Classroom technology, AV and school devices
A screen nobody uses is just a wall.
Screens that work first time in a cold classroom on a Monday morning. Devices ready before the lesson starts. A management information system that talks to everything else. We specify it for the room and the way the lesson runs, set it up so it manages itself, and train the people who have to use it.
What’s included
Six things that keep the school safe, compliant and able to recover.
Classroom management
Tools that let a teacher see and control what’s on pupils’ screens, so the technology supports the lesson rather than competing with it.
Audio visual
Interactive panels, teaching walls, hall and stage AV specified for the room’s size, light and acoustics rather than ordered by the metre.
MIS integration
Your management information system joined up with identity, email and the rest of the estate, so data is entered once and appears everywhere it should.
Device and endpoint management
Mobile device management across Windows, iPad and Chromebook, with apps, updates and restrictions pushed centrally instead of device by device.
End user devices
The right device for the way the lesson actually runs, procured, imaged and delivered ready to use on day one.
Peripherals
Visualisers, headsets, chargers, trolleys and everything else that quietly decides whether a lesson starts on time.
Start where you are
Choose your institution…
Independent schools
Open days are judged on what pupils are using and whether it works in front of a visitor.
State schools
Attainment is the plan. Technology only helps if it stops taking the first few minutes of every lesson.
Multi-academy trusts
One device standard across schools that arrived with four different ones, without forcing a primary to run like a secondary.
SEND Settings
Devices configured around a pupil’s access needs, and assistive technology that has to work every single time.
New Build
Teaching walls, hall AV and stage lighting designed into the room at stage two rather than fitted around finished walls.
Training
Buying it is
the easy part.
Schools buy the right technology all the time and never find out what it does. Every solution we deliver comes with training for the people who’ll actually use it, built around how your staff work rather than a manual left on a desk. Run on site or remotely, and repeated when new staff arrive.
Key partners we work with.
The vendors behind your security stack, chosen because they hold up in a school rather than because of a reseller agreement.
FAQs
What schools ask us most about classroom technology.
Should we buy one device per pupil?
Not automatically. Not every pupil learns the same way. One wants a device of their own, one works better sharing, one prefers a room to go to, and one picks whatever suits the task. Buy for one type and you have designed for a quarter of the school. We would rather work out the mix first.
iPad, Chromebook or Windows?
It depends on what you teach and what your staff already know. We will give you the honest trade-offs on cost, management, lifespan and what happens at exam time, rather than the one we would prefer to sell you.
Our interactive panels are five years old. Do they need replacing?
Not necessarily. We would look at whether the panel is the problem or whether it is the network, the source device or the mount. Replacing panels that still work is an expensive way to fix something else.
Will staff actually use it?
Only if they are shown how. Every solution comes with training built around how your staff work, run on site or remotely and repeated when new staff arrive. Technology nobody has been shown how to use isn’t an investment.
Can you work with our existing MIS?
Yes. We integrate with what you have rather than starting from a migration, unless the MIS itself is the thing causing the problem, in which case we will say so.
Still have questions?
Talk to us directly and get the answer you need.
Not sure if this is
what you need?
Most schools aren’t. That’s what the conversation is for. We’ll tell you what’s actually worth doing, and what isn’t.
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