To me, the whole thing is a losing game, and takes responsibility for their own actions away from the students. I teach as well- you want to watch Netflix in my class? Have at it. But the grade you get is the grade you get. There is no extra credit, no second chances to make up for bad behavior. The other part of that, as a frequent student, is that some faculty members are just boring and frozen in the 70s. Technology shouldn't be called upon to make up for their deficiencies. Might be different in K-12, but if these folks want to pay big $$ to not pay attention... well, this is America, baby.
One curmudgeon's opinion. Lee Badman | Network Architect (CWNA, CWSP, Mobility+) Information Technology Services 206 Machinery Hall 120 Smith Drive Syracuse, New York 13244 t 315.443.3003 f 315.443.4325 e [email protected] w its.syr.edu SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY syr.edu -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Case, Brandon J Sent: Monday, February 08, 2016 2:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] User and/or Location-based Content Restriction Is anyone exploring or able to suggest good options for rate limiting or preventing access to random content services? This idea was posed to me today from up the chain with the goal of limiting certain students' ability to access certain services for a certain time, potentially only from a certain location. Yep. As an example: Student A has a class in room 2 of building Z from 8:30 to 9:20 M, W and F. The goal would be to prevent (or severely hinder the ability of) student A watching Netflix from 8:30 to 9:20 M, W and F while they're in room 2 of building Z. Outright blocking of access to Netflix during that timeframe for student A regardless of location has also been discussed. I've already provided a plethora of possible pitfalls to any of these types of approaches and the associated administrative overhead they could incur but am being asked for answers all the same. Yes, this does definitely wade into the treacherous waters of technological solutions to what are really social problems (and I know has been discussed on this list in the past) however, I'm charged with providing some form of an answer up the chain and so I turn to you all for comments, insight and cautionary tales. We're an all-Cisco shop with a healthy ISE deployment so my focus is there with AAA override for ACLs, dynamic VLAN assignments, AVC profiles and QoS profiles. Any solution I've thought of so far feels too much like a blunt object though. Thanks, -- Brandon Case Senior Network Engineer IT Infrastructure Services Purdue University [email protected] Office: (765) 49-67096 Mobile: (765) 421-6259 Fax: (765) 49-46620 PGP Fingerprint: 99CB 02D6 983C 1E2A 015F 205C C7AA E985 A11A 1251 ********** 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/.
