The district uses a feature called Insights in Microsoft Teams to crunch data on student digital engagement, such as remote student attendance. And with Intune, Termunde says, “we can do just about anything. We can push and pull software, we can lock devices, and if a computer goes missing, we can make it a brick.”
On one occasion, Termunde says, someone stole a parent’s car and took a Surface Go that had been left on the back seat. The student reported the incident to the school, and Termunde’s team tracked the device to a nearby pawn shop.
“We have more than 1,300 computers out there, so this kind of thing happens once in a while,” he says. Still, “things usually aren’t that exciting, and that’s because we run a pretty tight ship.”