Transforming student and teacher learning
Our Managed Service with a Surface model assist’s all educational organisations of all types and sizes thrive in this new environment.
Managed Service with a Surface
Accelerating change
The educational landscape is in the process of profound change, the impact of Covid-19 has accelerated existing trends of cloud based and blended learning, transforming student and teaching and learning expectations and processes. Class Technology Solutions Limited (CTS) as an innovative Microsoft Gold Solutions Partner, providing managed IT support services exclusively to, and across the broad and complex terrain of the UK education sector, has worked hard to develop support models that meet these challenges. Our Managed Service with a Surface model assist’s all educational organisations of all types and sizes thrive in this new environment.
Managed Service with a Surface
Adopting our Managed Service with a Surface model provides some powerful tools to both teachers and staff to equip them to meet the new educational challenges. It allows scalable group collaboration through Microsoft Teams, maps the edges of the learning universe and balances the performance and portability that they need. In short, the solution is a versatile as the students or teachers who use it!
Our Managed Service with a Surface solution allows Microsoft Surface devices to be handed directly to your staff and students. Those devices will be automatically enrolled and configured when the units are un-packed and connected to the internet for the first time through Windows Autopilot. This process eliminates the need to re-image your devices as part of your deployment process, and massively reduces the workload of deployment staff and allows for new, more agile device management and distribution methods, such as Microsoft Intune.
The Power of Microsoft Autopilot
Microsoft’s Windows Autopilot is a cloud-based deployment technology available in Windows 10. By using Windows Autopilot, CTS can remotely deploy and configure devices in a zero-touch process straight from the box. Windows Autopilot deployed devices are identified using a unique device signature, over the internet, at first boot. They are then automatically enrolled and configured using modern management solutions such as Azure Active Directory (AAD) and Mobile Device Management (MDM) services such as Microsoft Intune.
The Strengths of a Managed Service with a Surface
IT departments spend a lot of time building and customising Windows images that are then applied to devices. The Class Technology Managed Service with a Surface model fundamentally alters the process of new deployments no matter how large or small.
When a new device arrives with a staff member or student, Windows Autopilot only requires a few simple operations to prepare their device and start configuring it. The only interaction required is for the user to connect to a network and to verify their credentials. From there, everything else is taken care of for them, automatically, securely and reliably.
All of this process is underpinned and supported by CTS professionals throughout the deployment and through to commissioning and widespread usage.
Case studies from those using our Managed Service with a Surface
Find out more about Managed Service with a Surface
If you want to find out more about how this Class Technology Managed Service with a Surface model can transform your teaching and learning environment or whether you’re in need of a device deployment as part of a parental purchase scheme, extend or upgrade your BYOD scheme, or simply wish to upgrade existing laptops, we’re able to guide you through the process, so get in touch today.
