Transitioning to a 1:1 Model in Elementary

Question

Our district is moving from a cart-based model to a true 1:1 model for elementary students, and we’re working through the logistics of this transition.

Right now, our plan is for students to pick up their devices from a homeroom cart each morning and return them at the end of the day. Since we don’t have campus techs, only district techs, we’re considering the best way to manage this process efficiently. How do we quickly and effectiviely check out the devices?

For those of you in districts that have already implemented a 1:1 model at the elementary level:

Do you check out devices individually to students? When/how are they checked out?
Do you check out the devices to the cart and allow the teacher to assign them?

We’d love to hear your experiences and insights!

JTherrien_iiQ · Accepted Answer

Hi ​@courtney-long!If I’m understanding your new process correctly, I’d highly recommend using our MyClasses option. Take a look at this article and let me know what your think!Asset Check-In/Out Through My Classes

AJennings · Answer

At one of our Elementary schools they took enough Chromebooks up to each class for the teacher to assign one per student. Even though we used carts, they had pre-assigned the CBs to a room number and had the teacher fill out their tab on a spreadsheet with the student’s name next to their assigned CB asset tag (and charger). Once this was completed over the course of the first week we could take all ~1200 assets and do an IIQ Asset Import and check them all out in about 15 minutes. Put some of the onus on the teachers to manage the resources assigned to their room/students, knowing there is limited on-site support to handle such tasks.

I think the rest of our Es do this as well, but I only directly support one and this is what we came up with.

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