[Year 12 SofDev] Computer Lab question

[Victoria Farrell]

Good questions to ask:

   - Will your school cover the cost of Adobe Software and other expensive
   specialised software available for download on to individual machines?
   - Will the students have machines with the grunt required to run the
   required software?
   - How do you run a class with a range of different machines/OS or will
   the individual laptops be prescribed?
   - Who is responsible for ad hoc technical issues with laptops in class?
   The IT teacher?
   - 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).

You need a lab! Hope that helps.

Vic

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Troy Coggins <tcoggins at sfx.vic.edu.au>
wrote:

> Hello All
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> Sorry for the off topic post.
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> 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 of student SAC tasks. What should we be looking out for?
> and finally if anyone has any compelling arguments for keeping the labs.
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> Thanks
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> Troy Coggins
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