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Computers & devices

Student laptops & tablets

A 1:1 device built to be dropped, spilled on and carried between five lessons a day, then enrolled, filtered and locked down from one console before a pupil ever signs in. One fleet IT can actually manage and safeguarding can actually trust.

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The problem

The device is the lesson, until it breaks.

A consumer tablet handed to a nine year old does not last a term. Screens crack on the floor of a corridor, juice gets into the keyboard, and by half term a tenth of the fleet is in a drawer waiting on a repair nobody budgeted for. The devices that survive bring a second problem: a class of pupils on the open web, a filter that only works on the school wifi, and no record for the safeguarding lead when something is typed that should raise a flag. Then exam week arrives and there is no way to lock a device to one paper. What a school needs is not a cheaper tablet. It is a device engineered for a classroom, a filter that follows the child home, and a console where one technician runs three hundred of them at once.

Design targets
90 cm Drop to plywood, MIL-STD-810H
330 ml Spill sealed and drained through base
12 h Battery on a mixed school day
< 5 min Zero-touch enrol, out of the box
The device

One device, three jobs.

It has to survive the room, it has to be run at scale by one technician, and it has to keep a child safe on it. Open a job for what it fixes and how far it goes.

Built to be dropped
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Survives the room

Drop, spill, carry, repeat.

MIL-STD-810H, 90 cm drop Spill sealed to 330 ml 25,000 hinge cycles
Built to be dropped
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Survives the room

Drop, spill, carry, repeat.

MIL-STD-810H, 90 cm drop Spill sealed to 330 ml 25,000 hinge cycles

The chassis is reinforced polycarbonate over a magnesium inner frame, wrapped in a raised rubber bumper so a corner drop lands on rubber, not glass. The screen is Corning Gorilla Glass 3, recessed 1.5 mm behind the bezel so a flat face-down drop does not touch it. Without that, a fleet loses a tenth of itself to cracked glass and drowned keyboards inside a term. With it, the keyboard is sealed to 330 ml and drains through channels in the base, the ports are recessed so a bent charger snaps the cable not the socket, and the 180 degree hinge is rated to 25,000 open-close cycles. Every laptop and tablet in the range shares the same drop and ingress standard.
Run by one technician
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Managed at scale

One console, the whole fleet.

Zero-touch enrol under 5 min CalyOS Fleet, directory join Remote locate, lock, wipe
Run by one technician
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Managed at scale

One console, the whole fleet.

Zero-touch enrol under 5 min CalyOS Fleet, directory join Remote locate, lock, wipe

Devices ship pre-registered to your tenant, so a pupil powers on, joins the school directory and lands on their apps with no technician touching the device. Policy, apps and the filter push down before first sign-in. Without that, a rollout is a technician imaging three hundred machines by hand over a summer. With CalyOS Fleet, one console holds the whole fleet: install and remove apps, force updates in a maintenance window, locate a device on a floor plan, lock it if it walks out of the building and wipe it if it is not coming back. The console is the same whether the device is a laptop or a tablet.
Safeguarding built in
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Safe for children

Filtered on and off site.

DNS filter follows the device Keyword monitoring to the DSL Exam lockdown to one app
Safeguarding built in
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Safe for children

Filtered on and off site.

DNS filter follows the device Keyword monitoring to the DSL Exam lockdown to one app

The content filter runs on the device, not just on the school network, so the same block list, SafeSearch enforcement and age-tiered categories apply on the school wifi, at home and on a phone hotspot. Without that, filtering ends at the school gate and the safeguarding lead has no record. With it, on-device keyword monitoring flags terms mapped to KCSIE and Prevent categories and raises an alert with a screenshot to the designated safeguarding lead, and exam mode locks a device to a single app or URL with clipboard, camera and other apps disabled. Every flag is logged with time, device and pupil for the safeguarding record.
Solution optimized products

The fleet.

Every line item chosen and integrated for a 1:1 school rollout, laptop and tablet on one management console.

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Laptop

Rugged 11.6 inch clamshell

MIL-STD-810H

Reinforced polycarbonate over magnesium, rubber bumper, sealed keyboard to 330 ml, 180 degree hinge, Gorilla Glass 3 anti-glare panel, 1.4 kg.

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Laptop

14 inch 1080p senior clamshell

12 h battery

Full 1080p anti-glare panel for exam and coursework at key stage 4 and up, spill-sealed backlit keyboard, USB-C charge, 1000-cycle battery.

Request datasheet
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Tablet

10 inch rugged tablet

600 g, fanless

Silent fanless design, drop-rated corners, front and rear camera for evidence capture in class, optional pogo keyboard folio, pen support for early-years handwriting.

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Management

CalyOS Fleet enrolment

Per device

Zero-touch pre-provisioning, directory join, app deployment, forced updates in a maintenance window, remote locate, lock and wipe, all from one console.

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Management

Filter and safeguarding module

On device

On-device DNS filter that follows the child, SafeSearch enforcement, age-tiered categories, keyword monitoring mapped to KCSIE and Prevent, alerts to the safeguarding lead.

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“We used to lose a tenth of the fleet to cracked screens by Christmas. Two years on these come back at the end of the year scuffed and still working.”
Head of IT, a multi-academy trust
Built for the classroom

Built to be dropped.

Durability is not a rubber case bolted onto a consumer tablet. The chassis, the seal, the hinge and the battery are engineered to a written standard and tested to it. Here is what the device is made of and what it survives.

Under the hood

How it survives.

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Chassis and drop

Lands on rubber, not glass

The shell is 3 mm reinforced polycarbonate moulded over a magnesium inner frame, with a raised rubber bumper around every edge so a corner drop is absorbed before it reaches the electronics. The panel is Corning Gorilla Glass 3, recessed 1.5 mm behind the bezel, so a flat face-down fall lands on the frame. The whole unit is tested to MIL-STD-810H: 90 cm onto plywood and 70 cm onto concrete, on 26 faces and corners, and it still boots.

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Sealing and ingress

Spill sealed, ports recessed

The keyboard membrane is sealed to hold 330 ml of liquid and drain it through channels in the base rather than into the board. Ports are recessed and reinforced so a pupil tripping over a charger bends the cable, not the socket. The speaker and vent grilles are baffled against dust and eraser shavings so the acoustics survive a year in a bag. There is no fan on the tablet at all, which removes the single most common ingress path.

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Battery and thermals

Lasts a school day, charges at break

The battery is sized for 12 hours of mixed classroom use: browser, a video, a document and the filter running the whole time. It charges to 50 percent in 45 minutes over USB-C, so a cart tops up over a single break. The cell is rated to 1000 charge cycles while retaining 80 percent capacity, which is roughly three school years, and it is a serviceable part on a captive screw rather than a glued-in pouch.

Tested to
26 drops Faces and corners, MIL-STD-810H
25,000 Hinge open-close cycles
1000 Battery cycles to 80 percent
1.4 kg 11.6 inch laptop, 600 g tablet
Durability questions

The hard wear.

Is the battery replaceable or glued in?

Replaceable. The battery sits behind a service hatch on two captive screws and swaps in under two minutes, so a device at year three gets a fresh cell rather than being retired. Screens, keyboards and hinges are serviceable parts as well.

How is the drop rating actually verified?

To MIL-STD-810H Method 516.8: 26 drops across every face, edge and corner from 90 cm onto plywood and 70 cm onto concrete, and the unit has to power on and pass a functional check after each. We hand over the test report, not just a marketing figure.

What happens when a screen does break?

It goes into the swap pool. A spare is issued the same day, the broken unit is repaired at panel level not written off, and the cracked one comes back into the pool. A single cracked screen never takes a pupil off a device for more than a lesson.

How it is run

Managed from one console.

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Enrolment

Powers on and joins itself

Devices leave the factory registered to your tenant, so a pupil opens the lid, connects to wifi and the device joins the school directory, pulls its policy and lands on the right apps with no technician touching it. That is zero-touch enrolment and it takes under five minutes per device with no imaging. A device that is factory reset re-enrols itself the same way, so a wipe does not create an unmanaged machine.

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Filtering

The filter follows the child

Content filtering runs on the device itself, so the same age-tiered category blocks and enforced SafeSearch apply on the school network, at home and on a phone hotspot. Year groups get different policies: a year 3 device and a year 11 device do not see the same web. The block list updates centrally and there is no way for a pupil to switch to a different browser or a VPN to escape it, because those are blocked at the policy layer.

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Exam mode

Locks to one paper

Exam mode is pushed to a class from the console and locks each device to a single app or a single exam URL. Clipboard, camera, screenshots, notifications and every other app are disabled for the duration, and the device cannot leave the exam until a supervisor releases it. It works offline, so a dropped wifi connection during an assessment does not open the rest of the web. The lock lifts on a schedule or on command.

In the console

What IT controls.

One pane

Everything

CalyOS Fleet is a single console for the whole 1:1 estate, laptop and tablet together. A technician deploys an app to a year group, forces an update inside a maintenance window so nothing reboots mid-lesson, and sees which devices are online, low on battery or off site, all without walking a corridor.

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Locate, lock, wipe

Find a device on a floor plan, lock it the moment it leaves the building, and wipe it remotely if it is not coming back.

App deployment

Push or pull apps and licences to a class or year group in one action, no per-device install.

Maintenance windows

Force updates and reboots overnight or at lunch so no device restarts in the middle of a lesson.

Remote assist

A technician can view and drive a device with the pupil watching, to fix a setting without pulling the child out of class.

The difference

Managed vs unmanaged.

Calyraen 1:1 deviceA consumer tablet
Filtering off the school wifi On-device, follows the pupil home Ends at the school gate
Setting one up Under 5 min, zero-touch Imaged by hand, one at a time
Safeguarding record Flags logged to the DSL with screenshot None
Exam lockdown One app, offline, supervisor release Trust the pupil
A cracked screen Swap pool, same day, panel repair Out of warranty, in a drawer
Battery at year three Replaceable service part Glued in, device retired
Compliance questions

Signed off.

Does this meet our safeguarding duty?

The keyword monitoring maps flagged terms to KCSIE and Prevent categories and routes an alert with a screenshot, timestamp, device and pupil to the designated safeguarding lead, which is exactly the appropriate monitoring the statutory guidance expects on a school-managed device. We provide the mapping so your DSL can review and tune it.

How is the device hardened?

Each device ships to a CIS Benchmark Level 1 baseline and the fleet is built to support a Cyber Essentials submission: enforced updates, no local admin for pupils, disk encryption on by default and the management channel signed and authenticated. We hand over the configuration evidence for your assessor.

Where does pupil data go?

Filtering and monitoring run on the device and report into your own tenant, which can be hosted in the UK or EU to keep you inside UK GDPR and your ICO obligations. We sign a data processing agreement and there is no advertising identifier and no third-party analytics on the device.

Is the hardware itself certified?

Yes. The devices carry UKCA and CE marking, meet IEC 62368-1 for electrical safety and EN 55032 for EMC emissions, and the batteries are UN 38.3 tested for transport. Certificates ship with the fleet documentation.

What is covered

Support that fits a school year.

The relationship runs on term time, not a call queue.

Warranty

Three years, damage included

A three year warranty as standard with an accidental damage option that covers the drops and spills a classroom actually produces, capped per device per year so budgeting is predictable.

Repair

Panel-level, not write-off

Screens, keyboards, hinges and batteries are repaired as parts by our own technicians, so a cracked unit costs a component, not a replacement device.

Named contact

One engineer who knows you

You get a named support engineer who knows your rollout, your policies and your year plan, reachable in term time, not a fresh ticket agent every call.

The rollout

From pallet to pupil.

  1. Asset tag and pre-enrol

    Devices arrive registered to your tenant and asset-tagged to your scheme, so they are inventoried before the boxes are opened.

  2. Policy and apps set

    We build your year-group policies, filter categories, app sets and exam profiles with your IT and safeguarding leads in the console before day one.

  3. Distribution day

    Pupils power on, join the directory and land on their apps in under five minutes each, with our team on site for the first hand-out if you want them there.

  4. Swap pool live

    A pool of spares is left on site from day one, imaged and enrolled, so the very first cracked screen is a same-day swap, not a purchase order.

How the swap pool is supplied

5% Spare devices held on site
Same day Swap for a broken unit
Pre-enrolled Images and policy on sign-in
3 yr Warranty, damage cover option
“The swap pool changed how the staff room feels about it. A broken screen is a five minute swap at reception now, not a form and a two week wait.”
Network manager, a secondary school
Resources

Read before you buy.

The brief for the person who signs off, the detail for the person who integrates, and worked examples of a real 1:1 rollout. Open a document for what is inside it.

The files

Briefs and cases.

The case for the fleet, the technical detail behind it, and how it plays out in a real school.

For decision makers
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Solution brief

The one-page case for the fleet.

2 pages For a head or business manager Specification and price model
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Solution brief

The one-page case for the fleet.

2 pages For a head or business manager Specification and price model

A two-page summary: the durability, management and safeguarding case, the design targets, the laptop and tablet options and the outcome, with a headline of the specification and the ownership price model. Written for the person who signs the order, not the person who integrates it.
For evaluators
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Management and safeguarding white paper

The technical and duty-of-care rationale.

16 pages For IT and safeguarding leads KCSIE and Cyber Essentials mapping
For evaluators
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Management and safeguarding white paper

The technical and duty-of-care rationale.

16 pages For IT and safeguarding leads KCSIE and Cyber Essentials mapping

How enrolment, the on-device filter, keyword monitoring and exam mode work, mapped against KCSIE, Prevent, the CIS baseline and Cyber Essentials, with the data flows and the UK or EU hosting choice for GDPR, plus total cost of ownership across a three year fleet.
For integrators
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Rollout integration guide

For your own IT team.

18 pages For a network manager Console, directory and MIS join
For integrators
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Rollout integration guide

For your own IT team.

18 pages For a network manager Console, directory and MIS join

The CalyOS Fleet console, directory and MIS integration, policy and app deployment, the exam mode profile, the swap pool workflow and the asset tagging scheme, so a network manager can scope the whole rollout before purchase.
Use case
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Primary 1:1

Tablets across key stage 2.

Device10 inch tablet Scope240 pupils Roleshared and take-home
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Primary 1:1

Tablets across key stage 2.

Device10 inch tablet Scope240 pupils Roleshared and take-home

A primary of 240 pupils on fanless rugged tablets, pen enabled for early handwriting, filtered to a year 3 to year 6 policy that follows the child home, with a 5 percent swap pool at reception. Breakage dropped to under a device a week and the safeguarding lead gets a weekly flag report.
Use case
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Secondary exam fleet

Laptops for on-screen assessment.

Device14 inch laptop Scope900 pupils Rolecoursework and exams
Use case
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Secondary exam fleet

Laptops for on-screen assessment.

Device14 inch laptop Scope900 pupils Rolecoursework and exams

A secondary running 900 senior clamshells for coursework and on-screen assessment, exam mode locking each device to a single paper offline, batteries lasting the full timetable, and panel-level repair keeping the fleet in service into a fourth year rather than a bin.
Request the files

On request.

Send us the size of your cohort and your year plan and we return the files matched to your rollout.

Student device datasheet Datasheet PDF, on request Management and safeguarding white paper White paper PDF, on request Rollout integration guide Integration PDF, on request
How you buy

You own the fleet.

There is no per-pupil seat licence and no subscription that switches the devices off if a renewal lapses. You buy the devices, the CalyOS Fleet enrolment and the filter and safeguarding module once, and they are yours, with signed policy and security updates included through the support term. The white paper sets out total cost of ownership across three years against your cohort size, so the business manager sees the whole figure, spares and support included, not a headline price with a meter behind it.

Specify it together

Size it for your school.

Tell us the cohort, the year groups and whether you need laptops, tablets or both. We come back with a configured fleet, a swap pool and a price you own outright.

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