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Picked up a nicer Chromebook plus for school purposes and ensured the 80% max battery charge setting was on.
We've been doing this with our mobiles for the last few devices and there's definitely a lifespan improvement.
Anyway, I've noticed that the laptop will charge to 100% and checking the settings, it appears the school IT dept have all school accounts set to disable adaptive battery.
So, while this isn't a school owned device, it seems that by logging in with school credentials, the schools power settings get adopted laptop wise. Even if logged into my account, it'll still charge to 100%.
Anyway to solve this besides perhaps having them web login to classroom through their personal google profiles?
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Unplug it?
It's generally a bad idea to sod about with "policy" but in this case I think you're overthinking things as regards to battery longevity.
The question I would have is, "where is the demarcation"? It's a school laptop or it isn't, what are they assuming responsibility for? There's a malware outbreak, who is accountable?
Are you certain that when "logging in with school credentials" you can't then just go and change it back? Taking control of settings you haven't granted access to seems strange at best.
Is it smart enough to seek full charge when away from home where you might be longer between charges?
Don't use the school account as the primary login. Login with a personal account then add the school account as an additional one. You can then use the classroom app as the second user etc. That's how we have it setup for our children.
Yep, that's how we have it.
My personal Google account is the primary, managed kids accounts are secondary. Their school accounts are also secondary. I'm pretty sure we added the school accounts from within Thor respective Google accounts.
Sorry realised my wording may not be clear. By primary I mean the account they login to the Chromebook with (not the account that is the primary user of the Chromebook). So they never login (from the main login screen) to the Chromebook with the school accounts, only ever their personal (managed) Google accounts. The school accounts are configured as additional accounts within the personal accounts. When opening apps like classroom you should be offered the choice of using the logged in account on the Chromebook (private account) or one of the x additional accounts (in this scenario the school account). The school accounts should not appear as a choice on the main login screen (one shown after boot).
Apologies if this is how you were describing.
All good. That was my intent, but I don't hi k that's what happened as we have 5x accounts on the main login screen. Me, kid1, kid2, kid1 school, kid2 school.
I'll try and consolidate, but wonder if that then make accessing 3rd party apps (tinkercad etc) less I tuitive
Thanks all
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