https://www.edugeek.net/rss/1-edugeeknet.xml/Whole site feedenGood morning, Do any of you have software setup that alerts you if the internet is down, your server reboots, or other network health info? I need something to alert me when I’m not there. Thankyou.Mon, 25 May 2026 05:50:10 +0000All.. We have multiple Promethean classrooms where the PCs are connected to ceiling speakers via Promethean amplifiers. A bit like the Promethean AV-3016 if you need to look it up on EBay. The amplifiers are starting to give in after nearly 20 years worth of use (who knew?!). Can someone recommend a cheapish alternative? We contacted Richer Sounds with a similar query (including a note of the old model), who are quoting £250 for a Cambridge - I don't know if that's good/bad/indifferent. It's the same price on Amazon, if that goes for anything. They don't need to be fancy. A couple of phono inputs to speakers. The old ones say they're 100W - which'd surprise me, but what do I know?Sun, 24 May 2026 00:43:19 +0000We have some schools that have just joined our trust that have had new Aruba CX switches and Aruba APs installed just before joining and they also use Aruba central to manage the devices. Our other 3 schools use Unifi switches and APs so I’m torn weather to go down either some Unifi or Aruba route so I want to know what others would do, either ditch Unifi and for Aruba or ditch Aruba and go Unifi? The schools are primary schools and as I’ve not used Aruba with Aruba Central before, I don’t know if this solution is overkill and more expensive? Would love to hear peoples thoughtsSat, 23 May 2026 21:01:28 +0000Sat, 23 May 2026 17:08:02 +0000Fri, 22 May 2026 13:19:26 +0000Fri, 22 May 2026 12:41:23 +0000Hi All, Anybody else struggling with the sheer size of the recent CU's? I understand it's because they now come bulk loaded with AI / Copilot features? We have 60 x Lenovo 100e's with only 64GB storage. They're only used for word processing and web browsing and maybe a bit of python. We didn't budget to refresh them this year because I recommended that they would have gone again for another year, had the updates stayed within a reasonable size... (they had around 7-10Gb free storage). The last few updates seem to be many GB's each which has now put this devices in a constant state of without storage space. We have some 300e's which we use for some TA's and by some stroke of luck, they have an extra unfilled m.2 slot - This was going to be my fixed, only i have just this second found out that the 100e's do not 😭.Fri, 22 May 2026 12:04:37 +0000(I've got tickets open with involved suppliers). Possibly a niche request but...... We feed staff absence data from Bromcom into Every HR via Wonde. Typically that's 6-10 updates per week across the whole MAT. Yesterday we had ~1540 updates for School A and ~840 for School B, many of them adjustments to historical (September 2024) absences and very petty things like setting the end time of an absence from 16:00 to 15:59. Our staff absences recorders haven't done anything daft (and certainly don't have the time to edit that many entries), which means Bromcom, Wonde or Every have done something daft. Would anyone else using a similar setup mind asking their HR team if they got an unusual flood of staff absences updates this week? cheers PeteFri, 22 May 2026 11:00:36 +0000Some top notch management here https://schoolsweek.co.uk/troubled-trust-with-8m-deficit-to-be-broken-up/Fri, 22 May 2026 08:20:06 +0000Fri, 22 May 2026 07:23:23 +0000Since running Windows 11 and moving to local profiles which are cleared out at shutdown / startup, users are starting to complain that PrintScreen no longer works or at least gives an error of "ms-screenclip://?source=print screen". This only occurs when the user has not run SnippingTool for the first time. If a user runs snipping tool first then uses printscreen after that, snipping tool works without an issue until their profile is removed. So what's happening? It appears that snippingtool is being installed to the local profile once it has been run from the start menu. Only then do the files for SnippingTool appear in the local appdata folders which cannot be copied out to the default profile or added so a set of folders to be copied into the local account at logon. Even exporting the Default AppAssociation list copying the ms-screenclip line for the snipping tool and using a default apps list at computer boot does not fix the issue. What's the fix? I don't know which is why i'm on here wondering of anyone else has had this issue. We could disable the use of PrintScreen and tell people to use the snippingtool from the start menu but that seems such a copout. If anyone else has come across this issue, what have you done to resolve it?Thu, 21 May 2026 18:22:06 +0000Howdy all, Found a weird deal yesterday I wanted to run by y'all. I had to replace an all in one PC with a workstation with a dedicated GPU for a vocational teacher to run AutoCAD. He has a SMART display panel as his secondary display. GPU is an Nvidia Quadro. When he is in extended mode or PC only scaling is at 100% as it should be. For some reason when he selects duplicate mode stupid Windows 11 thinks the panel is a TV and sets scaling for both his monitor and the SMART panel to 150%. Since teachers do not have admin rights he cannot adjust this. I can log in as myself and set it to 100% but that setting does not appear to be global. As soon as another user logs in and selects the duplicate display mode it bounces to 150% scaling and nothing fits on the screen properly. AutoCAD refuses to launch (rightly so) because the scaling is messed up. His old PC was an all in one with integrated video and this problem did not exist (that machine was Windows 11 also, but had just recently been upgraded from Windows 10). I have found an open source utility called Set DPI that will force anyone's login session to 100%, but I was hoping to find an "officially supported" method to ease the stress on my superiors. What say y'all? Anyone encountered this before?Thu, 21 May 2026 18:05:59 +0000Hello, we have a lot of all-in-ones and they are at an age now where a very common complaint is noise/over heating due to a layer of crusted dust wedged between the fan and heat sink. Opening them is a mega-pain so we were thinking if anyone has had success cleaning all-in-ones using an air compressor (obviously not opening them first)? Any recommendations? ThanksThu, 21 May 2026 12:32:24 +0000Just been ask to provide a laptop for a student who will be off site for a couple of weeks. Laptop itself not an issue as can be sorted using intune. The problem I have is providing offsite filtering. Currently using Fortinet, have VPN in place for staff using a split tunnel,so how would i get this single laptop to connect automatically to the VPN and send all traffic throught the VPN to ensure filtering takes place? Or suggestions welcome. CheersThu, 21 May 2026 11:27:49 +0000Hi We are just trying to create\use something that Primary Students can use as a Wiki just wondering what others are using we had a go with Teams and Notebook and Collaboration Space but feels a bit clumsy and have hit a few issues with it with some users not seeing resources even though in the Teams Group as Member. So any suggestions for anything simple that anyone is using would be great. Many thanksThu, 21 May 2026 10:45:57 +0000After upgrading from Windows 11 23H2 to Windows 11 25H2 the touchscreen no longer works on the CTouch Smartboard and shows it as a sensor in Device Manager (Exclamation mark) rather than a HID-compliant touch screen (Human Interface Devices). Anyone had this and any quick fix?Thu, 21 May 2026 10:10:26 +0000We are looking for someone that will provide assistance/support to the IT team, teaching staff, support staff and pupils and provide day-to-day technical support to the end users, including teaching staff, support staff and pupils. The successful candidates will respond to support requests in a professional and approachable manner, assisting with the use of hardware, software and systems to ensure teaching, learning and administrative activities are not disrupted. Work collaboratively with colleagues to resolve issues efficiently and escalate more complex problems when required. Location: Office 204, Group First House Mead Way, Shuttleworth Mead, Padiham, Burnley, Lancashire, BB12 7NG Contract Type: Permanent Contract Term: Full-Time Salary: £28,142.00 - £32,061.00 Annually (FTE) Closing Date: 8:00am, Mon 8th Jun, 2026 Positions Available: 2 Interview Date(s): Tuesday 23rd June 2026 https://mynewterm.com/jobs/17373/EDV-2026-RCAT-43813Thu, 21 May 2026 10:06:44 +0000Good morning all I was happily validating addresses for my new applicants yesterday but as of this morning myself (data manager) and another user are both getting an error when trying to use the address validation service. Anyone else had this and have a fix?Thu, 21 May 2026 09:52:42 +0000My question relates specifically to cloud‑hosted data, particularly user email and personal storage areas such as OneDrive or Google Drive. Do you back up each user’s mailbox and personal storage — including accounts for teaching assistants?Thu, 21 May 2026 07:49:23 +0000Strange one, wondering if the hive mind might have any insights! We have a HP Elitedesk 800 USFF desktop which started exhibiting odd behaviour starting a couple of weeks ago. Presented automatic repair screen on reboot, and that happened out of the blue with no damage or nincompoopery from students. Brought the machine to my office to investigate, decided it was likely an SSD issue so swapped it out (NVME), rebuilt and it was happy. For a day. This was last week, but the joys of staff only reporting things days down the line meant I only noticed today when I went in for something else. Swore and brought it back up to my office. HP diagnostics all pass with flying colours. I check the CCTV in the room to see if someone was messing with it. Nope. But I do notice it turning itself on at 01:20 the first morning it presented the issue after my initial fix. Unprompted, no rodents treading on keys to wake it up, no other machines in the room (all identical) doing anything similar and unlikely to be power supply related as I also replaced it as part of caution the first time around. Nothing in BIOS is screaming out to me - no remote management options like IME, no scheduled power on, nothing. Only thing capable of waking on LAN (on purpose) is Impero and that didn't do it. The only thing I can think of is the possibility it might be on someone's Intune or other MDM still, as it was bought as a refurb. Waking on LAN shouldn't present any problems like the auto-repair regardless, but maybe forced remote wipe commands? I'm clearly clutching at straws! Any cunning insights welcome!Thu, 21 May 2026 07:25:57 +0000Hi all, I can't access my old Edugeek account after changing jobs in January, so have created a new account. My school use Civica Cashless Catering (server not cloud) and have a biometric scanner for registering student fingerprints. Does anyone have a guide on how to install all the software required for this, we have a rough thing put together for the Biometric reader setup, Bioreg install etc, but it's touch and go whether the install works, so was wondering if anyone had a proper step by step guide? I have contacted Civica and they do not have any guides, available and cannot create one for us. Any help would be appreciated. BoardianWed, 20 May 2026 14:18:19 +0000For safeguarding reasons, we'd like to prevent students from being able to access documents shared with them by people outside the organisation. I've done this with Google Workspace, but not been able to fully do it with M365. If you select to share the document with the student by name, it doesn't work but if you share a document "to anyone with the link", students can still access them. Does anyone know a way of stopping this, without impacting students' ability to access their school M365 account? I've noticed their school OneDrive address is https://schoolname-my.sharepoint.com/shared but a personal OneDrive begins https://onedrive.live.com/:w:/g/personal, so could I just block the onedrive.live.com domain, or would that prevent students logging in to their school account too?Wed, 20 May 2026 13:33:41 +0000we have recently moved over to smoothwall. currently all ipads are talking to smoothwall but they are not authenticated ie smoothwall sees them as unathnticated devices. On our old system we would setup the configure proxy on the ipads and add the user details in there. but this dosnt seam to be working for smoothwall so how do we authenticate who is using the ipads so they get the right policy and for reporting. i have tried using the smoothwall browser but there instrustions dont help just keep getting errors any help pleaseWed, 20 May 2026 13:15:00 +0000HI, We are looking into relacing our cashless system, please provide feedback on how you fond the system you are using and how reliable it is. Especially around managing FSM and allergens at the till. Thank in advance.Wed, 20 May 2026 12:27:37 +0000Is anyone else getting large delays on reports from Smoothwall Monitor? Up until last month the longest delay we ever had on any report was end of the same day. Over the last couple of weeks, we've literally had a week's delay on one report, 5 days on another, 2 days on another. For such an expensive service, this seems to be very problematic. Their reasoning so far has been "it wasn't relating to a child and wasn't a high priority event at only a level 3", however the others were relating to children. Also only level 3, but I don't hold out much hope for their triaging recently. Had quite a few reports come in at level 2 that should have been 3 and therefore automatically going through to CPOMS. Also hitting another issue I'm raising with them regarding the integration - when it does go to CPOMS it only shows the time and date of when the event was raised, not when it actually happened. Our DSL felt silly going stomping into a classroom to find the student involved not anywhere near a computer and hasn't been for 2 days!Wed, 20 May 2026 11:13:38 +0000