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Using Pando & Aspen to Manage Our 1:1 Chromebook Program Aspen is our district's Student Information System, and we use it for almost every aspect of our business as a school district. We use Aspen and Pando together to run our helpdesk. Pando is one of the built in tools in Aspen that helps us manage our 1:1 Chromebook environment.  Everyone in our district uses Aspen, and can submit a helpdesk ticket within the application. How to Submit a Helpdesk Ticket: The video clip below illustrates the simple process of submitting a Helpdesk ticket. Using Pando: A Quick Overview Using Pando for our district means that a relatively small work group can organize, evaluate, and attack our Helpdesk needs for approximately 4,500 end users.  All of our tickets are concentrated in one area, and our end users receive automated updates as their ticket is processed. Our district has been using Aspen/Pando as our helpdesk solution since August of 2010. This short video expla...

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...