[Year 12 IT Apps] Security for SACS

[Margaret Lawson]

My wonderful tech wrote a batch script for me to turn access on and off 
at the start and the end of the lesson ...

Margaret Lawson

(St. Michael's Grammar)

Jim Bunn wrote:
>
> We have just started something similar here. The techies didn’t want 
> to have to turn on and off the SAC times and won’t give us teachers 
> the privilege of doing it ourselves. So a multiuser login was created 
> with very limited access to the network and no Internet access, etc. 
> They are only able to save work to a USB flash device which they are 
> given each lesson. The devices are numbered so the same student gets 
> his/her one each lesson. They are kept in a plastic sleeve with their 
> paperwork. It is working very well so far. One of the USB devices fell 
> apart in the first lesson, so he got a new one (it's good to have a 
> few spares). The only drawback is that they are not able to do a 
> backup. Hmm. Perhaps they could be given write access to a special 
> backup folder.
>
> Jim
>
> Jim Bunn
>
> Technology Coordinator
>
> Hampton Park Secondary College
>
> 8795 9400
>
> CCAI CCNA ITE1
>
> bunn.jim.c at edumail.vic.gov.au <mailto:bunn.jim.c at edumail.vic.gov.au>
>
> *From:* itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au 
> [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Peter Collingwood
> *Sent:* Friday, 27 March 2009 12:57 PM
> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* RE: [Year 12 IT Apps] Security for SACS
>
> We have a system where the students are given a SAC login and password 
> that only works in the room that they have their SAC’s in. This can be 
> enabled and disabled on a lesson by lesson basis which creates a 
> different home drive for them that is inaccessible outside of SAC 
> times. The login is set up in such a way that they only have access to 
> the local PC and the products that they need for completing the SAC 
> and the rest of the College network is unaccessible. The SAC’s are 
> distributed on USB, which are collected at the end of each (77min) 
> lesson, but the students are told that they MUST save their work to 
> the network drive too. Teaches good data recovery/redundancy techniques.
>
> Cheers
>
> Pete
>
> St Peters Catholic College
>
> *From:* itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au 
> [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Claire McGroarty
> *Sent:* Friday, 6 March 2009 2:39 PM
> *To:* itapps at edulists.com.au
> *Subject:* [Year 12 IT Apps] Security for SACS
>
> Hey all,
>
> Just wondering of the procedures used when saving files during SACS – 
> would really like to organize a special area where students can only 
> access the documents during SACS time but not sure the best way to go 
> about it. At the moment files are saved in the student network which 
> means they can be accessed out with the SAC times. Is anyone out there 
> already doing something similar and if so can I have some suggestions 
> please!
>
> Claire
>
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