MDM solution for iOS and Android tablet management

CHIMPAMOBILE DEVICE MANAGEMENT

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The spreading of mobile personal devices in schools are radically changing the educational system: more mobility, less books, instant access to shared resources and improvement of traditional teaching and learn-ing techniques. Along with the benefits of digital teaching begin to arise the first issues that schools, man-agers and teachers have to face to create a safe environment and promote a proper use of the new tools.Without an adequate control of the tablet there is a risk of increasing distractions and not making the most of the resources available. Chimpa is the only solution that allows you to administer, control and manage all Android and iOS tablets used in schools, with an eye to privacy protection, the prevention of cyberbullying and, in general, an appropriate use of technology in the classroom. These are just some examples of what you can do with Chimpa:

Only with Chimpa mobile devices become a tool for studying and not for distraction!

Multiple platformChimpa makes controlling iOS and Android at school and classroom level easy and completely schedulable. The interface works smoothly no matter the mobile OS.

The best of both worldsChimpa is 100% developed in Italy using an industry-level stand-ard MDM (Mobile Device Management) approach, adapting it to the needs and the requirements of education.

One of a kindChimpa is developed by the only Italian EMM (Enterprise Mobility Management) Service provider for Android in Italy: a guarantee of high quality standards, integration and simplicity of installation.

Compatible with GSuiteChimpa is compatible with Google’s GSuite and allows you to configure your Android tablets in just a few steps using the Android for Work tools

Protecting the studentsChimpa provides a safe, privacy-compliant learning experience, preventing access to unapproved apps or sites both within the school and - depending on the policies applied - at home

Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution for school environment

• Have an overview of all the devices used within the school environ-ment combined with their owners, serial numbers with location track-ing, used apps, visited IPs, etc.

• Deploy the Apps over the devices to automatically define a standard array of resources

• Set up specific profiles for the whole institute, class or group of stu-dents: for example, you can force the connection of tablets to the

school network when they are inside the building, hiding specific Apps (eg games, Facebook, etc.) when the device is connected or just near to that particular network, preventing navigation on certain sites or blocking access to the Internet etc.

• Schedule the assignment of the profiles on a weekly, daily or hourly basis to make available on the devices of a class or of a group of students only the Apps related to the lesson scheduled for that hour

The Chimpa administration panel is accessible via browser from any device and allows the IT manager to easily manage all the devices that are used in the school environment. Thanks to its extreme versatility and not being bound to a specific brand of device, Chimpa is the ideal solution for BYOD and for school-owned devices.

All informations are saved in the cloud on servers owned by

Chimpa and resident in Italy. The com-mands defined by the administrator are

distributed from the cloud to the individual devices, either massively (settings, apps etc. concerning all school tablets) or on a time, class, group or individual basis.

All the tablets in the school are managed and administered according to the rules defined by the Institute on the basis of specific profiles: for example, a series of restrictions can be applied only during school hours or when the devices are close to the school network.

ChimpaTeach Allows the control of the students’ devices and gives a wide array of management tools (a few examples are below)

ChimpaBazaarChimpa Bazaar makes it easy to share with the whole classroom Apps, eBooks, weblinks, PDFs and any kind of cloud-hosted content. ChimpaBazaar supports VPPs (Volume Purchase Programs) for paid contents, both on App Store and Google Play.

ChimpaLearn Automatically enrolls the students into the class-room (via iBeacon® - Bluetooth 4.0) forcing their devices to join the lesson

ChimpaAgent Chimpa Agent MDM is the Device Policy Con-troller (DPC) in charge of managing the MDM - managed devices

For the teacher For the whole ClassroomFor the Student

The Classroom-based management tools of ChimpaTeach

Single App ModeThe teacher can force any app to be launched on the stu-dent device, locking it on the foreground

App WhitelistThe teacher can choose a group of apps and hide the others from the students devices

Internet ON/OFFThe teacher can lock the internet access

Whitelist configurationThe teacher can create a whitelist of URLs, and the studen-ts won’t be able to browse the internet outside of that list

Lock the devicesThe teacher can completely lock the students devices

RestrictionsThe teacher can set a list of various restrictions on the stu-dents devices, such as locking the camera or the dictionary

ShowcaseThe teacher can force a device to connect to a mirroring de-vice via AirPlay (iOS only)

Push Web LinkThe teacher can share any web link by pushing it straight to the students devices

Push Cloud ContentThe teacher can share any cloud-based document by pu-shing it straight to the students devices

Passcode resetThe teacher can remove or change on the fly any passcode locking the students devices

The MDM Control PanelThe heart of Chimpa is an MDM (Mobile Device Management) system, working at the same time on iOS and Android, similar to those already used by big companies such as airlines or telecommunica-tion providers, but focused and developed for the school environment. Chimpa gives the IT admin-istrator a comprehensive, granular set of tools to manage the hundreds or thousand mobile devices (tablets but, mostly, smartphones) getting in and out of the school. With Chimpa can easily be set a whitelist of allowed websites or Apps - the latter could even be deployed automatically over the de-vices - on a school, class or individual basis. Some features, such camera, messaging apps or others can be blocked on a determined schedule: hourly, daily, weekly or even by the proximity to a specific WiFi network or a GPS position. And there are just a few examples!

The Chimpa suite

But it’s not all: on a classroom-based level, the Chimpa Teach and Chimpa Learn Apps let the teacher have a local control of the students’ mobile devices, no matter they are iOS or Android tablets or smartphones.

One of the hottest subjects in the world of education nowa-days is the presence and proper use of mobile technologies in the classroom. The - sometimes delicate - balance between schools and technology has become more tense than ever since smartphones massively got into the students’ backpacks and, as a natural consequence, into everyday school routine. If their active, proper use has been encouraged in Italy, in other coun-tries such as France their use has been banned.

We believe that a ‘third way’ between a ‘wild’, unchecked use of mobile technologies and a complete ban is possible. What is the pedagogical outcome of a complete censorship? None at all. At the same time, schools and parents need effective tools to create a dam against cyberbullying, an excessive ‘virtualization’ of interpersonal relationships and any improper, often toxic use of unfiltered Web contents.

Our solution is a project called Chimpa24, and is being born with the aim of educating the so-called ‘digital natives’ to a con-scious, contest-led use of the Web and of their mobile devices. What does it mean? In short, that both the Web and the tools granting the access to it can actually be used - they are a part of everyday reality, after all - but with the necessary awareness, depending upon the place, the time and the purpose.

The idea behind Chimpa24 is rather simple: why can’t we create an MDM-based solution following students home from school, creating a all-round protection from cyberbullying, excessive use of smartphones, unfiltered circulation of inappropriate, offensive, toxic and dangerous contents? Working on the basis of our Chimpa MDM solution we quickly developed an add-on, called ChimpaHome, meant to be used by parents, giving many smart tools for a home-based management of the family devices.

Chimpa24A solution against cyberbullying and improper uses of mobile devices, all day round

The heart of Chimpa24 is the Chimpa MDM control panel, an industry-level Mobile Device Management comparable to those already used by airlines and telecom com-panies. Chimpa MDM works at the same time on iOS and Android devices, giving the IT administrator a comprehensive, granular set of tools to manage the hundreds or thousand mobile devices (tablets but, mostly, smartphones) getting in and out of the school. With Chimpa can easily be set a whitelist of allowed websites or Apps - the latter could even be deployed automatically over the devices - on a school, class or in-dividual basis. Some features, such camera, messaging apps or others can be blocked on a determined schedule: hourly, daily, weekly or even by the proximity to a specific WiFi network or a GPS position. And there are just a few examples!

Level 1: School

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Compatible with iOS and Android devices and any third-party application, such as AppleClassroom, Google Classroom and others

Chimpa24 is developed by Helgi/Xnoova, one of the two European EMM (Enterprise Mobility Management) Android service provider and, moreover, is a Google for Work certified partner and a member of the Apple Consultants Network. The advanced skills of the technical department allows a simple, zero-touch enrollment of the Android devices, with no hassle for the IT school department.

Level 2: Classroom

Level 3: Home

Moreover, the Chimpa Bazaar App is meant as a useful tools for the teachers, letting them create a custom app/ebook store based on the specific needs of their classrooms, with the additional feature of sharing material of any kind through popular cloud services such as Google Drive, Dropbox or Microsoft OneDrive. Chimpa Bazaar supports the Volume Pur-chase Programs both on App Store and Google Play, so that the licences bought by the school can be deployed over the students’ devices.

On a classroom-based level, the Chimpa Teach and Chimpa Learn Apps let the teacher have a local control of the students’ mobile devices, no matter they are iOS or Android tablets or smartphones. The theacher could, for example, create groups of students, send specific commands to each group (or to single students), such as blocking a specific App in the foreground, or hiding all the applica-tion which are not meant to be used during that particular lesson. Definitely a great solution for a BYOD approach!

The third level is the added value of our Chimpa24 Project. Thanks to ChimpaHome (available both as App and Webapp) - a simpler version of the main Chimpa MDM control panel - parents can access a series of essential functions for a smart management of their sons’ personal devices. ChimpaHome lets parents strictly define any hourly, daily or weekly schedule involving the use of tablets and smart-phones, so that the hours devoted to study, rest and leisure could be carefully defined.

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