Flipgrid is Microsoft's simple, free, and accessible video discussion experience for educators, learners, and families. During the 30-minute session, one of the Flipgrid Educator Innovation Leads will explain how Flipgrid works and help you create your Flipgrid account and start collecting videos from your students. You'll also have time to ask any questions! Want to dive in right away? Take our getting Started PD course on the Microsoft Educa...

Campus contact tracing, vaccine distribution, and data analysis are critical steps toward containing the COVID-19 virus, but one that is fraught with scale and operational challenges.Google Cloud, SpringML, and Carahsoft invite you to join a webinar on March 30, 2021, to understand how a data-driven approach can help drive efficient campus reopening solutions for student and faculty wellness. You'll learn about scaling COVID-19 related campus...

With the rise of remote learning, cybercriminals don’t have to look very hard for new places to attack. Limited funding, electronic student records, and bring-your-own-device policies have created high cybersecurity stakes for K-12 institutions. Join Dell and VMware Carbon Black on March 25th as we discuss how K-12 institutions can enhance their security posture through a consolidated and modernized approach. Protect your institution wit...

As the evolving threat landscape continues to grow in complexity, so does the volume of intellectual property, attributes, and privileged identities within college and university systems. Securely managing access controls for undergraduate and graduate students, facility, university hospitals, healthcare systems, and more can be an intricate task. Colleges and universities have robust user populations, and this multifaceted network of users, a...

For the first time, NABE’s 37th Annual Economic Policy Conference will take place virtually! Organized around the theme of "Policy Challenges Post COVID," the 37th Annual NABE Economic Policy Conference will focus on the tests for policymakers in the wake of COVID-19, including immediate needs to vaccinate the world’s population, promote economic stability and job growth, and restore global alliances; as well as enduring longer-run...

Join Nutanix and Carahsoft for these Practical Ransomware Protections for Higher Education events! Friday, March 19, 2021 | 1:00pm ET; 10:00am PT Live Demo: Protect your data and apps Join our live demo for a high level overview of Nutanix Flow followed by a live demo by Neil Ashworth. Register now to save your spot! Friday, April 2, 2021 | 1:00pm ET; 10:00am PT Sign up for Hands on Experience! Time to Test Drive Nutanix Flow! You will instant...

It's no secret that higher education institutions have faced a year of change and are now entering the year of the "new normal." As campus populations fluctuate due to the ongoing pandemic and distance learning programs expand, developing a future-proof IT modernization strategy is even more critical than it was before. Not only must IT teams ensure that new or expanding online learning models do not compromise existing systems and data. They...

Join Canvas, New Jersey School Board Association (NJSBA), and Carahsoft as they explore the key elements of the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) under the CARES Act and the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSAA). During this webinar, Tracy Weeks, Executive Director, Instructure, will review how K-12 school systems can utilize these much-needed emergency resources, at both the state...

Colleges and universities have experienced unprecedented challenges related to the ongoing pandemic, including remote teaching and learning and an accelerating move to cloud services to meet those new remote technology needs. Please join us for a discussion on the challenges that have risen out of this unprecedented time. The University of Kansas will be joined by Nick Lewis from Internet2 and Hunter Ely from Palo Alto Networks to discuss indu...

Now more than ever, IT departments at schools and state and local government agencies need to protect the growing amount of data supporting students and teachers running online classrooms. This is all done with a limited IT budget.The challenge is, "how do I keep storage costs down as the value, volume, and velocity of data continues to grow?" Smart educators and local government IT leaders are turning to next-generation backup and cloud solut...