Laguna Beach Unified School District in Laguna Beach, California, serves 3,045 students and 341 employees across four schools. As a 1:1 Chromebook district, the district integrates nearly 100 digital learning applications into its classrooms.
With so many digital tools, students and teachers struggled to quickly access the apps they needed for learning. Finding the right app often took 30 seconds to a minute, and forgotten passwords caused further delays. These interruptions added up, costing valuable instructional time. The district needed an easy-to-use single sign-on (SSO) platform that could streamline access to digital resources and minimize disruptions.
Laguna Beach adopted ClassLink’s SSO platform, branded as “Beachport,” to provide a single, centralized location for all digital learning tools. With just one username and password, students, teachers, and staff can now access the resources they need instantly.
Teachers report that students now take just a few seconds to sign into ClassLink each morning, eliminating lost time from forgotten passwords or searching for apps. Beyond improving access, ClassLink provides IT staff with valuable usage reports to guide purchasing and subscription renewal decisions. Admins also appreciate ClassLink’s responsive customer support, which quickly integrates new digital apps with SSO capabilities—without requiring district IT staff to handle complex programming.
“In the classroom, we want to teach bell-to-bell as much as possible. We have so much to get through in such little time, and [ClassLink] really helps us maximize our time,” says teacher Sarah Schaeffer.
If kids and teachers are taking 30 seconds to find a certain app, that adds up quickly with 3,000 kids. Every little bit of time is important in the classroom. If we can shorten that lost time by a little it adds up to more instructional time.
