We haven't tried any technical solutions to tackel this problem. Our
take on wifi use in class is that it is a policy issue that the
professor should take care of. It should be dealt with in the same
way as cell phones... The professor should tell them to turn it off.
As simple as that.
Our faculty are interested in a solution like this but the ROI just
doesn't seem to be there. All a professor has to do is tell the
students to put their laptops and phones away while a technical
solution has to worry about so many other issues. Take, for example,
non class members trying to use an AP that has been disabled by a
class, the student that is skipping a class to work on research for
their next class that gets booted because they are on the first
classes roster, etc.
Just my take,
Ryan
On Jul 20, 2007, at 3:57 PM, "Ringgold, Clint" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I’m also interested in what everyone has to say about this because w
e had a pilot.
We setup a website to allow the professors to “turn on or off”
the wireless network for their class. This would look in RADIUS and
find all students for that professor and change their “access to pr
ofessor denied”. Then all students from “his class” would not
be able to login. At the end of class the RADIUS would change back
to “access normal”.
The problem is that for the students that come in early you must do
a manual sweep of the “network the professor is in, thus you need to
know exactly what location. This becomes very delicate when you ha
ve to scan to turn off or kick out 500 students in one auditorium cl
ass. Be sure you have enough capacity to perform API functions (sca
nning for users already logged in) and service clients. On another
note, it became an issue of, are you going to provide a technical is
sue to an instructional problem. If you have a math class and you d
on’t want calculators do you frisk all students to make sure they do
n’t have a calculator or do you have just make sure they are put awa
y.
It ran for a full semester, I do not have the feedback from all
involved yet, and I have no idea if we are going to continue this or
not. Because of this I’m interested to hear if anyone else is going
to try this or if they think it isn’t necessary, what does your fac
ulty think? Thank you for the information.
From: Gary Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 12:37 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Restricting Students Wireless Access Based
on In Class Roles
My apologies ahead of time if this thread subject has been posted
before. We are looking to shut off wireless access of students
based on a scheduled system of when they are in class. We are using
the Bradford networks security system and are looking to implement
roles for each class taught at the school. However, at this moment,
it looks like we have to manually add the students to each class/
role until we have our university implemented switchover to Windows/
Active Directory from Novell which will not be for at least another
year (we are using SCT Banner for our campus integrated system).
I was wondering if there is anyone out there that has done this and
how they accomplished it. Greatly appreciate any responses to
this. Thanks.
Gary Moore
Assistant Dean for Information Systems
Hofstra University School of Law
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(516) 463-6067
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