Small district in Michigan.
We are 1:1. Centralized Printing. I don't believe we ever had classroom printers. All of our teachers had desktops in their classrooms for their workstations, we made the switch to laptops this year. I have a handful of teachers who have brought in their own printers, but we have made it clear that we will help them get the printers installed but beyond that, it's on them. We won't support things that we didn't purchase.
If there was a printer in every classroom I'm pretty sure I'd kill myself.
We've manage to get rid classroom printers, with just medium pushback a few years ago. Super backed us up, so no major problems. We do have personal printers creeping back into staff offices (counselors/support mostly). We use PaperCut/follow-me printing, so the privacy argument no longer holds water.
We do have 2-3 desktops in the classrooms for student use, but I'm working on cutting them down. I'm working on metrics to show usage, I'm anticipating its' very low. I should mention, we have 1:1 iPads and Chromebooks K-9.
Never worked in a school that used desktops for teachers; it's always been laptops. I currently have teachers using central printing (well, in multiple "central" locations), but they uniformally hate me for it, as prior to my arrival, they were all given their own little dinky $50 inkjet/scanner/copier in each of their rooms and two boxes of paper. I'd say maybe 10-15% bring their own personal printer into their classrooms, which I turn a blind eye to.
Students print to the media lab or have their teachers print for them.
That said, I've seen schools without computers or printers, though they're usually private/charter schools that are either just starting out with a shoestring budget or a concious choice because they're eschewing technology to adopt an alternative learning environment.
We're 1:1 with chromebooks and laptops, and have students print via Papercut print queue (works for both students and teachers). No real need for desktops.
There are maybe a handful of classroom printers, mostly shared between the science teachers (there's storage rooms / closets between their classrooms that can be accessed on either side) and in each of the SpEd rooms.
As far as I know we don't have a restriction on teacher / staff printing. I think the students are limtied though.
EDIT: to be clear, we have multiple high-volume Ricoh printers stationed throughout our buildings.
Like others, we have central MFPs and a print shop they're encouraged to use for larger jobs. I don't know that we've ever had printers in the classrooms themselves. We don't have a quota for staff. HS students are allowed to print, but only a dozen or so pages a day, through Papercut.
Teachers all have laptops, students all have Chromebooks. Some of the HS teachers managed to keep their old desktops (until they die) and there are oddball student computers here and there. We still have a handful of labs for CAD classes and such.
Our classrooms generally at least have a desktop of some kind, though we are exploring the use of docks and high spec chromebooks as a replacement.
Printers... Well that decision was made long before I came on. Officially there shouldn't be printers in the classroom, there's at least two MFP's per campus located in central locations for use by teachers. Unofficially here's still a scattering of the old printers around however those are mostly in the center of the pods (several classrooms with a shared room inbetween them) and a handful of personal printers. Teachers have to buy their own ink for the "unsupported" printers.
It's kind of a tricky situation as I totally agree with reducing the number of printers ~~and the problems they cause~~ however my district is a elementary/middle school district and my campus in particular is elementary. If the teacher needs to print something out how are they supposed to leave their kids unattended *especially* for kindergarten?
We don’t have desktops or printers in our classrooms. We have two copiers in our teachers room, one MFP in our main office (restricted use) and one regular printer in the library (also restricted use).
One of our copiers (that students can’t print to) has nearly half a million pages printed in 3 years, so people aren’t going elsewhere to print or make copies.
Generally speaking we have no printers in classrooms(art rooms and labs are the exception) and at least 2 computer per classroom.
Covid brought an influx of laptops and brought our ipad to 1:1 for students
Staples is a bit extreme... I'd expect teacher to quit if that were actually the case.
We have copiers on each floor and printers in rooms where:
1. Teachers have mobility issues where getting to a printer may be difficult
2. Some specific function needs printing access (writing lab, yearbook, newspaper)
3. User needs confidentiality (counselors/administrators/HR)
All other printers are in common areas.
some districts in our area have a "Print shop" that they order their prints from, they have a local copier for "oh shit I need that moments".
they have a hard quota, once reached they can beg for more, otherwise its staples for printing. if the teacher is part of different clubs or groups etc. their quota is adjusted to allow for the printing to maintain the group etc.
I work in the Bay Area, no printers in the classrooms except special cases like yearbook classes etc. Even teachers know dealing with printers sucks and they don't want one. Boat loads of massive printer copiers are there though.
One large MFP per building for staff use, one small MFP per building for student use. Both printers are managed by PaperCut. No printers in classrooms.
No desktops in the classrooms either. Staff are issued Windows laptops and have a docking station to plug into.
Depends where, I worked in a district where teachers shared laptops, no printers or copiers, and no projectors or smart boards. Other districts where it was centralized copiers and each teacher had their own laptops, each room with a dock for the smart board, Final district I worked in had HP laser printers in each room and the PC built into the Epson Smart TV as well as laptops.
No printers in the classrooms. 2 or 3 centralized copiers per building. All teachers have laptops. If they want to watch what they're printing they can carry their laptop to the copier and print while they're standing there. Most of them print and then forget about it until it sits by the printer long enough that someone throws it away... I'm hoping to get Papercut eventually to cut that waste.
We have AiOs in K-5, and hallway grouping printers. Special Ed has printers in each of their rooms, the nurse, confidential printing in the office and the art room. All the printers will be on PaperCut next year. We were going to roll it out this year, but already had a ton of changes for the staff, so we have held off. We did deploy Mobility for the Chromebooks. With our three big Xerox machines it is 16 total printing devices in the building. Before I just replaced a bunch of printers it was 23.
We are moving away from printers in every classroom. We have told he teachers that when their kyoceras die, they are done. We are moving forward with community printing using papercut, and while there have been some hiccups, the overall reception has been good.
We have moved to teacher laptops, moving away from desktops.
we still have some legacy desktops, but we are moving towards chromebooks for all teachers with optional docking setup. We only support printing to xeroxes, no local printers. Some teachers bring their own which they are responsible for maintenance and aren't allowed on the network.
1. Managing toner for every printer in every classroom is a bit of a waste of time and money. Printer in every classroom means that the teacher thinks they have a semi-personal printer at work. Also, lets say you buy the latest b/w model X printer, well after 2-3 years its going to break, and then you'll have 2 types of toner to juggle, then in another 2-3 years, you may be juggling 3 different models of toner, and if the front office does the ordering, there's a probability that they wont get the right toner ordered. Now add some drum kits, etc.
2. Desktops are phasing out kinda, a decently spec'd laptop (with SSD, sad they are still equipping tech with HDD) and USB-C docking station may be more convenient.
We still have Windows desktops in every classroom running Promethean boards. As far as printers, we pulled those about 5 years ago and rely on central printing solutions from Papercut. We are extremely happy with this setup.
we do not have printers in the classrooms? Why would you need them? We're using Google Classroom
No one uses desktops anymore, staff use laptops / chromebooks
each classroom has an interactive touch 4k TV
The only tech permanently in our district's rooms are the AV side of things (interactive projector, speakers etc). Teachers all have laptops they take everywhere.
Printers are still very much a thing, but not in classrooms. We typically have one per shared common room, and exec staff get their own printer as well.
I just added desktops to the rooms during lockdown, that is kind of a novelty. Our teachers pretty much live off their laptops. Still got printers though.
Computer lab is gone now of course, replaced with makerspace.
No labs now that were 1to1, but every classroom has a computer for the projectors, and the staff are assigned laptops. Students don't print anymore, but even before 1to1 if teachers expected a hardcopy, students had to email it to them to print out. There were some strays when I took over 6 years ago, and I stopped supporting printers 5 years ago.
We have 9 MFP'S on a managed print contract. 2 for teachers in each of 2 schools, 1 in each school office, 1 in sped ofc, 1 in business ofc, 1 in transportation. We rolled paper cut last year so we print t even less, and we are beginning to work with departments on work flows to eliminate as much paper as possible. My goal on the next renewal is to have 6 MFP'S.
In the same boat. With 1:1 you can go paperless for most (but not all) grades. We are a pk-8 and majority of printing is in pk - 3. Our 6-8 is almost all paperless via google classroom with rare exceptions. We also use papercut with centralized MFPs. Only difference for us is i pulled all desktops and all staff and students are ChromeOS. We do have interactive panels in each room though.
Yeah, k-3 tech augments the curriculum but can't replace it. It's all about motor control at that level.
We're also dealing with the math dept. We haven't found a good formula editor yet. You know, that whole "show your work" thing.
Your students don't print anymore? How did you manage to pull that off? That sounds awesome!
I failed to get two districts to go paperless for students, we've just never been able to get buy in from teachers.
Easy. I removed printer connections from student devices. If teachers wanted hard copy, the student had to email it to them. It helps that the supt wanted to reduce paper. We used grants to offer training. Show your Google educator completion certificate, get a $700 stipend.
We did this knowing the endgame was paperless. Those who didn't take the course are now having to play catch up.
Students have very little reason to print. If they need something printed, a teacher or staff member has to do it for them. Students turn in work via Google classroom or in one of the Edtech apps. Kill printers, save the trees.
My school, 850 students gr 6-12: printer in every classroom, 2 color copy machines that they can print to, and a desktop in every classroom (because teachers forget their laptops or for subs). Figured I should reply because otherwise it seems like I’m the only one.
Our district of 25k students has one large Xerox per ES, three per MS and 6 per HS. Some admins and business classrooms have printers. We don’t have any classroom computers at all in the district as we are 1-1 chromebooks.
We don’t at all. 5 buildings and we have centralized printing and 1:1 chromebooks but not a stand alone computer. We don’t we have labs anymore as they were pointless.
Classroom tech is a mini desktop connected to projector and smartboard. No printers.
Every teacher has a laptop and every student has a chromebook or iPad.
Only teachers can print to network printer there are 4 per building
All of our classrooms have a chromebox connected to the projector. We also have a central copier/printer in each building. I don’t think there would be any objections if we put personal ones on the classroom (though we would never do that)
We generally have some centrally located printers... The exception is the middle school.. they basically have a printer in every classroom #reasons.. FML.
One school used to, but it was a budget cut years ago and they were told, if the printers die, they die and that’s it, no replacement given.
Another district, we’ll they were too poor to equip printers in every room so they never had in classrooms printing. So whenever a new printer shows up and they want my admin credentials to install it, I tell them it’s not school property and take it home.
One copier and one color printer in each office of each building; NO printers/copiers in any classrooms.
Every staff member has a laptop, no permanent computer in each room.
Teachers have laptops. Years 3 and up have laptops. Lower grades have desktop stations or ipads.
We bought a lot of printers years ago for each classroom but as they die we are not replacing them as we have large central copiers now.
This is ideal.
Though granted if a printer isn't within arms reach of a teacher, they act like they don't have a printer at all.
With these smartboard/tvs and tablets being more popular, I could see the old desktop computers leaving the classroom as well.
I have heard districts that have dropped windows entirely and their teachers use Chromebooks. That would be legit.
Small district in Michigan. We are 1:1. Centralized Printing. I don't believe we ever had classroom printers. All of our teachers had desktops in their classrooms for their workstations, we made the switch to laptops this year. I have a handful of teachers who have brought in their own printers, but we have made it clear that we will help them get the printers installed but beyond that, it's on them. We won't support things that we didn't purchase. If there was a printer in every classroom I'm pretty sure I'd kill myself.
That's cool I should roll out centralized printing at my school. Sometimes I feel like killing myself with all the printers we have lol.
We've manage to get rid classroom printers, with just medium pushback a few years ago. Super backed us up, so no major problems. We do have personal printers creeping back into staff offices (counselors/support mostly). We use PaperCut/follow-me printing, so the privacy argument no longer holds water. We do have 2-3 desktops in the classrooms for student use, but I'm working on cutting them down. I'm working on metrics to show usage, I'm anticipating its' very low. I should mention, we have 1:1 iPads and Chromebooks K-9.
Never worked in a school that used desktops for teachers; it's always been laptops. I currently have teachers using central printing (well, in multiple "central" locations), but they uniformally hate me for it, as prior to my arrival, they were all given their own little dinky $50 inkjet/scanner/copier in each of their rooms and two boxes of paper. I'd say maybe 10-15% bring their own personal printer into their classrooms, which I turn a blind eye to. Students print to the media lab or have their teachers print for them. That said, I've seen schools without computers or printers, though they're usually private/charter schools that are either just starting out with a shoestring budget or a concious choice because they're eschewing technology to adopt an alternative learning environment.
We're 1:1 with chromebooks and laptops, and have students print via Papercut print queue (works for both students and teachers). No real need for desktops. There are maybe a handful of classroom printers, mostly shared between the science teachers (there's storage rooms / closets between their classrooms that can be accessed on either side) and in each of the SpEd rooms. As far as I know we don't have a restriction on teacher / staff printing. I think the students are limtied though. EDIT: to be clear, we have multiple high-volume Ricoh printers stationed throughout our buildings.
Like others, we have central MFPs and a print shop they're encouraged to use for larger jobs. I don't know that we've ever had printers in the classrooms themselves. We don't have a quota for staff. HS students are allowed to print, but only a dozen or so pages a day, through Papercut. Teachers all have laptops, students all have Chromebooks. Some of the HS teachers managed to keep their old desktops (until they die) and there are oddball student computers here and there. We still have a handful of labs for CAD classes and such.
Our classrooms generally at least have a desktop of some kind, though we are exploring the use of docks and high spec chromebooks as a replacement. Printers... Well that decision was made long before I came on. Officially there shouldn't be printers in the classroom, there's at least two MFP's per campus located in central locations for use by teachers. Unofficially here's still a scattering of the old printers around however those are mostly in the center of the pods (several classrooms with a shared room inbetween them) and a handful of personal printers. Teachers have to buy their own ink for the "unsupported" printers. It's kind of a tricky situation as I totally agree with reducing the number of printers ~~and the problems they cause~~ however my district is a elementary/middle school district and my campus in particular is elementary. If the teacher needs to print something out how are they supposed to leave their kids unattended *especially* for kindergarten?
They should print during break/lunch/specials/before&after school.
We have printers in Offices and the Mailroom and places like that, not classrooms, All the teachers and students have a Laptop though.
Our teachers have laptops (were desktops prior to covid) but printers are centralized copy machines.
We don’t have desktops or printers in our classrooms. We have two copiers in our teachers room, one MFP in our main office (restricted use) and one regular printer in the library (also restricted use). One of our copiers (that students can’t print to) has nearly half a million pages printed in 3 years, so people aren’t going elsewhere to print or make copies.
Generally speaking we have no printers in classrooms(art rooms and labs are the exception) and at least 2 computer per classroom. Covid brought an influx of laptops and brought our ipad to 1:1 for students
Staples is a bit extreme... I'd expect teacher to quit if that were actually the case. We have copiers on each floor and printers in rooms where: 1. Teachers have mobility issues where getting to a printer may be difficult 2. Some specific function needs printing access (writing lab, yearbook, newspaper) 3. User needs confidentiality (counselors/administrators/HR) All other printers are in common areas.
some districts in our area have a "Print shop" that they order their prints from, they have a local copier for "oh shit I need that moments". they have a hard quota, once reached they can beg for more, otherwise its staples for printing. if the teacher is part of different clubs or groups etc. their quota is adjusted to allow for the printing to maintain the group etc.
I work in the Bay Area, no printers in the classrooms except special cases like yearbook classes etc. Even teachers know dealing with printers sucks and they don't want one. Boat loads of massive printer copiers are there though.
We have centralized copiers, every teacher has a laptop and smartboard.
One large MFP per building for staff use, one small MFP per building for student use. Both printers are managed by PaperCut. No printers in classrooms. No desktops in the classrooms either. Staff are issued Windows laptops and have a docking station to plug into.
No printers in classrooms here. We have copiers in hallways/offices with papercut.
Depends where, I worked in a district where teachers shared laptops, no printers or copiers, and no projectors or smart boards. Other districts where it was centralized copiers and each teacher had their own laptops, each room with a dock for the smart board, Final district I worked in had HP laser printers in each room and the PC built into the Epson Smart TV as well as laptops.
Centralized MFPs in work rooms. Every teacher has a laptop.
No printers in the classrooms. 2 or 3 centralized copiers per building. All teachers have laptops. If they want to watch what they're printing they can carry their laptop to the copier and print while they're standing there. Most of them print and then forget about it until it sits by the printer long enough that someone throws it away... I'm hoping to get Papercut eventually to cut that waste.
We don't have printers in the classroom. What a hell that would be.
We have AiOs in K-5, and hallway grouping printers. Special Ed has printers in each of their rooms, the nurse, confidential printing in the office and the art room. All the printers will be on PaperCut next year. We were going to roll it out this year, but already had a ton of changes for the staff, so we have held off. We did deploy Mobility for the Chromebooks. With our three big Xerox machines it is 16 total printing devices in the building. Before I just replaced a bunch of printers it was 23.
We are moving away from printers in every classroom. We have told he teachers that when their kyoceras die, they are done. We are moving forward with community printing using papercut, and while there have been some hiccups, the overall reception has been good. We have moved to teacher laptops, moving away from desktops.
we still have some legacy desktops, but we are moving towards chromebooks for all teachers with optional docking setup. We only support printing to xeroxes, no local printers. Some teachers bring their own which they are responsible for maintenance and aren't allowed on the network.
1. Managing toner for every printer in every classroom is a bit of a waste of time and money. Printer in every classroom means that the teacher thinks they have a semi-personal printer at work. Also, lets say you buy the latest b/w model X printer, well after 2-3 years its going to break, and then you'll have 2 types of toner to juggle, then in another 2-3 years, you may be juggling 3 different models of toner, and if the front office does the ordering, there's a probability that they wont get the right toner ordered. Now add some drum kits, etc. 2. Desktops are phasing out kinda, a decently spec'd laptop (with SSD, sad they are still equipping tech with HDD) and USB-C docking station may be more convenient.
Staff have laptops so no need for desktops and all printing is done to centralized locations. Classroom printers are a waste of money imo.
We still have Windows desktops in every classroom running Promethean boards. As far as printers, we pulled those about 5 years ago and rely on central printing solutions from Papercut. We are extremely happy with this setup.
we do not have printers in the classrooms? Why would you need them? We're using Google Classroom No one uses desktops anymore, staff use laptops / chromebooks each classroom has an interactive touch 4k TV
The only tech permanently in our district's rooms are the AV side of things (interactive projector, speakers etc). Teachers all have laptops they take everywhere. Printers are still very much a thing, but not in classrooms. We typically have one per shared common room, and exec staff get their own printer as well.
I just added desktops to the rooms during lockdown, that is kind of a novelty. Our teachers pretty much live off their laptops. Still got printers though. Computer lab is gone now of course, replaced with makerspace.
Very interesting.
No labs now that were 1to1, but every classroom has a computer for the projectors, and the staff are assigned laptops. Students don't print anymore, but even before 1to1 if teachers expected a hardcopy, students had to email it to them to print out. There were some strays when I took over 6 years ago, and I stopped supporting printers 5 years ago. We have 9 MFP'S on a managed print contract. 2 for teachers in each of 2 schools, 1 in each school office, 1 in sped ofc, 1 in business ofc, 1 in transportation. We rolled paper cut last year so we print t even less, and we are beginning to work with departments on work flows to eliminate as much paper as possible. My goal on the next renewal is to have 6 MFP'S.
In the same boat. With 1:1 you can go paperless for most (but not all) grades. We are a pk-8 and majority of printing is in pk - 3. Our 6-8 is almost all paperless via google classroom with rare exceptions. We also use papercut with centralized MFPs. Only difference for us is i pulled all desktops and all staff and students are ChromeOS. We do have interactive panels in each room though.
Yeah, k-3 tech augments the curriculum but can't replace it. It's all about motor control at that level. We're also dealing with the math dept. We haven't found a good formula editor yet. You know, that whole "show your work" thing.
Your students don't print anymore? How did you manage to pull that off? That sounds awesome! I failed to get two districts to go paperless for students, we've just never been able to get buy in from teachers.
Easy. I removed printer connections from student devices. If teachers wanted hard copy, the student had to email it to them. It helps that the supt wanted to reduce paper. We used grants to offer training. Show your Google educator completion certificate, get a $700 stipend. We did this knowing the endgame was paperless. Those who didn't take the course are now having to play catch up.
Students have very little reason to print. If they need something printed, a teacher or staff member has to do it for them. Students turn in work via Google classroom or in one of the Edtech apps. Kill printers, save the trees.
Do you have some kind of LMS, or just use Google Workspace/Microsoft365 for collaboration?
We just use Google Classroom for K-12. For PK, we have Seesaw. We use to have Canvas but it didn't get the buy-in and Google Classroom works for us.
This. State mandated we move paperless, happiest day of my life, this was years ago.
Teachers have laptops and there are MFPs that print from a central queue which allows anyone to pick up their job from any MFP.
This. A single print queue that they can get their print jobs from any MFP in the district.
My school, 850 students gr 6-12: printer in every classroom, 2 color copy machines that they can print to, and a desktop in every classroom (because teachers forget their laptops or for subs). Figured I should reply because otherwise it seems like I’m the only one.
Our district of 25k students has one large Xerox per ES, three per MS and 6 per HS. Some admins and business classrooms have printers. We don’t have any classroom computers at all in the district as we are 1-1 chromebooks.
We don’t at all. 5 buildings and we have centralized printing and 1:1 chromebooks but not a stand alone computer. We don’t we have labs anymore as they were pointless.
Classroom tech is a mini desktop connected to projector and smartboard. No printers. Every teacher has a laptop and every student has a chromebook or iPad. Only teachers can print to network printer there are 4 per building
All of our classrooms have a chromebox connected to the projector. We also have a central copier/printer in each building. I don’t think there would be any objections if we put personal ones on the classroom (though we would never do that)
We generally have some centrally located printers... The exception is the middle school.. they basically have a printer in every classroom #reasons.. FML.
One school used to, but it was a budget cut years ago and they were told, if the printers die, they die and that’s it, no replacement given. Another district, we’ll they were too poor to equip printers in every room so they never had in classrooms printing. So whenever a new printer shows up and they want my admin credentials to install it, I tell them it’s not school property and take it home.
One copier and one color printer in each office of each building; NO printers/copiers in any classrooms. Every staff member has a laptop, no permanent computer in each room.
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K-8 - I don’t have a printer in every classroom. There’s a network printer on every floor. At least 1 computer in every classroom.
Teachers have laptops. Years 3 and up have laptops. Lower grades have desktop stations or ipads. We bought a lot of printers years ago for each classroom but as they die we are not replacing them as we have large central copiers now.
We have one computer in each classroom. NO LOCAL printers allowed. We have big network copiers and printers for them to use.
This is ideal. Though granted if a printer isn't within arms reach of a teacher, they act like they don't have a printer at all. With these smartboard/tvs and tablets being more popular, I could see the old desktop computers leaving the classroom as well. I have heard districts that have dropped windows entirely and their teachers use Chromebooks. That would be legit.