penalty box

[Ben Dahlin]

Good Morning and Happy Friday!

For schools that have 1:1 chromebooks, do any of you have a OU setup as a penalty box for students that have mis-used their chromebooks, are way behind in classes, serving in school suspension, etc.

What are some of the settings/changes you have made to that ou?  I'm just trying to brainstorm to where the student can get some work done, but not be distracted by all the other stuff on the internet.

Ben Dahlin

Technology Coordinator

Mahnomen ISD #432

Go Indians!

www.mahnomen.k12.mn.us

[Mattix-Wand, Gerry]

We do not.  Personally, I don't want our 1:1 program to be used as a disciplinary tool.  When we started our 1:1 we told the school board, parents and community that we wanted to increase a student's access to their learning materials so that they could engage in anytime/anywhere learning. When a student is doing poorly in a class or is serving a suspension, either in or out of school, they still need the access to their resources, maybe even more than the straight A student.  We have students in our ISS that are doing work everyday on their chromebook, so to take it away or disable it in some way would only hurt their academics further.  We have a teacher in one of our BD classrooms who uses the chromebook as a carrot for good behavior in class and I keep thinking how can they do the work you want them to do if you keep taking away the tool you want them to use.

A student abusing their chromebook is totally different story.  When we have a student who mistreats their chromebook, we do take it away from them for a period of time that is (hopefully) in-line withthe offense.  That has ranged from a couple days to one who lost the entire privilege of using one after he repeatedly threw it down the hallway.

I'm interested in what others do as well.  I hope this thread continues.

-gerry

Gerry Mattix-Wand
Director of Educational Technology
East Alton-Wood River H.S.
Wood River, IL 62095
(618) 254-3151 x2555

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[David Held]

We have one. I have a "NoChat" OU. We usually don't have anyone in it, but sometimes a teacher will tell me that a student is being distracted with chatting and in they go.

David Held

Poughkeepsie Day School

[Jaymon Lefebvre]

Devil's Advocate:  

In which case the student signs into personal gmail through the browser and chats outside of the jurisdictional provided infrastructure anyway (or uses any other number of freely available chat programs).

Prohibition doesn't stop things, it only causes kids to find different avenues.  A discussion is more beneficial than removal of the tool.

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[David Held]

Angel's Advocate (?):

FYI, I am not a big fan of blocking and we have a very open network. And I agree with Ben that there ALWAYS needs a discussion with the student. We basically have one rule for the use of technology - "You should not interfere with the learning of others".

When we do block the chat (this is only for 4th-6th graders), it is always will a discussion with the student (and sometimes the parent). Just one tool in the arsenal to help a distracted student.

David (I'm no angel) Held

Poughkeepsie Day School

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David Held
Dir. of Technology

Poughkeepsie Day School
260 Boardman Road
Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
www.poughkeepsieday.org

845.462.7600 ext 299
many minds, one world

[Stephen Gale]

It is because of this fact that Google Admin Console allows you to prevent users from logging into Personal Accounts.  No I don't mean Logging into personal accounts at the login screen, but also logging in to multiple accounts while logged in to the school account.

With this policy in place, students cannot login to their personal accounts to chat if they are in the No Chat OU.

[Ben Dahlin]

I'll take the hockey approach :-)  Tripping, slashing, interference, etc...  You may spend sometime in the penalty box!

I was looking for a setting to block all websites that are not in listed in the white-list.  I found that listing all domain extensions (and removing the period) in the block list allows this to be done.  

Ben Dahlin

Technology Coordinator

Mahnomen ISD #432

Go Indians!

www.mahnomen.k12.mn.us

[Stephen Gale]

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Block all websites is doable in the a

​dmin

 console. 

​Under "Device Management > Chrome > Users > BlackList" enter a * or http://* and https://*

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tephen Gale

Director of Technology
970-364-6196

-Sent from my Galaxy S4