[Year 12 IPM] Proxy avoiding web sites and individual useraccounts

Thu Dec 14 16:04:29 EST 2006

Great idea to give credit each week !!!   Is it automated ??  

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From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
Behalf Of David Eddie
Sent: 14 December 2006 12:39 PM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
Teachers'MailingList
Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] Proxy avoiding web sites and individual
useraccounts

We have a similar system. Our students receive credit every Monday morning
(up to about 80c for VCE students) which is automatically credited. We use
Papercut. 
We used to give them a set amount at the beginning of each term but many
students (especially the heavy users) had used their allocation in a week or
two (which sometimes meant during class that they struggled to do some tasks
as "I have no credit"). 
This way at least ensures that they have some credit for the majority of the
week.
If they don't use it all in one week, it carries over to the next week and
gradually builds up. Next year we will have the facility for students to buy
credit at the canteen and top up their own accounts if they wish to. At the
moment any extra credit they buy is done through the front office.

David Eddie
St. Joseph's College Mildura

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From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of fiona at balmoralhs.vic.edu.au
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:12 PM
To: ipm at edulists.com.au
Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] Proxy avoiding web sites and individual
useraccounts

Do you give the students a starting balance on each account and, if so, how
much

thanks
Fiona (the other kind of Bain)
Balmoral
"Bane, Janet A" <bane.janet.a at edumail.vic.gov.au> on Thu, 14 Dec 2006
10:32:09 +1100 wrote:
> Hi Kim
> there is a very simple solution to this problem - start charging the
kids for their internet usage!  I think you would find that most schools do.
Our system is called Gaia Print and Net charger.  Not only do we charge for
internet usage, we also charge 10c per print out.  Its amazing what "needs"
to be accessed and what doesn't when they have to pay for it!
> 
> regards,
> Janet Bane
> Patterson River SC.
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> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of
kgration at myrtlefordsc.vic.edu.au
> Sent: Wed 13-Dec-06 3:31 PM
> To: ipm at edulists.com.au
> Subject: [Year 12 IPM] Proxy avoiding web sites and individual user
accounts
> 
> 
> 
> Dear List,
> 
> During the last few months our wonderful students have discovered
treasure troves of proxy avoiding web sites (e.g. vtunnel, kproxy, flyproxy
etc. etc. etc.) with multiple variations of each of these and numerous
others as the URL. Most of these sites are secure (i.e.
https:// <https:///>  rather than http:// <http:///> ) so are difficult to
block or usually totally unblockable using the SINA front end. The Year
10-12 students are particularly notorious for this kind of behaviour.
Blocking the source IP address appears to be the only rather fragmented
solution to this problem . . . but this essentially amounts to a game of
catch up . . . and without a full time tech. usually means a call to Editure
. . . who aren't always 100% successful either.
> 
> Not surprisingly our Internet budget has basically been blown as a
result. I am now considering taking away individual user accounts for
student Internet use and having Learning Area, Year Level or some other
account structure where teachers enter the password for students in their
care.
> 
> Does anyone out there have any gems of wisdom (bright ideas) or
perspectivesto share in this area?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Kim
> 
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> Kim Gration
> ICT Manager
> Myrtleford Secondary College
> http://www.myrtlefordsc.vic.edu.au
<http://www.myrtlefordsc.vic.edu.au/>
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