{"id":235605,"date":"2021-08-25T10:05:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T17:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.faronics.com\/?p=235605"},"modified":"2025-02-12T02:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T10:33:15","slug":"back-to-school-are-your-computers-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faronics.com\/en-uk\/news\/blog\/back-to-school-are-your-computers-ready","title":{"rendered":"Back to school &#8211; are your computers ready?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s the start of a new school year. Everyone\u2019s refreshed after a summer break and primed for learning. But are the school\u2019s computers ready?<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For IT managers in schools, September is a good time to take stock and consider what you can put in place to make your academic year a smooth rather than a stressful one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faronics.com\/en-uk\/news\/blog\/back-to-school-are-your-computers-ready\/750-x-366-faronics-blog-01\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-235607\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.faronics.com\/assets\/750-x-366-Faronics-blog-01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"366\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-235607\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><b>What is your starting point?<\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What have you got and what is it being used for? These should be straightforward questions, but can be difficult to answer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/faronicscloud.com\/pages\/usage-stats\">Inventory<\/a> feature in Faronics Cloud allows you to see straightaway the status of all your hardware. You can customise the page to show all manner of useful information, which you can refer to whenever you like, wherever you are. It might be particularly helpful at this time of year to check the warranty end date on all your machines: is there anything you need to get fixed before the warranty expires? And the \u2018Last Updated\u2019 column is a reference point for getting all your machines refreshed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faronics.com\/en-uk\/news\/blog\/back-to-school-are-your-computers-ready\/attachment\/1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-235615\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.faronics.com\/assets\/1-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-235615\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u2018Tags\u2019 feature is a genuine time-saver, as it allows you to filter on and action certain categories, like \u2018Dell computers\u2019 or \u2018Science lab laptops\u2019; at the start of the school year it is worth spending a little bit of time tagging all your estate with anything relevant that you\u2019ll want to report on or enact on-demand maintenance through the cloud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><b>Software updates<\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ideally, software updates and Windows updates are <a href=\"https:\/\/faronicscloud.com\/pages\/software-updater\">automated<\/a> &#8211; that\u2019s a potential headache that you no longer need to worry or even think about in this school year. By enabling <a href=\"https:\/\/faronicscloud.com\/pages\/software-updater\">Software Updater<\/a> in your Faronics Cloud Deep Freeze policy, all you have to do is tick the software you want to keep up-to-date, and schedule a maintenance period, which might be overnight once a week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faronics.com\/en-uk\/news\/blog\/back-to-school-are-your-computers-ready\/attachment\/2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-235623\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.faronics.com\/assets\/2-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"392\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-235623\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another approach would be to treat the start of the school year as the ideal time to image your computers exactly the way you want them. You might want all your staff with one image, and all your pupil devices with another. Either way, it\u2019s straightforward to capture that image, push it out to the workstations you need, then set everything to update in the background without disrupting any learning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faronics.com\/en-uk\/news\/blog\/back-to-school-are-your-computers-ready\/blog-faronics-2-01\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-235631\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.faronics.com\/assets\/Blog-Faronics-2-01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"366\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-235631\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><b>Have your school policies planned or in place\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A small amount of setup time at the start of a school year will allow you to get to the end and look back proudly on both how much money you\u2019ve saved, and how you\u2019ve contributed to the environment. For example, you could set every computer to shut down at 4pm every weekday, and every monitor to turn off if inactive for five minutes, and feel super-smug as you track savings across the year with our dashboards and reports. Jay Stelmach, Computer Technician at Wells High School, says: \u2018We use Faronics Power Save in a school environment; it\u2019s made managing the power consumption of the school computers a breeze!\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><b>Mobile devices<\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s probably worth double-checking that everything is set up correctly for existing mobile devices you manage, as well as any new ones that might be enrolled during the course of the year. Faronics\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/faronicscloud.com\/pages\/mdm\">mobile device management<\/a> allows you to set exactly which restrictions you want to apply; so you can be certain that your students and teachers won\u2019t be able to do something dangerous that you don\u2019t want to allow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faronics.com\/en-uk\/news\/blog\/back-to-school-are-your-computers-ready\/attachment\/3\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-235640\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.faronics.com\/assets\/3-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"749\" height=\"546\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-235640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><b>Security<\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proper protection for computers is an ever-present and growing worry in schools, especially when the same device will often be used by several students or teachers in one day. Deep Freeze, our unique reboot-to-restore solution, ensures that any changes made by a local user are eliminated on restart, so that each session begins with the computer in its original pristine state. Deep Freeze works as one layer of defence in tandem with two further layers, our <a href=\"https:\/\/faronicscloud.com\/pages\/anti-virus\">Anti-Virus<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/faronicscloud.com\/pages\/anti-executable\">Anti-Executable<\/a> modules.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jorge L\u00f3pez, Director of Academic Technological Support at UPAEP, says: \u2018After implementing Deep Freeze, it hasn\u2019t been necessary to give any technical support to the computers. They\u2019re using only the authorised software and we guarantee all that without preventing our students from fully using the computers for their tests and learning.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><b>Get on the front foot<\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you can spend half an hour on a small amount of sense-checking and admin, you can enjoy the huge benefits of managing your school\u2019s devices through one intuitive cloud console. With <a href=\"https:\/\/faronicscloud.com\/\">Faronics Cloud<\/a>: yes, your computers are always ready.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s the start of a new school year. Everyone\u2019s refreshed after a summer break and primed for learning. But are the school\u2019s computers ready?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For IT managers in schools, September is a good time to take stock and consider what you can put in place to make your academic year a smooth rather than a stressful one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faronics.com\/en-uk\/news\/blog\/back-to-school-are-your-computers-ready\/750-x-366-faronics-blog-01\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-235607\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.faronics.com\/assets\/750-x-366-Faronics-blog-01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"366\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-235607\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">What is your starting point?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">What have you got and what is it being used for? These should be straightforward questions, but can be difficult to answer.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/faronicscloud.com\/pages\/usage-stats\">Inventory<\/a> feature in Faronics Cloud allows you to see straightaway the status of all your hardware. You can customise the page to show all manner of useful information, which you can refer to whenever you like, wherever you are. It might be particularly helpful at this time of year to check the warranty end date on all your machines: is there anything you need to get fixed before the warranty expires? And the \u2018Last Updated\u2019 column is a reference point for getting all your machines refreshed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faronics.com\/en-uk\/news\/blog\/back-to-school-are-your-computers-ready\/attachment\/1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-235615\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.faronics.com\/assets\/1-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-235615\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The \u2018Tags\u2019 feature is a genuine time-saver, as it allows you to filter on and action certain categories, like \u2018Dell computers\u2019 or \u2018Science lab laptops\u2019; at the start of the school year it is worth spending a little bit of time tagging all your estate with <\/p>\n<div class=\"more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.faronics.com\/en-uk\/news\/blog\/back-to-school-are-your-computers-ready\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":235607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3380,3400,3388,8460,3394,3382,3384,3392,3398,3390],"tags":[8491,8499,8502,8501,8494,8496,8492,8497,8500,8495,8493,8498],"class_list":["post-235605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-3","category-computers-en-uk","category-education-en-uk","category-education-education-en-uk","category-green-tech-en-uk","category-malware-alert-en-uk","category-partner-spotlight-en-uk","category-security-en-uk","category-tech-trends-en-uk","category-technology-trends-en-uk","tag-back-to-school","tag-it-education","tag-school-computer-inventory","tag-school-computer-security","tag-school-computers","tag-school-energy-save","tag-school-it","tag-school-mobile-management","tag-school-software-updates","tag-university-computers","tag-university-it","tag-university-mobile-management"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Back to school - are your computers ready? - Faronics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It\u2019s the start of a new school year. 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