[Technology] Laptops for kids

[Wozza]

Yes, Chromebook is the answer.

Something like (but do your own research)....

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/compu...-p60t-128-gb-emcp-blue-grey-10211769-pdt.html

Price increased £75 since yesterday....

Lots of alternatives on Argos/eBay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/m.html?_...=p2046732.m570.l1313&_nkw=chromebook&_sacat=0

 

[Normal Rob]

hi, we now have 2 chromebooks but i'm really struggling with them. ironically it seems as though, despite being chrome/google, we cannot open anything on Google Drive meaning that my kids still cant do their classwork. we can get into Google Classrooms fine, but cant open any files as i get a 'this site cannot be reached' error message. House is on verge of falling apart here as have 3 kids who can't work and a wife full time teaching from home. I'm failing to cope.

 

[schmunk]

Can you post a screenshot, or video, of the problem here? One of us will sort you out.

 

[Normal Rob]

clicking on the file on the top image just returns the error shown below... It's the same on both machines. I'm sure it worked on the day we got them but since then nothing.

My laptop opens the files immediately, but i need to work myself!

 

[Bozza]

Can you successfully navigate directly to drive.google.com in a new browser tab?

 

[Normal Rob]

Can you successfully navigate directly to drive.google.com in a new browser tab?

no.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

clicking on the file on the top image just returns the error shown below... It's the same on both machines. I'm sure it worked on the day we got them but since then nothing.

My laptop opens the files immediately, but i need to work myself!


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I teach computing at a primary school. I have noticed that error today for the first time (pdf). I hadn't come across it before so I think it's likely to be at Google's end. It is only appearing on a few kids work, have your children returned to work they had previously handed in?

 

[Normal Rob]

I teach computing at a primary school. I have noticed that error today for the first time (pdf). I hadn't come across it before so I think it's likely to be at Google's end. It is only appearing on a few kids work, have your children returned to work they had previously handed in?

we've not managed to return anything.

 

[Bozza]

no.

What happens if you click here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/my-drive

and here:

https://www.google.com/?client=safari

and here:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox

 

[Bozza]

Assuming the PDF is your work to turn in, how did you create it and get it to where it is?

 

[Normal Rob]

What happens if you click here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/my-drive

and here:

https://www.google.com/?client=safari

and here:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox

sorry. I cant keep up. I presume i need to do this from my child machine (which doesn't have NSC)

 

[Normal Rob]

Assuming the PDF is your work to turn in, how did you create it and get it to where it is?

trhe PDF is the classwork set that we need to access

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

I don't understand why the work is being turned in as a PDF as Chromebooks are not set up that way by default. Some of our kkids who are in school and on c'books have work showing up like this, it is odd.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

trhe PDF is the classwork set that we need to access

The classwork was not a PDF though, it was on slides.

Edit: apologies, your work was but the lesson appeared not to be. It is unlikely the teacher would set the lesson answers in pdf format though as it is not Google friendly.

 

[Bozza]

sorry. I cant keep up. I presume i need to do this from my child machine (which doesn't have NSC)

Sorry - just trying to diagnose what the connectivity issue might be as not being able to reach drive.google.com, if you type that directly in a browser, it suggests something strange going on with general connectivity rather than a Google Classrooms/Chromebook issue.

 

[Normal Rob]

Thanks everyone. I suddenly had a thought - i revisited our parental controls a few days ago and increased the settings. on looking into it in depth Isaw that 'file sharing' was blocked. Customising controls to allow file sharing seems to have sorted it.

Thanks so much for trying to help.It was all my own fault into trying to protect my kids from the dangers of the web.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Thanks everyone. I suddenly had a thought - i revisited our parental controls a few days ago and increased the settings. on looking into it in depth Isaw that 'file sharing' was blocked. Customising controls to allow file sharing seems to have sorted it.

Thanks so much for trying to help.It was all my own fault into trying to protect my kids from the dangers of the web.

Good dad!

 

[strings]

Sorry for the late reply on this thread, it makes more sense to revive an existing thread than to start a new one.

I'm seriously looking at a Chromebook for my little home schooler. Does anybody use 'Seesaw' through a Chromebook? Seesaw is the app my child's school uses to send out tasks and for the kids to upload their work.

All the live lessons are done on teams, so good to see that works fine on a Chromebook.