It's been 10 years
since Minister of Education and Science has provided laptops to the students.
It was a challenge to bring and maintain these devices to our specialists.
We spend a lot of
time to manually support these devices all over Georgia.
Microsoft 365
gave us an opportunity to manage and automate all these processes.
Right now we have over 135,000 computers deployed in our Intune,
and this allows us to distribute software, distribute updates
securely and remotely.
The system has improved dramatically
and everything is ready in just five under minutes.
I believe that students study best
when their devices are safe, secure and working well.
Microsoft 365 gave opportunity in our schools and education level
to bring technologies into the school, and it gave opportunity
to create an ecosystem, which provide school-first
security, and second, remotely control all the devices
with more than 2085 schools.
Ceibal started
as a project in Uruguay to bridge the digital divide.
Every student, no matter where he or
she lives, received the laptop or tablet.
And it's very rewarding to see children
maybe from rural schools or from very low-income places,
building systems and projects
using technology and competing in
in other countries representing Uruguay.
Microsoft Windows was the option in 98% of the cases.
So we decided that was the software that was most suitable
for our devices and for our program.
Right now we are in 100% of the Uruguayan
public schools. —We have two big benefits using Windows.
The first one is that we have a central management tool,
that's Intune, and it's very useful for us because we have to manage
hundreds of thousands of devices that are deployed all over the country.
We always say that for us to have a sustainable digital
transformation model in Latin America, what we need are
a number of factors. Investment in infrastructure,
a future vision, a talented team and strong partners.
In Las Cruces,
our school district has about 24,000 students, and we are on 40 campuses.
Socioeconomic struggles, language barriers.
Those are real challenges that we face every single day.
We needed to standardize a device
and we needed to make sure it was a device that was going to work for us K-12.
Putting 20,000 devices out in the district,
we need to make sure that they are accessible to people
and hands down, the Microsoft tools are
what does that for us.
For students who have specific learning needs, having everything
in one screen where they could type, they could talk, they could watch,
it was captioned, made it easier for my students to focus on the learning
and not focus on the platform or on what button needed to be clicked.
These tools become part of education.
Kids pick up those tools and use them as they need them.
That happens organically in the classroom now in a way I've never seen before.
Success for us and for me in that work is making sure that kids in
our community are are better off than we were three years ago.
And I believe that with my whole heart,
and that's the one thing that's really important to me.
I care about it, I'm going to cry, I think,
but I do.