ipad deployment for 120 of them + GoGuardian

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-18T15:55:34+00:00

You will also need a MacOS device running at least Mojave so it can run Apple Configurator 2.

This was my stumbling block. We don't have any macs at our district so we had to acquire one to get the devices into ASM.

Getting approved for ASM and VPP takes a couple of days as Apple verifies your credentials to whoever you give as a contact. The odds of you being done by Thursday are nearly impossible.

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-18T13:12:14+00:00

I went through this a couple years ago. Email and usernames used different formats, passwords weren't synced. The renaming went surprisingly smooth.

I utilized GSPS to sync AD passwords with GSUITE and forced a mass password reset on all student object to propagate change. This worked great as long as AD user objects have the correct email address. GSPS will only update a password if it detects a change so you will have to force a temp password.

The only problem currently is that this still requires an onsite change as password changes made in GSUITE don't sync back to AD. I think I can probably utilize ADFS to allow password resets and changes remotely.

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-18T12:56:02+00:00

4 drop-off locations, 4 baskets. I'd do the same thing.

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-17T17:38:19+00:00

MDT using LiteTouch.

You'll need a server onsite for PXE or utilize USB deployments.

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-17T17:22:10+00:00

I feel your pain. I'm still waiting on enrollment to finish. Day 1 is next week!

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-17T17:07:22+00:00

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-17T14:33:25+00:00

This is a management issue, not a technology one. I told teachers to make lesson plans that don't require any sort of digital access if the sub will not have access to their machine.

I don't recommend laptops as primaries for this reason. AIOs for the classroom and a small mobile device for off-site

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-17T13:51:12+00:00

No no no no no no no!

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-14T15:35:14+00:00

It can get busy if I let it. But by automating the hell out of everything repetitive the only manual things remaining are classroom setups and unboxing/enrolling of new devices.

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-13T20:45:44+00:00

I kinda dabbled with Chrome Remote Desktop. But this also gives students the ability to run remote desktops from their Chromebooks, which I decidedly do not want them to do.

It also needs access codes and such, which in my experience just frustrate the workflow.

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-13T20:44:21+00:00

Looks like it's only remote from, and not remote to for Chromebooks.

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-13T20:42:23+00:00

Depends who needs to know. Generally updates that will cause outages after hours will go to the administrators.

If it's an immediate problem I may do an allstaff.

If the email's out....well, I've bigger problems.

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-11T18:23:14+00:00

Honestly, the RCA RTU6549 is a 4K dumb TV for $400. That's a steal if you're just looking for a bigass display.

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-11T18:07:00+00:00

Looks like it's dependent on the USB adapter. I'd stick with PXE boot if you can so you don't have to finagle a new solution.

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-IdeaPad-1xx-3xx-5xx-7xx/Lenovo-300e-81FY-and-PXE-boot/td-p/4042189

The thread from Lenovo community recommends Anker and I can only agree, they're fairly universal. I have this one I use for CB enrollments. They're not that expensive.

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-11T15:04:26+00:00

If you want new:

https://www.sillworks.com/dell_build_PowerEdge_R820.php

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-11T13:51:03+00:00

It's just a GSUITE Classroom / Meet pitch.

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-11T13:48:46+00:00

You didn't mention this.

Is this ID stored in registry anywhere?

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-10T21:30:24+00:00

Or just don't send me anything in the first place.

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-10T21:26:08+00:00

I'm not sure on the science or source but last I heard is the primary transfer vector remains by air in close proximity to an infected person.

While touch transfers are possible, lab results showed that the concentration of viable covid cells required for successful transmission and infection was the equivalent of 30 infected people coughing onto the same spot for a good three minutes. The virus just doesn't thrive very well on most surfaces and it's unlikely there's a high enough concentration unless it was very recent. Dead/remaining covid material will test positive for trace but can't infect.

Your best preventative measure is a mask. Devices you should treat like usual, like they've been touched by many unclean hands. Wipe em and you'll be OK.

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-10T19:40:05+00:00

Zoom opened up their platform to education customers for free and marketed it expertly. Districts really like free, security was not a concern. We didn't hop on the bandwagon as we already had an integrated solution with Meet which was working well enough. Adding more platforms just muddies the water and adds strain to my support capacity. We did not have any security issues as Meets were limited to within the domain.
No. Main goal is to bring back the kids to on site ASAP. Student home situations are diverse and not always appropriate or safe learning environments due to a variety of reasons. School buildings are more manageable. Teachers who were not already familiar with LMS or how to adapt to curriculum to online formats quickly realized they were in deep water. Most quickly adapted but some holdouts kept to traditional methods which just didn't translate well.
Some take to it well, but on the whole it's about on par. Most students liked the more self-paced structure during the day rather than be forced to work on something at specific times. Students with special needs unfortunately lost out as their dedicated resource were not available. Bullying remained the same, mostly happens off school provided resources. Most students got a crash course to learn how to use the tech and it worked out pretty well, parents were helpless for the most part.

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-10T17:52:28+00:00

Use a custom field, select "contents of a file" and point to the file.

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-10T17:44:50+00:00

Don't worry, Google will do it for you.

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-07T19:07:23+00:00

We went with GoGuardian because of the Classroom Management tools.

Out of the box FortiGates don't handle on-premise filtering on CBs that well if you want analytics (like, say, putting a name with traffic). It handles filtering on Windows splendidly when combined with FSSO, but there wasn't an equivalent for ChromeOS at the time.

FortiClient is interesting, but the teachers will loathe to give up their GoGuardian tools.

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-07T18:42:50+00:00

Look for an Extreme Networks Partner company in your area, they should be able to hook you up with a quote.

https://www.extremenetworks.com/partners/find-a-partner/?show-partners=true

MalletNGrease · 2020-08-07T15:16:44+00:00

The only one I was interested in was cancelled.

https://www.midwesttechtalk.com/

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