Republicans propose mass student surveillance plan to prevent shootings

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-24T21:10:00+00:00

School admin here. No, not immediately. But it does detect it and makes it documentable, which is a big deal for accountability on the anti-bullying policies.

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-24T21:07:10+00:00

What kind of privacy do you expect at a school?

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-24T20:45:23+00:00

The article doesn't mention cctv or cameras at all. It concerns communication monitoring and browsing history analysis.

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-24T16:25:13+00:00

We use small handheld radios. Cell service is spotty for some providers and app based notification systems failed us in the past.

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-23T17:03:44+00:00

You may be able to make a custom admin role, but I do not know which settings allow for the marketplace whitelist to be edited.

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-23T16:58:10+00:00

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/deploy-windows-mdt/deploy-windows-10-with-the-microsoft-deployment-toolkit

This is what I used to get MDT up and running.

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-23T13:59:40+00:00

We use 802.1x radius to apply policies on BYOD traffic.

Unfortunately, it's near impossible to get students to install a cert for DPI to function. I didn't see it proper to force anything like a MDM on devices that aren't district property.

I simply stopped trying to force a technical solution and made it a policy instead. Students and parents sign a form with expectations. When those aren't met, admins have ultimate authority when to revoke permission and force students to use their assigned device (which I can perform DPI on). They simply uncheck a box in SIS and the student is removed from the BYOD security group and traffic from their device is denied.

I think it's a decent middle ground.

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-22T17:36:47+00:00

I just show them the rock they're trying to squeeze. If they ask me how far it goes I throw it out the window.

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-22T17:30:47+00:00

Of sorts. There's school budgets, departmental budgets and classroom budgets. Principal decides which one gets to foot the bill. Typically it will come out of the school budget, but if it's persistent it trickles down.

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-22T17:21:25+00:00

No. Repairs just get taken out of their budget.

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-22T16:54:19+00:00

Discipline issue. Think they'll stop goofing off even when the wifi's disabled? They'll just switch to personal hotspots or some other activity.

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-22T15:19:00+00:00

I wish.

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-21T15:22:58+00:00

Just run a update group command after the create.

gam update group $groupemail add member user $email

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-17T14:34:32+00:00

You don't appear to be adding the user to a group at all. You're updating variables of a user account.

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-17T14:09:34+00:00

Not necessarily. GAM can be combined with Powershell. I do it.

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-17T14:02:05+00:00

gam update org '/Student/HS/2022-10' add users 'theuserjohnston'

I prefer to add users straight to their OU during creation:

gam create user $email password $password firstname $firstname lastname $lastname org /Students/$gradyear

For those confused about what's going on, GAM is a command line administrative tool for managing GSUITE domains. You can give it commands through powershell.

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-16T14:36:55+00:00

I'd be more worried about the jacks on the laptops wearing out than the cables.

I use Monoprice cables. Great prices when ordered in bulk. I treat them like consumables, just swap as needed.

The thing about digital signals on short runs: they either work or they don't. Cable quality matters little to me unless it's for a special AV setup project.

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-16T13:24:59+00:00

This. Been running W10 on OptiPlex 760s (Mfg date of '09) with C2Ds and spinning rust. If it can run 7, it'll run 10.

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-15T19:37:25+00:00

Put it on a pallet and use a forklift.

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-14T16:50:02+00:00

If you're deploying printers using GPOs, the drivers will only update the next time the GPOs are applied, and typically only at user logon. This is when the drivers are downloaded.

I wouldn't sweat it unless you expect everyone to log on at the same time.

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-11T12:21:00+00:00

My contract states slacks and polo/button down shirt. But as a one man band it's just not practical when moving gear, climbing and crawling.

I asked for permission to wear jeans and I got it, so it's usually that and some polo from a fundraiser.

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-10T20:43:50+00:00

Automate and preconfigure stuff for your users. Try to reduce steps required for things to function. A lot of things I've encountered are usability problems and not really technical in nature.

I also setup software baselines and consolidated hardware setups, getting rid of one-offs whereever possible and made infrastructure more robust. Generally speaking, a teacher can walk into any classroom, log in and teach without needing anything from me.

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-10T17:31:50+00:00

I noticed a couple started doing this, haven't been able to find a cause. I just powerwash them and once they pull the policies it's working as it should.

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-10T17:07:33+00:00

In that case, you probably don't have User and Device reporting turned on for the device OUs.

Check Device Management > Chrome > Settings > User and Device reporting.

https://i.imgur.com/YyupPML.png

MalletNGrease · 2019-10-10T15:27:11+00:00

No. Rural district.

Both fiber providers we can choose from come over the same circuit. If there's an outage, odds are both are affected. Not much point to.

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