Steering Committee Presentation
Transcript: Meeting Objective & Focus Focus BYOD Program and Readiness BYOD Landing Page Demonstration Office 365 Live Demonstration Brief Update from Last Steering Committee IT Strategy Update Project Registry Update New Items BYOD Readiness BYOD Program Rollout Overview Cloud Integration Overview BYOD Landing Page Program and Project Status Reporting BYOD Sub-Committee Office 365 Live Demonstration Initial Feedback BYOD LANDING PAGE Peel District School Board’s Vision for Learning and Instructional Technology AD & Imaging Project is currently On-Track with no issues currently being tracked. Project Status Wireless Project Cloud Integration Recommend that a BYOD Sub-committee be established to move the ball forward with respect to the BYOD initiative. This sub-committee will be made of up individuals from across the organization (Teachers, Principals, Student Trustees, LTSS, CISS, HR) The focus will be to research and provide recommendations on the following elements; BYOD Policies and Procedures Support and Training URL Filtering Applications & Tools Access and Filtering etc. These recommendations would be reviewed and approved by IT Steering before moving through LTSS Advisory and Leadership Council Updates From Last Meeting BYOD PROGRAM BYOD Sub-Commitee First Draft of the Project Registry is complete. We will complete a detailed walk-through at the next IT Steering committee Here are some quick stats... This team will have representation from many different areas of the Board including; Chair: Lawrence De Maeyer? (2) LTSS– Neal Larsen, Mark Marshall (2) CISS– Patrick McQuade + ITRT (1) Coordinator (3) Teachers (2 Secondary, 1 Elementary)?- (2) Principals – (Lawrence De Maeyer?, ) (2) Student Trustees - ?? Draft of the IT Strategy is approximately 50% complete, should be completed in 6-8 weeks at which point it will be presented All Bring Your Own Devices upon authenticated logon will be redirected the following 'BYOD Landing Page'. This page can be configured by School and will enable seamless access to Board sanctioned applications. Clear direction with respect to applications and functionality needs to be established. Currently, we have integrated with Desire2Learn, Angel, Office365, Google Apps and School connect. DELIVERY PROGRAM OVERVIEW Communication Plan Process Overview Project Registry Team Membership I visited the first school implementation and sat through the training and Q & A for School Connect(IBM). General consensus was that the product was good and they were excited by the features and functions. However, it was evident that there was a major disconnect between what was being provided and what was expected. Our initial offering does not address the requirements of a BYOD world, but rather a wired world using Peel owned hardware. 1) SchoolConnect & LAN School are great, but how does this work in a BYOD World? It was explained that the School Connect tool was primarily for a lab or Peel owned computer environment and was not able to assist in the same manner in a BYOD scenario. 2) "This was good, but I was expecting more from a collaboration standpoint... Blogs, Discussion forums Etc" It was explained that this functionality would be provided through a collaboration tool that was not yet determined such as Office 365 and Google Apps. 2) "When will we be getting trained on using BYOD in the Classroom? It was explained that training surrounding BYOD has not yet been determined. Cloud Integration This project is focused on building an integration engine that will seamless enable students to access a wide array of applications without requiring a separate user id or password (SSO). This engine will ensure that students, once initially authenticated, can seamlessly run sanctioned applications with the click of a button from the School BYOD landing page. Each application requires that a connector be created to enable pass through authentication. IT Strategy Meeting Agenda Delivering Peel District School Board’s vision for learning and instructional technology was beyond the scope of a single infrastructure project. To deliver this vision, LTSS created a BYOD umbrella Program that is made up of 12 independent projects. Currently, over 30 staff have been committed to the program, with the expectation that an additional 40 staff will be rolled in over the next months. Site: Learning Technology Support Services > LTSS Project Information > Project Roster