School forums

[SalsatheGeek]

http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l293/SalsatheGeek/SchoolForumpic.gif

Try to provide better image if possible. Simple to explain, we post on the forums of our teachers and debate. We are going to have another debate on the Constitution soon. Can't post the link or the teachers at our school will kill me because of constant random people spamming the forums and other problems. We already got 3 students who got caught and I don't want to be with them... Anybody have something like this?

[StickAvalancheman]

Many kids at our high-school use our myspace group as a way of communication.

It's actually quite active, surprisingly.

Some clubs at school make pages and advertise their monthly events and what-not.

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7348/myspbe2.jpg

[Vince]

My school has never considered that as far as I know.

Would like the idea though.

[˙·٠•●Motherloader●•٠·˙]

My school does. It's pretty cool, actually.

[The Brown Cow]

We've got forums, live chat, personal websites, sites for each course, online homework uploads, online homework problems, online course registration and dropping, online grades and transcripts, and backup space for our laptops.

Booyah, polytechnic institutes!

[Screech]

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/4666/schoolforumsdx1.jpg

The colour makes my EYES BLEED.

[Mara]

My school has a forums (Snitz), which is actually part of the curriculum of some course (they had to manually edit the source of the forums). And Screech, black box the tab, it has your school name in it.

[ssgtGrimreaper]

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/4666/schoolforumsdx1.jpg

The colour makes my EYES BLEED.Brave New World is a great book...

[Screech]

It's not my school name, Mara, it's someones last name. I just took it out for respect reasons. I feel bad that I missed one, but it's no real security risk.

[JoeyG]

The server is now at my home office. Attempting to recover the data (13
hours so far), there's several sectors with unrecoverable data - hopefully
nothing important. I'll try to clone the disk when the recovery program
finally finishes. If the clone doesn't work (likely there will be problems
because the program won't be able to access the bad sectors) I will try to
copy the partitions separately and hope for the best.

I really don't want to start from scratch, but it would be a good
opportunity to try Ubuntu 6.10 server.

Thanks,
Dave

That's what's up with the school that I work for. When the server is up again, we'll have a kickasser system than all of you.

[ehntoo]

Our school has a website, yes, but I'm ashamed of it. Really. Oh, fine. Still want to see it?

http://www.negaunee.k12.mi.us

Not good. Frames. I'm going to write a list of grievances about it to the principal and ask if I can code a new site.

*edit*
Wait, Joey... your school has a sysadmin who knows what they're doing?

Lucky bastard.

Our sysadmin is so incompetent that every student on the windows network had admin access for the entire second semester last year.

No joke.

[Mr. Anderson]

I wish I had that.

http://www.somersptschools.org

Click on Jordan Road.

I wish we had forums :/.

[StickAvalancheman]

Our sysadmin is so incompetent that every student on the windows network had admin access for the entire second semester last year.Our school's administrator password is so easy to crack, I nailed it just by guessing.

I'm able to get to practically anything, such as modifying grades and such but I wouldn't dare attempt it.

Then there's those ####ty county inspectors who can't do their job for #### and leave Norton Ghost boot disks in the disk drives with licence keys.

[The Brown Cow]

Our school has a website, yes, but I'm ashamed of it. Really. Oh, fine. Still want to see it?

http://www.negaunee.k12.mi.us
Ooo, I'm loving the enormous unnecessarily-bordered image resized very small. Efficient!

[ehntoo]

Ooo, I'm loving the enormous unnecessarily-bordered image resized very small. Efficient!

Isn't it just? It's been that way ever since our school system first got a network... must've been '99.

[JoeyG]

*edit*
Wait, Joey... your school has a sysadmin who knows what they're doing?


Yeah... there's Dave and me who both manage it. He won't give me the password to the site blocker, but other than that I have complete control. We both volunteer, so we care somewhat. And it's fun stuff: we had to setup a projector a few days ago, and since Dell charges $200 for their mount kits, we decided to make our own.

The school webpage that I made is here (http://www.wpsoftware.net/clients/ccs/), and the original is here (http://www.cloverdalecatholicschool.ca). I never finished mine because the original is so awesome. (Seriously, check out the source.)

[Vince]

This is my school website, shwoop da woop. (http://www2.frederick.k12.va.us/mbh/index.htm)

Pretty well put together, just doesn't have a forum :(

[Guybrush Threepwood]

http://www.mountsihighschool.com/
Yeah.
Dig it.

[Chimpy]

LOL a bunch of you guys go to catholic schools. I went to a catholic primary (age 5-11 or something like that) and it sucked in making me believe in God because I don't believe in God.

[JoeyG]

My school overcompensated for adding religion classes. They taught way too much academic stuff. Now I'm in high school and haven't done a scrap of homework in three years.

So now I manage my old school's computers instead of going to class. Win-win.

[Freddy]

We got a bunch of stuff. No forums though.
Live chat, site for each course, online registering and dropping from a course, online grades and attendence and other stuff like that.

Problem is, only about 2/3 of the courses offer this. see not all of the instructors are . . . computer literate.
So I'm pretty much stumped as of how Im doing in my composition course.
>_<

[ehntoo]

Joey, your high school's webpage validates.

And your school lets a student who actually knows what they're doing help with the network...

You really are lucky. I've repeatedly offered to help with the school's network, but each and every time, I'm refused.

Even after I ended up telling my computers teacher how to get back into her win32 machine after her son (who had the primary admin account... I still haven't figured out why) locked her out. They still believe I know nothing.

[Woolfenstien]

http://www.camshill.com
The front page is possibly the most alright out of the lot.

We have a microsoft outlook web access email system, but it's been so slow all week.

[Mr. Anderson]

I like your school's site, Woolfenstein. I went to Catholic School from 1st to 5th Grade. I got so much homework, it's not even funny.

Now, I'm in public school. Just did my 30 minutes of homework. Woohoo.

Also, I have a computer teacher who is almost incompetent at most programs. He can't use Dreamweaver at all. My Venture (advanced extra class) teacher knows more about it then he does. Also, he thinks he great at Fireworks because he can move a tree across the screen and make it look like it's always been on that side. The only thing he can do competently on a computer is fix them and tell us to type 3 page documents in Word.


Mmmhmm.

[SalsatheGeek]

I like your school's site, Woolfenstein. I went to Catholic School from 1st to 5th Grade. I got so much homework, it's not even funny.

Now, I'm in public school. Just did my 30 minutes of homework. Woohoo.

Also, I have a computer teacher who is almost incompetent at most programs. He can't use Dreamweaver at all. My Venture (advanced extra class) teacher knows more about it then he does. Also, he thinks he great at Fireworks because he can move a tree across the screen and make it look like it's always been on that side. The only thing he can do competently on a computer is fix them and tell us to type 3 page documents in Word.


Mmmhmm.

Ah, lucky us... We have online forums for the middle school and what not, chat. We also have a website with homework and stuff, man an hour to 2 hours of homework on average. I had to stay up til midnight to finish once. Our computer teacher is nice but strict, the strictest teacher I know.

[Alice Cooper]

Brave New World is a great book...

Brave New World is also an awesome song by Iron Maiden...

Anyways, Im in like the smallest high school ever. Like 300 kids, we really aren't in desparate need for a forum.

[Joest]

My school doesn't care about computer's and stuff.

[Ping]

Well, our high school has nothing interactive on the internet for the students to participate in... kind of pathetic, but what do you expect from small town, South Dakota?

[Joest]

Well, our high school has nothing interactive on the internet for the students to participate in... kind of pathetic, but what do you expect from small town, South Dakota?

An amazing flash site with high end 3D games?

[SalsatheGeek]

Lol, I expect a junkyard for a school, no offense :)

[JoeyG]

Joey, your high school's webpage validates.
It's actually my elementary school. But I do more work there than I do at my high school. And I deny having a high school... "Where do I go to school? Um... it sucks. I don't really want to talk about it."

I was just as amazed that it validated, though.

And your school lets a student who actually knows what they're doing help with the network...

That's pretty cool. Dave seemed happy for someone to help.

You really are lucky. I've repeatedly offered to help with the school's network, but each and every time, I'm refused.

I almost tried that. I did a few intelligence tests first, though, to see if it'd be worth my time.
"We're doing a VB unit at the end of the semester, right?"
"Yes."
"Can I do C instead?"
"No."
"#### you."

Then I left that class, went to CCS, and did the Firefox ad at them. They let me and Dave install it, and they thought it was the coolest thing ever. Ditto with the Ubuntu/Samba fileserver we set up .

Even after I ended up telling my computers teacher how to get back into her win32 machine after her son (who had the primary admin account... I still haven't figured out why) locked her out. They still believe I know nothing.

Heh heh heh. My computer teacher thinks that of me. Ever since that test where I wrote "1Mb = 2^20 bytes." He kept saying, "That doesn't tell me what it is.", until I finally wrote "One megabyte is equal to about one million bytes." at which point he accepted it. Dumbass.

My other teachers, however, think I'm smart. "Hey Andrew, those arrogant pricks at the comtech center changed our settings again. How do I get past this?" So I show them some drag-and-drop solution to the latest security/usability/whatever restriction. I really wonder why the technocrats do stuff like that.


This is really cool. We have a Ubuntu server in the office (which is what is down right now), which is running Samba. This gives fileshare access (max. 50Mb) to about 150 students (thanks to a shellscript I wrote). When you log onto the lab computers (all running XP, unfortunately), they will popup a dialogue asking for the student's name, connect to the appropriate fileshare, and run a VB script contained within. The script changes "My Documents" to "[first name]'s Documents", changes the background to "Grade N", and adds or removes desktop icons according to the students grade. The staff think that it's the most incredible thing ever to be invented. Me and Dave think it's Ubuntu + a few simple scripts.

[coolguy1351]

when i was young, we didn't have no fancy, telephones, or fancy mail. We just shouted real loud.

anyway, at our school, anyone caught on myspace is suspended. seriously. and you know what? it's a PUBLIC SCHOOL.

[JoeyG]

Same here. It's not hard to bypass it.

1. Log onto your home computer via PuTTY.
2. Inform your teacher that you are "on call" and "can't be interrupted". (This will explain the black terminal screen, and discourage further questions/scrutiny.)
3. Install elinks.
4. Type "elinks [bannedsite].org".
5. Exit it, because if you're smart enough to do that, you're too smart to waste time on MySpace.

[waggles v2]

Try www.trinity.vic.edu.au for comparison. It's pretty neat, seeing as it was set up like 6 years ago.