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On 20/01/2009 18:19, Dave Foxcroft wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: > >> On 20/01/2009 16:06, Tom Potts wrote: >> >> >>> I've finally managed to corner my daughters primary school headmaster and he >>> wants to look at setting up password accessed records for the kids+parents >>> etc and I was under the impression that the schools network provided by the >>> government should have at least some of the capabilities to do this. >>> He says everytime he tries anything it says 'server not available' so it >>> sounds like he's on the MS network alright! >>> Is there anywhere I can find out what capabilities are on offer and how to get >>> at them? >>> Tom te tom te tom >>> >>> >>> >> Records of what? >> >> Might be worth looking at Moodle or Karoshi. Something like that should >> be accessible over the web so students can access their work online etc. >> >> Rob >> >> >> > All schools are being required to provide kids& parents access to > records such as achievement and attendance as part of the Gov' education > 'strategy' so the county may have provided a means to do this via some > online app (I know CCC is touting Merlin for it's primary schools - not > sure if this will allow access to records etc) - the 'server not > available' may well be where this app is going to be accessed. > > I see, I didn't realise that. My kids Primary School hasn't got anything like that, at least they don't appear to. > The biggest problem with primaries is that most of them pay the county > for support and if the county is committed to the M$ way than trying to > get anything else in there is a real headache as it will probably not be > supported. > > Sounds about right. From what I understand when I was working at DCC on their First Line Support they were pretty much in M$'s pocket. I guess one way of looking at it though is there are hundreds if not thousands of people out there who do IT Support and know Windows. I was contracted there doing what was considered Helldesk. I was running Linux at home on my desktop though and I gathered that maybe one or two of the Third Line support team ran Linux in one form or another. > Having spoken to a couple of primary schools on the subject - moodle > seen as overkill (remember the network is normally managed by the main > teacher of ICT - they are paid to teach not run networks!) > Yup I guess not having a full time ICT Techician around to sort it out and possibly the local Secondary School's ICT Technician maybe once a week it's probably either not going to happen or be low down on a list of priorities. > Karoshi - well I know one of the schools that is using it - they have > WinXP PC's - all the same local logon, windows workgroup - no domain > with no need for a DC so they are only using it as a file server which > is a real shame as Karoshi does pretty much everything you would need on > a primary school network. > Hmm... so they're not using it to their full potential then I guess. I presume it's the same problem, no full time ICT staff so I guess it was put in to maybe replace an old server which was on it's last legs as a cheap option? Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html