• The biggest hurdles with Adobe Creative Cloud apps
• How can you simplify the deployment of Adobe Creative Cloud?
• Adobe Premiere Pro on a Chromebook? Cameyo can do it

The Adobe Creative Cloud is one of the most in-demand and widely used software suites in the world. Much like Microsoft Office is a standard for workplace productivity like word processing, the Adobe Creative Cloud (Adobe CC) has become the industry standard for working with all kinds of digital media, including photo and video editing, graphic design and desktop publishing.

What makes the Adobe Creative Cloud suite so powerful is that it’s greater than the sum of its parts. As a collection of specialized but complementary software tools, it allows individuals, teams and entire organizations to tackle every aspect of a creative project from start to finish.

Some of the more well-known Creative Cloud apps are:

• Adobe Photoshop: A photo editor that allows users to interact with image files on their screens to alter them in real time. It’s become so synonymous with image editing that Photoshop has been adopted into multiple languages as a verb that means “to manipulate or enhance images.”
• Illustrator: A vector graphics editor that enables users to create images from scratch or edit existing image files. Often seen as the counterpart to Photoshop, Illustrator can be used to make logos, digital drawings and other graphic design elements.
• InDesign: A desktop publishing and page layout design application. Users can incorporate fonts and images to create digital and print media such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers and ebooks to name only a few.
• Premiere Pro: A timeline-based video editing software application that can be used to assemble and edit everything from video clips to feature-length films. Major film studios and broadcasters have adopted Premiere Pro as their go-to video editor.
• XD: Short for Adobe Experience Design, this is a vector-based user experience (UX) tool for designing web and mobile applications. It’s used to develop the visual and interactive elements of apps across multiple platforms and devices.
• Adobe Acrobat Pro: Designed for the sole purpose of working with the Adobe-created Portable Document Format, or PDF, Acrobat is familiar to computer users far outside the office or studio. It offers one of the most reliable ways of editing text, formatting and images in an otherwise “fixed” PDF file.
• After Effects: After Effects is the industry-standard for motion graphics and visual effects software.  It is utilized to create movie titles, intros, and transitions. From an editing perspective, After Effects enables you to remove objects from a clip, add graphics, animate logos/characters, and more. 

Armed with these tools alone, you could prepare a collection of digital photos for a gallery exhibition, design a poster and a mobile app for the event, then edit the footage you captured on opening night into a promotional video. That’s why Adobe Creative Cloud is considered an all-in-one solution for anything and anyone with a creative angle. And there are a variety of Adobe Creative Cloud plans that enable you to get all apps or just the ones you need. 

The biggest hurdles with Adobe Creative Cloud apps

For the average user, the Adobe Creative Cloud presents two challenges. One is pricing. This premium Adobe software follows a subscription model that gives users the choice of purchasing access to apps individually or in different bundles with different cloud storage options. Casual users might balk at some of the pricing plans, which tend to be targeted at professionals who will use Adobe’s cloud storage and creative apps daily.

Fortunately, many businesses and educational institutions, including school districts and universities, provide their users with access to the Adobe Creative Cloud as part of enterprise or EDU licensing agreements. That means employees, students and teachers who are associated with these organizations can take advantage of Creative Cloud apps. Which brings us to the second major challenge.

Even if organizations offer their users access to the Adobe Creative Cloud, whether it’s for essential day-to-day work or as part of an academic course, its deployment can be extremely difficult. Distributing and managing all of its apps for all users is no simple task. There are different devices, different requirements and skill levels, different workflows and different configurations in the mix. Something as basic as a software activation hiccup can prevent an authorized user from accessing Creative Cloud apps on their supported device.

How can you simplify deployment of Adobe Creative Cloud?

Cameyo’s Virtual Application Delivery (VAD) platform makes it possible to provide your end-users with access to all the apps in Adobe’s Creative Cloud—on any device, regardless of OS, and without IT having to install and manage those apps on every single client.

• Effortless installation: Cameyo has an “install once, deploy anywhere” model. IT admins can install Adobe Creative Cloud apps like Acrobat, Photoshop or Premiere Pro on the Cameyo server and then grant access to anyone—or everyone—in their organization on a granular app-by-app or user-by-user basis. There’s no need for the software to be installed directly on the users’ devices. 
• Universal compatibility: With Cameyo, users enjoy access to the full, unrestricted desktop versions of the Adobe Creative Cloud apps. It doesn’t matter if they’re running an iPad with iOS or an older computer that’s considered underpowered for graphic design work. This is because Cameyo runs apps in a secure HTML5 browser via an encrypted HTTPS session. Any device with an HTML5 browser is now capable of accessing these powerful apps.  
• Seamless integration: Cameyo works with your organization’s existing Adobe Creative Cloud licensing. When you publish applications with Cameyo, you’ll be asked to enter your licensing information. Only the number of users you have licenses for will be able to access the apps via Cameyo.

These advantages make Cameyo the ideal choice for organizations that are looking to reduce management overhead while making the user experience as smooth as possible. 

Adobe Premiere Pro on a Chromebook? With Cameyo, anything’s possible

School districts across the United States are already using Cameyo to put Adobe Creative Cloud desktop applications in their students’ hands. In fact, it’s been called a “game changer” during the rapid shift to distance learning.

For example, Baldwinsville Central School District near Syracuse, NY serves over 5,500 students and runs a 1:1 Chromebook program. The district had been using VMware Horizon 7 for distance learning, but that solution left Chromebooks unable to access Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office and other apps that students needed for their coursework. Virtual App Delivery (VAD) from Cameyo enabled Baldwinsville’s students to use Adobe’s desktop apps on their Chromebooks for high-quality graphic design and video editing.

And Baldwinsville is just one case in point. Over the course of a single month in 2020, 34 school districts adopted Cameyo’s digital workspace solution for many of the same reasons. Since then, that number has more than doubled. That’s because Cameyo’s virtual app delivery empowers districts on their path toward equity in education by removing the technological barriers that have traditionally stood in the way. The digital divide—an issue that’s exacerbated by differences in technological skills, Internet connectivity and device specifications—is narrowed when every student can enjoy the same easy access to Adobe software and other course-critical desktop apps.

Whether your organization is an urban community college, a rural school district or a global enterprise corporation, Cameyo can provide secure, cost-effective, streamlined access to virtual apps that’s enhanced by a first-rate user experience. Get started with a free trial of Cameyo today (no credit card required) to take it on a real-world test run. Or join an upcoming demo to have one of our engineers explain how our Virtual App Delivery (VAD) platform can distribute the Adobe Create Cloud suite to an entire userbase with just a few clicks.

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What is the ESSER Fund?

The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER Fund) was established as part of the Education Stabilization Fund in the CARES Act, with the goal of helping address the impact that COVID-19 has had on elementary and secondary schools across the Nation. Under the ESSER Fund, state educational agencies (SEAs) will award subgrants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to help fund the programs needed to ensure students can still learn effectively regardless of whether they are learning at home or in the classroom. This blog post discusses the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund as it will be implemented by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE). 

The ESSER Fund will be a great asset for states that receive a COVID-19 waiver, supporting states in developing a plan to prevent the erosion of the academic achievement of students and providing guidance in developing strategies and tools to prevent and respond to the possible closing and consolidation of schools and districts during a period of crisis.

Background on the ESSER Fund

What is the timeline for the utilization of ESSER funds?

There is a very specific timeline of when the funding from the CARES Act, CRSSA, and ARP must be utilized.

According to the Department of Education, ESSER, ESSER II, and ESSER III funding, “May be used for pre-award costs dating back to March 13, 2020, when the national emergency was declared.” Funding from ESSER is available to be distributed from May 11, 2020, to September 30, 2021. The timeframe for ESSER II is March 15, 2021, through September 30, 2022. For ESSER III, the period is May 24, 2021, through September 30, 2023.

How can ESSER funds be utilized?

Each of the funding bills clearly stipulate how school emergency relief funds are to be spent. The CARES Act notes that allowable uses are “preventing, preparing for and responding to COVID-19.” In addition, ESSER funds (including ESSER II and ESSER III funds) can be utilized for: “hiring new staff and avoiding layoffs and developing strategies and implementing public health protocols including, to the greatest extent practicable, policies in line with CDC guidance for the reopening and operation of school facilities to effectively maintain the health and safety of students, educators and other staff.”

When CRSSA was signed into law, more guidance was offered on how ESSER II was to be spent. These uses include addressing learning loss, preparing schools for reopening, and testing, repairing, and upgrading projects to improve air quality in school buildings.

With ESSER III, the government added “…not less than 20% of its total ARP ESSER allocation to address learning loss through the implementation of evidence-based interventions, such as summer learning or summer enrichment, extended day, comprehensive after-school programs, or extended school year programs and ensure that such interventions respond to students’ academic, social, and emotional needs and address the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on underrepresented student groups.” Note that the other 80% is available to be used for the same uses in ESSER and ESSER II.

Unique to ESSER III, the U.S. Department of Education set aside $800 million to identify and support homeless children and youth. The school emergency relief funds are to provide these children “comprehensive, wrap-around services that address needs arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and allow them to attend school and participate fully in all school activities.”

What are the funding distribution restrictions for this program?

Funds are provided to State educational agencies and school districts to help safely reopen and sustain the safe operation of schools and address the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the Nation’s students. ARP ESSER Fund awards to SEAs are in the same proportion as each State received funds under Part A of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended, in fiscal year 2020.

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Some of these organizations had been planning to introduce more virtual learning or were even already in the process of doing so, but very few were prepared to implement distance learning at scale when the pandemic hit. That’s especially true for the K–12 space, where classic in-person schooling remains the dominant model.

As a result, educational institutions have faced a number of challenges in adapting their traditional environments to the pandemic era of virtual learning.

Fortunately, a solution to those challenges exists—and not only that, it’s opened up opportunities that were previously thought to be non-starters. With Cameyo’s Virtual App Delivery platform, entire school districts have found that they can make all of their vital applications – including legacy Windows, internally-developed apps, and SaaS – available to any student on any device. What’s more, they can do it at speed, at scale and within budget.

If your school or district is dealing with any of the virtual learning challenges below, read on for how Cameyo can help, and examples of how we’ve helped dozens of school districts and hundreds of thousands of students to date. 

Challenge #1: Cloud-enabling legacy software

For reasons of cost and reliability, legacy Windows software is a fact of life for the educational sector. But that same software can keep them firmly anchored in, well, the old school. A recent survey of 63 Cameyo users conducted by the independent research firm TechValidate found that 65% of the organizations struggled with taking their legacy apps into the cloud (TVID: C77-E9C-F4F). The inability to break free of legacy software limitations was hindering their hybrid learning efforts.

Once they found Cameyo, however, these organizations were able to SaaS-enable their legacy software overnight. That’s because Cameyo’s virtual app delivery platform makes it possible to modernize classic Windows software and distribute it to an entire user base within a matter of minutes.

Challenge #2: Barriers to equality and accessibility

Even if educational organizations are able to shift their software to the cloud, that doesn’t mean every student will be able to make use of it. Heterogeneous device types, operating systems, software versions and technical skill levels can be barriers to access, which in turn becomes a major source of frustration for students, teachers and IT departments. 

Cameyo eliminates those barriers by delivering apps via HTML5, enabling those apps to be utilized on any device/OS. That allows any student with a device capable of running a browser—including tablets and Chromebooks—to securely access the apps they need without having to compromise on performance or user experience.

For example, Staunton City Schools in Virginia was able to provide universal virtual learning to its students, regardless of their device. Tom Lundquist, the district’s director of technology, gave the solution top marks, saying, “Once we adopted Cameyo, we have modified our strategic plan to anytime – anywhere – any device learning” (TVID: 90E-5BF-C0D).

Challenge #3: Resource-draining complexity

Like school districts around the world, Pennsylvania’s Selinsgrove Area School District needs to maximize its resources. The IT department doesn’t want to divert essential staff to wrestle with cumbersome solutions. Remote students need quick, user-friendly access to their software instead of having to file support tickets. Just as importantly, the technology that powers their hybrid learning environment needs to justify its place in the budget.

Cameyo brought the district “nearly immediate” ROI, largely thanks to its ease of use. “The reduction in complexity is an understatement,” said Selinsgrove Area School District IT Director Erick Decker. “I honestly don’t think it could get any more simplified on the admin side and definitely cannot be any more simple for the end user” (TVID: 97E-E80-500).

Community High School District 99 in Illinois saw similar results during the pandemic-driven pivot to hybrid learning models. Colleen Davoren, the district’s network infrastructure manager, found that Cameyo simplified distance learning to the point where students experienced seamless productivity as they moved outside of the classroom.

“Students were able to continue the work they began at school and were excited to do so and could work on any device,” she said. “Cameyo has helped our students continue to learn during a very difficult time and that was invaluable” (TVID: ACF-9AD-54D).

Cameyo streamlines the shift to hybrid learning

Cameyo’s ability to overcome pervasive challenges like these is what led 34 separate US school districts to deploy our virtual application delivery platform in the course of a single month.

That number has now more than doubled, and 79% of schools and school districts surveyed by TechValidate have since confirmed that Cameyo was key to enabling their shift to virtual and/or hybrid learning models (TVID: 996-915-9EE).

While the pandemic may have been a driving force in their adoption of more flexible educational models, there’s no doubt that virtual learning is here to stay. And the same challenges will exist for educational organizations making the transition in the future. That’s why so many Cameyo customers have identified our virtual app delivery platform as an undisputed game changer. Their experience shows that schools and districts of all sizes can leverage Cameyo to provide their students with secure, simple access to their preferred software—anytime, anywhere and on any device.

Is Cameyo right for your virtual learning initiatives? We’re confident that it is, which is why we offer a free trial of Cameyo with no credit card required. You’ll have full access to our solutions for a limited time so you can see exactly how easy it is to deploy and how it performs in your unique environment.

Or if you’d rather get a one-on-one walkthrough of Cameyo’s features and options, feel free to schedule a demo. Either way, you’ll see how Virtual App Delivery can take the uncertainty and complexity out of pandemic-era remote and hybrid learning while creating a future-proof platform for the years to come.

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So before we begin sharpening pencils and filling backpacks, it might be helpful to look at the current state of hybrid and distance learning. Although the only certainty is uncertainty at this point, some stats and insights might offer a good indication of what the future holds.

Well before the pandemic, education and technology experts were already eyeing the benefits of hybrid or, as it’s also known, blended learning. A 2013 study by the Center for Digital Education found that 85% of K–12 educators saw a blended model as a way to offer more personalized learning. Technological advances since then have helped maintain this positive view—provided that educators and students have access to the right tools.

In the spring of 2020, the World Economic Forum determined that 1.2 billion children were out of the classroom and e-learning was correspondingly seeing rapid adoption. Based on information from Statistia, at least one-quarter of K-12 schools had implemented some form of hybrid learning during the last pandemic surge in the late autumn and winter of 2020–21.

According to an article in Education Week, twice as many K-12 teachers are currently planning a shift to hybrid learning. The recent survey of 1,242 educators (148 district leaders, 88 principals and 1,006 teachers) conducted by the EdWeek Research Center found that the twofold increase—from 10 to 20%—took place within the span of just one month, likely a result of concerns over the Delta variant.

An earlier article in Education Week highlights the very different benefits and challenges that schools have encountered upon implementing hybrid learning models during the pandemic. In Wall Township, NJ, for instance, the fleet of Chromebooks has revealed some of their technological limitations, particularly with Windows-based instructional software. “We had to pivot and start acquiring more PCs,” said the district’s director of curriculum and instruction. The district was also hit with a cyberattack that disrupted distance learning.

Whatever precautions they’re taking, academic institutions and school districts need to be ready to pivot quickly. Whereas some parents, teachers and policymakers are very uneasy about in-person schooling as the Delta variant surges, others are calling for a relaxation of public health precautions like masks and social distancing. That means schools could be in for a “choppy year” of sudden temporary shutdowns, says the LA Times, which means accommodating a mix of remote and hybrid models.

Higher education is seeing much of the same ambivalence and tension. Inside Higher Ed reports that the results of a Strada study indicate that 35% of respondents feel that online education offers the best value for money (compared to 32% for hybrid and 33% for in-person), and one in ten were planning to enroll in an online course. At the same time, they also were skeptical of the effectiveness of distance learning. As a result, hybrid models that combine the strengths of both could prove more popular in the near and long term.

That hunch is further borne out by another Strada survey on disrupted learning during the pandemic. Among the survey respondents who canceled or changed their higher-education plans, 1 in 4 said it was because they couldn’t or didn’t want to attend in-person instruction. That reluctance could be attributed to schedule conflicts, fears of contagion or tuition costs. Fully remote or hybrid learning could therefore prove an attractive option for those who’ve seen their studies derailed by COVID-19.

However, barriers to distance learning remain across the educational spectrum. One study by the Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability and Reform (CEEDAR) Center and the National Center for Systemic Improvement (NCSI) identified six key barriers and 22 high-leverage practices, or HLPs, to overcome them. Several of these HLPs have to do with increasing the accessibility of technology.

Effective hybrid learning rests on flexibility and accessibility

The takeaway from these snapshots is that the success of a hybrid educational model hinges on the technology that supports it.

As the Delta and future COVID-19 variants leave question marks hanging over the return to traditional instruction, schools will need to be able to shift smoothly from in-person to distance learning for the sake of safety as well as the quality of instruction. That means having technology in place that enables a flexible and secure learning environment for the broadest range of students.

As the Delta variant surges, Cameyo’s virtual app delivery platform is enabling students to continue learning from anywhere, on any device. Over 50 school districts have already chosen Cameyo as a lynchpin in their hybrid learning strategy, not least because its platform-agnostic solution helps bridge the digital divide. As long as a student has a device with an HTML5 browser, they can access all of the apps – native Windows, internal, and SaaS – easily and securely with Cameyo. That means school IT departments can serve tablets, Chromebooks and even older PCs, but without the security concerns that many virtual solutions bring. 

And at a time when uncertainty is the watchword, we’re doing what we can to eliminate it. Our free trial of Cameyo allows schools and districts of any size to download and install our solution to see if it’s right for them. It’s as easy to try out as it is to fully deploy, which is why you can be up and running with your first published app in a matter of minutes

We can also walk you and your team through the details of our virtual app delivery platform personally. Simply schedule a demo and we’ll coordinate a session right away. Together, we can mitigate the concerns and the logistical hurdles of the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure equitable, effective and secure hybrid learning for every student.

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“School boards are at war with governors over masks. Superintendents are developing contingency plans on the fly. And schools that only just opened have had to shut down. Welcome to sophomore year for Covid-19.”

If you’re reading this, you’re likely in the trenches right now looking for solutions. If any of the following situations sounds like something you’re dealing with, we can help – and we can help fast:

• If you need to give your students access to software from anywhere and on any device so that their learning isn’t interrupted if they have to learn from home again…
• If you’ve attempted to use virtual desktops (VDI/DaaS) to enable remote/distance learning, but the cost and complexity was too much to manage…
• If you have legacy software that only operates on Windows PCs in your designated PC labs, which you now want to make available on Chromebooks and other devices so students can have access to software on their own schedules, or…
• If you want to eliminate your PC labs altogether to save cost and to give every student access to software on their own schedules…

If any of the above apply to you, Cameyo’s Virtual App Delivery platform can help you accomplish all of these goals, just like we have for more than 50 school districts in the last school year alone. We know that your students still need access to critical Windows applications – everything from AutoCAD to Adobe Creative Suite to Microsoft Office – even when they’re learning from home, and that many of those students don’t have a Windows PC they can access them from. We know that PC labs are costly and limiting in the COVID era, and we know that the cost, complexity, and security concerns of VDI & DaaS keep you up at night. 

Rather than tell you all the ways we think Cameyo is better (so much simpler, much more cost-effective, far more secure, and completely flexible), let’s have some of our school district customers do the talking:

Providing a Cost-Effective Alternative to VDI and DaaS

“We had been using VMware, but the cost was prohibitive, especially for widespread remote learning. We needed a cost-effective alternative that would enable us to provide all of our students with access to all of the apps they need – including legacy Windows apps – from their Chromebooks. Cameyo not only saved us a ton of money compared to VMware, but it is incredibly easy to manage, and is more secure. This works better than anything we’ve ever had, and Cameyo is now going to play a key role in our long-term plans for moving everything to the cloud,” said John Cerio, Network Administrator at Baldwinsville Central School District. 

Eliminating the Learning Curve for Distance Learning

“COVID-19 has forced school districts to deliver instruction differently. For Staunton City Schools, this meant we needed a realistic plan to deliver Windows applications to students using Chromebooks at home. Cameyo has delivered every step of the way, and our students are now successfully accessing all of their applications from home – simply and securely – with Cameyo! The setup and deployment of Cameyo was quick, and the user experience for students is excellent. Students still get access to the full desktop version of the software they’re used to, just running in a browser, so there’s no learning curve. Also, Cameyo’s support team was great throughout the process – they have continued to follow through for us and didn’t abandon us after the deployment went live,” said Tom Lundquist, Director of Technology at Staunton City Schools.

Extending the Value of 1:1 Programs with Access to All Apps

“As the San Diego Unified School District entered into plans for online learning to begin the 2020-2021 school year, the College, Career and Technical Education department was committed to finding a solution to continue to provide students with access to the industry-standard software they need for their courses. The district moved to a 1:1 device strategy to provide all students with a device for online learning, which included Chromebooks. Cameyo provided the solution we needed to make the critical software available to students on any device through the browser, and Cameyo’s ease of use and cost-effectiveness have been critical to our ability to enable these distance-learning efforts,” said Sarah Vielma, Director of College, Career, and Technical Education at San Diego Unified School District.

Eliminating PC Labs

“The ability to deliver these legacy applications on any device, not only on these old machines, is huge. Now our students have access to these apps all the time, from anywhere. Now we can actually grow our legacy application support and offer new courses for those apps – like teaching kids basic Excel and PowerPoint skills – because we don’t have to maintain a PC lab in order to offer those courses,” said Josh Finn, CTO at Homer Central School District. “Plus we don’t need a $35,000 lab to host it. But there are also unquantifiable benefits that are just as important, like being able to tell a school principal that we can now set up new courses for them without having to set up costly new labs.”

If your school and/or district is working to provide simple, secure, and cost-effective access to critical applications on any device to enable remote learning, Cameyo can help. You can get started in minutes with your free trial here, or book a demo and our Cameyo for Education team will be in touch quickly to help get you up and running.

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When the crisis hit its peak, over 188 countries around the globe closed their schools as a precautionary public health measure. That’s estimated to have affected more than 90% of enrolled students worldwide. During the suspension of in-person learning, many of these educational systems shifted to all-digital distance learning models, which naturally relied heavily on three key elements: a reliable Internet connection; a software suite that’s optimized for the demands of e-learning; and a capable client device for students. 

Among some households and school districts, these elements were already in place. Even prior to the pandemic, many districts were making use of solutions like Google for Education, which pairs teacher- and student-friendly digital workspaces with budget-friendly Chromebooks to provide a comprehensive platform for e-learning.

At the same time, the widespread adoption of distance learning has highlighted serious disparities in resources. Some districts, for example, simply aren’t able to equip all of their students with school-issued Chromebooks. Often there are essential legacy or specialized Windows apps that won’t run on tablets or older devices that students might have at home. Disparities like these can create barriers or gaps that prevent equal access in education.

This has real and far-reaching consequences. A study by the Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) that focused on equity in education found that in the Autumn of 2020 students in grades 4 to 6 were 5–25% behind where they would be in a typical academic year. Perhaps more worryingly, it was mostly lower-income students who were experiencing that delay.

In other words, the students who most stand to benefit from the equalizing effects of education are the ones who ended up falling behind. That’s unacceptable—not least because it runs contrary to the promise of digital technology and e-learning.

How does Virtual App Delivery help bridge the digital divide?

Cultivating true equal access in education is an effort that will span multiple organizations and sectors, but among e-learning advocates like Google for Education, Virtual App Delivery is widely recognized as an important piece of the puzzle.

Cameyo’s Virtual App Delivery platform in particular can help bring greater equity to education. That’s because it levels the differences—among individuals, households, student groups and entire school districts—that underlie so many of the barriers to inclusive access. Differences in operating systems, computer hardware, software compatibility, tech skills and even budgets are eliminated with Cameyo’s secure approach to virtual app delivery.

• Easy to use: Whether you’re approaching virtual app delivery as an IT administrator, teacher or student, Cameyo asks very little in terms of computer know-how. It’s incredibly simple to set up and configure, and there’s zero learning curve for students when it comes to accessing their familiar apps. If they can use a browser, they can use Cameyo.
• Universal: With Cameyo, it doesn’t matter if students are using an older Windows laptop, a brand-new Chromebook, a borrowed tablet or a public computer at the local library. Its HTML5 browser-based virtual app delivery allows them to securely access all of the educational apps and critical learning tools they need from any device, largely independent of its specs.
• Cost-effective: Some distance learning solutions, such as VPNs or other remote access software, require additional infrastructure and add-ons. That drives up the cost of owning and operating those solutions. Cameyo’s infrastructure footprint ranges from small (self-hosted) to none (fully-hosted in the cloud), and the platform itself scales effortlessly to right-size your digital workspaces.
• Seamless: From legacy Windows apps that no longer run on today’s OS to modern software that’s too demanding for older devices, the list of potential show-stopping compatibility issues is a long one. Cameyo’s Virtual App Delivery extends the life of legacy software and increases the accessibility of specialized apps with absolutely no redevelopment effort.
• Secure: Cameyo incorporates intelligent, best-in-class technologies like NoVPN and Port Shield to minimize vulnerabilities and mitigate the attack surfaces commonly exploited by malicious actors. That makes Cameyo as safe to use in an enterprise-scale Zero Trust environment as a dynamic e-learning environment.

Proven success in removing barriers to education

Over 60 school districts have implemented Cameyo to support their distance learning initiatives and strengthen equal access in education, including California’s San Diego Unified School District, Community High School District 99 (CSD99) in Illinois, Staunton City Schools in Virginia, and both the Baldwinsville Central School District and the Homer Central School District in upstate New York.

In fact, over the course of one single month during the pandemic, 34 separate school districts rolled out our virtual application delivery platform.

And just like our platform itself, we believe in removing as many barriers to education as possible. That’s why it doesn’t cost a cent to learn whether Cameyo is the right solution for your organization. We offer a free, no-credit-card trial of Cameyo that you can test drive in any environment you choose. Or reach out to us at sales@cameyo.com and we can schedule a dedicated personal demo. Together we can ensure greater equity in education and help current and future generations of students realize the full potential of e-learning.

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