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[yoddle]

I am doing the Tasmanian Certificate of Education (but obviously there's no forum for it so here will do). We are on hols atm and I just got an email from the school IT Director, which contained this paragraph:

This decision was made for security and administrative reasons, so please be aware that file filtering and soft quotas have been applied and that all staff will now have full access to each students “My Documents” folder. Use this space sensibly to save school-related files, the ongoing practice of storing movies, games etc., will be more heavily monitored and individuals will face tougher penalties in the event of misuse.

This followed the statement that they have moved all our folders from a private Z drive into a general My Documents folder.

Are teachers allowed to perve on files at any other schools? Do you think this is acceptable?

 

[cem]

I am doing the Tasmanian Certificate of Education (but obviously there's no forum for it so here will do). We are on hols atm and I just got an email from the school IT Director, which contained this paragraph:



This followed the statement that they have moved all our folders from a private Z drive into a general My Documents folder.

Are teachers allowed to perve on files at any other schools? Do you think this is acceptable?

At the school where I teach the Administrator has full access to not only the students files but all staff as well e.g. if he is monitoring the system at the moment he could quite easily be seeing what I am saying here.

As schools have to protect ALL students from harmful material and their servers can be audited for inappropriate material they have to be able to check all material going on that server.

As for ALL teachers being able to access ALL students files I would think that that is excessive but that the IT Administrator is able to do so for the protection of other students AND staff is essential.

 

[Sarah182]

Damn Tasmanians.