Is anyone allowing students to access Google Apps for Education but not personal Gmail accounts?
Last year we blocked student access to personal email accounts and told them to use the district provided postfix/roundcube email provided. This year we are doing GA4E but I still want to block access to generic gmail. I was just told by our content filtering vendor: "This will not work. All authentication from google, whether it be gmail, Google Apps or Google hosted email is all done from https://www.google.com. We can only read the headers of https packets since we are not acting as the man in the middle for https packets. You can either block it all or none. Google by default is going to forward your email to https://mail.google.com/a/<domain> <https://mail.google.com/a/%3cdomain%3e> and normal gmail email goes to https://mail.google.com/ so it's not possible to differentiate unless we break apart the https packet and be act as the man in the middle." I now wonder if any GA4E schools have had concerns about students using personal/private gmail accounts and what has come of it. --Michael T. Bendorf-- Technology Administrator A-C Central C.U.S.D. #262 217.476.3312 ext. 2019 DID #: 217.476.6019 Cellular: 217.306.6824 "I'm trying to teach myself to ask the same questions that you do during your lectures so that I do not need you any more." A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. "The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas." - Alan Kay
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