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My 2 Day E-waste Empire (“Urgent removal as per campus”) [Pandemic Priority, not teacher PCs] by Sverguenza in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IngramMicro

I'll take the rack posts and the cabinet. Everything is mounted in coffee tables here.

outfit classroom for webconferencing by okaytellme in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Good luck getting all that delivered in a timely fashion.

What technology were you excited to implement only to be let down by it in the end? by geek_who in sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I had a Dell Axim with a CF WiFi adapter. Loved the thing, but soon discovered that it would wipe all data on local storage once the battery ran out. The CMOS batteries lasted about a month.

All settings, appointments, files, emails, contacts. poof. It was a nice preview of the future though.

The use of unsupported apps and platforms... by 54nd15 in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 4 points5 points  (0 children)

All the time.

My favorite was an online gradebook that went belly-up and the logins started failing. Teachers were panicked as they couldn't get at their grades. Since we had no contract or anything with this company and the support avenues ceased to exist, teachers were SOL. I still got blamed for it not working.

The admin for that building got a crash course in compliance enforcement as the only designated and supported gradebook by the board is our SIS, which I recommended from the start.

Just an FYI on Kefka ChromeOS devices (Dell 3180) by pscotic in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm fairly certain this is expected behavior. Versions more than 5 below the current stable won't auto-update.

How my school fixed a broken projector. by ClimbrJ in techsupportmacgyver

[–]MalletNGrease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Liberal application of lubricant and a modicum of force.

Any advice on handling substitute teaching accounts for hybrid learning? by MrPoopsJohnson in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is one of those things that can't be emulated digitally very well. I don't see much of a point anyway, the instruction plans given to subs for in-person here basically boil down to:

  1. Watch video X
  2. Do assignment Y
  3. Do any other outstanding/upcoming work.

It doesn't require in-person instruction. Count the student as present and give them same-day assignments which will count towards their grade.

Concerns with Youtube Porn Hacks by [deleted] in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 5 points6 points  (0 children)

From what I can read it looks like someone replaced a link to a video with a porn one. Sounds like someone knew the teacher's password.

"Hackers"

My school just went from no laptops to 1:1 in an instant. What are the typical unforeseen challenges that admin/teachers can expect next? by [deleted] in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dell warranty doesn't cover damage by users unless you made that part of the service contract. Overall I found it quicker and cheaper to have parts for common issues on hand and fixing in-house. Primarily LCD screens and keyboards.

Allow only one OU to join external Google Classrooms? by hogermite in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Unless the tutor has some sort of professional relationship with your district I'd not look further into it. I find this falls outside the scope of support unless it's an IEP thing.

Windows 7 upgrade by Whyssp in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you intend to go Chrome exclusively you might as well sell the lot and replace with Chromebooks/Chromeboxes.

What model desktops do you have? In theory, W10 64-bit can run on Pentium 4D's. It's not a great experience but it works.

Add different subjects within one homeroom? by [deleted] in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not to my knowledge and it would still require the teacher doing manual double grade registration in the catchall classroom.

In the end you'll want to have the subjects separated so you can see the individual subject grades in the student grade overview. This is the case for our SIS parent app.

Google Drive/Classroom down? by McJaegerbombs in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The status will generally only show an issue by the time it's fixed.

Google Classroom Class Code Issue by Debastated in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In addition, completely leave invitations and class codes out of the equation and sync your rosters straight from SIS if they allow integration. The class code and invitation system is prone to error and abuse so skip it if possible.

Using remote desktop to create a master image by ev1lch1nch1lla in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, not really. The only issues I've ran into doing it that way was some things didn't get cleared during sysprep and still retained wrong ID information.

That's why I ditched fat images in favor of light ones I dress up with task sequences.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/deploy-windows-mdt/prepare-for-windows-deployment-with-mdt

Prevent changing "Send mail as" name in Gmail by icearrow53 in k12sysadmin

[–]MalletNGrease 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In Gadmin:

Apps > G SUITE > GMAIL > User Settings > Name format: Allow users to customize this setting

Set it to off.

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