Transferring Chromebook Licenses between Schools

[Chris Magill]

I am hoping someone can give me some advice... We are about to receive approx 50 Chromebooks (with their student owners) from two contributing Primary Schools - the devices are currently licensed to these schools. They have been de-provisioned before being sent to our school. 

When they arrive here (Otaki College), I am expecting that they cannot be enrolled as the licenses for them belong to their original school... What do we need to do to transfer a license from one school to another (in effect, how can a license be transferred from one domain to another for the same device)?

Thanks and regards,

Chris Magill

Director ICTS

Otaki College

New Zealand

[Brandon Laurenson]

Hi Chris. 

By licence, do you mean the Chrome Management Console? Or simply devices patched into their current network settings?

Regards

Brandon

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[Andrew Godfrey]

We only enrol devices that we actually own as a school. If a student brings their own device to school then there is an expectation that they will look after and manage their own device.

I can understand a primary school wanting more control over student devices but as students get older they need to start managing their own learning.

Is there a reason that you want to manage their devices for them?

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[Antony Street]

Chris,

My understanding is that the licences belong to the other school’s domain and not to the ChromeBooks. When they are deprovisioned, the licences are unassigned and returned to the school’s licence pool. 

Licences will need to purchased for your domain so they can assigned to the incoming ChromeBooks.

Best regards,

Antony

[Haami Kapoor]

Hi guys, wondering you can shed some light as well. 50 must be the magic number as our school have purchased 50 chromebooks as well. We set up pbtech as our place for parents to go and purchase these devices. My question is, "Are parents expected to purchase a licence as well or is this more of a school thing?"

Kind regards,

 

Haami Kapoor                                                                             
ICT/ MARKETING FACILITATOR 

Peachgrove Intermediate School | PO Box 1344 Hamilton, New Zealand

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[Paul Petersen]

Hello Haami

We purchased 220 licenses and recover 80 at the end of each year which are then reassigned to new classes.

We paid for it because we asked parents to pay for software licences for programs like mathletics etc.

That seems to work well for us.

kind regards

Paul

[Antony Street]

It's up to your school's policy on this. At our school we had the management licence bundled into the price of the ChromeBook. The licences end up being owned by the school domain.

Importantly we're up front about this.

Antony

[Edward Minnell]

Has anyone encountered issues moving a license from one chromebook to another considering this is in googles terms? (change to bold done by me for emphasis)

Perpetual Licenses

Each perpetual license you purchase for our web-based management software lasts for the lifetime of the device it’s enrolled on.* Perpetual licenses are available for purchase by all Chrome device customers. If you encounter a hardware issue and need to replace a Chrome device, the license can be transferred to a replacement of the same model. Using thedeprovisioning feature within the Admin console on a damaged device will free up its license, allowing you to enroll the same model replacement. Licenses are not transferrable from one device model to another, and license transfers will be audited.

Edward Minnell,

Lead ICT Admin,

Whanganui Community e-Learning Trust.