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Using Aspen to Run a 1:1 Chromebook Initiative: How We Saved Ourselves and Possibly the World! Post One: What's the Big Deal? The West Warwick Public Schools started our 1:1 Chromebook initiative in the spring of 2012-2013 school year. We outfitted a single kindergarten classroom with 25 Chromebooks that they brought back and forth to school each day. In the next school year we outfitted an entire K-4 elementary school with over 400 units, and our district was off and running. In addition to the one school we added close to 800 units across the district in individual classrooms. We called our initiative, "One to One, One Classroom at a Time". The plan was to use the next couple of years to ramp-up the rest of our students using the one classroom at a time model. Early on the school committee, building level administrators, and central office staff felt a lot of pressure to really get things moving. In September of 2014, the West Warwick School Committee, decided to g

Creating the September Re-Issue Assessment Definition in Aspen: Supporting a 1:1 Chromebook Initiative The West Warwick Public Schools has been a K-12, 1:1 Chromebook district since the spring of 2012-2013. Our district uses Aspen to assist us with our management of over 4,200 Chromebooks for students, and every staff member. This blog post will explain how we use Aspen's Assessment tool to manage the process of re-issuing Chromebooks in September. As you can well imagine it is a tremendous task to move each student's Chromebook from their previous year's classroom to their new classroom in time for the new school year. What makes it even more difficult is that in the last weeks of August it's not uncommon for student to be shuffled from classroom to classroom, and sometimes moved to another school within the district. Why Use the Assessment Definition All of this movement demands that we have an easy way for teachers to communicate with the helpdesk in an easy a