Harvard Medical School at one point used a scheduling database to determine what students should be in what location. They then gave professors the ability to opt in or out of allowing wireless access during their classes. They used Bluesocket to put the whole thing together, which is by far the easy part. The neat thing about the system was that a student was only blocked from using the wireless in the location that the professor had 'jurisdiction' over. I am not sure if they are still using the system.
Ken -- Ken LeCompte - Telecommunications Analyst Rutgers University Office of Information Technology Campus Computing Services - Central Systems and Services Office ~ (732) 445-4823 On Apr 24, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Steely, John wrote: I believe that you are playing with fire when you start offering that type of control. What if one faculty member wants it, but another, who shares the same classroom, does not? Even if you remove APs in one building with classrooms, there's no guarantee that an adjacent admin or residential building won't bleed in. Do you then turn those buildings down, and wait for the cries of poor coverage to start? Dangerous waters, IMHO. John Steely Associate Director Infrastructure Systems Department Library and Information Services Dickinson College P.O. Box 1773 Carlisle, PA 17013 717-245-1613 (Voice) 717-245-1690 (Fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zeller, Tom S Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 2:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] University of Chicago Removes Wireless From Classroom My personal opinion is that it is not a good or even reasonable strategy to attempt to control WiFi in the classroom. For one thing, it's unlikely that an AP serves only a single classroom and no adjacent areas. Secondly, we can't control the cellular signal, so really there's not much benefit from a cheating standpoint. Tom Zeller Indiana University On 4/24/08 2:18 PM, "Lee H Badman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1329 Are any other schools up against anything of this magnitude? Has anyone come up with a mechanism to let faculty have some control over wireless in classrooms? -Lee Lee H. Badman Wireless/Network Engineer Information Technology and Services Syracuse University 315 443-3003 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
