I haven't been emailed result for my last exam, which was released a few days ago.

They constantly reassured us that it's an entirely automatic process and no way it could possibly go wrong.

I think the ‘automatic process’ may have forgotten.

At least I know what my result is - the other people that took that exam have left so can't speak in person to the subject teacher.

minniesworld wrote:

Our district has GoGuardian installed on our school computers to let teachers look at and do things on our screens. First week of school a few game-addicted students found out the “screen locking” could be bypassed by some trackpad motions, last month they discovered some website unblockers (very sketchy) and once they found a fun game they would turn off the Internet on the computer so the teachers couldn't watch them. Pretty much they just defeated goguardian

the school IT has not even found out

What trackpad motions?

logabe wrote:

If Python is installed, you could maybe run programs through that?

Good luck trying to install that on a locked down school computer.

StudioPangoFan_2000 wrote:

minniesworld wrote:

Our district has GoGuardian installed on our school computers to let teachers look at and do things on our screens. First week of school a few game-addicted students found out the “screen locking” could be bypassed by some trackpad motions, last month they discovered some website unblockers (very sketchy) and once they found a fun game they would turn off the Internet on the computer so the teachers couldn't watch them. Pretty much they just defeated goguardian

the school IT has not even found out

What trackpad motions?

Scroll up with four fingers on a trackpad to bring up the window selector. Then just delete the lock screen window.

Scratch got banned now I have to post at home

my school has this cool thing calle google drive online so i can use infragreen without wifi on so that teachers cant see what im doing muahahaha

redspacecat wrote:

StudioPangoFan_2000 wrote:

minniesworld wrote:

Our district has GoGuardian installed on our school computers to let teachers look at and do things on our screens. First week of school a few game-addicted students found out the “screen locking” could be bypassed by some trackpad motions, last month they discovered some website unblockers (very sketchy) and once they found a fun game they would turn off the Internet on the computer so the teachers couldn't watch them. Pretty much they just defeated goguardian

the school IT has not even found out

What trackpad motions?

Scroll up with four fingers on a trackpad to bring up the window selector. Then just delete the lock screen window.

Yup that's the motions

BigNate469 wrote:

RobotChickens wrote:

I got my hands on my own personal chromebook that looks exactly the same as the other default school chromebooks (Dell 3100s). The only difference is that mine twice as fast because I paid for one with usable specs.

Nice.

I have a Dell 3100 2-in-1 (3100 + touchscreen), but when I got it back in 2020 for remote classes I didn't pay for usable specs.

So I have to get by on 32GB of total storage and a very slow processor. At least it has a GPU that can handle most simple 3D stuff on the web, and it has 4GB of RAM (not much, but it's not terrible for something that pretty much only ever runs a web browser or a Linux terminal).

It does have a MicroSD port though, so I've been considering using the 128GB MicroSD card I have to help with my current storage issues (I have <1GB of total storage left on this thing)

Dang, I feel bad for you :(

I will say though that the SD card reader isn't as useful as it used to be. For security and stability reasons, Chrome OS (and android) no longer lets you mount removable media like SD cards as internal storage. Basically they can only hold individual files, but not any apps.

Recently, someone snitched on one of the guys in my tech class that he knew the password to the secure managed networks. It was the same exact simple password for all of them, (something like 5Chr0me@uth) so it's a good thing they finally changed them all after they found out! Sadly no more wifi for students :( Hopefully they don't interrogate me too…

my school district just removed and blocked the ad blocker that they installed
!!!! like i dont want constant ads everywhere they got that for a reason

mali3000 wrote:

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my school district just removed and blocked the ad blocker that they installed
!!!! like i dont want constant ads everywhere they got that for a reason

They probably either found a virus in it, or it started charging money (or maybe it just annoyed the school staff somehow).

RobotChickens wrote:

I will say though that the SD card reader isn't as useful as it used to be. For security and stability reasons, Chrome OS (and android) no longer lets you mount removable media like SD cards as internal storage. Basically they can only hold individual files, but not any apps.

I was thinking of using it as just a place to stick files I'm not actively using but still need- do I really need the 3GB node_modules folder I have on it in a little Node.js project I have but haven't worked on in a little while due to a lack of time in the 32GB of storage built-in to my Chromebook? Probably not.

In addition, there's lots of things like images and documents that I occasionally need here but take up a lot of space collectively and I don't need frequently enough to warrant having it in the 32GB of built-in storage, but still should have on-hand in the case I do.

The real trick is finding the time to format that particular 128GB MicroSD card, because the Chromebook can't do it to my knowledge and it's currently loaded with an old version of Raspberry Pi OS (I was running my Pi off of it for a few months, but then I got a 500GB solid-state storage that I use now, connected over USB), so I need to reformat it and wipe the contents (as currently because of the way it's formatted it doesn't always appear as 128GB).

AHypnoman wrote:

Bringing this back from the dead after a month to send a Scratch notification to countless people telling them that I'm incredibly annoyed that the software an exam was on cut me off ten minutes before the end.

I love finding stupid bugs in exam software!! I've had countless issues with collegeboard related stuff. for starters:

1. bluebook once gave me 2 hours for a reading section of an SAT practice (when I got to the review questions page, it changed to say I had 20 minutes)
   
2. the collegeboard auth flow is so annoyingly convoluted that it often messes up itself (often by too many redirects, losing cookies, misc http errors)
   
3. on an ap lang practice exam, there are hover tooltips to view some word definitions, but the tooltips use the wrong css and they cause the paragraphs to have a stroke
   

Also i found tons of spare laptops up in the empty parts of my school library and they all have ethernet ports blehhh

alwayspaytaxes wrote:

on an ap lang practice exam, there are hover tooltips to view some word definitions, but the tooltips use the wrong css and they cause the paragraphs to have a stroke

You'd think people would test their software lol.

alwayspaytaxes wrote:

Also i found tons of spare laptops up in the empty parts of my school library and they all have ethernet ports blehhh

Truly the technology of the future.

Less school IT and moreso school IT lessons, but:

I was talking to another student a year or so below me about some code they wrote for a microbit CS assignment - the course they're doing is on Python. Everything they said made sense (and their code looked good) until, paraphrasing, ‘it’s a simplified version of Python, or maybe JavaScript'. I swear the CS teacher was really good when I had classes with him, but I've no idea what he's been telling them if they think ‘def’ if JS or that there's simplified Python.

After that whole interaction I was thinking about how ‘simplified’ programming languages could possibly work, then some train of thought led me to pidgin programming languages, which I thought was a funny concept. Apparently they're a real thing. No way to run them though :(

gave an it practical exam, gotta say windows xp hits hard with excel 2002

alwayspaytaxes wrote:

Also i found tons of spare laptops up in the empty parts of my school library and they all have ethernet ports blehhh

Nothing beats Ethernet for reliability.

Guess who's school got another way to block websites and blocked conwaylife.com (aka the wiki for conway's “”game“” or life) as a game, which it isn't-ish

my school blocked compiler explorer.

Other things I've discovered: the new blocker uses dns, they make all images have to have a creative commons license, and if you visit too many blocked websites, you have to wait 10 minutes

PaxtonPenguin wrote:

they make all images have to have a creative commons license

But how would that be enforced (if it's blocking non-CC licenses)?

Also, doesn't that mean that the Google homepage would be blocked (google.com)?

BigNate469 wrote:

PaxtonPenguin wrote:

they make all images have to have a creative commons license

But how would that be enforced (if it's blocking non-CC licenses)?

Also, doesn't that mean that the Google homepage would be blocked (google.com)?

They enforce it using safesearch (i think) so it depends on the search engine (and this is also the reason why duckduckgo is blocked)