Bring Your Own Device

Providing students and staff with the flexibility to use their own personal devices for learning at school and home can bring a number of benefits. Pupils will already be engaged and familiar with the technology, which can ensure a faster path to adoption and it is certainly one way to achieve cost savings as part of a 1:1 computing scheme.

Despite the many benefits, managing a mixture of devices can bring its own challenges, especially when there is an expectation that the technology that pupils use at home, will work just as well in school.

You may already have everything you require to get started. The key is in utilising existing equipment in a safe and secure way. At a most basic level all you need is connectivity, filtering, a wireless network, antivirus, and a defined acceptable user policy. Learning can be supported by having access to email and online resources, although there will be limitations around what they can do with their devices.

If you want to roll out a BYOD scheme across the school, then it is advisable to consider putting in place an integrated solution. This will enable you to:

• fully manage and control a range of devices and operating systems
• provide fair airtime through your wireless network across the school
• deliver instant access to online services and applications
• give pupils the ability to utilise school facilities such as printers
• enable data to be stored either locally or in the cloud.

These solutions will ensure that pupils can take their device seamlessly between home and school.

Full integration, full control and full implementation. Pupils can begin to enjoy proper freedom with access to the network for all of their school resources backed up with comprehensive monitoring, device control and remote management to ensure that everything remains safe and secure.

RM has a vast amount of experience in helping schools to implement various 1:1 schemes. We can provide a consultancy service to give you personalised advice on how to roll out a successful 1:1 scheme in a simple step-by-step process and help you complete putting the foundations in place with anything from mobile device management systems to wireless systems. We can even provide help on finance, installation, implementation and support through to classroom integration and training. Plus our RM Unify solution can provide teachers and pupils with a single sign-on Launchpad to the best of breed online services, resources and applications through their device, anytime, anywhere.

For more information on our BYOD solutions either select an area of interest on the left or give us a call on 08450 700 300 so that we can discuss your vision and aspirations and help you with finding the right solutions for your needs.