Apple creates products designed to inspire the minds of teachers and students.
With Apple hardware and software in the hands of students, the work they need to do becomes the work they love to do.
Students love iPad because it can be whatever they need it to be. It helps them explore topics in new ways, and to discover new skills with a Multi-Touch experience that’s interactive and engaging. Packed with power, Mac helps students and teachers tackle the most ambitious projects, fuelling them with confidence to take on any assignment.
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1:1 iPad Programs
Queensland Computers can help you devise and realise a 1:1 iPad Program of any size. We appreciate that schools have a diverse range of requirements and will create a bespoke, tailored program to meet your school’s unique situation. Whether you want to try out a program as part of a small pilot, or are geared up to roll it out to each student, we will work together with you.
- Always the best pricing for volume iPad purchases – guaranteed.
- Mobile Device Management (MDM) partnerships with on-shore, Australian-based support options.
- Security / device lockdown options available.
Device Management and Deployment
Powerful tools from Apple helps support IT managers with their deployments and teachers with their classroom workflows, so students can learn in a secure and personalised environment.
Apple has designed powerful tools for schools to use for deployment, to help teachers with classroom workflows, and to enable a personalised learning experience for every student!
Queensland Computers are here to support you with your MDM deployment and can assist with Cisco Meraki, jamf Pro and jamf School. Contact us for more information or quote on these solutions.
Wi-Fi & Network Support
Our teams are Apple Certified Mac and iOS Technicians with extensive experience deploying and working on a Wi-Fi Networking Infrastructure.
Apple School Manager directly integrates with popular SIS providers. You can also automatically import directory data using an SFTP integration provided by your school or a wide range of SIS providers. Directory information is then available for Classwork, Classroom and Shared iPad, so teachers can start working with their class straight away.
We can assist with preparing your school to get up and running with Apple devices. Working with you to understand your current Wi-Fi networking infrastructure, we can support you to build an individualised program to make to most of your current network and help integrate your devices seamlessly.
Close the digital divide
Give students equal access to technology, no matter which school in the district they attend or their economic background.
- With a robust, flexible, and scalable network, enable 21st century learning for all students.
- Provide reliable access to digital resources in and out of the classroom with continuous connections.
- Ensure students are using the right applications and are spending less time playing games and on social media.
- Partner with the community to provide wireless coverage on the school bus, in the community center, and at the library to narrow the digital divide.
Simplify network and SaaS troubleshooting
With end-to-end network intelligence through Meraki SM, the Meraki dashboard, Wireless Health, and Meraki Insight, easily identify network problems from the end-point to the application server, in a fraction of the time it normally takes Provide the best experience for students and teachers with a holistic view of what is contributing to the end-user’s network slow-down, whether it’s the iPad, cloud application, or state testing site, leading to a faster time to resolution.
1:1 device management
Manage all school owned devices from the same intuitive, cloud-based dashboard where you manage the rest of your Meraki network.
- Unify management, control, and security of thousands of iOS, Android, Mac, and PC devices.
- Remotely deploy software, content, and applications to all, or specific, students devices.
- Block specific applications, or put devices on single-app mode, to ensure students are focusing on the correct lesson.
- Track and find lost or stolen devices, and wipe devices that can’t be retrieved.
Safe and secure learning environments
With content filtering, application control, and SD-WAN capabilities on the Meraki MX security appliance, reduce operational costs, simplify multi-site deployments, and use bandwidth more efficiently to optimize performance for critical applications without sacrificing security or privacy. With Meraki MV security cameras, ensure students’ physical safety at all times with cameras exceptionally simple to deploy and configure and eliminate traditional costs and complexities.
Professional Learning & Development
Apple is committed to helping educators get the most from Apple technology.
Apple Professional Learning offers a range of comprehensive resources and services, including the Apple Teacher program, which helps teachers and schools learn how to use Apple products more effectively in the classroom and Today at Apple Labs for Teachers, free sessions at the Apple Store that help teachers build new skills.
And when educators are ready to focus on innovation, our Apple Professional Learning Specialists help them build deeper student learning experiences through research-based instructional technology.
Professional Learning & Development Workshops
Everyone Can Create
Everyone Can Create gives students the tools to develop and communicate their ideas through drawing, music, video and photography with iPad. It gives teachers projects to bring creativity to every subject, and parents new ways to engage with their children and nurture skills for learning and beyond.
There are four workshops in the series and each workshop can be attended as a stand-alone, or build your skills further by attending two or more workshops in the series.
Everyone Can Code
Everyone Can Code introduces students to coding through interactive puzzles, playful characters and activities for both in and out of the classroom.
With the fun Swift Playgrounds app, along with helpful guides, anyone can start coding in Swift while building essential problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
Virtual 30 Minute One-On-One Coaching Sessions
Virtual one-on-one coaching sessions with Apple Professional Learning Specialists are available for free to help educators hone their approach to online student learning and workflows.
The sessions go for 30 minutes and they can have their own questions answered and more than one teacher can join in on a session if they are at the same school.
If schools would prefer to have a Apple Professional Learning and Developement webinar planned for their own this is also available.
Supporting Apple in Schools
View our Lighthouse Schools implementation of Apple within the classroom. Working together with these schools we’ve been able to go beyond just the basic implementation of email communications and systems into an Education environment, and truly demonstrate the transformational impact Apple can have.
Professional Services
- Managed IT Services
- Business Cloud Solutions
- Managed Printing Services
- Repairs
Contact us today and learn how we can help your education needs!
