Deploying Chromebooks in the Classroom: Planning, Installing, and Managing Chromebooks in Schools and Colleges

© Guy Hart-Davis 2018

Guy Hart-DavisDeploying Chromebooks in the Classroomhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3766-3_1

1. Planning Your Deployment of Chromebooks in the Classroom

Guy Hart-Davis¹ 

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County Durham, UK

 

In this chapter, we will discuss how to plan your deployment of Chromebooks in the classroom. We will start with a quick reality check about your school’s plans to add computers to the classroom and then move along to practical matters. We will then make sure you know the capabilities of Chromebooks and how they compare—both favorably and unfavorably—to alternatives, such as other laptop-style computers and tablet computers. We will then go through what you will need to do to plan the deployment: choose a deployment model, decide how ...