Why do you young-lings do this in IT Suites?

ColdAsIce · 21 Apr 2015 at 10:57

So I work in a High School as the IT Tech and I see this across all the schools in the authority, so around 10 in total.

I get the computers all setup perfect and then the pupils unplug the keyboard and mouse from the back and plug them into the front USB ports.

It does my head in! Please tell me why you do this?

Is it the same across the UK?

ColdAsIce · 21 Apr 2015 at 11:07

Prophet said:
They do this at all the schools I support. I disabled the front usb ports

I am liking this idea ;D

ColdAsIce · 21 Apr 2015 at 11:10

pfaulkner said:
I've worked in Secondary School IT for 8 years and it's not changed, they still do it.

Whats worse is pecking the keys off keyboards and laptops like they are a ****ing parrot!

To be fair the laptop keyboards are really awful quality for a school environment so it's not always due to malice.

However we had a spate of the keyboard jokers recently, changing the keyboard letters to read "****, **** etc. Teachers know I won't waste my time fixing that so they do it themselves and teaches them to monitor their class better

Star them out fully please

ColdAsIce · 21 Apr 2015 at 12:03

ZXSpectrum said:
Why not tie wrap all the cables together at the back so they wont/cant be bothered to unplug and untangle the cable to plug into the front?

That solution certainly works although i've seen my work dismantled when the guys are doing PAT testing and it's also a pain if the HDD or PSU fails and I need to quickly access the computer.