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Re: [school-discuss] Philosophy: Teachers with Admin Privileges or Not
Robert Rittenhouse wrote:
Daniel Howard wrote:
I'm having an interesting discussion with another Schoolforger offline
on whether teachers should have admin privileges on classroom servers
or not, and it occurred to me that this is a good question for this
group. There are several issues contained in the discussion, as follows:
Well, it's not entirely clear what kind of server (fileserver?
application server? class management software server?).
Server is a Linux box so I could allow selected users to add
applications to some accessible place (e.g. /usr/local/xxx ). I have
done so for some web-based apps but I will confess it causes me some
trepidation.
Our classroom servers, as well as schoolwide servers, are K12LTSP with
the classroom student PCs running as clients.
What you suggest is exactly a potential approach, that of allowing
teachers to add applications to their local space on either type of
K12LTSP server. I'm wondering how many FOSS titles would work or not
work that way.
Daniel
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Daniel Howard
President and CEO
Georgia Open Source Education Foundation