How customizable skills and identity help districts get traction on 21st-century learning portfolios. As the 21st century lurches ever onward, more and more districts are formalizing a core set of cross-grade-level skills to provide a “north star” for assessing student growth and guiding “the adults” in the redesign of the student experience -including the curriculum […]
With Chromebook popularity continuing to rise at an exponential rate it’s always a good time to “Talk Chromebooks” In this post, we will remind you of some previously shared information, some new tips/tricks and provide some areas to consider as you continue to manage, grow, and leverage your Chromebook program. Let’s start with some good […]
Application Management is a necessary part of any platform management solution. Where G Suite users are leveraging multiple repositories for gaining access to applications, it can feel like a maze at times making sure that you’ve done everything in your power to protect users from themselves. And with the ever-changing environments, knowing which settings affect […]
It seems like there are more and more ransomware attacks popping up throughout the world everyday. It may come as no shock that schools are often prime targets. The reason for this is simply the number of users we have and the amount of data that we store. While there is no magic checkbox we […]
As Summer projects wind down, construction and buildings get built (hopefully) and we start hearing those “I forgot my password” and “I need this right now” comments. We all know what time it is: time to transition from being “summer busy” to “school year busy.” Knowing it’s crunch time, I want to go over 5 […]
With the advent of the SmartPhone, access to a user’s data has never been easier. Teachers are able to grade papers from iPads. Students are able to turn in assignments from their phones. The nature of having an account that is persistently signed in is a key feature of the mobile platform. Whether it’s a […]
Exciting new partnerships in the deeper learning community of practice The Amplified IT is proud to announce three new strategic partnerships to help us engage and support powerful, existing communities of educator practice around Backpack for Google Drive — our student portfolio solution for 21st-century learning and school district transformation built to integrate seamlessly into […]
With our minds off the summer projects and hopefully user provisioning humming away without issue, School IT Administrators attention turns to the next big annual milestone – Testing. To assess where students start off at the beginning of the year and to get a baseline for growth throughout the school year. Although all schools have […]
Over the summer most IT Teams are eyeballs-deep in projects that couldn’t be performed over a long weekend or during the traditional school year. The focus is on high level, large projects that impact users as a whole without them knowing it. This could be the configuration of a new firewall, a server upgrade, or […]
As a former technology director, I was always looking for ways to find the ROI on the many initiatives and projects that we instituted around the district. Adding further complexity, Education IT tends to have different goals than a “traditional” IT department would. In education, we look for transformational changes in learning. Specifically, many schools […]
School is fast approaching and soon (if not already) students will be firing up Chromebooks in classrooms across your district. You can become the hero that your district didn’t even know they needed! Navigating websites, creating Google Drive files, accessing G Suite services will be a common task for students. So how can G Suite […]
So you’re going 1-to-1? With a new school year quickly approaching, I’ve been talking to a lot of people who are in the process of going 1-to-1 with Chromebooks, or are planning on doing so in the next year or two. In the conversation I always get asked, so what is it really like? I […]