The Chromebooks are tracked by a specialized department and gives off a warning if something isn’t right, such as performing a developer mode boot and changing the virtual serial number so as to unenroll the Chromebook from the enterprise (organization managed). You could also be long term suspended or expelled for tampering with school/county property.
Switching off an extension doesn’t count as that since you aren’t altering the OS in any way, shape, or form. The most I could get from the method I use is a slap on the wrist.
Okay I’m not totally familiar with Chromebooks but nothing should be able to tell if you’ve accessed BIOS or setup a duel boot especially if it’s duel boot from external drive only.
Their OS can be left unchanged and inactive while running the other OS.
You have to give back the Chromebook at the end of the year, and the IT department goes through it. since it’s tied to my name and student ID, they’ll definitely be able to tell if I’ve messed with anything.
Edit: I cant read. A boot from an external drive would be good, but idk where I’d find a clean installation of ChromeOS to use lol
All right I did a little digging developer mode control d will load the OS so it’s absolutely detectable by monitoring apps.
Control L to change boot option doesn’t load the OS and I don’t know anyway a monitoring software would know about it as the software would not be running at that point, though I don’t make any guarantee.
The next part about booting to a external drive is tricky Chrome OS you can’t get a image for at least not officially.
there is chromium OS that should work fine though you might have to hunt down some plug-ins.
some versions of Linux can work but only if it’s an intel-based Chromebook.
The last thing I can think of is Windows 11 should work regardless of whether it has an Intel or Arm based processor because Windows 11 is supposed to support arm, but it’s not out officially yet. So any pre release builds that are out there may or may not work.
Unfortunately the processor is an AMD A4, so it won’t support Windows 11 or Linux installations lmfao
I appreciate you doing research on the issue! It’s nice to know that there are other people interested in finding a more holistic solution to this and not just for website blocks
I pretty much decided to go by the 20/80 tried and true effort law, so I nixed developer mode immediately and just went for solutions I could find within the confines I was initially set with. Makes any possible solution I would find easy to implement with minimal risk to the student ya know, just in case they aren’t that much of a techie
No that’s fine you can run anything on that when I said Intel earlier I was under the assumption that Chromebooks did not come with a AMD option it’s still a x86 processor whereas arm is risc-5. So yeah you can run Windows 11 or Linux or Windows 10.
That’s interesting, I might try that in the future depending upon if I get too annoyed with the blocks lol