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Solutions Brief
citrix.com/education
A tale of three universities:
Increasing access,
engagement and learning
Solutions Brief
citrix.com/education
Three universities increase access,
engagement and learning
2
Embracing the future of IT mobility
and access
In higher education, IT administrators are
grappling with rapidly changing student needs
and usage habits – often with one foot firmly
planted in an obsolete IT paradigm. The old
model of maintaining dedicated computer labs
on campus is giving way to demand for
increased mobility and access to applications
across many device types, but shrinking
budgets and limited staff resources make the
transition difficult.
Fortunately, some campus leaders are looking
ahead and embracing fresh solutions. Together
with Citrix, three public universities in Florida
have developed solutions that fit their unique
needs. They have implemented their own
virtual app stores, virtualized labs and key
software resources, ensuring that students and
faculty can access these systems on their own
terms – using the devices of their choice, when
and where they want to work.
By learning from one another, these
universities are empowering their academic
communities, promoting adoption,
streamlining IT systems, freeing up institutional
resources and increasing student engagement
and learning. In doing so, they have also
realized unexpected benefits.
Challenges
•	Providing today’s students with the
technology, apps, data and resources they
need to be successful on the technology they
already own and are comfortable with
•	Determining which solutions will best deliver
the services and experiences they are looking
for, while ensuring that they are flexible, cost-
effective and easy to expand
•	Uniting an entire university around one
project that would benefit all students
and faculty
Solution
Leveraging the flexibility of Citrix XenApp,
XenDesktop, Receiver and NetScaler, each
university developed solutions that fit their
needs, making applications available to
students and faculty anywhere, anytime and on
any device. By approaching the process
collaboratively, they also benefited from each
other’s development and internal marketing
strategies, ensuring better-than-expected
rollouts and strong adoption by
campus stakeholders.
An ideal adoption experience
Large-scale improvements in information
architecture are notoriously hard for large
organizations to manage – especially resource-
limited universities, where the regular turnover
of incoming and graduating students can
make adoption and use a challenge. However,
these institutions worked together with Citrix
and experienced overwhelming success thanks
to streamlined technical processes, effective
marketing strategies and a well-planned match
between system capabilities and
audience needs.
1
Audience Survey on Technology in Higher Ed, University Business, June 2014
University of South Florida
•	XenApp adopted in 2009 as
“USF App Gateway”
•	Main campus: Tampa
•	Enrollment: 42,000
University of Florida
•	XenApp adopted in 2012 as
“UFApps”
•	Main campus: Gainesville
•	Enrollment: 52,000
University of Central Florida
•	XenApp adopted in 2015 as
“UCF Apps”
•	Main campus: Orlando
•	Enrollment: 60,000
Three universities collaborated and designed a mobility strategy
utilizing Citrix solutions to modernize their IT platforms – and they
are transforming the way students learn and do research with
on-demand IT services.
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Prior to the Citrix rollout, one worry shared by
all three IT teams was that students would
adopt XenApp too quickly, given their average
enrollment of 50,000 students, which could
overload their modest servers. However, the
system flood never happened, in part because
the flexibility and scalability of XenApp and
NetScaler facilitated around-the-clock
distribution of use rather than the feared spikes
and dips. The University of South Florida’s Jason
Hair says implementation went smoothly
enough that he and his team were asked to
jump ahead of schedule and add an additional
pilot group almost immediately.
“Our pilot went live with all of the students in
the College of Engineering in early 2010,” he
says. “By the beginning of 2011, we had all
47,000 students at the University of South
Florida and went ahead and added faculty and
staff in as well.”
These early successes were due in part to smart
internal marketing by each university. And they
didn’t have to go it alone: Citrix worked closely
with each team, visiting campus and
assembling a multimedia rollout strategy that
included print, video and social media.
Knowing that initial buy-in would be critical,
each university was aggressive in reaching
students and faculty in ways that would
resonate with them. They branded their Citrix
storefronts to look like customized campus app
stores, and named them accordingly.
The University of Central Florida targeted
faculty in particular, knowing that if professors
integrated these tools, which they branded as
“UCF Apps,” into their syllabi, student
awareness would grow instantly.
“That Faculty Champions piece was huge for
us,” says JP Peters, IT Director at the University
of Central Florida. He and his team discovered
they were leveraging a natural symbiosis
between their main audience members. “Our
faculty could really get things going right off
the bat, which encouraged student adoption;
that, in turn, led to increased faculty adoption.”
Seizing unforeseen learning benefits
Starting in spring 2012, the University of
Central Florida’s IT modernization process
allowed campus leaders to transform what had
been a 200-seat computer lab into an
innovative new learning space. They created a
versatile new hub that facilitated peer
connections and made collaboration on group
projects easier, while still accommodating
students who wanted to work solo on their
own devices. In higher education, these flexible
learning spaces, which curricular experts say
produce valuable informal connections and
unscripted academic opportunities, are
becoming increasingly important as learning
tools and selling points for prospective college
families.
IT Director Craig Froehlich says UCF Apps was
fundamental to this transformation. “UCF Apps
really ended up being the perfect complement
for that, because students could have the
software they needed right on their own
device.”
As more institutions leverage the simplification
afforded by XenApp, new side benefits like this
will become even more common, and everyone
– students, institutions and tuition-paying
families – will benefit.
A new data stream
1.	 University servers house
important applications
and desktops, all in one
place with XenApp and
XenDesktop.
2.	 Applications stream
directly to user devices
through Citrix Receiver –
no matter the device type
– without requiring local
installation of software.
3.	 Users interact with
applications exactly as
they would if programs
were installed locally,
saving work to their own
hard drives, to institution
servers or even to the
cloud.
4.	 Users can tap into
applications anytime,
anywhere, and they enjoy
better-than-installed
application performance
speeds with NetScaler.
Solutions Brief
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Three universities increase access,
engagement and learning
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Leaning into the future
At a time when most colleges and universities
are tenuously dipping their toes into the vast
capabilities afforded by the cloud and
virtualization, these Florida institutions are
diving in. They are currently developing new
ways to leverage the immense benefits of
these IT solutions while easing the burden on
expensive, aging onsite server space.
Additionally, the University of Florida has
already created an innovative link between
their XenApp environment and their onsite
supercomputer, called HiPerGator, which the
university says has created a tenfold
improvement in computing power. Faculty
members and researchers have been able to
interface with the system more intuitively,
harnessing the immense raw power of the
supercomputer while using the application and
XenApp interface they are familiar with. This
could create, among other things, new
efficiencies for getting new, lifesaving drugs to
market.
Developments like these confirm what
university administrators had hoped all along:
Their XenApp deployments are much more
than ways to “catch up” technologically.
Instead, they allow organizations to embrace
the future at a time when others can only look
ahead warily.
Applications in action
The range of applications available for use with
XenApp is essentially limitless. The most
sought-after programs that interface with
XenApp seamlessly include:
•	AutoCAD
•	ArcGIS
•	SPSS
•	Adobe Suite
And dozens of others can be added on-the-fly
according to user needs.
Advice from experience
•	Device OS and browser updates are in the
users’ hands, not your organization’s hands
– so educate your users about the need to
stay current and compliant. Establish the
expectation early to ensure seamless use.
•	On the front end, consider any
documentation you’ll want to provide for
users (Citrix Receiver installations for different
device and operating system types, for
example), and budget the time and resources
to ensure adoption.
•	Consider storage locations in your initial build
(e.g., Where are files actually going?). Think
server-mapped vs. local hard drives vs. cloud.
Each option requires a slightly different
approach, though all are valuable.
“One of the early
student responses
that made us feel
great was that
‘UFApps is what sets
UF apart from other
universities.’”
- Jameson Johnston, IT Manager,
University of Florida
“We actually worked
really closely with
USF and UF, and
talked through their
projects. We learned
a lot from their
experiences to move
forward.”
- JP Peters, IT Director, College of
Sciences, University of Central
Florida
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About Citrix
Citrix (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leader in mobile workspaces, providing virtualization, mobility management, networking and cloud services to
enable new ways to work better. Citrix solutions power business mobility through secure, personal workspaces that provide people with
instant access to apps, desktops, data and communications on any device, over any network and cloud. This year Citrix is celebrating 25
years of innovation, making IT simpler and people more productive. With annual revenue in 2013 of $2.9 billion, Citrix solutions are in use
at more than 330,000 organizations and by over 100 million users globally. Learn more at www.citrix.com.
Copyright © 2015 Citrix Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Citrix, XenApp, XenDesktop, XenMobile, ShareFile, GoToMeeting, Podio,
GoToTraining, GoToAssist, NetScaler, CloudPlatform and CloudPortal are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or one of its subsidiaries,
and may be registered with in the U.S. and other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of
their respective companies.
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A Tale of Three Universities: Increasing Access, Engagement and Learning

  • 1. Solutions Brief citrix.com/education A tale of three universities: Increasing access, engagement and learning
  • 2. Solutions Brief citrix.com/education Three universities increase access, engagement and learning 2 Embracing the future of IT mobility and access In higher education, IT administrators are grappling with rapidly changing student needs and usage habits – often with one foot firmly planted in an obsolete IT paradigm. The old model of maintaining dedicated computer labs on campus is giving way to demand for increased mobility and access to applications across many device types, but shrinking budgets and limited staff resources make the transition difficult. Fortunately, some campus leaders are looking ahead and embracing fresh solutions. Together with Citrix, three public universities in Florida have developed solutions that fit their unique needs. They have implemented their own virtual app stores, virtualized labs and key software resources, ensuring that students and faculty can access these systems on their own terms – using the devices of their choice, when and where they want to work. By learning from one another, these universities are empowering their academic communities, promoting adoption, streamlining IT systems, freeing up institutional resources and increasing student engagement and learning. In doing so, they have also realized unexpected benefits. Challenges • Providing today’s students with the technology, apps, data and resources they need to be successful on the technology they already own and are comfortable with • Determining which solutions will best deliver the services and experiences they are looking for, while ensuring that they are flexible, cost- effective and easy to expand • Uniting an entire university around one project that would benefit all students and faculty Solution Leveraging the flexibility of Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop, Receiver and NetScaler, each university developed solutions that fit their needs, making applications available to students and faculty anywhere, anytime and on any device. By approaching the process collaboratively, they also benefited from each other’s development and internal marketing strategies, ensuring better-than-expected rollouts and strong adoption by campus stakeholders. An ideal adoption experience Large-scale improvements in information architecture are notoriously hard for large organizations to manage – especially resource- limited universities, where the regular turnover of incoming and graduating students can make adoption and use a challenge. However, these institutions worked together with Citrix and experienced overwhelming success thanks to streamlined technical processes, effective marketing strategies and a well-planned match between system capabilities and audience needs. 1 Audience Survey on Technology in Higher Ed, University Business, June 2014 University of South Florida • XenApp adopted in 2009 as “USF App Gateway” • Main campus: Tampa • Enrollment: 42,000 University of Florida • XenApp adopted in 2012 as “UFApps” • Main campus: Gainesville • Enrollment: 52,000 University of Central Florida • XenApp adopted in 2015 as “UCF Apps” • Main campus: Orlando • Enrollment: 60,000 Three universities collaborated and designed a mobility strategy utilizing Citrix solutions to modernize their IT platforms – and they are transforming the way students learn and do research with on-demand IT services.
  • 3. Solutions Brief citrix.com/education Three universities increase access, engagement and learning 3 Prior to the Citrix rollout, one worry shared by all three IT teams was that students would adopt XenApp too quickly, given their average enrollment of 50,000 students, which could overload their modest servers. However, the system flood never happened, in part because the flexibility and scalability of XenApp and NetScaler facilitated around-the-clock distribution of use rather than the feared spikes and dips. The University of South Florida’s Jason Hair says implementation went smoothly enough that he and his team were asked to jump ahead of schedule and add an additional pilot group almost immediately. “Our pilot went live with all of the students in the College of Engineering in early 2010,” he says. “By the beginning of 2011, we had all 47,000 students at the University of South Florida and went ahead and added faculty and staff in as well.” These early successes were due in part to smart internal marketing by each university. And they didn’t have to go it alone: Citrix worked closely with each team, visiting campus and assembling a multimedia rollout strategy that included print, video and social media. Knowing that initial buy-in would be critical, each university was aggressive in reaching students and faculty in ways that would resonate with them. They branded their Citrix storefronts to look like customized campus app stores, and named them accordingly. The University of Central Florida targeted faculty in particular, knowing that if professors integrated these tools, which they branded as “UCF Apps,” into their syllabi, student awareness would grow instantly. “That Faculty Champions piece was huge for us,” says JP Peters, IT Director at the University of Central Florida. He and his team discovered they were leveraging a natural symbiosis between their main audience members. “Our faculty could really get things going right off the bat, which encouraged student adoption; that, in turn, led to increased faculty adoption.” Seizing unforeseen learning benefits Starting in spring 2012, the University of Central Florida’s IT modernization process allowed campus leaders to transform what had been a 200-seat computer lab into an innovative new learning space. They created a versatile new hub that facilitated peer connections and made collaboration on group projects easier, while still accommodating students who wanted to work solo on their own devices. In higher education, these flexible learning spaces, which curricular experts say produce valuable informal connections and unscripted academic opportunities, are becoming increasingly important as learning tools and selling points for prospective college families. IT Director Craig Froehlich says UCF Apps was fundamental to this transformation. “UCF Apps really ended up being the perfect complement for that, because students could have the software they needed right on their own device.” As more institutions leverage the simplification afforded by XenApp, new side benefits like this will become even more common, and everyone – students, institutions and tuition-paying families – will benefit. A new data stream 1. University servers house important applications and desktops, all in one place with XenApp and XenDesktop. 2. Applications stream directly to user devices through Citrix Receiver – no matter the device type – without requiring local installation of software. 3. Users interact with applications exactly as they would if programs were installed locally, saving work to their own hard drives, to institution servers or even to the cloud. 4. Users can tap into applications anytime, anywhere, and they enjoy better-than-installed application performance speeds with NetScaler.
  • 4. Solutions Brief citrix.com/education Three universities increase access, engagement and learning 4 Leaning into the future At a time when most colleges and universities are tenuously dipping their toes into the vast capabilities afforded by the cloud and virtualization, these Florida institutions are diving in. They are currently developing new ways to leverage the immense benefits of these IT solutions while easing the burden on expensive, aging onsite server space. Additionally, the University of Florida has already created an innovative link between their XenApp environment and their onsite supercomputer, called HiPerGator, which the university says has created a tenfold improvement in computing power. Faculty members and researchers have been able to interface with the system more intuitively, harnessing the immense raw power of the supercomputer while using the application and XenApp interface they are familiar with. This could create, among other things, new efficiencies for getting new, lifesaving drugs to market. Developments like these confirm what university administrators had hoped all along: Their XenApp deployments are much more than ways to “catch up” technologically. Instead, they allow organizations to embrace the future at a time when others can only look ahead warily. Applications in action The range of applications available for use with XenApp is essentially limitless. The most sought-after programs that interface with XenApp seamlessly include: • AutoCAD • ArcGIS • SPSS • Adobe Suite And dozens of others can be added on-the-fly according to user needs. Advice from experience • Device OS and browser updates are in the users’ hands, not your organization’s hands – so educate your users about the need to stay current and compliant. Establish the expectation early to ensure seamless use. • On the front end, consider any documentation you’ll want to provide for users (Citrix Receiver installations for different device and operating system types, for example), and budget the time and resources to ensure adoption. • Consider storage locations in your initial build (e.g., Where are files actually going?). Think server-mapped vs. local hard drives vs. cloud. Each option requires a slightly different approach, though all are valuable. “One of the early student responses that made us feel great was that ‘UFApps is what sets UF apart from other universities.’” - Jameson Johnston, IT Manager, University of Florida “We actually worked really closely with USF and UF, and talked through their projects. We learned a lot from their experiences to move forward.” - JP Peters, IT Director, College of Sciences, University of Central Florida
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