Are we talking about students or staff or both?
Jim Kerns Jr.
District Network Administrator
Spencer Community Schools
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Good morning-
We have had some people objecting to our computer security here in
Fort Dodge, and I wanted to check into what everyone else allows people
to do on the computers in the classroom. We are slowly rolling out a
program called Deep Freeze, which discards all changes to the computer
on reboot. With our WindowsXP machines, we have successfully redirected
the user's desktop, favorites, my documents and most system settings to
a network folder, which follows the user from one XP machine to
another.
So, in your districts, what is the practice or policy for allowing
the following modifications to a user computer:
Desktop Settings - Do you allow changes to Backgrouds,
shortcuts on the desktop, screen savers, etc
Do you allow saving to the local hard drive, or restrict saving
to the network only
How about disk space quotas - how much do you allow a user to
store on the network
Use of e-mail programs - do you have district supported
programs, or can they use anything they want
Installing programs on the machine - both district-supported
and personal software
Do you allow computers to be used without any connection to the
network
Do you allow people to connect personal peripherals to the
computer that require software - digital cameras, zip drives,
cd-burners, scanners, etc...
In what method do you suggest people move data from school to
home for work - usb flash keys, floppy, e-mail
Sorry for all of the questions. We are trying to get some baseline
data for security that other schools are using. If you would help us
out, I would appreciate it. I would be happy to compile all of the data
and return it to the list, should there be any interest for that.
Again, thanks for any help!!! Have a great weekend!!!
Jeremy
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Jeremy Pearson
Network Administrator / Computer Technician
Fort Dodge Community School District
104 South 17th Street
Fort Dodge, Iowa 50501
http://www.fort-dodge.k12.ia.us
(515)574-5676 voice
(515)574-5324 fax
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