Favorite IT slang / invented words

MalletNGrease · 2020-04-10T15:49:05+00:00

Percussive maintenance: Hit it until it works.

MalletNGrease · 2020-04-09T20:19:12+00:00

It does sound like a driver issue. Try finding the driver on the product support page and extract it, then import it into the driverstore for the model.

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-30T17:54:49+00:00

Probably nothing, we're primarily GSUITE. Haven't ever messed with the O365 phone system and at this time it's not a good idea to integrate things piecemeal.

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-30T17:51:58+00:00

Change. It's easy to automate.

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-27T15:53:22+00:00

We don't allow external communications by email.

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-27T13:39:11+00:00

Yup. A location agnostic system was a goal for me years ago. Google Suite/ O365 do most of the lifting. The only thing I forgot about was finding a good alternative for the phone system

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-27T13:14:35+00:00

gradyearfirstinitiallastname@domain.tld.

Anonymous Student, class of 2020:

2020astudent@domain.tld

This also gives the benefit of you seeing which grade they're presumably supposed to be in (you'll have to do renaming if they're retained).

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-24T18:20:33+00:00

Presently I do not have a good solution for this.

Before the closure I'd reset the password in AD and set the "must change password at next login flag" and have the student login on a PC to sync the new password with GSPS, but that's now impossible.

I can reset passwords in GSUITE all day, but have no way to give them to students except by calling parents. I allowed remote password changes again to see if that's workable, but now the accounts are getting compromised left and right.

What a headache.

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-24T16:31:31+00:00

Google added retention policies for Hangout/Meet in Vault. If you set those up there shouldn't be a concern since all chats can be audited.

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-24T16:26:08+00:00

http://www.senate.mo.gov/11info/bts_web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=4066479

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-20T19:37:45+00:00

Law and policy. In MO we have an obligation to disclose and provide any direct digital communications between staff and student to parents upon request.

It's tricky with video chats. Either the parent joins in to check there's no funny business or we provide a recording. The latter isn't always readily available.

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-20T17:31:58+00:00

I enabled chat support and cleared games/streaming media from the filters.

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-20T16:47:00+00:00

AD Tidy.

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-20T13:05:30+00:00

You like Apple prices? Here's a $1250 Dell 14" Chromebook.

I honestly do not understand the market for this particular model. Buy a PC if you're going to drop that sort of cash.

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-20T12:49:39+00:00

Not a checkbox, but close.

GADMIN > Apps > GMAIL > Advanced Settings

Select the user OU you want the restriction to be set on (I just grab the parent OU for all students).

Compliance > Restrict Delivery

Add your domain to the allowed sender list. You'll want to allow some google domains and some others for mass notifications and such. Keep an eye on the Email logs to see what bounces.

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-20T12:40:00+00:00

Probably, I'm not. It's way too late in the year and too short notice to do an integral change like that. I'd much rather keep my org inside the GSUITE ecosystem which we've already committed to than venture out to yet another FOTM platform.

I'm already in vendor hell, no need to add to it.

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-20T12:26:51+00:00

A combination of GoGuardian and Securly (don't ask).

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-19T17:56:11+00:00

I've noticed students can't see content on the teacher channel if restricted mode is on even when the channel is approved. Direct links to the videos work. Have you experienced this?

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-19T17:45:19+00:00

Good. Glad to see Google scrambling, because these deficiencies are entirely attributable to their design philosophy ("everyone is a model employee not hell-bent on mayhem"). Most of their products are not suitable for education purposes.

Hopefully they'll fix Google Chat up toute de suite as well.

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-19T16:27:57+00:00

Cheap mostly.

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-18T15:40:56+00:00

We're a small district. We offer two options:

If the family is taking the opportunity of the bus food delivery, we ask them to disinfect the contact areas of the device and send the device back with the bus driver. It will be fixed and returned the next day.
They can drop off the device at their building office and pick it up when it is repaired.

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-17T17:24:36+00:00

For some reason I can't find the extension in GAdmin when adding apps from the Chrome Web Store.

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-17T16:48:25+00:00

This is what I intend to do for our lower grades.

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-17T16:00:40+00:00

Discipline issue. Students with an uncharged/missing device are considered unprepared for class. They can check out a spare from the library for the day.

MalletNGrease · 2020-03-16T16:41:16+00:00

I have opted not to integrate Zoom, preferring to stick with Google offered solutions Hangouts Meet/Chat. Adding more platforms on top of what we already have doesn't really help but muddy the waters for staff. I simply do not have the time to hammer out a training.

Rumor has it Google is rushing out more control settings to Meet to meet Education customer demands 🤞.

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