The OVS-ES Agreement (or Open Value Subscription Agreement for Education Solutions) is designed for any educational establishments with an FTE employees (Full Time Equivalent) count of less than 1,000.

Microsoft’s Site License Agreement for Schools (OVS-ES) was introduced as an alternative that provides educational institutions a simplified way to acquire Microsoft software and services under a single, subscription enrollment.

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The Agreement provides primary, secondary, higher ed and further education institutions:

• An affordable volume based price and the rights to the latest Microsoft Enterprise software products including Microsoft Office  Professional Plus, Windows 10, Microsoft Core Client Access License (CAL Suite and Microsoft Enterprise Client Access License (ECAL) Suite
• The simplicity of counting Full Time Equivalent (FTE) employees just once per year. An FTE is someone who works 200+ hours per year
• Software Assurance; a powerful combination of benefits that include new version rights, the Home Use Program (HUP)* and many other advantages including tools and training resources
• A broad selection of additional Microsoft software products that may be licensed in any quantity
• Free add-on for Office 365 for Student and Teachers
• Predictable annual payments with a one-year or three-year term option

OVS-ES Benefits:

• Easy Compliance: Through the simplicity of yearly FTE employee counts just once per year, you can be confident that your are fully covered for the desktop platform products you’ve selected regardless of yearly fluctuations in employees or devices
• Customised Solutions: Easily add additional products either organisation-wide, department-wide or individual licenses at any time during your subscription term so you can deliver the right mix of technology and services to your school staff and students
• Low Administration: Subscription licensing eliminates the need to track licenses for selected desktop platform products on every PC which enables your staff to be more productive as they no longer have to track multiple licenses across the institution
• Simplified Asset Management: Self-service tools such as the Volume License Service Center (VLSC) enable you to easily track and manage your software assets and Software Assurance benefits from one convenient, online location
• Lower Total Cost of Ownership: Realise the maximum value from your licensing investment with included benefits such as access to current technology, Work at Home Rights for faculty and staff and product evaluation rights

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Not sure if OVS-ES is the right choice for your organization? Consult with our team of experts by calling 469-269-6055 or email schoolsales@thinkedu.com

Why is OVS-ES good for schools?

– Switching to OVS-ES subscription from a perpetual license will reduce your annual cost substantially.

– You will always be licensed for the latest version of Microsoft software, whether you choose to use it or not. This means the decision to move to the latest version of Windows or Office can be dictated by your teaching or learning needs, not by cost.

– The OVS-ES Agreement license includes Software Assurance. See the benefits of Microsoft Software Assurance below.

What are the minimum requirements to participate?

SAMI are a Microsoft Authorized Education Reseller (AER) and an Education Large Account Reseller (EdLAR) which means we can provide OVS-ES Agreements to organizations that meet the following requirements:

• Customers with as few as 5 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) employees can license through an Authorized Education Reseller (AER) by signing the simplified Open Value Subscription Agreement for Education Solutions, online e-agreement
• Larger customers with a minimum of 1,000 FTE employees may also license through and Education Large Account Reseller (EdLAR) by signing the Campus and School Agreement and the Enrollment for Education Solutions. Email us at:  SchoolSales@thinkedu.com to find out more about this Agreement

Software Assurance

Help boost productivity across your institution by enabling you to get the most from your Microsoft Software with Software Assurance. Availing of Software Assurance is more than just an upgrade, you get a broad range of value-added benefits to help you manage costs, get the most out of new technologies and improve employee productivity. Software Assurance provides a range of benefits to users:

• Upgrade rights to new software versions
• Staff purchase scheme to purchase Office for an extremely low cost
• Online training for staff
• Subscription to Technet/MSDN
• Download software as required to try before you buy

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*Microsoft Home Use Program (HUP) offers your school staff use of the latest version of Microsoft Office suite to use on their home computer through a low-cost download. When your school staff use the same software and home and at work, the naturally gain more skills which helps improve productivity.

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INSPIRATION SOFTWARE OVERVIEW

For visual mapping, outlining, writing and making presentations, use Inspiration® 9, the ultimate thinking and learning tool. Brainstorm ideas, structure your thoughts and visually communicate concepts to strengthen understanding with the Diagram and Map Views. To take notes, organize information, and structure writing for plans, papers and reports, use the integrated Outline View to focus on main and supporting ideas and to clarify thinking in written form. With Inspiration’s Presentation Manager, transform your diagrams, mind maps and outlines into polished presentations that communicate ideas clearly and demonstrate understanding and knowledge.

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Build a strong foundation for thinking, comprehension and communication skills

Visualize & Develop Ideas. Understand & Retain Concepts
Plan & Organize Written Work
Communicate & Present Knowledge
Use Inspiration for All of Your School Projects

Visualize & Develop Ideas. Understand & Retain Concepts.

Create webs, idea maps, mind maps, concept maps, graphic organizers, process flows, and other diagrams for thinking, organizing and writing. Use these proven visual thinking and learning techniques to brainstorm or brainwrite ideas, explore and explain relationships, and integrate new knowledge with what you already know. Inspiration® encourages deeper, more critical thinking and that improves creativity, comprehension and retention.

• Brainstorm or brainwrite, capturing ideas quickly with RapidFire® tool.
• Represent information and trigger memory with symbols and images. Choose from Inspiration®’s Symbol libraries with 1+ million images, searchable by keyword, or import your own.
• Jumpstart the writing process by adding notes to symbols.
• Highlight key concepts and group information with different text and link colors and font styles.

In Diagram View:

• Add symbols and images in multiple ways. Point and click to place them, use the Create tool, or drag and drop from the Symbol palette. Choose the method that works best for you and your project.
• Show relationships between ideas with links.
• Explain the relationship between ideas with linking phrases – choose from a list of common phrases or write in your own.
• Organize ideas effortlessly using the Arrange tool or to create various tree charts and webs.

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EndNote is a research bibliographic tool designed to support research in virtually any kind of research organization, from academia and corporations to government agencies and research institutions. EndNote enables users to promote new and ongoing research, enhance organizational research publishing needs, provide a standardized reference management tool with access anywhere, and track research trends, authors or topics easily.

EndNote is a great tool for:

• graduate students
• Publishing faculty
• Researchers
• Motivated undergraduates who will
  go on to:
  • Graduate schools
  • Medical schools/Nursing schools
  • Dental schools
  • Veterinary schools
  • Grant funding
• Serious scholarly writing and publishing students

Research collaboration is on the rise…are you prepared?

Think globally but work locally

Have the right research at your fingertips

Reduce your risk of rejection

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You work hard and we know it. At Targus, we spend hundreds of hours a year learning about how people work, where they work, and what they need to perform at their best.

With a heritage rooted in the mobility of on-the-go-professionals, we strive to advance the mobile accessories category with cutting-edge, quality-made, productivity-boosting solutions — carrying cases, tech accessories, and peripherals — that enable an ever-changing workforce to perform at their best anytime, anywhere.

Since our founding in 1983 with the debut of the original laptop bag, we’ve grown to become a global brand — with 45 offices worldwide and direct distribution in more than 100 countries — that supports large enterprises and end users alike.

Targus. Everywhere You Work.

TARGUS in EDUCATION

Affordable and quality solutions that create the ultimate learning experience.

Improving Productivity in the Classroom

Targus education solutions are on the forefront of technology and are aimed at helping students, teachers and administrators save time, protect their devices, improve connectivity and increase productivity. Our education division understands that balancing budget constraints and functionality add an additional component. Targus delivers affordable quality solutions that are guaranteed to create the ultimate learning experience

Common Core and Classroom Support

Targus makes life in the classroom simple by supporting requirements for common core technology standards and testing. Our products are easy to use, install and maintain – meaning more time learning and less maintenance.

Accessories for School

Our accessories are designed specifically for education to support classroom deployment or provide peace of mind for those students who are bringing their own devices. Education administrators, teachers and students can rest assured that our quality solutions are dependable and guaranteed to create the ultimate learning experience in any situation.

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Lenovo understands the challenges school districts face in transforming education with new models of teaching, learning, and collaborating, all while managing cost, efficiency, and security.

Our education products and services empower K-12 IT leaders, like you, to lead digital districts with turn-key education-built solutions with:

• • Secure infrastructure
  • Rugged and reliable student devices
  • Comprehensive training on the latest classroom management and educational tools

WHY LENOVO FOR K-12 EDUCATION

In K-12, PCs Face a Demanding Life

Reliability and Functionality Are Everything

Education devices must be built to ensure anytime, anywhere learning and priced to fit into a limited IT budget. Lenovo understands these needs. We build to military grade requirements, for products designed to withstand the drops, dings, and spills that are inevitable in any school environment.

Can Your Devices Keep Up With Your Students?

A Day in the Digital Life

Laptops and tablets are becoming more and more integral to learning?—?inside and outside the classroom. Students’ digital devices are in use an average of 10.5 hours a day. During that time devices run the risk of drops, spills, extreme temperatures, and general rough handling.

61% of K-12 students report regularly using laptops for school work, while 53% use tablets or hybrid devices.

 

1. With over 50 million students in the U.S., and the average learner going digital over 10 hours a day.

2. It adds up to more than half a billion hours of yearly use at school, home, and everywhere in between.

 

EDUCATION-BUILT DURABILITY STARTS HERE

Lenovo™ designs for reliability first, creating education-built devices that meet

eight military specifications for performance in hazardous conditions like

liquid spills, extreme heat, dust, and vibration — and that’s just the start.

LENOVO DURABILITY

• Windows security and manageability, including AppLocker® and BitLocker®

• Durable construction and materials, featuring rubber bumpers, reinforced corners, hinges, and ports

• Scratch-resistant displays

• Spill-resistant keyboards with anchored keys that make removal dicult

• Active Protection System keeps drives safe during drops

• Firmware-embedded Absolute® Data & Device Security for fast device recovery

LET LENOVO EMPOWER YOUR DIGITAL DISTRICT

Our tough education-built products, backed by dedicated education services and expertise, help you build a responsive, reliable digital learning ecosystem that starts in the classroom and continues with institution-wide innovation that improves student outcomes and increases IT efficiency.

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At Acer we believe that the most valuable part of computing lies in its power to spread knowledge. We see it as our responsibility to provide today’s generation with the instruments they need to develop 21st century skills and succeed in the information age. Acer for Education offers an end-to-end adaptive learning experience comprising easy, reliable and affordable products, education-oriented software solutions and award-winning after-sales service.

Learning Beyond the Classroom

Acer’s extensive line of products supports the learning process at every step, enabling the exploration of all subjects, in all situations and even beyond classroom walls. Our hardware solutions feature tablets, 2-in-1 devices, notebooks, Chromebooks, desktops, monitors and projectors, all designed to support dynamic and interactive learning environments.

Reliable Customer Service

Our award-winning customer service and support is instrumental in helping teachers, students, schools and educational institutions prevent technical issues from disrupting the learning process. Acer also offers Educare – a comprehensive service portfolio that is specifically designed to meet the needs of the education market.

Partners

The 21st century classroom requires more than just a set of devices, and Acer has built the extended ecosystem to provide innovative and comprehensive solutions to the Education community. Along with our ecosystem of partners, we invest in the future of education to provide a better tomorrow for the next generation.

Dependable, Robust and Affordable products

We believe exploration through technology is a right, not a privilege. That is why we make affordable products that are reliable and robust, resulting in lower Total Cost of Ownership.

Adaptive Solutions

Our end-to-end adaptive solutions address all the needs of the Education, including devices and products designed for Intenet-of-Things, Coding and Gamification, education-centred software solutions and after-sales service.

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Today, the pressure on educational institutions to deliver more timely, relevant, and convenient information with fewer resources requires greater efficiency. Students expect a technology environment that allows mobility, flexibility and fast access to curricula and other critical information, while teachers and faculty expect a technology environment that enhances the teaching process and eliminates administrative burdens. HP provides the integrated solutions, services, and consulting expertise to help achieve these goals.

Information Workflow

Improve productivity while saving costs. HP’s solutions lower the cost of printing, help streamline processes and reduce manual paperwork.

Security

Securely manage confidential information. HP’s solutions help you simplify tracking and increase data security.

Cloud & Mobility

Access and print documents efficiently and securely from mobile devices. HP’s solutions help you simplify tasks and print on the go.

HP Managed Services & Solution for Education

Maximize productivity and drive down costs. You might be surprised by the savings and competitive advantage you can achieve with fully optimized and well-managed document management solutions.

Streamline workflows and reduce costs

Optimize your infrastructure, manage your environment, improve your workflow

From logistics to installing your custom images to dynamically configuring new PCs to labeling your devices and data migration, HP Configuration and Deployment Services can save educators and students time, increase productivity, and ensure your new PCs are configured for each end user right out of the box.

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For over 100 years the system of education has been designed to support teaching methods that meet the need of the “average student”. But who is this, exactly? At Dell, we believe that every student should have a voice and choice in the learning process. Our solutions support educators as they redefine the learning environment and empower students to master learning at their own pace. It’s called personalized learning, and Dell can help

We help enable personalized learning, where students, teachers and technology work together to enrich the learning process.. Our unique, experienced approach puts the student at the center and technology is leveraged to access the learning resources, information and functionality make personalization just a few clicks away.

Three essential attributes make learning personal:

• Teacher designed: Teachers, armed with knowledge of each individual student and access to an array of personalization tools, will maximize learning gains.
• Student invested: Students apply a range of learning resources, tools and products to show mastery of learning through an on-going process of inquiry.
• Technology enriched: Technology enhances the personalized learning process when access to resources, information and functionality is just a couple of clicks away.

Student Computing for K-12

Empower students with mobile, intuitive computing devices

When K-12 students have access to the right technology, they are empowered through discovery. Because that technology allows them to invest on a personal level, students apply themselves in new ways, indulge curiosity, and show mastery through a continuous process of research and communication.

Dell delivers the computing devices that allow students to access information, tools and resources; to collaborate with teachers and other students anytime; and to produce meaningful work. See how your learners blossom when they take ownership of their own educational path, place, pace and time.

Learning Spaces for K-12

Create the space that encourages learning

Technology helps K-12 educators redefine the classroom from traditional, one-size-fits-all instruction into flexible, on-demand approaches. But many of today’s facilities were built for teacher-led instruction and passive learning, rather than today’s interactive and personalized learning. Inflexible layouts limit mobility, collaboration and creativity. Dell can help you reinvent that learning environment into one that embraces the future.

Imagine a learning space where nearly everything is moveable and usable by students or teachers for interactive learning. Imagine engaging both mind and body and improving student outcomes. Together, we can design an environment that encourages interaction an collaboration and enables movement and creativity.

See how learning spaces can reinforce the interactive quality of K-12 education, freeing both students and teachers to explore, create, share and grow. Visit https://delllearningspaces.com.

Teaching and Administration

Redefine the way your students and teachers interact

Personalized learning for K-12 students has its share of challenges. How do you manage multiple classroom aspects and individual educational experiences? Moreover, how do you choose, procure and implement the services and software you need to get there? Dell can help. In addition to our robust portfolio of laptops, Chromebooks, tablets and desktop peripherals, we offer orchestration tools to help you integrate the learning environment.

Our teacher-designed learning solutions a truly personalized approach. Your knowledge of each individual student, coupled with ready access to an array of personalization tools, will maximize learning gains. Learn more about the learning tools that empower you to design engaging and personalized experience.

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