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Support, guidance and implementation

School Tech Consulting will evaluate your current infrastructure, talk with community members, and work with leadership to set goals and outcomes.  We want to help you realize and leverage your technical potential as organizations, as learners and as educators.

 

 

 

User Support

School Tech Consulting has built it's reputation around user support.  We build relationships with our clients, and work with them to understand their needs.  Educational settings have a range of tech needs from running a successful social media campaign to support learning.  We have worked with every single member and position in a school to help them understand and use technology to support their goals, whatever they may be!

Experience

School Tech Consulting has over 20 years of experience working with schools to support their use of technology: in the classroom, in admissions, in development, in the running of the school.  When working with us you get the benefit of years of experience helping educators and institutions leverage technology to serve their needs and support their mission.  It is like having a highly qualified IT department on your staff, for a fraction of the cost!

Network and Hardware

There have been some amazing advancements in infrastructure:  wireless, networking, storage, backup, and servers.  Combining these advancements with lowering cost, creates a great opportunity for schools and businesses to upgrade their infrastructure.  People will find new ways to leverage the power of technology, when it works well.  We can create a technology environment that supports your needs, and School Tech Consulting will make sure that your environment continues to be fast and reliable.  Utilizing remote support, hardware monitoring and cloud based services we prevent problems before they occur.

Google Apps

 

 

Adopting:  Let us guide you through the technical challenges of migrating your domain and email to Google Apps, we can make sure the process is easy, controlled and non-disruptive to the work flow of your organization.

Implementing: Learn best practices for setting up email, groups, documents and calendars.  ISTC will work with you to understand the needs of your organization and design solutions that meet those needs.  Using Google Apps should make information more readily available, increase organization and allow users flexibility when creating their online workflow experience.

Using:  Great tools are only great if users know how to use them effectively.  ISTC excels at leading workshops for faculty and staff helping them to leverage this powerful set of collaboration tools. 

Trust

Your IT company has access to almost all of your company’s data, emails, and files.  You have to trust them!   We are a small firm, you will meet the people you are working with and immediately get a sense of trust.  We are also happy to provide references from heads of schools, business managers and others in the independent school or non- profit world.  You can think of us as an extension of your own infrastructure, people will know us, ask us questions and interact with us - we encourage that!  We are not a faceless person behind a computer.

Long Range Planning

Where do you want your level of technology adoption to be in the next 2, 3, or 4 years?  School Tech Consulting can work with you, evaluate your needs, and plan with you.  We work within your budget, and help guide you to a place where you are getting the most out of your technology dollar.  We know what is available for schools, and how to leverage a variety of free, and cost effective solutions.  Current education pricing models on software, hardware and services have never been lower.  We can help connect your school to the right tools, training and hardware.  Bringing the pieces together to best serve the operation of the school, as well as deep learning.

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