We considered something like this (wired and wireless) for another reason .. so that students weren't using the Internet while sitting in classes when they SHOULDN'T be using the Internet. But we decided against it because we were concerned about the students who blow off "class A" because they are working on a project for "class B". In the end, they have to be responsible for themselves. We DO have scripts set up so that a faculty member can kill wired ports in a classroom for a set period of time. Since wireless doesn't contain it's signal to a single room, we decided not to extend that service to the wireless network.
-Brian ________________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Hanset, Philippe C [phan...@utk.edu] 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/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
