IT Equipment at Berlin Cosmopolitan School

• About 120 PCs throughout the school
• Thirty classrooms with SMARTBoards (interactive whiteboards) and connected teacher PC
• Ten rooms in the Primary School are equipped with an additional PC for students
• Two computer labs each with 24 PCs and projector
• One class set iPads
• Twenty-five WLAN access points for school-wide WLAN

Features for Students & Faculty

• BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) for students from Grades 7-12
• Access to school WLAN for Grades 7-12
• Personal Office 365 account, school email address & license to install Microsoft Office products on up to five personal devices

Communication

• Email accounts for all students & teachers
• Communication with parents via forums & weekly newsletters

Through collaboration with various technology partners such as Microsoft, we have the ability to:

• Use digital workgroups to distribute educational materials
• Offer users the benefits of cloud computing/storage hosted on European servers that adhere to European and German data protections laws
• Allow teachers to centrally administer computer labs (start/pause applications, reset student passwords, etc.)
• Remotely deploy and administer software on all school PCs

Miscellaneous

• Regular training for teachers to learn to effectively use SMARTBoards and online tools