How to help a school that has been closed

[vwdan]

Having spent the best part of 10 years specialising in education IT and their systems infrastructure (not any more for the e-stalkers) I'll be nodding my head sagely and resuming my normal duties. Schools are a pain, teachers are a pain, educational IT is a pain, just no.

And nothing is as simple as you think.

Edit: I confess to having posted prior to reading any responses. If you've done previous work for them and you know what you're getting into, be my guest. Personally, the thought gives me shivers.

[tomtomagain]

"Don't worry kids. Daddy set up an IT system so that you don't have to miss school for two weeks!"

... your kids, your kids' friends, your kids-friends-friends are going to love you.

You'll get black-balled in the playground if you are not careful.

... the teachers might not be too chuffed either!

[jds 1981]

"Don't worry kids. Daddy set up an IT system so that you don't have to miss school for two weeks!"

... your kids, your kids' friends, your kids-friends-friends are going to love you.

You'll get black-balled in the playground if you are not careful.

... the teachers might not be too chuffed either!

Kids and teachers? If parents are working from home, they don't want to be getting their kids to concentrate on work at the same time. A few weeks of school isn't much in the scheme of things anyway.

[cojak]

I would absolutely contact the school to understand what they are doing today and what they want/intend to do in the future before you do anything more.

It might save yourself a lot of work.

[Mordac]

It would not be as simple as you think. There's an awful lot of laws and regulation around schools and data sharing. Just bunging it up on AWS isn't going to cut it.

You could try : Google Classroom

... or do what I'm going to do .... leave it to the education authorities to sort out.

I'm going back 10 years or so, but I worked on a project at a school (an Academy, if that's relevant) that refused to put anything in the Cloud because they were concerned about data breach. I seem to remember schools back then were responsible if a breach happened, so those with means were taking no chances. This particular Academy seemed to have pots of money, and they weren't shy when it came to spending it. Their HP SAN certainly wasn't cheap, and it was a bitch to configure...