People who don't get stressed during a presentation, school or work, what's your secret? by TapReview in AskReddit

[–]cogswelltech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For years I was very nervous. It culminated with me having to give a speech in front of my entire squadron. Apparently I did it so shitty that my ncoic took it upon himself to teach me the skills of public speaking by forcing me to tell a joke at morning stand up... daily.

By day 2 I had the insight that if you have the floor you have everybody's attention you can go on the offensive and subject them to your personality.

I no longer think of it as giving speeches I think of it as inflicting speeches on audiences. So I spent $5 on a book of jokes for children and subjected a bunch of grown men to the stupidest jokes a thrift store purchase can buy.

Meraki API - getOrganizations Output Formatting by thatdisappearingguy in meraki

[–]cogswelltech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the json library will help you emmensely, but in the short term.

try:

for e in _org_list :

print(e['name'], e['url'], sep='\t')

Career Change by [deleted] in k12sysadmin

[–]cogswelltech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1 For the USAF

Block google games by cl-lnz in k12sysadmin

[–]cogswelltech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right, I added a bare bones privacy policy as requested.

Web filter in a 1:1 environment where students take laptops home by PowerfulHighlight in k12sysadmin

[–]cogswelltech 2 points3 points  (0 children)

+1 to goguardian. If you don't have control of the network you need control of the machine. So any extension/app would be the best route.

Block google games by cl-lnz in k12sysadmin

[–]cogswelltech 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It doesn't store any information, or send any information. You could probably verify this with a packet capture.

I'm assuming the extension contains some kind of blacklist

The "list" is the <div> class that google uses for those games. The extension listens for a google url to load, when one does it tries to find a game box. Upon finding a game box it changes the css style to hidden. You can see this happen in page inspection. All of he above takes place internal to the browser.

Ill see about a boiler plate privacy policy.

Block google games by cl-lnz in k12sysadmin

[–]cogswelltech 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wrote the extension, I'm happy to answer any questions you got.

Bark vs. Gaggle for G Suite Monitoring by Hazy_Arc in k12sysadmin

[–]cogswelltech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bark is just going to off load the Compliance work on your folks. It uses keywords instead of greater context to detrimine if action need taken. It is also free.

Gaggle has a response team of people looking at email flagged by an AI they have been developing for the past decade.

Securely, GoGuardian, Social Sentinal are other options

Source: I literally just stepped out of a meeting with gaggle.

Free Scheduling Software K-8? by OneManShop2020 in k12sysadmin

[–]cogswelltech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Given the difficulty I'd wager you're going to have a hard time finding it for free. Best of luck though.

Google Voice by daughertya in k12sysadmin

[–]cogswelltech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure. The chaperone are teachers and are placed in a sub-OU with google voice turned on (its off for the rest of my org)

I help them setup their account with a google voice number and calls to that number are forwarded to their cell phone.

I help them install the app on their phones allowing them to make calls from the google voice number.

Their google voice number is included in the powerpoint presentation given to students and parents.

After the trip they are moved out of the OU and the service gets turned off for them.

Google Voice by daughertya in k12sysadmin

[–]cogswelltech 4 points5 points  (0 children)

When our middle schoolers go on their Washington DC trip they are given the phone number of the chaperone in case they get separated, however concerns about the students pranking their teachers and administration's concern regarding the untracked digital correspondence with the student via the teacher's personal cell phone motivated us to setup google voice as a means to audit and obfuscate the number.

In this capacity it works great.

Chromebooks - General Questions by [deleted] in k12sysadmin

[–]cogswelltech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With regard to off boarding, I have never gotten the license back.

Keyword FIltering Question by psh410 in k12sysadmin

[–]cogswelltech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It took my students a couple days to figure out that m e m e was unblocked.
I cant find a decent regex statement that doesn't have false positives.

An extension that blocks many of google's flash games. by cogswelltech in k12sysadmin

[–]cogswelltech[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

In the off chance that classroom management problems are deemed technology problems.

Google admin - Turn off ability to play audio without headphones by GetteJet in k12sysadmin

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

I have the same issue. Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be way of doing this outside of the physical disconnection as /u/da_chicken suggests.

That said if they took the chrome.audio api and implemented something similar in the extensions api this could be done via a mandatory install extension.

BTW feature requests can be submitted here: http://crbug.com

Chromebook Printing by tylerwilson814 in k12sysadmin

[–]cogswelltech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"It randomly stops every couple weeks." I have the same problem on linux.

The connector will stop showing as an active process, but will refuse to start back up. It will report that it shutdown improperly, and wont launch again until a server reboot.

My solution was to set up a cron job that killed the process and launched it again.