One to One Programs

One computer for each student. This concept has gained ground with educators as a way to improve both student engagement in learning and standardized test scores. When the IT staff works with the district to design a one to one program there are many choices to be made in the technology plan and policy guidelines. The district needs to determine which policies can be automatically enforced by technology and which policies must be enforced through teacher and student behavior. By choosing supporting technology wisely, school district enable teachers, administrators and IT support staff to spend their time on meaningful, interactive tasks like teaching and training instead of spending valuable staff and class time on routine computer housekeeping.

The Casper Suite enables your district to support Apple laptops and desktops in compliance with district policies by automating maintenance tasks and streamlining large projects. With the Casper Suite in place your IT department can remain supportive, flexible and reliable while increasing the number of computers you can easily support.

Large Scale Deployments

Every summer, K-12 school districts across the country get ready to image thousands of Macs for their teacher and student one to one laptop programs. This annual project has the potential to cost thousands of dollars, eat up technical staff time and become a logistical nightmare. But it doesn't have to be this way. With the Casper Suite from JAMF Software, school districts have the ability to design efficient workflows for building configurations and imaging large groups of machines quickly and automatically.

Policy Based Management

Laptop computers are a moving target - literally moving on and off the school network, opening and shutting, as students and teachers go about their daily activities. Without a reliable way to connect with laptops, it can be near impossible to deploy software, patches, printers or other necessary updates. With the Casper Suite, laptops check in with the server when available and run assigned tasks. With this policy based framework, IT can define and schedule tasks once and let the Casper Suite do the rest.

Restricted Software

With student and teachers using laptops throughout the day, it can be a challenge to keep the focus on learning tasks. The school district also has the responsibility to keep malware off of school networks and to protect itself from illegal file sharing applications. With the Restricted Software feature of the Casper Suite, IT simply defines the titles that are banned and the Casper Suite does the rest, automatically removing illegal software from district computers.