Judson ISD – To The Cloud June 2011
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- Budgets are shrinking while student populations and the number of schools are increasing, making it difficult to do everything with existing staff sizes going down. - Online services through Microsoft Live@Edu offer a low-cost, quick deployment option that extends classroom learning outside of the school day and lowers technical barriers compared to building similar services in-house. - Judson ISD has automated student account creation and management and will roll out Live@Edu to secondary students in fall 2011 as part of a larger strategy to utilize online resources and extend classroom learning beyond the school day.
Judson ISD – To The Cloud June 2011
- 2. • We cannot do it all • Staff size going down • Student population & number of schools increasing • Huge value proposition with many online services • Online services are 24/7 • Classroom learning can be extended outside of normal school day • Budgets are shrinking
- 3. • Generally very high up time • Offer cutting edge services • Low Cost • Quick Deployment • Lower technical barriers to entry • Often can implement without additional staff
- 4. • Is my data secure? • Students are in less of a walled garden….what will they be exposed to? • Will my provider change cost, terms of service? • Will my provider even exist 2 years from now? • Is there an exit strategy for pulling data?
- 5. • Focus on extending classroom learning and access to online resources – BYOD: Bring your own device – Judson ISD Guest Wireless – Schoology: a social learning platform (LMS) – Live@Edu: a set of productivity and collaboration tools for students – Identity Management (IDM): the glue that automagically creates/updates/deletes accounts
- 6. • We still rely heavily on Microsoft Office, so Live@Edu is a natural extension of this • Has impressive set of online apps: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote • Generous 25GB of storage space on Sky Drive • Exchange platform and capabilities are proven and very solid (for corporate type services) • Deep management capabilities via PowerShell • Managed much like other Microsoft products, so natural fit for IT administration staff
- 7. • Judson ISD had automated creation and update of student accounts, file shares, and groups with UMRA (User Management Resource Administrator) • Natural progression of the project was to create automated student Live@Edu account creation and management – We got tools4ever to take this project on for proof of concept and marketing – Only cost to us for project has been man hours
- 8. • In April of 2011 we executed script, creating over 10,000 secondary account at Live@Edu.
- 9. • Live@Edu will be rolled out to secondary students as part of larger web 2.0 strategy in Fall 2011 • Initial focus will be on computer literacy classes and other technology courses