But the head started using Zoom with all the staff and announced to the parents we would be using it (or that we already were) so I didn't really have a choice and the above mitigates most of my concerns. Which deals with most of the issues I heard about.ĪFAIK, if you buy the Edu licencing then you get an admin console where you can provision users, but this isn't available for the free version and the best way is to get the staff to sign up but make sure they use their work emails and when asked select teaching/school account.Īs for installing, we've got it running as a remote app from a network share without any issues.ĭon't get me wrong, I would rather the school use the Teams that we spent all of Easter setting up. I may be able to blog about this in a month or two which I appreciate doesn't help much today, sorry.Īs long as you sign your domain up as a school and make sure all your staff use their work emails, the K12 Policy is pretty good ( ) and now the waiting room is on by default Zoom-bombing should be pretty much impossible. Sadly I can't just share my templates on how to adapt and extend them but it is doable. For example, you can ensure that all meetings made by accounts in your domain are logged and visible in an admin dashboard disable recording of meetings altogether or at least control who can record what secure accounts via SSO (I already mentioned this) which should help with account sharing lock down file sharing, chat, etc. IT department referenced in the register article at which is aimed at individual users who have to use Zoom rather than at admins, but adapting the referenced settings and some others to a managed domain environment will greatly improve matters. There's a good resource provided by the Indian Govt.

Having had a long talk with Zoom and a look at the current product, I think its fair to say they were not taking security as seriously as they could, but are doing much better now. After all that, and people are still using on mass in schools? Has there been clarity provided on security since the issues please?I don't work in education any more but my current industry segment is *very* highly regulated and we're using it cautiously with a very limited scope and a lot of control of settings.

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