Technology Assessment

The most comprehensive education specific technology assessment you will find.

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Strategy & Planning

Review of the district’s technology strategic plan, current goals, processes, and policies. This helps identify the strategy and how proactive the district is.

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Data Integration

A review of how student data moves through the district and how it is utilized. Automation, integration, complexity, and ease of access to relevant statistics.

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Network

Wired and wireless networks are assessed for speed, reliability, and current best practice designs specific to an education environment.

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Cybersecurity

Every major area of cybersecurity is reviewed comparing your district’s current approach to current expectations from legislation and insurance mandates.

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Systems

Datacenter and systems in production used to run the school district including servers, virtualization, backups, and more.

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Cloud Services

How your district utilizes and integrates cloud services. Google workspace for education, Microsoft O365, Azure, and other cloud based systems

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Technology Spending

Understanding past spending to identify potential areas of cost savings. Many times duplication of solutions or more cost effective potential options are discovered.

What you can expect during the assessment?

Kickoff Meeting

Meeting to introduce everyone, explain the process, define expectations, and set a timeline for each of the different steps.

Data Collection

A list of information that is needed from your district to review what is currently in place and documented on the district’s technology.

Anonymous Surveys

Survey sent to the district’s staff to understand their perception on numerous technology topics. Also helps K12 Nexus identify focus points for the assessment.

Interviews

Key district roleplayer interviews to understand when they would like to get out of the assessment.

On-Site Technology Expert

A member of our team will visit your schools and review the technology in place. Administrator read access to the systems is needed to review design and configuration data for all the major back end systems. Pictures will also be taken of key areas.

Report Creation

Once all the information is gathered from our activities the K12 Nexus team will begin working on analyzing the data and creating your report.

Draft Report Meeting

Meeting with stakeholders to go over the draft report to confirm accuracy. Also confirm content is what is expected so adjustments can be made if needed.

Presentation of Report

Presentation of the final report to stakeholder and anyone leadership would like to attend. Includes an explanation of findings.

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Staff survey results

Survey results from district staff help us identify areas of focus for our assessment..

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Best practice design

Are designs and configurations at current standards?

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Cybersecurity standards

Identification of risk across every technology area.

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Modernization Analysis

Each of the district’s IT systems will be compared to potentially newer more effective solutions. Potential alternatives will be explained and ranked by value.

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Comparison To Other Districts

Comparing our data on other districts’ strategies we will help your district identify successful proven advancements.

How we analyze our findings

What is included in the final report?

Your district will receive a comprehensive report detailing our findings. Any concerns found will be ranked by severity with an explanation of why the ranking was given.

If area’s of potential improvement are found recommendations from our experts will be included to help with future planning.

Highlights of the staff survey will be presented anonymously within the survey to help district leadership understand the staff’s sentiment.

The final report is designed to be easy to read and understand by leadership. Many of our customers use our reports for updating their school board on the district’s state of technology.

TEAM OF EXPERTS

Benefits you get from the assessment

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Identify potential issues you did not realize existed

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Validate existing plans or strategies

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Insight on alternative solutions

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Transparent staff sentiment on the districts technology

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Insight for future planning

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Overview Of Survey Results

Anonymous survey results are provided to help the district understand how the staff feels about the districts current technology. Staff that is satisfied with the districts technology helps with retention.

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Modernization Analysis

Each of the districts IT systems will be compared to potentially newer more effective solutions. Potential alternatives will be explained and ranked by value.

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Comparison To Other Districts

Past assessment data and a wealth of K-12 specific analytics is used to present new ideas and innovation to help your district. Comparing other districts strategies will help identify what is possible.

Highlights

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