The New Lexington City School district implemented a 1:1 iPad program at its high school and deployed Meraki wireless access points and system management across its buildings. The summary outlines the key steps taken, including piloting iPads with 27 students, training teachers, setting up 600 iPads using Apple Configurator, and deploying 33 Meraki access points at the high school which were managed through Meraki's free cloud-based system. The implementation process and tools used are discussed, along with benefits and challenges experienced.

1. New Lexington City Schools
1:1 with iPads
Right or Wrong this is how we did it!
Bobby Dodd
High School Principal
New Lexington City Schools
nl_rdodd@seovec.org
Tim Householder
Technology Director
New Lexington City Schools
nl_thousehol@seovec.org
Tonya Sherburne
Superintendent
New Lexington City Schools
nl_tsherburn@seovec.org

2. New Lexington City Schools:
• Rural district
• We have 4 school buildings:
New Lexington High School (1:1 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

3. Must Haves
for a 1:1 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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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)

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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
NLHS Current Stats

10. New Lexington City Schools
&
Apple Configurator

11. Apple Configurator
Mass configure and deploy iPads.
Requirements: OS X 10.7.5 or later
Free from Apple
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
Supervise 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 user’s
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.

12. 1:1 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.

13. • Cloud Based
• 100% Free for any Network
• No Maximum number of
devices
• Operates over SSL
•Works on any vendor’s network
• Email support – Phone support
for Meraki Customers
System Manager

14. Deployment

15. Profiles

16. Settings

17. iOS apps

18. The Good and Bad..
Apple Configurator
• The cost – Free
• Once figured out – it is easy to use
•Wiping out devices is quick and easy.
Apple Configurator
You have to touch every device.
Meraki System Manager
• The cost – Free
• Easy to use
• Cloud based – no equipment
The Good
The Bad
Meraki System Manager
• App Store
• Sometimes we have problems with profiles communicating.
• Locating 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

19. New Lexington City Schools
&
Cloud Managed Wireless
802.11n Wireless LAN

20. 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 - 1:1 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.

21. 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

22. User Visibility
• Control over users, devices, and application
• Control Bandwidth
• Locate clients
• View auto-generated reports

25. • Auto-Configuring
mesh network
• Multi-channel
routing protocols
• Self-healing
networking with
per-flow
optimization
Intelligence:

26. Security & Role Bases Access:
• Layer 7 traffic classification
and control
• Intrusion detection engine
• Identity-based content filtering.
• Device-aware firewall rules

27. 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).

28. 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)

29. Thank You!
Bobby Dodd
High School Principal
New Lexington City Schools
nl_rdodd@seovec.org
Tim Householder
Technology Director
New Lexington City Schools
nl_thousehol@seovec.org
Tonya Sherburne
Superintendent
New Lexington City Schools
nl_tsherburn@seovec.org
www.nlpanthers.org