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Guide To Creating a Successful BYOD System at Your Site 

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Below is a pdf of the 10 Things to Consider for a
Successful BYOD Program.
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10 Things to Consider for a Successful BYOD Program
1. Decide how flexible you are with types of devices - will anything work or do you want to be more specific such as chrome books & iPads?

2. Take into consideration the ages of your students and how much you trust them. Do you want and can you trust your students to work on their phones or are they going to be texting the whole time? Would it be wiser to stick to phones away and to use tablets and laptops in the class?

3. Come up with policies: What will happen when a student forgets his device? What about if it breaks? Will you have older loaner models that students can borrow for the day/week from the library or office? Who will be in charge of checking them in and out?

4. Come up with a system to handle these situations, for example: students with broken or forgotten devices must go to the library before school and check out a device. If they are late to first period they receive a tardy which therefore has its own consequences to deter students from waiting until the bell rings to check one out.

5. Think about charging - many students, especially middle schoolers, forget to charge their devices at home, despite being told multiple times. They also often come to school with their device, but no charger. How are you going to handle that? Are you going to have them take them to the library to charge and check out a loaner for the day? Are teachers going to have a stack of chargers in their classrooms and allow students to charge during class?

6. What if a student forgets his device and also forgets to check one out before school? Are you going to send him/her to get one? What consequences will there be for missing class time?

7. Have a plan to help low income families get a device. Do you have funds to supply them with one? Can you give a certain number of families devices for free? Can you create a rent-to-own scheme depending on income?

8. Have a plan to help low income families pay to get devices fixed, be prepared to have long-term loaners available, or can your school afford to make an agreement with a local business to have devices fixed? Be prepared that in middle school, a lot will need fixing (perhaps close to half).

​9. Make sure the teacher has a device in their room for themselves and 2-3 emergency devices for those just-in-case times.

10. There will be a number of families who do not, for whatever reason, provide their child with a device. What are you going to do in these cases? Will you provide the child with one? 

Remember, according to the Williams Case, every child must have the tools he/she needs in order to succeed.
I created this BYOD poster using Piktochart.  Below is a pdf. Feel free to download.
Below are three How To's, courtesy of the NVUSD Technology department. At NVUSD we are very fortunate that as teachers we have amazing support and can ask for Help Sheets to be created.

1. How to spell-check gmail 
2. How to access google docs from gmail
​3. How to export a google calendar

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accessdocsgmail.pdf
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exportgooglecalendar.pdf
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byod_cool.pdf
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RESOURCES & REFERENCES
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BYOD CHECKLIST