i want to start by saying i get why we have restrictions set, i dont have anything against it, i just feel like it goes a bit far sometimes. now, onto the issue. my school lends out a device to each students to use while they’re there, and mine is running out of disk space (i have 118mb free) and there’s nothing i can do about it. i’ve deleted every file i don’t need, but most are important for school. the thing is, 90% of the space is taken by apps, and students can’t install or delete apps, even ones we’ve never used, or no longer use. i have all these adobe apps downloaded 3 times each, and they’re all 4gb, and we’ve never touched them, but there’s nothing i can do, because IT won’t let me delete them either. it means i can’t easily do my schoolwork from it either. can anyone share my frustration?
Honestly, I haven’t dealt with that specific problem but they blocked the setting where we can change the background on Google and the color of the tabs. Like…what? That being said I was able to change mine in sophomore or early junior year before they blocked it.
They also didn’t block Max (HBO) but like they blocked what plays the videos. They also have certain things blocked on the wifi. So if I wanna get on my phone at times where I’m allowed to have it, I have to use my data.
Why can’t you easily do your schoolwork from this machine?
Kids WILL abuse power and vandalize so no coolmath for u… After reading it I’d say report your problem to whoever is in charge of that stuff.
Schools always give their students the most crappiest, slowst, cheapest, and most unusable laptops possible, usually in the form of basically unusable Chromebooks. After like a week I got sick of it and just brought my own laptops for all of middle and high school.
Some of the chromebooks don’t have guest mode enabled, which used to make logging in much quicker
i go to a catholic school and it didn’t let me look up pascal’s mugging (a foil to pascal’s wager)
Store your school relevant files on a cloud server.
Speak to your IT department yourself. Usually they’re at the district office and you might need to play phone or email tag for awhile before you can get a hold of the right person.
Arrange a device exchange. Turn in your device so they can do a factory reset, and you can get a new device in return. All your files should be synced up to the cloud for ease of access.
These issues arise because the computers get bogged down with a lot of cookies, trackers, or even program updates that are additive instead of supplemental. Because students aren’t allowed to remove programs, they end up just piling on top of the old programs without removing them. Its the sort of thing that is easy to fix on a home pc, but not a restricted device.
in the future, use a removable harddrive or a memory stick to hold your personal files if the device is set up to allow usb devices.
My school account doesn’t allow us to use Google Maps. Which is pretty stupid because a lot of students use it to get around campus (like searching up different buildings). I also took a geology class last semester and it required me to use Google maps but we couldn’t
I can’t print anything on my laptop that I’m allowed to take home so I have to transfer it to a pc (without using a usb stick bc we’re not allowed to use them)
I’m actually not sure what the issue is (I’m half asleep and probably just not reading right)
Is it that there isn’t enough room to save your schoolwork on the device?
You can’t save your stuff to the cloud?
Have you tried messaging the actual principal about this? I mean, I’m unsure as to whether or not they’d do anything but, you know, maybe you can bring it to them and show them the issue.
Let it run out of space, and whenever you need it to do something explain you cant
There was one that was thankfully recently changed that pissed me off a lot. On chrome books, and maybe other devices but we use chrome books, there’s a setting that dictates what happens when the lid closes. In my case and probably the whole School, that setting was set to “log out”. That’d be acceptable if it just made you log into the computer itself and then everything else is still up and as it was. That wasn’t how it was. That setting being locked how it was meant the every. Single. Tab logged out. Canvas, classlink, everything was sent back to sign-in pages and it would take entire minutes to get back up and where we had it. Thankfully they changed it before the point in the semester where big projects got handed out or there would have been riots.
yeah same. we can’t star tabs to revisit later which is a HUGE pain in the ass seeing as i have 3 classes online. i takes me ten minutes daily just to login to all the websites i need, not to mention scrolling or whatever to find the notes/ assignment. i know that sounds stupid but istg it’s annoyingly inconvenient
When I was in school, they had the settings menu completely blocked, to the point that you couldn’t even open the Wi-Fi settings (so you had to use a workaround just to connect to the internet at home). In order to connect to the internet, you had to try looking something up, let it fail to do so, open the troubleshooter, let the troubleshooter do its thing, wait for it to realize that you’re not connected to the internet, and then you can connect to the internet through the troubleshooter. Automatic connection was also disabled, so you had to do that every time
People talking about cool math games, I installed steam on school computers. Sadly alot of games wouldn’t work as I couldn’t get directX to install even with my method of bypassing needing admin privileges to open admin locked files
Here’s a bunch of different exploits you can use to get around restrictions-assuming you are on a chromebook. You might need to mess around with them a bit to find the right one-some exploits have been patched and only work on certain versions.
I can’t relate to your situation in particular but my school district uses securly and it sucks