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HR Access to Active Directory
How do you handle requests for HR to have access to Active Directory to create accounts? My response has generally been "No", but I am getting some pressure. If you also agree that "No" is the answer, what kind of reasoning to you have other than, I don't want to, or I don't trust them. If your answer is sure, that will help me allay my fears.
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Chromebook Set Up/Settings Question
Unqualified math teacher being the tech person at a small school here. Just wondering what everyone’s view is on erasing all local user data on shared devices? We are a Chromebook cart school and so the devices are shared but I feel like having all of those users on the same device is both gross to look at and possibly slows the device down albeit it could just be our internet. Google suggests not erasing local data but I’m wondering what the logic is there and if I’m missing something.
https://redd.it/1m1k8kk
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Looking for correct adapter details
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Avigilon ACM(Scheduling After Hours Events)
Really struggling here. We recently moved from S2 to ACM, and while most things are great, we haven't figured out a great way to schedule the doors to unlock for after hour events. ACM has a few ways I can see to do this, Overrides or Job Specifications. Overrides are good for one offs like fall conferences but is not good for the recurring basketball practices. Our integrator said the Job Specifications is the option for this but it's just so darn cumbersome. You also can't really have an end date. S2 had a really great system for this including a nice calendar view. Job Specifications also leaves a lot to be desired when trying to understand what was schedule and what is scheduled. Folks are trying to prevent duplicate entries.
Any suggestions? I can't be the only ACM school with these problems/complaints. Do other schools have a secret solution? Do other schools not schedule your doors wide open for practices?(Require a coach to let in, this typically leads to door propping)
One thing I thought of is that rather than schedule doors open for practices, letting coaches badges allow the door to stay unlocked for 15 minutes. This would force the coach to be there first and get rid of the scheduling need. Bonus points if you know how to set this up.
Thanks if advanced, happy summer!
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When “educate the user”
We are constantly having student and staff passwords getting phished and then it starts. The one who was compromised gets hit and starts sending out job offers to others. Then they fall for it and send it on and so forth. We are a few months from implementing mfa for all staff, but even so our kids do it consistently.
Well some kid spent a lot of money through Apple Pay to get this job. From his mother’s Apple Pay I should say. Well mom’s mad. She lost a lot of money.
The powers that be get the complaint it gets now back to me. How do we fix this? I explain we have no way with details as to why and that the only real solution is training the staff and students. Fortinet has a great course for k-12 for free. I’ve been trying to implement it for years. Well after I responded my reply got forwarded to someone else with them telling him to come up with a fix.
Honestly there’s nothing you can do. Especially when the teachers make the entire class use the same damn password.
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Kiosk Laptop for laptop exchange?
Does anyone here use a kiosk system in a library or other room where students who need to exchange their devices can come and use a barcode scanner to swap out their device? If so, what app or other means do you use? It would be awesome if there could be a barcode to move their current device into a separate Google OU and then move the replacement device into the Student OU, or something similar. Thanks!
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Current Cheap Chromebook Recommendations?
My PreK-12 school is needing to cut costs and I'm looking for cheap Chromebooks.
We have a 1:1 take-home program in HS, so we've been buying the thicker Dells & HPs with rubber edges...but prices keep going up.
We've had multiple batches of Lenovos and ASUS CX22Ns with fragile displays, so those are out.
What are some other cheap Chromebooks (sub-$250) that can withstand 7 years of take-home?
https://redd.it/1m0kpu6
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Google Classroom Schedules
Hi
Students are going into Google classroom looking at their schedules before they are finalized. Does anyone have this issue. What was your fix? Thanks
https://redd.it/1m03t25
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CDW / Lexicon Tech Solutions
Hello all.
Have any of you used the white glove services with Lexicon via CDW and, if so, what's your experience been like? I ask because mine has been terrible and I'm wondering if this just how they operate. They've had our Chromebooks for a month now and, as far as I can tell, nothing at all has been done yet. The only thing I've gotten is the kickoff email. I asked a question and got a response a few days later but have not been able to get any kind of response (via email or call to the "Sales Enablement Specialist") for almost a week now. We're a small charter school and our order was only 300 Chromebooks so I imagine we're not at the top of their list, but I feel like there's a certain level of professionalism that can be expected regardless.
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IFPs.. Benq/Promethean
we currently have Promethean AP7. I believe they’re called. And we were looking into possibly upgrading and I was suggested between Ben Q and Prometheus’s updated models. My question would be for each manufacturer, Which model should I be looking at? We’d be looking at 75 inch boards.
Benq
re7504
Rm7504
Rp7504
Promethean
AP10
AP10-Premium
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Redirect Notices in Chrome with Lightspeed Extension Installed
Hi all,
For those using Lightspeed, has anyone noticed an increase in "Redirect Notices" appearing in managed Chrome profiles with the Lightspeed extension installed? I've been seeing them mostly when clicking on links in emails. Instead of going directly to the destination, Chrome opens a redirect notice page that requires a second click to continue.
This started after I deployed the new Lightspeed V3 extension. I submitted a support ticket that was escalated to their development team, but I haven't received any updates in over a month. The issue goes away entirely when the extension is removed.
Just checking to see if others have experienced the same thing or found a workaround. Thanks!
https://redd.it/1lvzpaa
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Qmlativ integration with Classlink Roster Server and OneSync?
We are getting ready to move from Skyward SMS to Qmlativ. SMS currently runs regularly scheduled exports and puts a CSV on to our SFTP. OneSync then uses that CSV to create users in a few of our systems. We want to change over to an API connection during the migration to Q. Has anyone had any luck getting an API connection from the Roster Server over to Qmlativ?
https://redd.it/1lvsjo6
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Promethean OPS-M setup
Just curious for those using the Windows OPS. Are you enrolling it into Intune? If so are you using Kiosk mode? If not, are you enrolling it using a generic account? Trying to work out how we should handle these. I'd definitely prefer to use Intune.
https://redd.it/1lvpbsu
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Ethernet runs for new classroom
If you were running new runs for a classroom how many would you run? (total/ per wall/ per location)?
classroom size : square 22' x 22'
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Not a bad use of ERate funds (before and after, approximately $600 after the discount)
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Google Education and Classroom AI updates
Does anyone know where I can go to see a complete list of what has or is being updated with Gemini and Google Classroom? Also along the same lines is there any good training or videos for Google Gemini and Notebook LM? I have staff asking for training on it and I do not know where to look at this point.
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Sticky Fingers Help
https://redd.it/1m1exjl
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Enrolling from OOBE/Join via Entra ID
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Enrolled Student Chromebooks, after hours personal Google accounts, & guest mode
The families of our 7th & 8th-grade students purchase a Chromebook to use at school. These Chromebooks are enrolled into our Google Ed Workspace. At the end of the school day, students are responsible for bringing it home to charge, using it for homework, and potentially for personal needs such as video streaming, games, and purchases.
We're using "Device off hours" to allow them to log into their personal Google accounts after school hours. However, turning on Device off hours automatically turns on Guest access for some reason, allowing children unsupervised access to the Internet. I know this is working as designed, whether I like it or not, but Guest mode undermines student safety and parental trust.
I'm hoping you all can share your workarounds and creative ideas that have solved this issue for your schools. Maybe one of you will just tell me that I've overlooked something?
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Live from the GAMEIS Conference
https://k12techtalkpodcast.com/e/sailing-into-cybersecurity-tech-talks-at-gameis/ and all major podcast platforms
We talk to prominent figures in the Georgia ed-tech scene, including Rusty Boone from McIntosh County, who shares innovative Chromebook management strategies and the benefits of involving students in device care. Roman Gaddis and Logan Evans discuss the growing importance of AI in schools, while Geekender makes a special appearance to talk about the role of the Reddit K12sysadmin community.
https://redd.it/1m0q442
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Users hidden from GAL
We have all our students hidden from the GAL, but whenever they get phished they send out emails to all the students in the domain. I cannot for the life of me figure out how they are getting all the other student email addresses if they aren't viewable.
I tried logging into azure portal with a student account thinking maybe there but I disabled that ability years ago so thats not it. I have looked through everything I can but cannot figure out how they are getting all their email addresses to send to.
Any ideas?
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Smartboard OPS /USB-C pass through
I have a colleague asking if the usb c ports on the ops pass through to the board meaning can he plug a USBc device into one the ports and access it on the board?
https://redd.it/1m0gjpp
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Infinite campus
We have moved our SIS to Infinite campus and since this is the first summer we have dekt with this we are having issues with a few things and wondered if anyone else had this issue. We have to use Oneroster for Apple school manager and Clever but we can't pull any data since the active date in Infinite campus is 8/10, is there anyway around this so we're not dealing with thus on the first day of school 8/10.
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The unthinkable has happened; we've been given 5 slots dedicated for tech PD during week 0!
Between The director, Myself (Sysadmin) and the 3 integrationists we're listing the usual suspects Google Docs, sheets, calendar, PDFs, File Hygiene. Anyone got any idea's that have worked well for them?
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Informacast with Zoom - Lockdowns
We are implementing Zoom phones and currently have Informacast.
I am curious as to how other schools with multiple sites are processing a lockdown or other emergency activations using their Zoom phones.
We had used a dial code previously with the same code across the district and the pbx was able to determine the site to initiate the activity.
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Can we talkl about Zero Trust?
Well, no. Because my admin asked me to not refer to "Zero Trust" (Apparently it's too aggressive sounding). When talking about securing our systems we now call it "Total Security" and, yes, we do say it as Danny Rojas from Ted Lasso. "Security is life!"
https://redd.it/1lvx1bf
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Google account lockout
We have a staff member who set up 2FA for his school account from his Mac at home, and the next day when he came into the office and tried to sign in to his Google account from the Windows machine on his desk, he got "Google couldn't verify this account belongs to you". When he clicked on "Recover account", it just took him to a screen that says "Couldn't sign you in. Contact your domain admin for help".
He then wen into our Password Manager (which syncs to AD and Google) and tried resetting his password, but that didn't help.
We on the IT team manually reset his password in both AD and Google, but we're still caught in the infinite loop of "Google couldn't verify this account belongs to you" and "Couldn't sign you in. Contact your domain admin for help".
He hadn't put any recovery email or phone number on his account, but after this happened we went in via Google admin and added both recovery items on his account. Still, no joy.
Any ideas?
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Default resolution for newer 12" screen Chromebooks not compatible with NWEA MAP testing (and possibly other standardized test platform)
We are looking at the Lenovo 500e Gen 4 or the Asus CR12 or CZ12 models, all with 12.2" 1920x1200 16:10 ratio displays, for our next batch of student chromebooks. One unexpected issue we have encountered is that the default resolution in Chrome OS for these 1920x1200 displays is 1200x750 which unfortunately does not meet the 1024x768 pixels requirements for NWEA MAP testing.
https://preview.redd.it/4bp7lt11ovbf1.png?width=1660&format=png&auto=webp&s=a7d5e3f055ec7798a881883d7c3bd0135c260a65
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Pearson TestNav also has a minimum 1024x768 resolution requirement, but I didn't test the device on it since we do not use TestNav. The device did pass the Bluebook testing app check even though some Bluebook pages also indicate the same resolution requirement.
The workaround is to scale the screen to say 90% (1333x833 pixels) to increase the vertical pixels before starting the testing app, but that adds an additional step that is easily missed by students and staff, necessitating a reboot to get back to the initial login screen to reconfigure.
Other CB models that schools may be using that have the same 1920x1200 resolution include:
Lenovo Chromebook Duet EDU G2
Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 3
Lenovo 10e Chrome Tablet
Samsung Chromebook Plus V2
Models with a 3:2 screen like the Acer Chromebook Spin 512 have a 1366x912 screen resolution aren't impacted.
Does anyone know if there is a way to request Google to change the default Chrome OS resolution to something higher than 1200x750 for models with this 16:10 screen? Even with my old eyes this default scaling seems too large and wastes the advantages of the larger screen size and 16:10 ratio.
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Student wiping managed Chromebook
Maybe you all can help me solve a mystery -
For the first time this year, we encountered a student who was able to somehow circumvent all of our managed Chromebook protections and policies. We would consistently and repeatedly find that this student had initialized the Chromebook with a personal GMail address (disabled in our GSuite policies), adding their school email address as a secondary user so that the Chromebook was no longer managed.
We disallow user Powerwashing, guest accounts, and any Google accounts outside our domain. Forced reenrollment is active, so even if the student somehow wipes the device, it should require a login with our domain extension. We have interviewed the student, and he is playing dumb.
Any ideas how he's pulling this off?
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Multiple users on Promethean
How do you handle multiple users on your panels. Is there a benefit to creating individual user accounts on each board? Can I adx/remove users from the radix portal?
https://redd.it/1lv5o3k
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