<div dir="ltr"><div>Good questions to ask:</div><ul><li>Will your school cover the cost of Adobe Software and other expensive specialised software available for download on to individual machines? <br></li><li>Will the students have machines with the grunt required to run the required software?</li><li>How do you run a class with a range of different machines/OS or will the individual laptops be prescribed?</li><li>Who is responsible for ad hoc technical issues with laptops in class? The IT teacher? </li><li>Will the school have enough wifi ports and bandwidth to manage the additional 1000s of laptops demanding access? (My last school did not and it made staff tech training impossible: with only 80 staff we could not all access the network at once in the same location).</li></ul><div>You need a lab! Hope that helps.</div><div><br></div><div>Vic</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Troy Coggins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tcoggins@sfx.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">tcoggins@sfx.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">My school is looking at getting rid of our computer labs in favour of a school wide student laptop program. I was wondering if anyone else has any experience in this, especially in terms of software compatibility issues and authentication
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