September 2nd - September 3rd

Tuesday the 2nd- 1:00-2:30
Wednesday the 3rd 12:25-1:50

On my first day as an intern, I got to help set up Android tablets for our elementary schools. The tablets had to be configured to run Google Play for Education, and we had to set up security so that the users (kindergarteners) would not be able to change important settings or download unnecessary apps. We also wanted to ensure that teachers would be able to whitelist apps that could be pushed to all of the tablets in their class without having to download each manually. During the time I got to work with the tablets, we were able to figure out how to activate each tablet to use Google Play for Education, how to share settings between tablets and save time by bumping them, and how to manage devices, classes, and whitelisted apps via Google's provided interface.

The next day, I got my school issued laptop. The majority of my time interning on Wednesday was devoted to setting the laptop up and discovering difficulties that future users of similar laptops would face. We spent time brainstorming ideas for instructions that would be given out with the laptops when they are distributed, and recorded some common problems that might occur during regular use of the laptops so that future problems could be avoided. We also took note of ways that high school kids could get into trouble with some of the features still available to them on the laptops so that these features could be blocked if possible and could be kept track of if not.