We do not allow personal devices. The reason is security, support, and
monitoring these devices and owners can get complicated. All district
owned equipment has a location and I have all MAC addresses associated with
them so we can track what machine has an issue, and who is logged into it.
I just received this article today, thought it fit the discussion.
http://thejournal.com/articles/2010/01/08/left-to-their-own-devices.aspx
Jim Kerns, Technology Director
Spencer Community Schools
23 East 7th St
P.O. Box 200
Spencer, Iowa 51301
jke...@spencer.k12.ia.us
712.262.0339
FAX 712.26
I do not think we have a formal policy on this one . . . If kids
bring their laptops and touches, etc. -- I have let them on at the hs.
My plan is to pull pw off the base stations (which is all we have
right now) - esp at the ms and hs level so kids can get on. Haven't
had problems yet wi
As Craig said, we don't allow personal devices on the internal network wired or
wireless. We do have guest wireless internet access that is outside our LAN. It
is also password protected to keep personal devices off the internet. It also
has very basic content filtering.
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Official school policy is that the network is a community resource. This means
that if a person beings in a laptop, they should be able to connect to the
internet though not any other network resources.
This is not as much of a PITA as you might think, it is however not something I
am comforta
No personal wireless devices allowed at East Greene (or Jefferson for that
matter) as well. Refer back to a year ago when we had a teacher plug in their
school laptop at home and brought it back full of "surprises" for our network,
Jon, and myself to enjoy (sarcasm...) On the bright side, the
We do not allow personal devices on the network, because of security.
We have a hard enough time keeping our machines clean, safe and updated.
I cannot allow a machine that is unknown on the network, which could
lead to many more issues that we don't have the person power to solve.
If we had the bu
