Hartley ISD:Teaching made fun with learning apps deployed by Hexnode MDM
www.hartleyisd.net
Education
Texas, US
iOS
The school
Located in the north-west of Texas, Hartley Independent School District is one of the two public schools in Hartley County, providing K-12 level education. The school mascot is “Tigers” and it suits so well with Hartley because the young people are being brought up just like those majestic cats – brilliant and powerful.
The story
The teachers have school-provided iPads which contain educational apps and learning games installed in them to make learning fun and effective. Since the school doesn’t have a solid IT department to handle the device inventory, it’s the teachers that manage these devices that are deployed. The main job of an admin is to deploy new learning apps to the teacher’s devices. Larry Franks, the IT admin/Social Studies teacher of Hartley ISD, was looking for an MDM solution which would help him manage and deploy apps to the devices. Though he tried many solutions, he could find one that was simple enough to use. That’s when he found Hexnode MDM. The solution seemed to be easy and the trial proved that it was! With the help of the support team, Larry was able to enroll and manage the devices.
“The product has performed as advertised. I think that the most important area that I have to deal with is the support. The tech help has been stellar. I have never had a negative experience with Hexnode. A++ rating”
LARRY FRANKS
Hartley ISD
The challenges
- Distributing different set of apps to teacher's devices based on the grades they were teaching in
- With no solid technical department, the teachers needed to handle the MDM solution.
The solution
- The devices could be assigned to different groups based on the grades which enabled the admin to push the apps to their corresponding device groups.
- The simple UI plus a few support calls made it possible for the admin - Larry to implement the solution by himself.
The Result
Bringing all the iPads which were deployed to the staff under a single console put a big dent in the admin's work load. Teachers had their apps delivered to their devices whenever they demanded it and no waiting involved this time, which made everyone happy. Hartley ISD is one example of the perfect integration of MDM in education.
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