When new Chromebooks arrive at Desert Sands Unified School District, they come preconfigured and nearly ready to hand out to students.
That’s because CDW, one of the district’s technology solutions providers, unboxes each Chromebook, tags it and enrolls it in the district’s Google domain — a service that the district pays a small per-device fee for. Zero-touch enrollment is a massive timesaver for its four cloud support technicians, who manage nearly 28,000 Chromebooks across 34 schools.
The La Quinta, Calif.-based district purchases between 4,000 and 6,000 Chromebooks a year as older…
