Minnesota Independent School District 196 ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN, MN Leveraging Apple device management in education When the state of Minnesota mandated that standardized testing be administered via a computer, T echnology Specialists like District 196’s Bonnie Halvorson knew they had some work cut out for them. “We needed a specific inventory of all the active computers across our 30 sites, including management of licenses and warranties,“ says Bonnie. “Additionally, we needed to prove we were up to the standard of one computer, fewer than five-years-old, for every six students in our district.” T o compound the inventory quandary, a district levy allowed for a large influx of machines, all of which needed to be accurately accounted for. It was clear to Bonnie that District 19

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