Wauconda Community Unit School District 118

Wauconda Community Unit School District, a district of six schools and 600 users, lacked a standardized communications platform. A hodgepodge of legacy systems made it difficult to share information easily and some schools even lacked voicemail capabilities, leaving them to resort to leaving notes in physical mailboxes.

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“We were looking to standardize how everybody was getting information from each other as well as from the broader community. The Mitel solution allows us to communicate better and fosters more conversations between our community, students and staff,” Scott Cittadino, Assistant Superintendent of Technology

Goals

Free up limited IT resources
Wanted a centralized, standardized platform that could scale easily
New solution needed to fit within the E-Rate funding framework to defray costs

Results

A consistent, easy-to-use experience across all of the district’s K-12 schools
Communication and collaboration between district employees and student parents has improved
New teachers now have phone, voicemail and email service fully operational from day one
Entire process, from evaluation to implementation, took less than six months
Total solution qualified for 80% E-Rate reimbursement in 2015