Re: Demonstration and teaching tool

["Roman Meier" <roman.meier@gismap.ch>]

> Hi,
>
>> IÂ?m not very comfortable with the fact that a teacher has access to all
>> thin clients on both subnets. If chroot is epoptes enabled then he has
>> access to diskless workstations as well enabling him to monitor all LTSP
>> clients in the system without any user knowing about it.
>>
>> Is this not a security issue?
>
> yes, it is, among other things, like being disrespectful, contradicting
> everything we should teach students about digitalisation and privacy and
> last, but not least, probably being illegal (German law, for example,
> requires all parents *and* students themselves signing a contract
> allowing you to spy on them, which most schools I know simply ignore).
>
> I figure you really only want the demonstration feature, not the spyware
> feature, but as a note for everyone stumbling across this thread because
> they want the spyware features:
>
> If managing a classroom without spying on your students is beyond
> your capabilities, please go find something to do that fits in with your
> capabilities instead of managing classrooms. Thanks.

Hi Nik,

Thanks for your input! I agree with you!

What alternative to Epoptes do you recommend?

Kind regards,
Roman