Recently a large number of Victorian schools have experienced a great success with 1:1 student laptop / netbook programs resulting in students becoming more engaged in what they are doing in the classroom and making better connections to the world around them at home and at school.

My personal experiences as a teacher and ICT Leader who eas involved in the recent Victorian Statewide trial is that netbooks dramatically sped up the learning process in the classroom and extended the enquiry process at home. Students thoroughly enjoyed using their netbook in the class and seemed to be far more enthusiastic about learning when the netbooks were being utilised.

If done right 1:1 student laptop programs can also save tens of thousands off your school ICT  budget and parents can save hundreds of dollars through a unique  opportunity that neither the school or parents can achieve alone. 

The biggest issues that ours and many other schools faced when we reviewed our Netbook trial was that whilst staff, students and parents were keen to see 1:1 learnig continue technical  issues needed to be better managed to ensure that schools were not burdened by them in extra technical expense beyond their existing time allowance and that students and parents were not frustrated by leasing a computer that frequently didn't work as it should at both home and school.

TechZoo offers a complete solution to 1:1 learning programs through the following steps. 

• Guide you in setting up a price schedule that is both acceptable to your school and parents.
• Promotional and legal docuemtation get parents enthused and informed about 1:1 learning.
• Ensuring you have an adequate wireless infrastructure to support 1:1 learning.
• Advise you in the process of selecting the best hardware to meet student and school needs.
• Managing all techical issues located on student laptops on school site for the duration of the lease.

We  leave your existing technician to deal with school and staff computer issues. Their only responsibiltiy in this program is to intially join the computers to your school network and ensure your network is running correctly.  *TechZoo does not take any responisbility for  network or server issues at your school this is your technicians job to ensure this side is taken care of.

TechZoo will deal with all hardware and software faults on the netbook itself such as faulty hard drives, cracked screens, loss of functionality or any other issue hat is stopping students from using them effectively all for one low flat annual fee that is padded into cost which is divided between the school and parents.

We will arrive on site to come and service and if need be collect the netbook.  If it it cannot be fixed on site students will be provided with a loan netbook to use at school only in the interim.  Generally most off site  problems will be fixed in 1 - 3 days with the exception of warranty based issues in which the unit is returned to the manufacturer and is returned at their discretion.