WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:03.840 --> 00:00:10.549 Claris FileMaker is additional staff. I, I see Claris FileMaker as a staff member. 00:00:15.687 --> 00:00:22.188 When I started here, we had just started the one-to-one laptop program. I noticed we were spending a ton of time on 00:00:22.313 --> 00:00:27.835 paper stuff, and, and doing stuff by hand--especially the mailings--and I thought there had to be a better way. 00:00:28.076 --> 00:00:34.005 We bought FileMaker. From there, we just started by moving just our computer inventory in there. 00:00:34.005 --> 00:00:39.091 And then, next step was to move all of our students in there. And the next step was to have 00:00:39.091 --> 00:00:42.042 the assignment where the student belongs to the computer. 00:00:42.042 --> 00:00:48.908 We wanted one platform, we wanted t--the Apple platform, and we also wanted a leased program, 00:00:48.908 --> 00:00:52.839 so that students would lease the laptop for four years and then leave with it. 00:00:52.839 --> 00:00:58.039 From there, we really started, uh, connecting it with all our other systems, and eventually we ended up 00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:04.292 bringing payments into our FileMaker. We ended up bringing in addresses, and um, all the information from our SIS 00:01:04.292 --> 00:01:11.263 to scheduling. At that point, FileMaker was our one-stop shop from the laptop program, um, and then our next step 00:01:11.263 --> 00:01:16.960 after that was, you know, what else could we use FileMaker for? And that's when we expanded it to anything technology-related. 00:01:22.880 --> 00:01:27.494 We, we knew that COVID was out there, but we didn't know to what extent it would affect us. 00:01:27.494 --> 00:01:31.425 When it first happened in the spring, I thought it would be about a week and we'd be fine. 00:01:31.666 --> 00:01:36.061 When it dawned on me and the rest of us that it would be longer than a week, 00:01:36.061 --> 00:01:39.531 there was a real scramble to, to create school again. 00:01:39.586 --> 00:01:42.626 We had to flip a switch and it was, uh, remote learning. 00:01:50.720 --> 00:01:57.277 For the past nine months, I guess it's been, it's been a bit of a whirlwind. Um, in the, in the spring, 00:01:57.277 --> 00:02:03.271 when everything kind of happened, we were more of just kind of the "check-in, take care," but this year, 00:02:03.271 --> 00:02:09.699 starting school, we started fully remote for about nine days I think it was, and then we went into this hybrid platform. 00:02:09.699 --> 00:02:13.145 And it's definitely been challenging. 00:02:13.418 --> 00:02:21.094 I don't know that we could have ever expected that we would increase by 1,800 devices in a three-month 00:02:21.094 --> 00:02:27.770 period of time, deploy, and, and have them up and running and ready to go as quickly as we were able. 00:02:27.825 --> 00:02:32.472 As well as support, because it's not just the student devices. Each one of our teachers has a laptop, 00:02:32.626 --> 00:02:35.157 and some of them have a laptop and an iPad. 00:02:35.431 --> 00:02:43.825 In the past, with the old system, it was very archaic and everything was by paper. Now, with the Claris FileMaker, 00:02:43.825 --> 00:02:50.879 what makes it so amazing is the fact that you can just get all your information right there. 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:56.112 Anytime you evaluate new software, that's always the question number one is, does this integrate with our SIS, 00:02:56.112 --> 00:03:02.477 does this integrate with our gradebook, our LMS, uh, you know, our active directory and our email. But, luckily for us, because 00:03:02.477 --> 00:03:09.611 we're using Claris FileMaker, that's not really our top question because we can build the integration ourself relatively easy. 00:03:09.611 --> 00:03:15.789 So, we have been using Connect to bridge that gap and allow us to integrate with Apple School Manager and 00:03:15.789 --> 00:03:20.089 the other software packages that we, uh, currently don't have an integration for. 00:03:20.320 --> 00:03:25.200 It's great to see the people that you've worked with all this time, you know, come together with 00:03:25.200 --> 00:03:30.910 amazing ideas and amazing solutions to some challenges we never thought we would be facing.