[Informatics] Slighty off topic BYOD question

[Groves, Brett G]

Hi Derek,

Sorry for chiming in late! The biggest issue we face with BYOT is that the EduStar for students allows them to connect any capable device because there is no single sign on provision inbuilt. A recipe for annihilating your bandwidth IMHO

We could get around it with mac address filtering but that is a major time consuming headache as is manually configuring bulk devices.

For all our Apple gear we use Meraki which lets us provide students with credentials at home to configure their device to connect at school via certificate, this allows us to direct it through the correct VLAN as well.

So in short I'd use an MDM in place of an EduStar enabled connection where possible. Things to consider though some aspects of Meraki are blocked by the dept. pac files don't work on earlier android devices and Android devices don't remotely configure properly  (so far)

Feel free to go to the Melba website and have a look at the BYOT trial program page.

Brett Groves
[Melba bird logo DEW]eLearning Leader
Melba College
Brentnall Rd, Croydon 3136
Ph 9955 5735 at Senior Campus (Please leave messages here)
Ph 9725 8277 and dial 221 on pickup at Junior Campus

From: informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Glennie, Derek D
Sent: Wednesday, 9 November 2016 11:25 AM
To: informatics at edulists.com.au
Subject: [Informatics] Slighty off topic BYOD question

Morning folks,

Hope this finds you all in good spirits leading up to exam day.

Quick question as I know there are some e-learning coordinators on the list:

We are rolling out a BYOD platform next year and my technician is trying to tell me all devices must be connected to the school domain as we have done with the school provided devices... Our product provider is suggesting that's ridiculous and all students should simply access the wifi using their edu002 credentials and use local passwords when connecting to network devices like printers.

I'm hoping to get the opinions of others in here? anyone had any experience with connectivity and BYOD?

Thanks in advance,

Derek

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