Proposal

Narrative

For certain courses, many students are required to take their exams and/or quizzes within the Lockdown browser application on their laptops. But if their laptop has a technical issue, and they are unable to use that device for the Lockdown browser, then they would be unable to complete the exam and/or quiz that is assigned. The benefit of these laptops to the student would be that there will be an option for a laptop to be temporarily loaned out to them so that they can complete the exam/quiz for their course if they do not have a working device at the time of the course. Afterward, they will return the device to the College of Nursing IT department. This will provide the convenience and/or accessibility for the students to obtain a loaner laptop from within the College of Nursing building instead of having to obtain one from OIT’s building across campus. As a courtesy to our faculty and their students, we have used a few of our older laptops as temporary loaner laptops for the students, but they are around 6 to 8 years old and as time goes on, they are more prone to hardware issues.

Facilities

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Hardware Requirements

For the Nursing student loaner laptops, there will be a total of 8x Latitude 5430s laptops with 3yr ProSupport & Accidental Damage Service as well as a laptop bag for each device to ensure that all accessories can stay together.

Software Requirements

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Personnel Costs

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Other Costs

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Timeline

The hardware can be purchased and installed as soon as funds are available.

Sustainability

The hardware will be maintained by the College of Nursing IT staff

Resource Matching

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Implementing Organization

College of Nursing IT