“Roseville City School District Embraces Mobility in the Classroom and Promotes eLearning with AirWatch”
The Challenge: Mobility in the classroom allows for students and teachers to be more engaged in the learning process. Young students feel more comfortable learning on devices they have used while growing up. It is imperative for schools everywhere to embrace technology and to provide a management tool to ensure appropriate device use. Roseville City School District decided to use mobility in the classroom and needed a way for the tablets to be shared among students with an effective means to deploy curriculum. The mobile management solution also needed to save the IT team valuable time.
The Client: Roseville City School District in California recently deployed tablets to their K-12 student body and teachers to stay on the cutting edge of fresh academic initiatives. Many families move to Northern California for schools like Roseville and their excellent reputation. The growth of the school creates an opportune time to make the move towards mobility. So, the school wanted a way to manage document sharing and apps on student devices. It also required Google domains for its three campuses, which were made possible through AirWatch which hosts everything.
The Solution: AirWatch gave Roseville a roadmap of what could be done now and in the future in terms of mobile management, which made it simple to gradually deploy the solution in the school. AirWatch gave more credibility to the IT department during this exponential growth period. With AirWatch-secured Wi-Fi, the devices can tie into internal and guest networks with no problem. The school must also follow the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA ). With user-specific profiles, GPS (Global Positioning System) can be turned off on devices so that no child is being tracked and the school stays COPPA compliant. Security remains a top concern for the school district as well. Now, they can put in G-rated apps and categorize them through the iTunes Store. The rating ensures that the students are not accessing material that is inappropriate. AirWatch also provides an education-specific support team. Unlike other vendors, it understands the needs of academic institutions, specifically. It also understands the significance of having shared devices between students allows app rating. As Roseville continues to grow as a district, it is confident with AirWatch’s scalability and that the solution will meet the technology needs of the school.
I’d like to infer from the above case-study that with the aid of the highly competent MDM solution provided by Airwatch, the Roseville City School was successfully able to deploy mobility in its campuses, all thanks to the expandability and scalability of the solution. It simplified all the management tasks for the school with a reliable, all-inclusive and highly secure solution and helped it to go mobile in an efficient and productive way.
The services offered by Airwatch can be deployed on-premise of your organization, through Airwatch Appliance for a turnkey enterprise deployment or can be made available on an environment for enterprises deploying SaaS (Software as a Service).
It is undeniable that advanced mobile devices and applications are critical to an organization’s success; hence enterprises need a comprehensive smartphone and mobile device management solution like Airwatch, which encompasses deployment, security, monitoring, management and support. It provides the technology to simplify these processes across multiple device types and mobile operating systems in one single console.
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