Websense - It gives you the ability to limit "personal use" to a certain
amount of time each day (you can specify certain website categories to
be deemed "personal use" and then the user will get a notice when they
go to one of these sites that they are limited to only 30 minutes a day,
or whatever time you would like) - or you can turn off streaming media
usage and or Web 2.0 sites for people who are using them excessively.
It will show you what users are taking up the most bandwidth and what
sites they are visiting to do so. We don't sit and monitor this, but
when things start getting bogged down, we can check. =20
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From: A forum for independent school educators
[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Renee Ramig
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 6:06 PM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Personal Use
Our school has been pretty loose about letting teachers, administrators
and staff use the computers for personal use on their own time (prep,
recess, lunch, after school, etc.). However, with applications and web
2.0 sites taking more and more bandwidth, I have a need for teachers to
stop streaming their radio station, stop watching the news videos, stop
checking their Facebook, stop shopping for a new pair of shoes, etc.
especially during school hours. I doubled the bandwidth this year from
one T1 to two T1s for about 300 computers, and there are times when max
bandwidth is being used for hours at a time, even though I know very few
if any students are using it at that time.
How anyone else had this problem? How have you dealt with it? =20
Thanks,
Renee Ramig
Seven Hills School
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