Sunday, June 26, 2016

MacBook Air laptop computers

 There is significant work to do yet before the new student computers are ready.

An 'image' needs to completed for all of these computers.  This is the template that is provided on all computers at the start of the school year.  All of the computers are then cloned, except for login details.  This included a management system, called Casper.

Each computer has a unique identifying asset tag.  The same number is also placed on its charger block and sleeve case.  Before a computer is taken home, a form must be signed agreeing to the District's Acceptable Use Policy (AUP).

1046 new MacBook Air computers have arrived that will be issued to students in grades 5-12.  These computers arrived last week on 16 pallets and were carefully unloaded.

The computers have 13" screens, 128 Gb of storage, and 8Gb of RAM.  


Our summer tech staff carefully unloads the pallets.  5 high school students have been working this summer and staying very busy.
A big thanks goes to Mrs. Wolfe, who ordered these heavy duty shelves for her classroom.  They make a great temporary storage for the boxes.
A generous team of volunteers opened every box and removed the computer boxes from the outer cardboard.  This helps save significant time when the time comes to begin the imaging process.
The resulting large pile of boxes were all taken to the city recyclables collection site.  For a brief time, there was a cardboard mountain by the auditorium.


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