[elearning] staff notebooks

[Jim Maunder]

Students here have laptops from Yr5, and teachers', laptops are heavily subsidised by the school if they get one through the school. Teacher laptops have the same image as student laptops and join the same network (but with different rights). The default user 'student' is an 'administrator'. Students and teachers sometimes need or want to install their own software (I'm not perfect and sometimes miss out things) and we have no trouble with that idea. 

If a student or teacher brings a laptop in from outside I set it up the same as the school laptops. If a student brings in a Mac it has to have Windows installed before I will touch it (because of Novell networking issues and in to make life less difficult for classroom teaching eg 'To bring this up just right-click here and select ... you haven't got a right click ... your program does not look like this one?'. I can't imagine why a teacher here would bring one in when they are subsidised 85% on school laptops.

rgds
Jim

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>>> Roland Gesthuizen<rgesthuizen at gmail.com> 2/12/2009 11:43 PM >>>
admin rights, mac or pc .. it doesnt matter now, yes we join them in, yes they are responsible for backing up etc. We configure for wireless / internet / printing / Novell client etc. We provide a secure lock at their desk and a storage locker for valuables.

Regards Roland


2009/12/2 Robert Ruzbacky <ruzbackyr at aloysius.vic.edu.au>

Hi everyone,

We are going down the path of the staff buying their own standard
notebooks through the school instead of purchasing the notebooks for them
like we have done up until now. We are giving them a choice of 2
notebooks.

Just seeing in terms of staff notebook, what other schools do?

Also do you give the staff admin rights over their notebook to install
their own legal and / or opensource / freeware / shareware software, etc.?

What do you do about staff not wanting to buy the standard notebook, but
they wish to purchase their own (or already have their own) - do you join
them to the domain or another alternative connection or just no
connection?

Do you support both macs and pc's at all?


Regards,

Robert
St Aloysius College





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