New Lexington City Schools
1:1 with iPads
Right or Wrong this is how we did it!
Tonya Sherburne
Superintendent
New Lexington City Schools
nl_tsherburn@seovec.org
Tim Householder
Technology Director
New Lexington City Schools
nl_thousehol@seovec.org
Bobby Dodd
High School Principal
New Lexington City Schools
nl_rdodd@seovec.org
New Lexington City Schools:
• Rural district
• We have 4 school buildings:
New Lexington High School (1:1 with iPads)
New Lexington Middle School
New Lexington Elementary School
Junction City Elementary School
• 1950 students district wide
• 80% Free and Reduced lunch according to E-Rate
61.53% Free and Reduced lunch
• Small IT Department
• Macintosh District
• Close to 1000 iPads in the district
Must Haves
for a 1:1 or BYOD:
• A plan of attack
Talk, Visit, Plan, Talk, Talk, Talk..................
• Everyone must be on board
If your administrators and teachers are not
willing to make this work it never will.
•Wireless / Network infrastructure
Have this in place before you start – because you will have to
learn on the fly.
•Patience
Staff & students must be patient when it comes to implementation
& management of devices.
NLHS iPad Program
Time Line:
Summer 2011 – Meeting with new Superintendent to discuses the state of Technology in
the district.
2011-2012 – All NLCS staff members receive iPads.
Early 2012 - Visited Defiance High School
Teachers, Administrators, Board Member, and Parent.
January 2012 – Pilot with 27 AP students – AP students take iPads home 4th nine weeks.
Managed with Casper MDM.
February – May 2012 – App Study
NLHS iPad Program
Time Line:
February 6th 2012 – “So, This is My iPad” Chad Reynolds and Megan Finnegan
PD for Teachers
March 5th 2012 – “So, This is My iPad” Chad Reynolds and Megan Finnegan
PD for teachers
May 2012 – Installed 34 Meraki Access Points at the high school
August 2012 – Set up iPads
Set up 600 in one week.
August 16th 2012 - Parent Meeting 1
August 20th 2012 – Parent Meeting 2
NLHS iPad Program
Time Line:
August 21st 2012 (Open House) – Parent Meeting 3
August 27th - 30th 2012 - Handed out iPads to students. (Social Studies)
December 17th-18th 2012 – Apple PD (Math, Science)
February 11th-12th 2013 – Apple PD (English, History)
February 25th-26th 2013 – Apple PD (Special Education, Creativity)
What is next?
• How are we going to collect the iPads?
• Rethink and revise for next year.
App Store ????
Technology Fund ????
Everyone Takes Them Home ????
• Electronic text books.
In progress ……
• Wipe out devices and get ready for next year.
Parent Meetings
• What is an iPad
• How we were going to use the iPads
• Cost of the iPads – Technology Fund
$50 per year
Accessories-less than $50 students are responsible for.
Scholarships
If they do not pay they can not take them home
• Acceptable Use Policy
• Questions they had.
Four documents must be read and signed before an iPad is issued:
• Acceptable Use Policy
• AUP Acceptance page
• iPad Loan Agreement
• Technology Fund
All documents are available on our website under high school:
http://nlpanthers.org
NLHS Current Stats
600 iPads total – 550 for students / staff.
We purchased a three year lease for 600 iPads with Apple Care + and 6 days of PD from Apple.
We also purchased Griffin Survivor Cases for each student.
Current Stats:
Technology Fund:
498 Current Students – Not counting Tri- County or Alpha.
476 - 96% Have paid either full $50, making payments, or scholarship.
20 - Sent back to Apple for repair. (2- software 18 – damaged)
Note:
16 – Broken Screen – 90% Freshman – 12 Taken Out of Case
1 – Submerged in pond
1 - Parent Drove Over With Car
7 – iPads reported Stolen
New Lexington City Schools
&
Apple Configurator
Free from Apple
Apple Configurator
Mass configure and deploy iPads.
Requirements: OS X 10.7.5 or later
Prepare devices • Configure multiple devices simultaneously • Update devices to the latest
version of iOS • Create and restore a backup of settings and app data from one device to other
devices • Import apps into Apple Configurator and sync them to new devices • Use the built-in
editor to create and install iOS configuration profiles • Enroll devices with your Mobile Device
Management solution for remote management
Supervise devices ( When supervised students can not connect to iTunes ) • Organize supervised
devices into custom groups • Automatically apply common configurations to supervised
devices • Quickly reapply a configuration to a supervised device and remove the previous user’s
data • Import apps into Apple Configurator and sync them to supervised devices • Define and
apply common or sequential names to all devices • Restrict supervised devices from syncing
with other computers
The computer you use Configurator on - is the only computer you can use to manage.
1:1 Set Up – 600 iPads
Using 3 Bretford sync trays (10 iPads each for a total of 30) and 1 MacBook
with Apple Configurator – Using a “master image” I was able to setup 600
iPads in 1 week.
I brought in students to put the cases on.
They put 600 cases on in 3 days.
System Manager
• Cloud Based
• 100% Free for any Network
• No Maximum number of
devices
• Operates over SSL
• Works on any vendor’s network
• Email support – Phone support
for Meraki Customers
Deployment
Profiles
Settings
iOS apps
The Good and Bad..
The Good
Apple Configurator
• The cost – Free
• Once figured out – it is easy to use
• Wiping out devices is quick and easy.
Meraki System Manager
• The cost – Free
• Easy to use
• Cloud based – no equipment
The Bad
Apple Configurator
You have to touch every device.
Meraki System Manager
• App Store
• Sometimes we have problems with profiles communicating.
• Locating Devices. – Based on Service Provider / ip location.
Meraki says that they are about to release something similar to Find my iPad (iCloud)
• Profile can be removed
New Lexington City Schools
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Cloud Managed Wireless
802.11n Wireless LAN
Why did we choose Meraki ??
• We had no managed Wi-Fi in the district. (Several Apple Airports).
• We were going to a grade 9-12 - 1:1 solution with iPads and needed a more
robust wireless solution.
• After looking at several vendors and talking with our ITC we thought price
wise the Meraki was the best fit for us.
• Because our ITC agreed to purchase the Meraki Access Points in bulk (offering
all of their schools Meraki APs) they could drive the price down.
• The #1 reason - the free MDM solution Meraki offers.
Centralized Management
• 100% Cloud Managed
• Built for rapid building
wide deployments
• Simple centralized
management, no training
required
• Wireless APs serve 100+
users each
• No user limitations
User Visibility
• Control over users, devices, and application
• Control Bandwidth
• Locate clients
• View auto-generated reports
Intelligence:
• Auto-Configuring
mesh network
• Multi-channel
routing protocols
• Self-healing
networking with
per-flow
optimization
Security & Role Bases Access:
• Layer 7 traffic classification
and control
• Intrusion detection engine
• Identity-based content filtering.
• Device-aware firewall rules
Ease of Deployment
I hired North West Regional Systems out of Mansfield. They brought two
people and we had the 33 APs installed and online in 2 school days.
Literally took them out of the box and connected them to POE switches.
I played with the Dashboard for a couple hours and had them all
configured. Now I just tweak as needed.
Now - if we add new APs we just plug them in and add them to our
dashboard and we are finished.
Currently we have:
3 SSIDs:
Staff
Students
Guest (this is on a timer – we do not allow during the school day).
Wireless Project Cost
$625 per/AP/year for a 5 year license.
2 - HP 2520 24 Port POE Switches $2700
1 - 8 Port POE Switch $150
AP installation (North West Regional Systems) $2200
Totals:
Year 1 $9175 (1 Year License Fee, APs, Switches, and Installation)
Yearly License Fee: $4125
Original set up:
New Lexington High School (33 MR16, 1 MR66)
Additional APs this year
New Lexington High School (35 MR16, 1 MR66)
New Lexington Middle School (24 MR16)
Thank You!
Tonya Sherburne
Superintendent
New Lexington City Schools
nl_tsherburn@seovec.org
Tim Householder
Technology Director
New Lexington City Schools
nl_thousehol@seovec.org
Bobby Dodd
High School Principal
New Lexington City Schools
nl_rdodd@seovec.org
www.nlpanthers.org