought a country club, and we have been slowly adding amenities to the place. Now that the membership is growing, we want to go digital. We are wanting the membership idea to kind of be like a gym. We want scannable membership cards that will pull up a membership profile. I'm usually the tech savvy one of the group, but this project has just got me confused. I cannot find what I want. We need to find a database software that can link up to membership cards. Or maybe even just print out individual SKU barcodes to stick on the back of membership cards that we can scan. It doesn't have to be the magnetic strip. What's the best way to do this? We are so confused. Like I said, I'm normally pretty tech savvy, so I don't need a dumbed down answer. I just need to know what to download and buy, the rest i can figure out. Thank you so much to anyone who has ideas for us.

Hi all, My Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 is getting too long in the tooth. I'm doing a restore right now and its taking forever due to the archive size. I need incremental backups daily and am backing up at least 2TB of data. Compression is fairly important. Restore speed is a must. What backup software are you guys using? ... Need some suggestions. Cheers in advance

Hi all, I have being working in secondary education for a few years now, At the minute we use a database to record the pc's inventory information but as you can imagine keeping it up to date for 220 pc's when im rushed off my feet installing hardware and software can be a nightmare therefore i have being looking at inventory applications on the market. I have experimented with spiceworks (works but seems to slow the network down) , OCR Inventory and recently i love lansweeper! although if i dont buy the premium version you are limited, i would like the application to just detect and gather the information without me having to create scripts and software installs to the clients. Is there any software (maybe open source) you can recomend? that works well for your sites? or just even information on how you all track your inventory??

Technical Product Manager required for an Industry Leading Software Plc. Working within the professional services division you will be responsible for creating and delivering new products and services in line with divisional directives by understanding the current and future needs of the UK Education system. You will be responsible for new business plans, setting prices, implementing launches, commercial product success, be product champion, support sales and marketing with product information and advice. You will need to show previous experience with a variety of disciplines including P+L accountability, business case development, product monitoring, QA, developing marketing strategy and excellent communication skills in a large professional organisation. You will know the UK education software and hardware market and technical product/professional services possibly including SIMS, CMIS, Viglen, RM, CC3, CC4, VLE, MLE, BSF, Phoenix, Integris, Learning Gateway or MLG Special Agent is acting as recruitment agency in relation to this role. CV's to [email protected] or call 08701 612 007

Hi Guys, Can anyone give me some advice for creating an msi package for interactive resources, ie, primary games vol 1 and 2, and teaching tables for a windows 2003 domain network. I really need to allocate these to 450 computers, does anyone have any msi I could use? Thanks Superaz300

Hi, We currently have a spam filter in place which doesn't seem to be doing the job so we was wondering what software everyone uses. Also, what do you think of the software? I've looked into: Iomart - http://www.iomartcloud.com/mail-filtering Altman - http://www.altman.co.uk/email-security/email-filtering/email-filtering-for-education Censornet - http://www.censornet.com/en/products/mailsafe They all seem fairly good. Suggestions please? Thanks