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All these students only care about two numbers
but they wouldn't even recognize them if I said 110 and 111, such a shame
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Quick Check: Are Any Schools Blocking Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT) or Seeing Malware Issues?
Has anyone’s school or site already blocked Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT), or have you seen any malware or suspicious activity associated with files downloaded from TPT?
We’re reviewing its use across the district, so any feedback or incidents (good or bad) would be helpful.
https://redd.it/1pj64w8
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Chrome crashing on brand new Mac Minis
Hey guys, this is an issue I have been battling all year. 84 Mac minis, chrome is crashing nonstop.
In the middle of a video it might close out. Never any pattern of when it does so.
You have to open it and hit restore page. Crash logs haven’t done me any good (reading them myself or with AI assistance)
Please, has anyone seen this. I feel incompetent!!
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Google 2SV
My district is requiring 2 step verification on all staff Google accounts. Some users are getting a message that says“We want to make sure it's really you trying to complete this action... “
The user I was just working with was on her district-issued Chromebook and om the district wifi. I entered a recovery phone number through the Admin Console, but she still could not enable 2SV.
Has anyone encountered this issue and found a work around?
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Worst Repair (So Far) of 2025
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Johnson Controls was here today
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no heat since saturday! (I am trying to replace this system any recommendations)
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Tahoe is killing all sorts of things!
Just a rant more than anything. Cameras are offline (im assuming something around privacy and local network) and printers all just disappeared one day.
Dont make me start asking for PCs again.... im trying to be equal opportunity computer fiber. But jeeze it's getting hard.
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PowerSchool SIS Hosted Districts - Check your machine uptime!
Shortly after PowerSchool's data breach, I discovered what I believe are unwarranted delays in applying Windows OS patches to their SIS VMs. For comparison's sake, I have been checking on two other vendors that run Windows instances (Tyler and PSNI). Both are ahead of the typical patching timelines I've observed from PowerSchool.
Unfortunately, these delays have taken a turn for the worse.
Currently, I believe many PowerSchool SIS Windows VMs have gone without patching for 70+ days. I have a statement from support that (at least for my VM), they intended to continue that delay through mid October, meaning they'd be 3-4 full Patch Tuesday releases behind at that point.
I did manage to get my AM to pass along one statement from the engineering team this spring. In my opinion, their justification was concerning and revealed shortsighted and dated practices similar to those that led to their breach last winter.
I encourage you to do the following:
Check your machine uptime (System Management > Server > Server Statistics). If it's high, it indicates they haven't rebooted the VM to complete the installation of Windows OS patches recently.
If you share my concerns about the risks to your student data and agree that they should be prioritizing a more prompt patching schedule that aligns with a modern threat landscape, please open tickets and start conversations with your AM and CSM.
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GEO-IP FW Blocks
With datacenters being all over the world now for normal safe traffic, do you still do a lot of GEO-IP Blocking on your firewall? I see a lot of legit traffic going to Germany, Netherlands ,Japan etc.
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Art Room Printers
Has anyone had any good experience with a specific larger format art printer for art rooms? We recently went to centralized printing but that doesn't work great for art class purposes and the department is requesting dedicated art printers. In the past one supervisor went rouge and purchased a Canon Pixma Pro 100 for one room that we got stuck supporting and it was a pain to manage. Has anyone had luck with something that can print A3 size but also be managed through Papercut or at the very least have the driver pushed out remotely? I would hate to have something that our techs have to manually install drivers on users laptops. Thanks.
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"F-word" on college application sites
Our Filter blocks pages when it finds certain words on sites. In this case it's finding the "f-word" on every college application site. Any Ideas what's going on? I do have a way of exempting the sites so i have a solution. I am more curious than anything.
Filter: Aristotle K12
Site Examples: latech.edu, lsu.edu, usm.edu, tulane.edu, auburn.edu, mitadmissions.org
Specific sub site is always their application process
word found causing it to block F***
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Random Service Outages
I trust others have been experiencing this today? We lost Solink and ExtremeIQ, as well as users reporting issues with Canva, Safeshare, and a few other here-and-there web services.
AWS reports no issues on their status dashboard, but clearly something is going down somewhere.
https://redd.it/1npck8x
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Canvas Outage?
Looks like Canvas is having some issues this morning. We're either getting a "page can't be reached" or the Classlink wizard saying "Item not found." Canvas' status page and downdetector aren't showing any issues. The issue is occuring both on an off our internal network.
The site came up momentarily at 7:24 and then just spun and got stuck on loading, so I'm guessing its a server issue. We're back to "Page can't be reached."
https://redd.it/1np9l44
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WiFi for Sports Fields
We are trying to cover our baseball and soccer fields with WiFi so we can stream games with Huddl. What would be the best way to do this? Could one outdoor access point per field accomplish this, or would we need P2P units?
https://redd.it/1novvrt
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Onedrive Backup Solutions
Hello! We want a backup solution that will backup all users onedrive data at our private k12 school to a local windows server we have on site. We would like it to be automated and have some retention time for deleted files. We would also like to keep it low cost (or free). Does any one know of a good piece of software that will do this? We tried backup assist 365 and it did exactly what we wanted. Just curious if anyone has a better solution or software before we pay. We are a Google School, just High school has Microsoft accounts for Office and One drive.
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ID Cards Recomendation
I'm a IT admin at a small k12 in OK. We have bodno software and a pronto printer to print ID cards for students and faculty. But as Bodno is pushing for subscriptions we are looking to get something else.
What are you all using to print your student and faculty ID cards?
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Alternatives to CDW-G?
Got a pretty decent quote on some Lenovo laptops. Anything over $10k needs school board approval. No problem, sit in next board meeting, get the approval for CDW-G and district issues a PO. Now my rep says the pricing was temporary due to a rebate and the same hardware is $200+ more per unit. Nowhere on the site, on the quote, or in our conversations did he say they were on rebate.
This is the last straw. I am fed up with CDW-G and am looking for a new vendor. Who's your go to?
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The Never Ending Battle....filtering
So we've finally curbed the ghost VPN on the Chromebooks last week(kids found they could import a vpn config file through Chrome://settings and Securly not see it.
This week its OMADA DNS ( just in case you're not aware of it.... https://docs.titaniumnetwork.org/kajigs/omada-dns/ ). We've already remove the ability to connect to any other networks while in range of managened networks, so we are set at school...however, I don't see a way to prevent them from using these dns servers to break securely and admin console updates while away from campus.
It seems Google doesn't have a way or allow you to hard set DNS servers no matter what network your connected to, or prevent you from making manual changes to any network?
How are others dealing with this?
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Has anyone tried to use the Google MDM for iPads?
We use Jamf and have been thinking about giving Googles MDM a try as it is free to us.
I can not find any good videos on how to use it or even answer to simple questions.
We have it set up to allow it manage iPads so far I have given it one to manage. I have put all of our VPP's in it as well.
I have many questions the first is as soon as I start the iPad after a reset google grabs it and when I get to the home screen it just keeps popping up that I need to have an apple account to even do anything like even install basic apple apps. When on JAMF all that stuff just flows in.
Any idea how to stop that and just let the apple apps install.
Heck I even made an appleid but it says it can not make purchases so that did not help.
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K12 ISAC for Security info?
Is there not a K12 ISAC (Information Sharing and Analysis Center)? In the past, I was a part of the MS-ISAC, but it looks like the education sector REN-ISAC is only for colleges/universities?
Or do you have a different way of sharing timely info between organizations?
Thanks in advance!
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Google Admin - Change Viewable Contact Data
Good morning,
Our middle schoolers have figured out that if they go to Google Contacts, they can see each others' student ID numbers in the Directory Profile. Despite my frequent suggestion to force password changes on these students, some students still use it as their password, and all of the students use that number as their lunch code. I'm sure y'all can see what a nightmare this is becoming.
Is there a way to edit what students and staff see when they load a contact? Unfortunately we can't remove the number from their profile, as it's what our account creator and manager tool uses to sync.
https://redd.it/1pi99w5
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Deleting released devices from Apple School Manager?
This is just me wanting to clean up. I noticed that all of my released devices are still in the device list in ASM. They are all disposed of and I never want to think about them again. Can I delete them permanently somehow?
https://redd.it/1nqgmxu
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SAML apps in Google Waffle missing
Is anyone missing their SAML apps this morning? Most of our users are missing 3rd party SAML apps in their Google Waffle.
https://redd.it/1nq80bl
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Drive is Read only on Chromebook
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Experiences with Larger UniFi Deployments (1,000+ APs)
Curious if anyone here has managed a largerish UniFi deployment—thinking on the order of 1,000+ access points. We are testing some of the new "Enterprise" line E7 aps and they seem really nice from the capabilities and ease of management perspective. It helps that they also have no license fee. What are yalls thoughts?
https://redd.it/1npiaqs
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Google API (GAM?) issues
I'm seeing this morning that calls with GAM v7 or v6 look to be hanging. I'll get either no data and the program sits expecting something or I'll get a partial return followed by stunned silence.
Just a heads up in case you're seeing similar.
https://redd.it/1npgubj
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Riverside Online Cogat testing outage?
Anyone hacing issues with Riverside online testing with cogat?
https://redd.it/1npbwtg
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Entitled teachers what to do about them?
I have several teachers that my school were I work at that think they are entitled to my time like an hour worth. I dont think she should be entitled to that much of her time regardless of what she needs. Im willing to show her how tow do the stuff she wants me to do but wont even do that. She needs a lot of handholding and because Im a one man operation I cant allow her to take up all of my time. Got any suggestions besides getting a new job because I like my job even though I'm stretched thin as paper.
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Chromebook Inventory
I have a question about inventory for Chromebook and how you do yours. We are about to purchase Chromebooks for our district and I was wondering if anyone just sends an allotment to each school let's say 500 to school A and then school B runs low due to enrollment and then school B needs 100 additional. How is your districts setup in situations like this. Trying to figure out the best way of implementing this.
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Handling ChromeOS Updates
Since Google has released class tools with the latest version of Chrome OS I have a lot of teachers that started using it and are really liking it a lot. What I'm finding though is it needs one of latest version of Chrome OS on it. What I'm finding and what I'm finding is students never log out or restart their devices, they just close the lid and let it go to sleep. I'm thinking of enabling a forced restart after update but I don't want it to auto restart in the middle of a class. How is everyone handling this?
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