Bryan Independent School District in Bryan, Texas, is a K-12 public school district with over 16,000 students and 23 schools.
In 2018, Bryan ISD had a long list of access woes. Students and teachers were losing instruction time because they couldn’t find digital resources or forgot their login details. Rostering was so time-consuming for IT staff that students sometimes had to wait for access to resources.
And those were just the instructional challenges.
Parents struggled to remember login details for apps to top-up lunch accounts, check grades, or track bus routes. Board meetings were even unnecessarily long. Members lost meeting time trying to find and log in to resources to access test scores or past meeting minutes.
Despite having plenty of digital resources to support the entire school community, accessing those resources (and their benefits) wasn’t always easy.
ClassLink's platform offered Bryan ISD an education-focused single sign-on solution to their access issues.
Now, students, teachers, parents, and board members use ClassLink’s LaunchPad and MyFiles features for tailored access to all the digital resources and files they need with just one set of login credentials. Logging in to those resources takes only seconds.
Superintendent Christie Whitbeck says, "When ClassLink came along, it was like it was dropped down to us from heaven because it saved so much time and frustration. It saves me 90 percent of the time I used to spend hunting things down."
ClassLink's rostering and provisioning solutions (RosterServer and OneSync) also help the district cut the amount of time spent setting up new resources. Jana Wenzel, Assistant Director of Instructional Technology, says now, IT staff don't get bogged down with managing spreadsheets for rostering, and a lengthy rostering process isn't holding students back from accessing resources.
"With those key components set up for rostering through RosterServer, we can add new resources to that list quickly. Teachers aren't waiting for us to upload rosters. And with classroom rosters set at the beginning of the year, teachers can get students using critical resources within the first week of school.”
"With ClassLink, we're guarding that instructional time and expediting access for our students," explains Wenzel.
When ClassLink came along, it was like it was dropped down to us from heaven because it saved so much time and frustration. It saves me 90 percent of the time I used to spend hunting things down.
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