K12 Education Question
johnsob3
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I am a teacher at a public high school. I would like to install Daz Studio but I am concerned about nude content. Although most students are mature enough to handle it, it only takes one iimmature student to ruin it for me and the other students.
Is there a model that can be installed that is NOT anatomically correct and more like a mannequin? Also, is there a way to prevent the students from downloading new content without permission?
Any other helpful hints or links for K12 education?
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Removing nipples from female characters would be tricky - there are a few that have that as an option, but there is usually a benippled version too so it would require some preparation. The actual anatimical elements (genitals) are not included by default, however. There is an age-tagging system, but I'm not sure it's always set and I don't think there's a way to lock filtering on.
Daz Studio does not have to be online to work, so you coudl certainly stop students from accessing the store (even if they have their own accounts) by having the school firewall block DS from accessing external IPs (it does need IP access within the local machine for the Content Management System). Whether students could download content and isntall it manually would depend on the degree of access they have to the system.
It might be worth opening a Sales Support ticket to explore possible options - I don't know if Daz has possibly created custom, school-ready content packages which you coudl use to avoid some of the potential issues mentioned in my first paragraph.
Tricky? if you remove the morphs related to nipples and areolas and any other you don't want to be used.
I'm have taught every grade level. Honestly, I wouldn't bring Daz studio into the classroom. I think many parents would complain. You can tell students about it for them to explore on their own, but frankly the Daz website is NSW let alone school.
I was thinking of textures.
Wasn't there a Genesis generation that had the base figure load with underwear painted on by default?
M4/V4 did, but no Genesis generation that I know of.
No the generation prior did.
That's what I remembered, but as I checked Genesis 2 Female default textures don't have the details on them.
But I agree with the teacher. The computer(s) should be completely isolated from the net, without USB ports or any other ways to bring outside content in them or someone WILL find a way
Even if you eliminate the texture and morph concerns, it will only take a few seconds for a student to start posing the naked characters in compromising positions.
Like Barbult said, even all the percautions on textures and morphs won't stop them from putting them into positions. You would probably want to only allow it while supervised or forget humans just load cats and dogs or something like that. Or you let them do what they want they want to do with it, if they do something inappropriate with it how is that any different then doing something inappropriate with a piece of paper and pencil?
They will do that even with stick figures
The OP should consult with school/BOE IT personnel and/or school/BOE administration first (if they haven't already.) Being frank about the pros and cons of allowing DAZ Studio on student-accessible computers will help inform the appropriate decision makers. It may be that the IT folks can implement restrictions on DS to lock it down sufficiently. Be aware that it wouldn't take many (one?) incidents of inappropriate content/use by a student to raise the ire of parents and potentially expose the school system and staff to legal liability. I keep thinking something along the lines of COPA/CIPA (or whatever is current these days) might apply.
All that said, I do believe one of our local middle or high schools has Poser in one of their technology labs. Not sure how much use they make of it. My neighbor is a teacher and mentioned that they use(d) it.
Additional note: When I was the IT person in a multi-county public library system, we used a product called Deep Freeze to lock down our public computers from permanent changes and implemented OS restrictiions to try to prevent tampering/modifications between restarts. Essentially, Deep Freeze kept a protected copy of the system and users ran on a copy of the system. Every reboot reloaded everything from the protected copy.
Hope that helps a little.
Lee
Thank you to everyone, excellent advice, I will reach out to Daz and see if they have any suggerstions for educational use. I would only allow my advanced students to use it and they are all very mature and serious. The Freshman (9th graders) would not be allowed to use the softwae and since they all have their own logins, I can restrict access to the Daz Studio for those who are not in my advanced courses.