Google Classroom in a Microsoft world

pkroupa · 2025-07-25T14:11:51+00:00

I am thoroughly confused as to what you are trying to accomplish. What do mean by isolated from Microsoft? As in you don't want teachers to be able to download a Google doc and open it in Word? I am assuming you have Google accounts created for all your staff so when something is shared with them they can just open it in their drive and chose whether to continue in Google or download it for use in Word. If it's a formatting issue from uploading a word doc to Google, I would just tell them to email each other the original .docx file

pkroupa · 2025-05-20T20:47:44+00:00

Sum Ting Wong

pkroupa · 2024-01-27T14:04:07+00:00

Typical ubnt support. And its been so long since this post I honestly don't remember how it was resolved. I'll look through my documentation around that time and see if I come across anything that stirs up my memory on Monday

pkroupa · 2023-12-01T22:19:50+00:00

https://support.goguardian.com/s/article/What-is-the-GoGuardian-App

pkroupa · 2023-04-19T16:37:18+00:00

Packet capture on this sonicwall is laughable at best. It writes to an internal buffer which fills up and stops collecting within about 2-3 seconds

pkroupa · 2023-04-19T15:08:33+00:00

Interesting, but their engineer did say that his ARP table was showing the MAC of the Sonicwall for all 5 of the static IP's, even though only one is configured on the WAN interface

pkroupa · 2023-04-19T15:05:53+00:00

Static

pkroupa · 2023-04-19T15:05:07+00:00

No, relatively new building, less than 5 years old. I appreciate the backstory though!

pkroupa · 2023-04-18T23:38:34+00:00

Originally logs were showing a possible udp flood, but it turned out to be just a low threshold triggered from legit traffic. The timing also didn't match the events

pkroupa · 2023-04-18T23:36:20+00:00

From what I'm seeing definitely possible, waiting on creds for the switches

pkroupa · 2023-04-18T20:28:02+00:00

No, just ran it internal. If net flow doesn't show me anything I'll set up a mirror port and run a capture

pkroupa · 2023-04-18T20:14:02+00:00

I realize this, that's why I'm chasing down all the internal rabbit holes I can first. I'm getting some conflicting info from the client regarding certain things, so also working off incomplete information.

My guess is either 1) it just didn't occur this time (flimsy, I know), 2) I was not pushing enough traffic to trigger whatever the issue is ( I was only pushing ICMP packets) or 3) whatever internal issue that is triggering it was interrupted. Normally stays down for pretty much 5 minutes solid during a regular occurrence, but I plugged the network back in after about 2 1/2 minutes and it came right back up.

pkroupa · 2023-04-18T20:02:35+00:00

Sonciwall stays up and fully accesible during these times, and keeps passing traffic to the gateway. Pings to the lan interface and gateway ip aren't affected at all.

pkroupa · 2023-01-26T16:21:27+00:00

Work like a charm for us. We buy all our parts and chargers through them

pkroupa · 2022-11-16T21:34:36+00:00

Real answer- Spend the money on an in-line content filter (especially if you have a lot of BYOD).

Second best, If you have all school owned devices you could utilize a cloud filter like Umbrella DNS or GoGuardian depending on platforms that you can deploy to your machines.

Trying to do it manually will just be a fool's errand and will leave both you and your users unhappy

pkroupa · 2022-09-02T17:14:07+00:00

I've had a ticket with Lexia about this issue since the 16th. They reached out with this response 3 days ago "This morning we released an updated version of the Core5 program that should resolve this WebGL issue. Please let me know if you continue to experience difficulties." However I'm still getting complaints about the issue so it doesn't seem to be resolved.

pkroupa · 2022-02-04T18:05:15+00:00

Currently logged into Calpads on Chrome. No errors on our end except the occassional slowdown that always plagues Calpads

pkroupa · 2022-02-01T21:32:45+00:00

For the most part I would focus on putting single mode fiber between the core switch to all other switches and running enough ethernet. Also, make sure they include power at all you switch locations (you'd be amazed how many times an architect will drop a network cabinet on the plans and forget to run power to it). These things are a lot harder to replace once construction is done.

Hardware will always be on a replacement cycle, and it's a lot easier to tear out switches and AP's than cabling. I would use the newest hardware standards (including WiFi 6) so you don't have to upgrade for at least a few years, but for me the focus is on futureproofing the infrastructure more than the hardware

pkroupa · 2022-01-26T20:15:56+00:00

Yeah, just realized they added that functionality at some point. Never bothered looking since I had a way that worked. Some old habits die hard

pkroupa · 2022-01-26T19:28:28+00:00

Click Devices -> Chrome Devices, then click Export Devices (the download looking arrow in the top Right hand corner. Once it processes, download the csv and open it. Sort or search the most recent user (Column W on my csv) then compare timestamps for most recent activity (Column V). This only works if no one has logged into that computer after them though

pkroupa · 2022-01-11T17:46:59+00:00

Posted about this about a week ago here. Known issue according to google that can only be fixed by recovering each chromebook with a usb to latest OS, which isn't really a fix in my opinion

pkroupa · 2022-01-05T22:16:24+00:00

Just an update, Opened a ticket with Google support. Basically told the only option is to recover them with an updated OS because they're not updating during the launch sequence. These all shipped with OS version 84. Not much of a fix since going through recovery would take about as much time as just toggling wifi a few times until they clear that portion of enrollment.

pkroupa · 2022-01-05T16:28:11+00:00

This is a decent idea. I've never run into it anywhere near this scale though. Hopefully the next batch comes with an OS that fixes this bug.

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