[ale] New school.

[James Taylor]

One of the groups I work with is supporting a 1to1 initiative with a combination of 5k macbook airs and ipads.
Controls while at school have been the easier headache to deal with, but once the students take the units off campus, it becomes a bit more complicated.
Earlier methods involved locking the machines proxy through the school's filter system, but the current setup uses a combination of onsite firewall, cloud  and client software installed on the units.
We are able to support https using our public cert on the firewall and importing it to the workstations.
It works well, but it is a combination of commercial solutions. If you qualify for ERate, you may have a lot more funding for this sort of thing than you may realize.
However, ERate, as far as I understand, is done at a system level rather than individual school.
I've worked a bit with managed chromebooks, and there appears to be fairly good lockdown policies when you enroll them as enterprise clients, so there may be a reduction on some part of the overhead in that regard.
No simple solutions to lockdown  students, and there still includes a fair amount of wack-a-mole component to keep things under some element of control.
-jt
 

James Taylor
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com



>>> Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> 4/1/2016 3:18 PM >>> 
Given.  Federal law requires we make an attempt at filtering.  Not to 
mention some government money that we can get if we demonstrate 
compliance with CIPA.

On 04/01/2016 12:29 PM, Pete Hardie wrote:
> Also note that the students *will* find ways around any filter/proxy 
> system set up.

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