[Year 12 IPM] OT - Printing Policy

[Shortell, Andrew]

Hi All
Having used both GAIA and papercut
it is easier to set up the web interface so that students check their 
own credit as frequently as they want

With papercut, because it has a common pool of money for both internet 
and printing students tend to notice very quickly when they run out of 
credit.

papercut allows you to print off "recharge cards" that the finance 
people can sell to students so that the finance people have to record 
nothing at all - just take money. The students type in the 20 digit 
number. The cards can also be set to expire if you wish.

Papercut also allows students to transfer any amount of their own credit 
to any other user - so they can "loan " credit to their friends

Thus it becomes imperative to force password changes so that even if 
they "share" their password they then have to "reshare" it every 60 or 
90 days. The force password change really emphasises the security aspect 
of IT to even the non IT students and is easily justified. Of course 
there will always be a few students who forget the new password and have 
to provide ID to have it reset. At MacRob we also insisted on ID before 
we unlocked a student's account -reasoning that only the student should 
even know that it was locked......

I think there was a setting in GAIA that could be set to show when a job 
was refused (lack of credit or job too big) but I am not certain.

Andrew Shortell
now at
Braemar College

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