So I have a school whose eclipse is no longer supported due to its age... cloud/mls replacement costs are a little high!
What do people have as cheaper alternatives? Im not really looking to free/open source options.
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Library Software Alternatives
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Libf (online testing) - Hangs at login screen
Have been trying to run some practice tests for the Libf e-tests this week, when we run the exam software as a member of staff the software runs and logs in fine, when I run the software as our exam account, it opens the software, brings up the login page but then the login or quit buttons don't...
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Blackboard IOS/Android App
A number of our staff are running a course that uses the Blackboard mobile app (IOS: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/blackboard/id950424861?mt=8, Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blackboard.android.bbstudent&hl=en_GB). When using it at home the program runs fine, however...
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Chemsketch
We're having a problem with Chemsketch. Does anyone have a workaround for it needing to be run as administrator to open?
We have it deployed via App-v and always get this error 'Cannot establish connection with ACDHost. Error: Interface bit supported
Bit of backstory, Chemsketch always used...
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Visual Studio 2017 Community Ed and controlled assessment
My CS students are using VS2017CE as their IDE. Board controlled assessment criteria requires no internet access. VS2017CE checks license validity online every 12 hours.
Currently I have the following in my filtering exceptions list. Has anyone else noticed any more URLs used for this purpose?...
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Academy21 - Online Classroom?
Hi
Our SENCO is looking into a service called Academy21 Academy21 - Who we are (http://www.academy21.co.uk). It basically looks like a classroom with real teachers (not based at our school) via video conference for those students who do not want to come to school. Has anyone ever used this before...
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Looking for new alternatives to webplus??
Hi all,
im currently having an issue at the school i work at with some of the web design software we use (webplus x4) they use it to design websites in their exams so it is pretty important they have something that is fully working.
It is very outdated and we're looking to upgrade to...
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Food in Focus 2. Database Issues
Hi folks,
We have an issue with Food in Focus 2. This is network deployed software that runs a client from a share, and the client talks to an Access database also on the share. Clients are running Win 10 1703, and server's running 2012 R2.
Once we get above 20 or so students running...
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Tizzy's Tools
Apparently this worked last week, but today we are getting this error when running tizzy.exe:
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Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
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Buffer overrun detected!
Program: ...ogram Files (x86)\Tizzys First Tools\tizzy.exe
A buffer overrun...
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Grammarly...
Hi all,
Our head of school (headteacher) wants us to install grammarly, both the Chrome extension and office plugin on machiens around school. I've had a look at the T&C's etc and can only find a few minor/major things such as 13-17yo need parental permission and the comapnay are not part of the...
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Alternatives to fedena?
Hello guys.
We've tried using fedena software in our school but we found it is too expensive and doesn't have the customer support we need.
We are looking for some alternatives and I recently came across https://safsms.com/ which seems to be EXCELLENT alternative. Do you know of any other...
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Pivot Animator 4.2 - silent install?
I've been asked to deploy the latest version of Pivot Animator here and am struggling to find any switches to get it to install silently.
Anyone know what they might be?
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Corero Resource 32000 - Windows 10?
Anyone using Corero Resource 32000 on Windows 10?
I had it working on Windows 7 fine but not on 10 and not sure if there are any additional steps required? It loads but just will not let anyone login.
We have just changed the domain name so that maybe the problem but after doing so the server...
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Help needed! Plus free educational app
Hello everyone!
I'm an educator who has been developing a new digital library appReadAskChat--that helps parents and caregivers read interactively with their children, and I'd love your opinions on our work. We'll give free access to the full library to anyone willing to test the app and provide...
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Macromedia Studio 2004 - Deployment on Win10
Digging out some old software here! I've been asked to look at deploying Macromedia 2004 Suite to a few rooms which have recently been moved to Windows 10 and Macromedia not included as part of the image. Any advise on deploying this via GPO as no MSI is provided, never tried capturing an MSI on...
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Spex+ and Spex World alternatives
Hi all
I was asked last week to install this amazing piece of software on the network.
The software is over a decade old and would more than likely not run on Windows 10. The school are unable to locate the licence keys and as such even if I could install it, I couldn't...
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Sketchup Plugin
Hello,
I see that Sketchup has gone web based for the latest version. However I was wondering how I can use this extension with the web version please?
https://extensions.sketchup.com/content/sketchup-stl#
Thanks
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Image editor for children
Does anyone know of a good image editor for use by 9/10 year olds?
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Adobe CC - Acrobat
Does anyone know how to actually deploy this so it is licensed etc?
In previous versions (2015) i just run it from the exception deployer folder. Its different now as it doesn't contain any files.
The msi just doesn't work despite me building a new package!
They make it hard sometimes...
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Hitachi Chameleon - Install and Licence through SCCM
Hi,
Our maths department use hitachi starboard to teach their lessons, this works fine on Hitachi boards but we have some promethean ones and some tv's.
The issue with this is that starboard does not detect there is a hitachi board connected to it so there is the watermark on the screen and...
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