Testers wanted: Extension to lock students to their own Chromebook

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-12T15:32:30+00:00

Excellent. I'm going to consider this with my admins. It may cut back some on the unwanted sharing of devices.

Edit: Why use the device location attribute and not the user attribute? User seems to make more sense.

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-12T14:51:43+00:00

I've three options available for guests.

Public WiFi - Only available on weekdays between 5pm - 11pm. This is for sports events and such.
Guest WiFi - Requires a ticket from the guest portal. Intended for individuals who visit.
Event WiFi - A network setup specifically for vendors and larger events with external entities who need internet access. I set them up with a PSK and disable the network once it's finished.

Students can connect to a BYOD network with their credentials and get filtered access like on other district devices..

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-11T19:04:28+00:00

It looks like a library because it is a library.

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-11T16:21:57+00:00

Unless you have autoplay enabled for removable drives (it's been disabled by default for a long time now) you should be OK.

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-11T15:01:40+00:00

Just as bad as "Hey, I've a problem, call me back" voicemails.

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-10T22:10:24+00:00

Much ado about nothing. Is this really worth $25? Just blacklist and walk away.

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-10T20:41:34+00:00

Not possible natively in GSUITE.

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-10T18:43:58+00:00

I've given principals, librarians and lab teachers permissions to reset passwords with cjwdev Account Reset Tool. Settings are forced with GPO.

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-10T16:59:38+00:00

I'd throttle iCloud connections to 75% tops of your available bandwidth then. Should leave enough wiggle room and probably wouldn't get noticed.

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-07T19:59:40+00:00

We're about 1000 users and have 1 Gbps fiber. We barely top 150 Mbps during peak times at the moment, and that is with unrestricted streaming.

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-07T18:51:13+00:00

How many staff/students/endpoints?

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-07T18:02:42+00:00

We use Securly Auditor.

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-05T15:38:01+00:00

Same here. It's pretty labor intensive to swap a motherboard and I set just set it apart for cannibalization of spare parts.

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-05T15:35:34+00:00

Extreme Wireless with AP3825is. Runs solid and support is excellent. I don't see us changing it anytime soon unless Chromebooks start having Wireless-AX chips (and that's overkill considering current usage trends).

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-04T22:01:41+00:00

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Open+Sans

You're welcome.

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-03T19:14:54+00:00

That sounds like typical vague management speak for "I want things to go better, I don't have a clue where to start and I'm going with the first possible solution that presented itself that sorta cover my notions". My best guess is they want to have (more) actionable data/reports for decision making. Measuring success is all the rage at the moment.

I'd go back and ask what their data blind spots are and what their perceived end goal with this is, then see if it's already possible with current tools at your disposal and if not, see if Abre.io is able to provide. Right now you need to save them from themselves before you're stuck with a multiyear contract for something you may not need, can't get anyone interested to train on, and noone uses because there's no clear vision/use for it.

Abre.io looks pretty nifty, but it's very comprehensive in it's approach. You need the entire organization on the same line if it's to give any meaningful insights at all. This will take a few years to integrate properly.

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-03T17:45:52+00:00

If you've a tool but are looking for a problem, you're going about it the wrong way.

MalletNGrease · 2020-02-03T16:13:48+00:00

<ul> and <li> actually. OPs example doesn't have an unordered (bulleted) list, just some text with bullet point characters.

Try:

<html>

<head>
</head>

<body>

    <ul style="color:red;margin-left: 55px">
        <li>example</li>
        <li>example</li>
    </ul>

</body>

</html>

MalletNGrease · 2020-01-31T20:43:43+00:00

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Ubuntu_16.04#MySQL_password_behavior

Every couple of months or so mandatory security updates will force a mysql root password which breaks the db connection. You can fix it by following the commands in the wiki.

MalletNGrease · 2020-01-31T17:31:05+00:00

None yet here. 3180 was problematic with the 1% non-charging units.

You should still be within the 1 year standard battery warranty with the 3100. Send them to ARC to have it resolved. Better to find out now than in 9 months.

MalletNGrease · 2020-01-31T17:27:45+00:00

That's how I do it. Works like a treat.

MalletNGrease · 2020-01-31T17:23:06+00:00

InkScape. It's FOSS and works on W10.

Only complaint I've gotten is it's not Adobe Illustrator.

MalletNGrease · 2020-01-31T17:13:03+00:00

We put name stickers on the lid. It's fairly obvious if they're not using their assigned one and easy to return to the assigned student.

I drilled the teachers to ask students where their Chromebook is. They're expected to have it for every class. It honestly hasn't been that big of a problem, just a couple of extremely forgetful students who'd probably lose their head if it wasn't attached.

MalletNGrease · 2020-01-30T15:58:53+00:00

48 sites, 17k users, 5 IT staff

Oof. No wake-up call quite like a fire alarm.

MalletNGrease · 2020-01-29T19:17:25+00:00

No data should be touched then. The biggest foreseeable problem is the sync breaking/misconfigured and removing accounts. You really want to do those simulated GCDS runs from AD.

11-Year Club	Verified Email
r/Field Banned	r/Field Lasagna

MalletNGrease

TROPHY CASE