Welcome to Akins BeakSquad

• Help Desk Forms must always be filled out before service in room 176. 

• Fees may be incurred for certain types of damage. 

• If students need tech help after hours, they can call the district helpline at: 512-414-4357

• We only work on student devices

• New student or receiving your first Chromebook

• General Troubleshooting

• Connecting devices to network

• Lost or Stolen Chromebooks

• replacing damaged Chromebooks

• replacing a non working or lost chargers

• Chromebook bags

You may bring down your Chromebook for any issue but these are the most common. 

• Cracked/ Loose display

• Physical Damage: case

• Keyboard Issues/ missing keys

• Touchpad Issues

• Not powering up

• Charging port Issues

• Not holding charge

• Login Help/ password rese

• Wifi Issues

• Locked/ Bad OS

• Water Damage

• Random Glitches

Damaged or lost devices or chargers: 

• • • • $15/per charger (subject to updates) 

      • $50/per Chromebook (subject to updates) 

      • $5/per bag  (subject to updates) 

      • $5 for sticker cleanup (We really don't want to do this but if we have to it's $5)

• Payments can be made with cash, check, or online at https://akins.myschoolcentral.com/(S(pmm0zhfpbjtbfigbjcmpxky3))/Index.aspx#/ (Service charges apply online) 

  • 1. Search or Click on Chromebook Equipment > View Details

    2. Show digital receipt as proof of payment to BeakSquad Representative

• Students are not able to purchase their Austin ISD Chromebook, but are eligible to purchase a brand new Chromebook at a discounted rate through our vendor partner. Use this link to access purchasing options and information.

Things to consider:

All Austin ISD students will lose access to district systems after they graduate or withdraw from AISD

While you still have access to your Austin ISD portal account, please consider the following:

• • Students can take all of their Google Drive work with them easily. Google Takeout allows users to create .zip files of selected content. Please note that this must be done before access to your district login and account is removed. Large Google Drives may take several days to completely process so it is beneficial to begin this process in case of any issues.

  • Resource: Archiving All Content From Your AISD Google Account written guide

  • Resource: Archiving Content from your AISD Google Account Video

• • Students may download all of their BLEND (Canvas) submissions. Open BLEND from the AISD portal and use this link to access the directions for this process.