“But we would have to integrate our application into their ecosystem - and that wasn’t what we were looking for.

We started looking at potential providers in the market that offered video capabilities,” Campbell said. “When the pandemic hit, we knew we had to move faster on building out synchronous capabilities for Cobb. Then, COVID-19 hit, accelerating plans nearly overnight. The district had a vision, timeline, and budget for continued development of the platform over several years. “We wanted to bring capabilities together in an integrated way and make workflows as smooth as possible for parents, teachers, students, and administrators,” said Steve Campbell, president and chief operating officer of EdIncites. “CTLS is our digital home - not just for online learning but face-to-face resources with digital tools for teachers, assessments and digital content for students, parent communications, and soon, instructional resources for parents to support learning from home,” he said. ‘We had a vision for our own ecosystem’ĬTLS was conceived as an online hub where Cobb Schools could “deliver anything a student, parent, or teacher needs in the digital space,” according to John Floresta, chief strategy officer of Cobb County School District.

By integrating Zoom seamlessly into CTLS, Cobb Schools and EdIncites created a robust digital experience that engaged students with a 97% login rate across the district - and will continue to support flexible learning models going forward. A customized learning management system (LMS), called the Cobb Teaching and Learning System (CTLS), had been in development for years when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.įorced to accelerate its ambitious vision in a few short weeks, Cobb Schools worked with Education Incites (EdIncites), an education software company, to build out a synchronous learning experience for the district’s 110,000-plus students and 9,000 teachers. Long before remote learning went mainstream during the pandemic, Cobb County School District Superintendent Chris Ragsdale had a strong vision of a tech-enabled future for his schools.

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