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Status: Assigned
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OS: Chrome
Pri: 3
Type: Feature



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Mechanism to disable the ability to turn off WiFi on the Chrome device

Project Member Reported by vkasatkin@google.com, Dec 19 2017

Issue description

Summary: 
Policy to enforce Wifi connectivity and disable user's ability to turn it off.

With the vast choices both on the Chrome OS (Chrome apps) and Android applications that can be used with the Chromebooks to help with learning, there are those that have the essence of a game. Since younger students tend to learn more if the lectures are in the form of a game, more and more of these apps are created by developers and teachers make use of them. However, on the other hand, some of these games can be played offline. This can be a bit of a problem to a network setup wherein third party solutions, such as web filters, are used to monitor user activity. Once a user disables wifi, they are free to play the force-installed learning apps on their devices without bothering to be monitored by the web filter. Enforcing wifi to be enabled all of the time would render this scenario not possible.

Use case / Motivation:

-Disabling the ability to turn off the wifi on the chrome device will help super admins and teachers to monitors the activities of each students and make sure they are using the apps on the right time (during lectures) and not when the learning app is irrelevant to the lecture.


Existing workarounds:

- no workaround

Case#: 14074735

 
Owner: dskaram@chromium.org
Status: Available (was: Untriaged)
Assigning to David to prioritize.

Comment 2 by dskaram@google.com, Jan 15 2018

Owner: maxkirsch@chromium.org
Assigning to Max for EDU input

Comment 3 Deleted

Also would be interested in this for EDU.
Agreed, EDU would benefit from this update!
Agreed. This would be a good option for EDU.
Any update on this, this is now 7 months of "yes this is a good thing".. When are you going enact it?
Status: Assigned (was: Available)
Greetings, I'd like to get an update on this Feature Request.  I believe this will be very useful for EDU account admins.  
Cc: marcuskoehler@chromium.org
This option would be very beneficial for our teachers.  i would also like a status update on this feature request 
Cc: -marcuskoehler@chromium.org aghuie@chromium.org
I would also like a status update on this feature request 
Has any thought, attempt, or progress been made in this area? It is frustrating to see the only updates coming to my email are those asking to have it instated with out a reply.  

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