C2k Help

I'm pretty fresh in the role and it's definitely something that's come up before in the school with predecessors. The role (for my place anyway) definitely needs revised. It's not so much a departmental technician as a whole school ICT support role; I work closer with the Bursar and Principal than the HoD.

It's a nice role and a nice place to work, but the role isn't what you're being paid for.

Highest I've seen was in Jan '23 in another school, 30,894 - 34,373 - I've saved it so if we ever have a review I can highlight that job spec against my own and then do a huge circle around the wage disparity. I'd have no worries if that was what I was getting paid 

You're lucky the building had started! Anyone else on a waiting list that hadn't had any work started is in limbo once again.

Same here by the looks of it

We are trying one out here but as it is not on the register of 3rd party devices Capita will not open the proxy settings to let it work.


 https://edumart.co.uk/register/

If you can, Try and talk SMT out of knee jerk ordering these.

This is the usual shit. Sensationalized headlines, everyone jumps on the bandwagon and spends a shit ton of money on gear that no one uses.

We have already said to our SMT we could build these ourselves with a Pi and a few sensors for £50 -£100. The issues is went someone goes to the toilet and finds 20 kids it there, you can't sanction them all you also cant search the kids. So what's the point of having sensors.

Not something which has come up here yet (thankfully) but I'd advise speaking to your C2K system analyst to see if any are "approved" as it were - as they can be quite fussy about giving "unapproved" things access to the wifi network.

There is also a viewpoint that they are next to useless, and when the alert goes it depends on someone being available to attend & investigate but hey that's above our remit