Further & higher education

PC Power Management for Colleges & Universities

One console for every PC, on every campus.

  • Lower energy bills across every building
  • Late-opening labs and libraries left alone
  • Real CO₂ figures for your carbon report
Start free trial See pricing

Thousands of PCs. Several campuses. Nobody sure which ones are on.

A college or university doesn't close at 3pm. Evening classes, late-opening libraries and labs that run overnight mean no single shutdown time works, so plenty gets left on that didn't need to be.

TaskForceCO2 gives each campus, building and room its own rules, from one console, and records exactly what it saved.

What TaskForceCO2 does about it

  • Separate schedules for each campus, building or room
  • Only shuts down PCs nobody is logged on to, so late work is safe
  • Keeps research, render and always-on machines running
  • Shuts down stuck PCs that scripts and group policy miss
  • Reports money and CO₂ saved, ready for estates and sustainability

One console. Every campus. Real numbers for your net-zero plan.

Example schedule

One console, every campus

  • Main campus · teaching roomsOff at 9:30pm if logged off · wake 7:30am
  • Library & learning centreOff at 10:15pm, after late opening
  • North campus · ICT suitesOff at 6pm if logged off · wake 8am
  • Staff officesOff at 7pm if logged off
  • Research & render workstationsNo power scheme · always on
  • Holiday schemeApplied before reading week and breaks

Illustrative example. Set your own groups and times.

Something IT, estates and sustainability can all agree on.

IT gets fewer stuck PCs and no more shutdown scripts to maintain. Estates and facilities get lower bills. Sustainability gets energy and CO₂ figures taken from your own PCs, not estimates.

Unlimitedconsole installs, one on every campus if you like
£41.25a month covers every PC on a campus
Zerostudent or staff data collected

One product, three teams happy

PC power management sits between IT, estates and sustainability. TaskForceCO2 gives each of them what they need.

IT services

One console instead of a pile of shutdown scripts. Pull PCs in from Active Directory by OU, group them the way your campuses work, and see which ones actually turned off.

Tiny client, deployed for you

Estates & facilities

Lower electricity bills across every building, without asking staff or students to change a habit. Late-opening areas and always-on machines are left alone.

Savings in money, building by building

Sustainability

Energy and CO₂ savings worked out from your own PCs, ready to drop into your carbon reporting and net-zero plan.

Real figures, not estimates
A college story

Does this sound like your campus?

Two minutes to read. It might save you a lot more than that.

Priya's story

IT Services Manager, FE college, three campuses. Click to open.
An illustrative example. Priya isn't a real customer, but her college might look a lot like yours.

Priya runs IT services at a further education college with three campuses: a main site in the town centre, a technology campus on the edge of town, and a smaller adult learning centre. Between them there are about 1,200 PCs, from ICT suites and classrooms to a library, a media suite and the staff offices.

Every campus had its own shutdown script, written by whoever was there at the time.

The question

The college signed up to a net-zero target, and the estates manager was asked to report the college's energy use, building by building. He came to Priya with a simple question: how much electricity do our computers use when nobody's using them?

"We'd signed up to a net-zero target. Nobody could tell me what our PCs cost to run."

She had no idea. She asked her technicians to check one evening, and they found about half the PCs on the technology campus still running at 10pm. The library had closed at nine.

What didn't work

A single college-wide shutdown time was never going to work. The library opens late, evening classes run until nine, and the media suite renders video overnight. When a technician tightened one of the scripts, it shut down an evening class halfway through.

What she found

Priya installed TaskForceCO2 and pulled every PC in from Active Directory, using the OUs each campus already had. Each campus got its own groups. Teaching rooms shut down after the last evening class, but only once nobody is logged on. The library follows its own closing time. The media suite's render machines sit in a group that never shuts down. Everything wakes before the first lessons.

Before each holiday and reading week, the technicians apply a holiday scheme they set up once, and the buildings stay dark until students come back.

What changed

The estates manager got his figures straight from the savings report, campus by campus, and they went into the college's carbon report. The scripts were retired. Nobody teaching an evening class noticed a thing.

The rough maths. About 600 of the college's PCs were regularly left on out of hours, for around 100 hours a week across a 40-week year. At roughly 50 watts each and 25p per kWh, that's about £30,000 a year, and around 25 tonnes of CO₂.

With three campuses, Priya bought three Site Licences, one per campus, at £495 each a year. They paid for themselves within a month.

How many of your PCs are on right now, across every campus?

Start free trial See pricing
University IT team setting up campus PC power schedules
Built for campuses

Set up around the way your campus works

Bring your PCs in from Active Directory (by OU), from the network, or by IP range, then group them by campus, building, department or room. Your AD stays exactly as it is.

  • Different times for teaching rooms, libraries and offices
  • Several power events per PC, per day
  • Wake PCs before lectures, or for overnight updates
  • Always-on groups for research, render and lab machines
  • A holiday scheme for reading weeks and breaks
  • Install the console on every campus, at no extra cost
Security & data protection

Nothing leaves your network

TaskForceCO2 runs entirely inside your institution's network. There's no cloud service to approve and no student data to process.

No student data

TaskForceCO2 collects no user data, so there's nothing for your data protection officer to assess.

No cloud endpoints

Nothing is sent to us or to any third party, which keeps your security review short.

Works offline

If your internet connection goes down, the power schedules carry on as normal.

College & University Pricing

No per-PC charges. Every PC is covered. All prices are per year.

Most popular

Site Licence

One campus, every PC

£495

per year, per campus

  • Every PC in every building on one campus
  • Unlimited console installs
  • Licence, support and upgrades for 1 year
  • Works out at £41.25 a month
  • No per-PC charges
Buy Site Licence Order with a purchase order

Enterprise Licence

Every campus, one licence

£4,995

per year

  • Every PC on every campus
  • New campuses and buildings covered as you add them
  • Licence, support and upgrades for 1 year
  • Works out at £416.25 a month
  • One licence for the whole institution
Buy Enterprise Order with a purchase order

Buying through procurement?

Most colleges and universities do

  • Order online with your purchase order number
  • Print it or save it as a PDF for your records
  • We invoice your finance team directly
  • VAT and bank details whenever you need them
  • Need a formal quote first? Just ask
Open the order form Request a quote

Prices in GBP, per year. Licences don't renew automatically.

Questions Colleges & Universities Ask

What counts as a site?

A site is one campus or physical location. A Site Licence covers every PC in every building on that campus, however many there are.

We have several campuses. Which licence do we need?

With up to ten campuses, a Site Licence for each one costs less. Three campuses would be three Site Licences at £495 each a year.

The Enterprise Licence covers every PC on every campus for £4,995 a year. It's the better buy for larger institutions, or if you'd rather have one licence that also covers any campus or building you add later.

Can each campus run its own console?

Yes. Console installs are unlimited, so each campus IT team can manage its own PCs, or you can run everything centrally from one place.

Our library and some labs open late. Will they be shut down?

Only when you want them to be. Each group has its own times, so the library can follow its late opening hours. You can also set any group to shut down only when nobody is logged on, so a student working late keeps their PC.

Some research and render machines must stay on. Is that possible?

Yes. Put them in their own group with no power scheme and TaskForceCO2 leaves them alone, while it shuts down everything else around them.

What about reading weeks and holidays?

Set up a holiday scheme once, then apply it before each break. PCs stay off for the whole break, with no morning wake-ups, until you switch back to your term-time scheme.

Can it help with our carbon reporting?

Yes. TaskForceCO2's reports show the energy, money and CO₂ saved, worked out from your own PCs. Your sustainability or estates team can use those figures in their carbon and energy reporting.

Does it collect any student or staff data?

No. TaskForceCO2 runs entirely inside your network and collects no user data. Nothing is sent to us or to any cloud service.

Which devices does it manage?

Windows PCs on your network, added from Active Directory (by OU), from the network or by IP address. It's built for on-premises networks, so it isn't designed for devices that are only managed through the cloud.

Can we pay by purchase order?

Yes. Fill in the online order form with your purchase order number and we'll invoice your finance team directly. If your procurement team needs a formal quote first, email salesteam@taskforceco2.com.

Free trial

Try TaskForceCO2 on your campus

A fully working 14-day trial on up to 250 PCs. Getting it takes a couple of minutes, and there's nothing to pay.

  1. Click Start free trialIt takes you to the short trial form.
  2. Fill in your detailsYour name, job title, institution, work email and how many PCs you have.
  3. Confirm your emailWe email you a link within seconds. Click it to confirm your address.
  4. Get your licence key and downloadsThey appear on screen straight away, and we email them to you too.
  5. Install and add your PCsStart with one building or ICT suite and watch the savings report fill up.
Start free trial

What you get

The same software colleges and universities already use, on your network, with your PCs.

  • Fully working for 14 days, on up to 250 PCs
  • Licence key and downloads emailed to you
  • Installs on your own server or admin PC
  • Savings reports from your own PCs
  • Help from us if you get stuck
  • No card details needed
Get my free trial

Questions first? Email salesteam@taskforceco2.com