Slides from 8/15/18 SimpleK12.com webinar

1. Chromebook Implementation -
Tips & Procedures
Simple K12.com webinar - 8/15/18
Chris Casal
Purveyor of Geekery, Scarsdale NY
Twitter: @mr_casal
about.me/mrcasal

2. Introduction
• 2012-2014
• K-5 elementary school
(New York City)
• Google Apps (GAFE)
school
• 4-12 Chromebooks in every
3-5th grade classroom
• average 30 students per
room
• moved toward 2:1
• 2014-2018
• K-5 elementary school
(Scarsdale, NY)
• Google Apps (GAFE)
district
• 1:1 in grades 3, 4 and
5, district wide
• informal use in 2nd

3. Preface
• Be Google Suite for Education (G Suite)
Free
edu.google.com/k-12-solutions/get-started/
sign up here

4. Tip #1
• Pilot
• Buy a few, don’t buy dozens
• See how they work within your network infrastructure

5. Tip #2
• Know your network infrastructure
• Why 2:1 in NYC?
our access points only supported 20 devices
30 students plus teacher
Why 1:1 in Scarsdale?
decision process prior to me joining team
wanted to do 1:1
built infrastructure to support

6. Tip #3
• Know your goal
Chromebooks take literal minutes to deploy, are
your staff & students ready to roll as soon as the
devices show up?

7. Tip #4 (more “procedure” than tip)
• Enterprise enrollment
Control-Alt-E
If you don’t do this, you wont be able to manage
the devices within the G Suite Admin console
Tutorial based on NYCDOE:
http://www.slideshare.net/mr_casal/nycdoe-
chromebook-setup

8. Control-Alt-E
Don’t sign in. Enroll your device in the domain
first

9. “enterprise enrollment”
Now, sign in.

10. Tip #5
• Consider a generic account
the first account to sign-in is the “device owner”
owner can manage device permissions
maybe it’s the classroom teacher or maybe it’s a
generic account since all permission managed
centrally (ie: chromebooks@mydomain.org)

11. Tip #6 - check your manufacturer specs
• “Power Wash” is different than wiping the device
Do Not Power Wash!
If you Power Wash you wont be able to re-enroll the
device
Wipe the device to clear all data and re-enroll
wiping (entering “developer mode” varies by
device)
https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/1360642

12. Tip #7
• Enrolling the device adds it to the overall domain
You need to purchase the management console for
each device (~$30 per)
be sure to move individual devices to appropriate
sub-organizations if you are creating custom
settings
changing “Chrome” settings in Admin panel impacts
all Chrome users, even those on Macs and PCs

13. Tip #8
• Enable Force re-enrollment
should be on by default, just double-check
• In Admin Panel, will ensure devices are re-enrolled
even if they are wiped
• https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/
1360534#forced-re-enrollment

14. Tip #9
• Don’t forget to deprovision devices that you recycle
• https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/
3523633

15. Tip #10
• Seriously consider a 3rd-party management tool
Hapara
GoGuardian
• We use Hapara, worth every penny

16. Hapara
• https://support.hapara.com/hc/en-us/articles/207019387-Changes-to-Toolbar-and-Hapara-Workspace-now-available-?mobile_site=true

17. Hapara
• https://support.hapara.com/hc/en-us/articles/213494438-Welcome-to-Hapara-Highlights?mobile_site=true

18. Summary
• Chromebooks are very easy to implement
• Great resources available online
http://edutraining.googleapps.com/chromebooks
https://support.google.com/chromebook/?
hl=en#topic=3399709
https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/chromebooks
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/
114001660438094131273

19. Contact
Christopher M. Casal
Purveyor of Geekery
Heathcote School, Scarsdale NY
Twitter: @mr_casal
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Diigo: mrcasal
www.mrcasal.com
slideshare.net/mr_casal
blog.mrcasal.com