Chromebook use

[BlueSteel]

I’ve been asked to investigate the use of Chromebooks for the teaching staff, I’m interested to hear which model other schools have chosen, especially size?

 

Also do other schools use Chromebooks as a replacement for laptops for teachers, if so do they run the school MIS on the device e.g. registration and assessment entry?

[FN-GM]

None of the teachers in any our schools in the MAT have laptops. we offer remote access from personal devices.

 

We are placing an order for the Dell Chromebook 11 for the laptop trolleys.

[rogerdnixon]

We use ChromeOS as our main OS. In classrooms we have teacher Chromeboxes hooked up to monitor/projector/tv. We mainly get Acer ones but have some Asus as well. Staff all have Chromebooks as well. Mainly HP 11 G4 4Gb units.

 

To access SIMS and a Windows desktop we use Ericom AccessNow which works really well and is not too expensive. For printing we have managed cloud printing via Papercut MF and Sharp copiers. We are just starting to go 1:1 with Chromebooks and are deploying the touch/flip Acer 738T which is a nice device and will be the first to have full access to the Play store.

 

We also have some Dell devices which have been good - but in the one instance we had to use their warranty service they were a bit hopeless were HP/Acer have been pretty good. Let me know if you need any more info - we are a Reference School and do offer visits and help with ChromeOS and Apps.

[aleach2]

I’ve been asked to investigate the use of Chromebooks for the teaching staff, I’m interested to hear which model other schools have chosen, especially size?

 

Also do other schools use Chromebooks as a replacement for laptops for teachers, if so do they run the school MIS on the device e.g. registration and assessment entry?

 

We use Chromebooks as a replacement for student laptops. All our classrooms have desktops. Teachers still use the student Chromebooks to do work within our Google Apps environment but not as a desktop/laptop replacement. To be honest we only have a few laptops in the school.