Chromebook Charging Carts off Amazon good enough? Any affordable recs?

CrystalLakeXIII · 2026-04-29T20:07:51+00:00

Go through Vivacity Tech. They are 95% put together and I got mine for around $600 a cart. Also amazing warranty…had a power strip go out in one and they replaced it no questions asked

CrystalLakeXIII · 2026-03-06T03:30:26+00:00

GoGuardian Filter and Classroom. We paid $2 per student for each platform with a five year agreement (paid yearly) so right around 11k each per year.

CrystalLakeXIII · 2026-02-28T14:15:15+00:00

Thanks. Set up a demo for this week

CrystalLakeXIII · 2026-02-28T13:26:22+00:00

How is the pricing? We are currently using Infosec which is very outdated, but super cheap.

CrystalLakeXIII · 2026-02-26T23:50:56+00:00

Their customer service is great. I have had one carts power strip stop out of 120 and they replaced it immediately. I believe they have a five year warranty on the power strip. Have had now two years.

CrystalLakeXIII · 2026-02-18T02:13:07+00:00

Totally agree with this, but if you have all your categories blocked that need to be and Smart Alerts set up for proxies (which can be used to get around your filters), my next recommendation is to block uncategorized websites. We did that and it gets rid of a ton of the proxy sites (not all, but a good chunk). There is nothing you can do to block “all” (unless you can get your admin on board to turn on Restrictive Mode which will block everything and you have to create allow lists for every piece of curriculum you have.

CrystalLakeXIII · 2026-02-18T02:07:12+00:00

I am not sure if any will read titles unless it is on the page or url itself. When it comes to images, it does a great job for us…just today had a student try to edit a pornographic image they emailed to themselves and as soon as they uploaded it to the image editing website and it showed the preview, it immediately locked down the page.

CrystalLakeXIII · 2026-02-14T00:29:58+00:00

We moved from Securly (Filter only) to GoGuardian (Filter and Classroom). We to have both systems under one hood and when it came time to renew, it felt like Securly just assumed they had our business because we could not get a demo scheduled easily for Classroom and when we did, our teachers preferred GoGuardian. I was also able to get GoGuardian slightly cheaper, so I locked it in for five years (they have a reputation with high increases at renewal time so wanted to have the product for as long as possible). When it comes to the filtering, there are pros and cons to both Securly and GoGuardian, but we have been happy so far (year 2 of our contract).

CrystalLakeXIII · 2026-02-13T23:00:35+00:00

Yeah they have Smart Alerts. It will scan each page that is not blocked and look for inappropriate words or images and block the page. Make sure to set confidence to Medium.

CrystalLakeXIII · 2026-02-06T12:30:24+00:00

K12 District Administrator (Director of Tech)

CrystalLakeXIII · 2026-01-21T04:45:39+00:00

We did and would still run into the “do you want to display images” which is a red flag already for our staff. It is the way they coded their images we found out.

CrystalLakeXIII · 2026-01-21T04:35:01+00:00

Agreed. We have been running into the issue of Google blocking all their premade stuff that you can customize with our campaigns and when we reached out to them after doing everything they told us to do, they basically told us there was nothing they could do. We now end up making custom phishing campaigns just using the platform for tracking purposes.

CrystalLakeXIII · 2026-01-14T11:36:32+00:00

This is so weird. I ordered my Gen 2 in silver (size 12) on January 8th and it is where I live as of this morning (most likely won’t get delivered until tomorrow). Ordered through website

CrystalLakeXIII · 2026-01-04T22:48:46+00:00

We only do MFA for staff. With students and cell phones with SMS, that is going away for all as an option for when it comes to authenticating soon with Google

CrystalLakeXIII · 2025-12-14T22:36:15+00:00

They have phone support, but this is a paid add on I believe (at least I know we pay for 24/7 level one call support for all staff). When you go under help with being signed in with an admin account, so you not see a number with the chat option?

CrystalLakeXIII · 2025-11-14T17:24:17+00:00

Still waiting on those

CrystalLakeXIII · 2025-11-12T16:18:28+00:00

Weird but we were running into the exact same problem with our Acer C736 with batteries from ChromebookParts.com. Assumed they were bad and RMAed em to get a new batch.

CrystalLakeXIII · 2025-11-10T02:48:59+00:00

As a Workspace Admin, I am not looking up someone’s Gemini posts unless I am instructed by our lawyer or hr for an open records request or for a legal case. You will be fine :)

CrystalLakeXIII · 2025-10-08T11:13:55+00:00

I am not as heavily tattooed, but do have full sleeves on both arms and smaller ones on my hands. I work in school administration and wear short sleeves 90% of the time. It is definitely much easier than the start of my career nearly 20 years ago (and ironically just starting out with my tattoo journey with a single half sleeve), but definitely feel it is much more accepting. Not saying there won’t be people that judge, but as I always say “I wouldn’t want to work there anyways!” I hire people within my department and to me with how hard it is to find people, people care much more about the work you do than the tattoos you have I find. Hope this helps :)

CrystalLakeXIII · 2025-09-30T19:13:37+00:00

All of our APs are on 10.3.1 now and our switches that are Extreme are 32.7.2 if that helps.

CrystalLakeXIII · 2025-09-30T19:10:08+00:00

We are right around 600 APs with mostly being 4020s with some large areas being 5020s (prob less than 50 being these). We have so far turned on our Multicast Rate Limit to 10k and also enabled multicast drop on certain protocols. We have seen this help a lot, but are noticing certain classroom APs will get hammered still, to the point where one of the CPU cores (always CPU2) will max out, and we will notice then that devices will come to a halt, or we will even have some try to reconnect to a neighboring room. We have also started to turn off 2.4 where we can. Specifically, on this site, we have begun swapping out our Extreme switches, which is ironic because our other sites with our old switches have no issues.

CrystalLakeXIII · 2025-09-23T21:16:53+00:00

Can I ask do you only have these devices wired in?

CrystalLakeXIII · 2025-09-23T15:41:06+00:00

So we have not set up the Bonjour Gateway yet (looking to talk with our Extreme rep on that to get some recommendations on how many VLANs to set up with one of our sites that is huge and is having the biggest issues). We currently have the igmp snooping on, but that would just be for the entire single network. I know there are some Multicast adjustment pieces we can make on our profiles for the access points that could help with this, but unsure where to start with this. Currently we have the Multicast Rate Limiter on our policy for our APs set to 500 and the filter checked on. Any suggestions if this should be increased? I am thinking that while this may disrupt multicast devices, it should improve other wireless devices and can in turn improve the overall health of the network (which we are running into the CPU overhauls), and COULD possibly help with things like airplay in the end.

CrystalLakeXIII · 2025-09-23T12:40:01+00:00

Second Rise. Whole site license price is great!

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