Richard thanks for reply,
Im afraid a proxy isnt the solution, we do have a proxy server what is controlled off site. And we do have a facility to monitor what content pupils have accessed and we do have sanctions and we can and do take internet access away from individuals. The common problems in a school are not just filtering.
You see pupils will open a browser while they should be working in word. They do minimise said browser when Teacher walks past. Pupils will bully others into giving password details (for net access) so sometimes it is hard to sort out the 'wrong doers'. Teacher will want to have internet on sometimes for all a lesson, only half a lesson or last ten minutes of lesson. So taking away individuals access is not an option. For ICT to control this is not an option.
We need a solution that:
We can select either a group of users (a class) or a group of machines (my system does the later) and enables/disables net access.
The teacher needs to control this from their workstation.
Teachers dont need to cut just certain sites out, they need to stop pupils from browsing altogether.
But this has to be done room to room class to class session to session.
Imperata (sanako) was supposed to do this, execept pupils can type a url into word, my computer etc and access internet.
So, the solution ive got may not be ideal and if you want ill post it on the board and you could pick holes in it(it is primative I warn you) but it works. I want the teacher from a form that I write to click a button (after selecting %computername%) and a script run on remote machine that turns off internet access. I could use the Kill udf for closing browsers! (v. useful!).
I hope this explains a schools predicament to you.
I had a quick look at Websense and your right, its not for the school. We can filter/block etc anyway and even produce reports to show what the pupils have been accessing..
Regards
Steve.
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