![]() ![]() School IT teams like Chromebooks’ management tools.With the added simplicity of the Chrome operating system (OS), Chromebooks are less likely than a standard laptop to get in the way of the educational experience. Teachers like Google’s web-based education ecosystem: Google Classroom and hundreds of compatible education apps, G Suite for Education with mail, chat, meetings, shared storage and more.There are three main reasons Chromebooks are so popular with school districts: In January 2020, Google said that there were 40 million Chromebooks in schools, up from 30 million the year before. schools, representing 60 percent of the K-12 market. Over the past decade, Chromebooks have emerged as the student computing device of choice for U.S. Why do school IT administrators and teachers like Chromebooks? “We worked very collaboratively with our customers on these initial rollouts and now have the capabilities in place to deliver a turnkey Chromebook experience on a Galaxy tablet, including all the device management capabilities a school needs.” Why Chromebooks?īefore diving into the details, let’s zoom out a bit. “These are incredibly difficult circumstances for school administrators and IT teams,” says Fuentes. The solution, which involved customizing and managing devices with Samsung’s Knox Manage or Knox Configure tools, has now been deployed in several large school districts. ![]() “So the team went away and studied the problem, and we found that actually, we can deliver a solution with all the core benefits of Chromebooks on our Android tablets.” “We had school districts asking us, ‘Is there any other way you could give us a Chromebook experience for our students?'” says Keith Fuentes, Samsung’s vice president for customer success. As this challenge became apparent over the summer, Samsung’s customer success team hit on an elegant solution. Android tablets, on the other hand, are readily available. There’s a hitch, though: Because of the surge in demand, Chromebooks are in short supply. The pandemic has upended K-12 education, and many school IT departments have been scrambling to deploy Chromebooks to students who are now studying from home for some or all of the school week. ![]()
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