IS3350
The potential user groups and users of WLAN in a school environment would be District office and administration can streamline procedures. Classroom applications can track each student’s progress to facilitate reporting, provide up-to-date student information on hand held computers, respond to emergency situations, and handle disciplinary incidents, security enforcement, and parent communications. IT department can optimize performance and cost savings. WLANs can accommodate rapid expansion, which is particularly important for schools using mobile classrooms, which can make wiring very challenging. WLANs are also more economical than traditional wired connections, especially where wired connections would be prohibitively difficult like, schools that have no space for computer labs or that anticipate future renovations that would require rewiring in classrooms. Teachers can be more proactive and accessible. WLAN access increase interaction between teacher and students; complement classroom instructions with online applications including digital whiteboards and online testing; real time access to administrative resources and design curricula that better meets individual learning styles Students can learn more efficiently. WLAN provides the opportunity for more free flowing collaboration among peers, with teachers and digital resources and the Internet. While higher education deployments focus broadly on delivering high-performance, pervasive wireless coverage across large campus environments, K-12 schools with tighter budgets and limited IT resources tend to deploy wireless to support specific mobility applications, such as mobile carts, wireless IP telephony, video surveillance, mobile classrooms, and so on. In order to support these and other emerging wireless applications for example, educational videos, location tracking, and cafeteria point-of-sales systems, schools need a wireless infrastructure that can deliver reliable performance in dynamic, high-density