alearn with Microsoft 16pp 21.07_Layout 1 22/12/2014 10:49 Page 1 FRONT COVER alearn with Microsoft We are XMA and Vigen. Ca us now on 0115 846 4900 Visit www.xma.co.uk/aearn Emai alearn@xma.co.uk Foow us @WeareXMA
alearn with Microsoft 16pp 21.07_Layout 1 22/12/2014 10:49 Page 2 SPREAD 1 LEFT HAND (INSIDE FRONT COVER) We are XMA and Vigen. We deveop, deiver and maintain innovative IT soutions that enhance how peope earn, teach, govern, deiver heathcare and do business. We firmy beieve that one size does not fit a and we wi taior make a soution to suit your individua needs. We are a team of over 500 speciaists, based across the UK in a business that has over 70 years combined experience, with strong roots and a deep understanding of the markets in which we work. As part of an independenty owned British group, we have strength and stabiity with fexibiity and an entrepreneuria spirit that wi chaenge traditiona approaches. Our principe offices are in London, Reading and Nottingham with regiona bases in Atrincham, Haifax, Gasgow and Cwmbran. We have nationa reach and a oca touch. We are proud to have onshore UK manufacturing faciities and word cass vendor partnerships, with broad service deivery capabiities on the ground and in the coud. We are a compiant route to purchase, with presence on oca and nationa frameworks for hardware, software, suppies and services. Our accreditations with BSI - ISO 9001, 14001, 20000-1 and 27001 - are a hamark of exceence and demonstrate our focus on meeting quaity, environmenta, service and information security management standards. Our peope are committed to creating a more persona IT experience. Our ocations London Reading Nottingham Atrincham Haifax Gasgow Cwmbran alearn with Microsoft
alearn with Microsoft 16pp 21.07_Layout 1 22/12/2014 10:49 Page 3 SPREAD 1 RIGHT HAND We are XMA and Vigen. Introduction Use our 'steps to alearn' framework to ensure you cover a bases... alearn is XMA and Vigen s successfu programme that supports schoos in a aspects of the depoyment of devices for use in earning, inside and outside of the cassroom. Vision and Panning Infrastructure Considerations Staff Depoyment & Professiona Deveopment Student Depoyment Ongoing Support alearn with Microsoft brings innovative software and coud services, a wide choice of device types and the potentia to make the most of your existing management and infrastructure investment. Expore key principes and outcomes of the programme. Expore Microsoft Office soutions incuding hosted services. Pan for staff device depoyment. Pan for student induction day. Technica support from XMA. Expore pedagogy practice and workfows. Expore wireess, network, server and storage options. Professiona deveopment needs anaysis. Consider acceptabe use poicy. Expore ongoing professiona deveopment modes. Expore funding mode and services. Expore device management and support options. Initia professiona deveopment depoyed. Communicate e-safety guideines to students and parents. Consider Microsoft IT Academy programme. Consider parenta communication and support. Expore Microsoft education icensing programmes. Review app usage and workfow. alearn Ca us now on 0115 846 4900 Visit www.xma.co.uk/aearn Emai alearn@xma.co.uk Foow us @WeareXMA
alearn with Microsoft 16pp 21.07_Layout 1 22/12/2014 10:49 Page 4 SPREAD 2 LEFT HAND Utiise your existing investment Microsoft devices wi aow you to extend your existing investment in IT management and support. Your schoo may aready utiise Microsoft server technoogy and your IT support team wi be famiiar with managing devices running Windows. Introducing additiona Windows devices with alearn with Microsoft wi be seamess. As part of your depoyment, our expert technica team can assess the scaabiity of your existing network, server and storage infrastructure and advise on upgrades, if needed. Our team has extensive experience working with schoos to deiver soutions that support technoogy depoyments from the panning stages and piots to fu schoo roouts. Your IT support team wi aready be famiiar with managing devices running Windows. alearn with Microsoft
alearn with Microsoft 16pp 21.07_Layout 1 22/12/2014 10:49 Page 5 SPREAD 2 RIGHT HAND We are XMA and Vigen. Choose from a range of Windows devices Your earners wi have different requirements for a device depending on a number of factors from their age to how intensive the task is that they are carrying out. XMA and Vigen offer a range of Windows 8.1 devices to suit a requirements and budgets. Our speciaist team wi work with you to hep identify the devices that meet the needs of your schoo and earners. Tabets Two-in-One Notebooks & Utrabooks Desktop A-in-Ones De Venue 8 Pro HP EitePad Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga Toshiba Sateite Pro Acer TraveMate B113 Vigen Omnino 5 Save with Microsoft Technoogy Access Programme Through the Microsoft Technoogy Access Programme, XMA and Vigen are abe to offer specia education pricing to quaifying schoos that wi hep acceerate your mobie earning roout. Speak to your account manager to confirm eigibiity and pricing. Ca us now on 0115 846 4900 Visit www.xma.co.uk/aearn Emai alearn@xma.co.uk Foow us @WeareXMA
alearn with Microsoft 16pp 21.07_Layout 1 22/12/2014 10:49 Page 6 SPREAD 3 LEFT HAND Windows desktops from Vigen Powerfu desktop PCs sti pay an important part in technoogy for earning. The Omnino 5 is an integrated a-in-one PC from Vigen, created with the benefit of three decades of design knowedge. Drawing on our own experience as we as istening cosey to our customers requirements, the Omnino 5 combines key vectors of performance, fexibiity, stye, manageabiity and vaue, resuting in a versatie computer that s equay suited to singe desk and whoe organisation depoyments. Pre-instaed with Windows 8.1 Integrated a-in-one form factor Toughened LED dispay Fuy integrated webcam Buit in wireess technoogy Mutichanne HD audio alearn with Microsoft
alearn with Microsoft 16pp 21.07_Layout 1 22/12/2014 10:49 Page 7 SPREAD 3 RIGHT HAND We are XMA and Vigen. Coaboration beyond the cassroom with Office 365 It s a fact that through the outstanding use of IT in your schoo, you can encourage coaboration between users, eading to an increased eve of productivity and engagement from your earners when they are inside the cassroom or at home. Increasingy, schoos are empowering their earners to take devices home so that they can engage with earning anywhere, at any time. Through Office 365 you can move away from your traditiona desktop and onsite server soution to more cost effective coud based services. Student Advantage is a Microsoft initiative that enabes earners to access Office 365 for free on their devices at home. Through the use of Office 365, the user can downoad the fu Office suite on up to five devices of their choice, making it easy to access the atest version of Office whether inside or outside the cassroom. Make sure you are fuy icensed for Office via the Academic Voume Licensing Programme so that you can provide a of your earners with best of breed productivity toos at no additiona cost to your schoo. alearn with ipad Ca us now on 0115 846 4900 Visit www.xma.co.uk/aearn Emai alearn@xma.co.uk Foow us @WeareXMA
alearn with Microsoft 16pp 21.07_Layout 1 22/12/2014 10:49 Page 8 SPREAD 4 LEFT HAND Office Mix Turn your PowerPoint presentation into an interactive onine esson with Office Mix. Office Mix is an easy way to take your PowerPoint presentations and bring them to ife as interactive onine essons. From recording audio or video of yoursef deivering a esson, directy writing in the presentation as you woud at your whiteboard, to quizzing, sharing and seeing how it a works - Office Mix heps you do it a simpy. Create Engage Evauate A you need to get started is Office 2013 and the free Office Mix add-in. alearn with Microsoft
alearn with Microsoft 16pp 21.07_Layout 1 22/12/2014 10:49 Page 9 SPREAD 4 RIGHT HAND We are XMA and Vigen. Buid earning portas with SharePoint Microsoft SharePoint-based earning portas can be setup easiy and used to: Post coursework Track and share student progress Power onine coaboration Automate reporting and meet standards Give teachers and students a singe pace to distribute, compete and coect assignments; share and take quizzes or tests; post cassroom schedues; register onine; access appications; connect via instant messaging, voice, or video; and more. It's easy to create web-based portas with Microsoft SharePoint Server or SharePoint Onine. Educators and students can og on to a SharePoint-based cass porta from any internet connected device using a singe, secure sign-on. From unch orders to web-based cass registration, a porta becomes a common gateway to the data and services that peope across the schoo need. Simpe enough for novices, robust enough for power users, a porta based on Microsoft technoogy gives you a scaabe, standards-based patform. Start sma and roout new features and functionaity as schedues and budgets permit. Ca us now on 0115 846 4900 Visit www.xma.co.uk/aearn Emai alearn@xma.co.uk Foow us @WeareXMA
alearn with Microsoft 16pp 21.07_Layout 1 22/12/2014 10:49 Page 10 SPREAD 5 LEFT HAND Capture ideas and create them with DreamSpark DreamSpark is a Microsoft programme that supports technica education by providing access to Microsoft software for earning, teaching and research. See how DreamSpark creates a word of creativity by enroing your organisation in a DreamSpark subscription where you wi be abe to provide your earners and educators with access to Microsoft professiona-eve deveoper and designer toos at no cost. Aow your educators to teach using the atest technoogies and experiment in research. Microsoft knows that to make earning more motivating, reevant and engaging, a diverse set of resources is required. DreamSpark gives educators the resources they need to ensure their cassroom aways has the atest technoogies to chaenge, motivate and keep earners engaged. Find out more by speaking to your XMA or Vigen account manager. alearn with Microsoft
alearn with Microsoft 16pp 21.07_Layout 1 22/12/2014 10:49 Page 11 SPREAD 5 RIGHT HAND We are XMA and Vigen. Manage your devices coud-stye with Windows Intune With earners often taking mobie devices outside of the schoo network, a device management soution needs to be in pace to ensure earners have appropriate access to educationa appications and resources at home. The web-based administration consoe in Windows Intune supports devices buit on a number of different operating systems, not just Windows, creating a simpified management soution for a devices in use by your students. Support popuar mobie patforms from one service: Windows, ios and Android Get up and running quicky and simpy - no new infrastructure required Manage PCs and mobie devices from one service Protect schoo assets with configuration poicies and remote wipe Integrates easiy with System Centre Configuration Manager if required A simpified device management soution for a devices in your schoo. Ca us now on 0115 846 4900 Visit www.xma.co.uk/aearn Emai alearn@xma.co.uk Foow us @WeareXMA
alearn with Microsoft 16pp 21.07_Layout 1 22/12/2014 10:49 Page 12 SPREAD 6 LEFT HAND Support from XMA and Vigen s in-house education experts Before you embark on your technoogy programme, our in house curricuum speciaists, who are educators themseves, wi work cosey with you and your senior eadership team. This incudes exporing the pedagogica appication of devices in the cassroom and funding options for your depoyment, incuding parenta contribution so that you can ensure each earner experiences the benefits of increased access to technoogy. In order to ensure your teachers are confident in the appication of devices in teaching and earning and are aware of the measured benefits to earning outcomes it can bring, our team wi work cosey with them to address their concerns and support them through the impementation process. Our team has first-hand experience and knowedge of how technoogy enhanced earning can drive improvement to your earning outcomes and provide a more engaging and interactive environment for a. alearn with Microsoft
alearn with Microsoft 16pp 21.07_Layout 1 22/12/2014 10:49 Page 13 SPREAD 6 RIGHT HAND We are XMA and Vigen. Bridge the skis gap with Microsoft IT Academy from XMA and Vigen The Microsoft IT Academy programme heps bridge the skis gap by providing the curricuum, the training ground and the vaidation of skis that coege, university and workpace bound students need to be successfu. The programme aso enabes educators by providing the professiona deveopment resources they need in the cassroom. By joining the programme, your organisation receives curricuum for teaching technoogy and earning toos that hep students achieve success. ITA enabes you and your organisation to offer training not ony on fundamenta technoogy skis but aso technica courses for your students who are interested in pursuing a career in IT. Microsoft IT Academy and certifications are avaiabe through academic voume icensing. Contact your XMA or Vigen account manager to discuss programme benefits and pricing. For students Microsoft Digita Literacy Curricuum Computer skis for earners new to computing For teachers Teaching with Technoogy Curricuum Onine earning to hep educators integrate ICT into their practice For staff Microsoft Officia Courseware Instructor-ed training intended for IT professionas and deveopers, who buid, support and impement soutions by using Microsoft technoogies Ca us now on 0115 846 4900 Visit www.xma.co.uk/aearn Emai alearn@xma.co.uk Foow us @WeareXMA
alearn with Microsoft 16pp 21.07_Layout 1 22/12/2014 10:49 Page 14 SPREAD 7 LEFT HAND Aso from XMA and Vigen abenefit Reward your empoyees and make an impact on their ives by offering them access to the atest technoogy. Our abenefit team have over 10 years of experience deivering saary contribution benefits to empoyees at some of the argest organisations in the UK. We manage the procurement, documentation, marketing, ogistics and support for you so your empoyees receive fantastic technoogy benefits at no cost to your organisation. Downoad the atest abenefit brochure from www.xma.co.uk Reward and empower your empoyees with abenefit and achoice from XMA and Vigen. achoice Our CYOD deivery framework offers support with a of the cutura, financia and technica impications of empowering empoyees with their choice of device for work. By aowing your staff to choose the device and patform they use for work and offering secure, remote access to schoo resources, you wi faciitate greater opportunities for increased productivity and more creative output. Downoad the atest achoice brochure from www.xma.co.uk alearn with Microsoft
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alearn with Microsoft 16pp 21.07_Layout 1 22/12/2014 10:49 Page 16 BACK COVER alearn with Microsoft We are XMA and Vigen. Ca us now on 0115 846 4900 Visit www.xma.co.uk/aearn Emai alearn@xma.co.uk Foow us @WeareXMA