Right or Wrong this is how we did it!

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New Lexington City Schools
11 with iPads
Right or Wrong this is how we did it!
Bobby Dodd High School Principal New Lexington
City Schools nl_rdodd_at_seovec.org
Tim Householder Technology Director New Lexington
City Schools nl_thousehol_at_seovec.org
Tonya Sherburne Superintendent New Lexington City
Schools nl_tsherburn_at_seovec.org
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New Lexington City Schools
Rural district We have 4 school
buildings New Lexington High School (11 with
iPads) New Lexington Middle School New
Lexington Elementary School Junction City
Elementary School 1950 students district
wide 80 Free and Reduced lunch according to
E-Rate 61.53 Free and Reduced lunch Small
IT Department Macintosh District  Close to
1000 iPads in the district
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Must Haves for a 11 or BYOD

• A plan of attack
• Talk, Visit, Plan, Talk, Talk,
  Talk..................
• Everyone must be on board
• If your administrators and teachers are not
• willing to make this work it never will.
• Wireless / Network infrastructure
• Have this in place before you start because
  you will have to learn on the fly.
• Patience
• Staff students must be patient when it comes to
  implementation management of devices.

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NLHS iPad Program Time Line
Summer 2011 Meeting with new Superintendent to
discuses the state of Technology in the district.
2011-2012 All NLCS staff members receive
iPads. Early 2012 - Visited Defiance High
School Teachers, Administrators, Board Member,
and Parent. January 2012 Pilot with 27 AP
students AP students take iPads home 4th nine
weeks. Managed with Casper MDM. February May
2012 App Study
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NLHS iPad Program Time Line
February 6th 2012 So, This is My iPad Chad
Reynolds and Megan Finnegan PD for
Teachers March 5th 2012 So, This is My iPad
Chad Reynolds and Megan Finnegan PD for
teachers May 2012 Installed 34 Meraki Access
Points at the high school August 2012 Set up
iPads Set up 600 in one week. August 16th 2012 -
Parent Meeting 1 August 20th 2012 Parent
Meeting 2
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NLHS iPad Program Time Line
August 21st 2012 (Open House) Parent Meeting
3 August 27th - 30th 2012 - Handed out iPads to
students. (Social Studies) December 17th-18th
2012 Apple PD (Math, Science) February
11th-12th 2013 Apple PD (English,
History) February 25th-26th 2013 Apple PD
(Special Education, Creativity)
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What is next?
 How are we going to collect the iPads?
Rethink and revise for next year. App Store
???? Technology Fund ???? Everyone Takes Them
Home ????  Electronic text books. In progress
Wipe out devices and get ready for next
year.
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Parent Meetings
 What is an iPad How we were going to use the
iPads Cost of the iPads Technology Fund 50
per year Accessories-less than 50 students are
responsible for. Scholarships If they do not
pay they can not take them home Acceptable Use
Policy Questions they had.
Four documents must be read and signed before an
iPad is issued Acceptable Use Policy  AUP
Acceptance page  iPad Loan Agreement  Technology
Fund
All documents are available on our website under
high school http//nlpanthers.org
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NLHS Current Stats
600 iPads total 550 for students / staff.   We
purchased a three year lease for 600 iPads with
Apple Care and 6 days of PD from Apple. We
also purchased Griffin Survivor Cases for each
student. Current Stats   Technology Fund 498
Current Students Not counting Tri- County or
Alpha. 476 - 96 Have paid either full 50,
making payments, or scholarship. 20 - Sent back
to Apple for repair. (2- software 18
damaged)   Note 16 Broken Screen 90
Freshman 12 Taken Out of Case 1 Submerged
in pond   1 - Parent Drove Over With Car 7
iPads reported Stolen  
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New Lexington City Schools

Apple Configurator
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Free from Apple
Apple Configurator
Mass configure and deploy iPads.
Requirements OS X 10.7.5 or later
Prepare devices? Configure multiple devices
simultaneously? Update devices to the latest
version of iOS? Create and restore a backup of
settings and app data from one device to other
devices? Import apps into Apple Configurator and
sync them to new devices? Use the built-in
editor to create and install iOS configuration
profiles? Enroll devices with your Mobile Device
Management solution for remote management Supervi
se devices ( When supervised students can not
connect to iTunes )? Organize supervised devices
into custom groups? Automatically apply common
configurations to supervised devices? Quickly
reapply a configuration to a supervised device
and remove the previous users data? Import apps
into Apple Configurator and sync them to
supervised devices? Define and apply common or
sequential names to all devices? Restrict
supervised devices from syncing with other
computers
The computer you use Configurator on - is the
only computer you can use to manage.
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11 Set Up 600 iPads
Using 3 Bretford sync trays (10 iPads each for a
total of 30) and 1 MacBook with Apple
Configurator Using a master image I was able
to setup 600 iPads in 1 week.
I brought in students to put the cases on. They
put 600 cases on in 3 days.
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System Manager
 Cloud Based  100 Free for any Network No
Maximum number of devices  Operates over SSL
 Works on any vendors network Email support
Phone support for Meraki Customers
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Deployment
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Profiles
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Settings
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iOS apps
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The Good and Bad..
The Good
Apple Configurator  The cost Free  Once
figured out it is easy to use  Wiping out
devices is quick and easy.
Meraki System Manager The cost Free Easy to
use Cloud based no equipment
The Bad
Apple Configurator You have to touch every device.
Meraki System Manager  App Store  Sometimes we
have problems with profiles communicating.  Locat
ing Devices. Based on Service Provider / ip
location. Meraki says that they are about to
release something similar to Find my iPad
(iCloud) Profile can be removed
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New Lexington City Schools

Cloud Managed Wireless 802.11n Wireless LAN
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Why did we choose Meraki ??
We had no managed Wi-Fi in the district.
(Several Apple Airports). We were going to a
grade 9-12 - 11 solution with iPads and needed a
more robust wireless solution. After looking
at several vendors and talking with our ITC we
thought price wise the Meraki was the best fit
for us.  Because our ITC agreed to purchase the
Meraki Access Points in bulk (offering all of
their schools Meraki APs) they could drive the
price down. The 1 reason - the free MDM
solution Meraki offers.
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Centralized Management
 100 Cloud Managed Built for rapid building
wide deployments Simple centralized
management, no training required Wireless APs
serve 100 users each No user limitations
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User Visibility
 Control over users, devices, and application
Control Bandwidth Locate clients  View
auto-generated reports
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Intelligence
 Auto-Configuring mesh network  Multi-channel
routing protocols  Self-healing networking with
per-flow optimization
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Security Role Bases Access
 Layer 7 traffic classification and
control  Intrusion detection engine
Identity-based content filtering. Device-aware
firewall rules
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Ease of Deployment
I hired North West Regional Systems out of
Mansfield. They brought two people and we had the
33 APs installed and online in 2 school days.
Literally took them out of the box and connected
them to POE switches. I played with the
Dashboard for a couple hours and had them all
configured. Now I just tweak as needed. Now - if
we add new APs we just plug them in and add them
to our dashboard and we are finished. Currently
we have 3 SSIDs Staff Students Guest (this is
on a timer we do not allow during the school
day).

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Wireless Project Cost
625 per/AP/year for a 5 year license. 2 - HP
2520 24 Port POE Switches 2700 1 - 8 Port POE
Switch 150 AP installation (North West Regional
Systems) 2200 Totals Year 1 9175 (1 Year
License Fee, APs, Switches, and
Installation) Yearly License Fee 4125
Original set up New Lexington High School
(33 MR16, 1 MR66) Additional APs this year New
Lexington High School (35 MR16, 1 MR66) New
Lexington Middle School (24 MR16)
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Thank You!
Bobby Dodd High School Principal New Lexington
City Schools nl_rdodd_at_seovec.org
Tim Householder Technology Director New Lexington
City Schools nl_thousehol_at_seovec.org
Tonya Sherburne Superintendent New Lexington City
Schools nl_tsherburn_at_seovec.org
www.nlpanthers.org