We have an AT&T tower on campus and part of our agreement was that they would disable student's cell phone access during their scheduled class times unless they texted a special code the professor provided at the start of each class. We've had trouble getting the professors to give out the codes at the start of class however...
Today's code is 0401 Nathan Nathan P. Hay Network Engineer | Computer Services Cedarville University | www.cedarville.edu 937-766-7905 twitter: @nathanphay >>> "heath.barnhart" <heath.barnh...@washburn.edu> 4/1/2011 12:48 PM >>> Does this tie into a NAC? I think it would also be useful to correlate the student to multiple registered devices, specifically gaming devices. XBox and PS3 especially. I'm not sure if I could get that system in place here, but I think I could help improve your attendance a bit more if you shut down gaming as well. -- Heath Barnhart, CCNA Network Administrator Information Systems and Services Washburn University Topeka, KS 66621 On 4/1/2011 11:32 AM, Lee H Badman wrote: > > Wow- I'm thinking a laundry list of conflicting "this is cool/this is > draconian/this would make sense in a military school" sorts of > thoughts... I guess my prevailing thought is that if a student chooses > to blow off class, is that not his or her own choice and problem when > in a setting other than the military? > > (I was Air Force- 10 + years for me- this would have made perfect > sense to me in that environment). > > Lee H. Badman > > Wireless/Network Engineer > > Information Technology and Services > > Adjunct Instructor, iSchool > > Syracuse University > > 315 443-3003 > > *From:*The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Hanset, > Philippe C > *Sent:* Friday, April 01, 2011 12:22 PM > *To:* WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > *Subject:* [WIRELESS-LAN] Wireless to the Rescue... > > All, > > University of Tennessee has had some class attendance issues lately, > especially with Sophomores. > We came up with a location based wireless solution that could fix this > issue. > We have built a database of rooms surrounding Access-Points that we > correlate > with a class roster. Basically if a student is supposed to be in room > x at time y, > our filtering only allows the student access to a set of access points > surrounding that room during that time. > No wireless elsewhere. > Dormitories are included in the algorithm. > > If you are doing something similar, we would like to know some of the > caveats. > > Thanks, > > Philippe Hanset > University of TN > (Constituent Group Leader of Wireless-LAN@educause) > > (what's the date?) > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com> > Version: 10.0.1209 / Virus Database: 1500/3544 - Release Date: 04/01/11 > > ********** Participation and subscription information for this > EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > Trolololol -- Heath Barnhart, CCNA Network Administrator Information Systems and Services Washburn University Topeka, KS 66621 ********** 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/.
