Sault College, Ontario, CA

Customer Spotlight

SC has grown dramatically since it was recognized as a College of Applied Arts & Technology in 1967. It currently offers more than 150 programs and diplomas, distance education, professional training, and online and post-secondary courses to more than 4,500 full and part-time students.

The vision of SC is to make their community a better place by providing a transformative life experience through empowering those who study with them, to think and learn in progressive, innovative ways. They have a clear student-centric plan in which they recognize the need to be agile and responsive to opportunities and challenges, while at the same time finding ways to improve efficiencies.

Sault's AppsAnywhere Journey

A Crucial Collaboration

Sault College realized that their traditional method of delivering software wasn’t the best solution for their students or their IT department. Even as a smaller college, the IT department had a lot of upkeep on their workload due to the sheer maintenance required for imaging.

Fortunately, SC happens to be a member of the OCCCIO, a collective group of Ontario-based colleges who help one another effectively run information technology support across their institutions.

Digital Toolkit

In SC’s own words once AppsAnywhere was implemented the pieces of the puzzle fell into place. This is rather fitting as AppsAnywhere isn’t the only piece of their puzzle. They created a digital toolkit made up of multiple tools to fit their needs.

AppsAnywhere is our largest and most important tool, but it is not our only tool in the toolkit. However, as time continues, the product improves! That's something that I see as a huge benefit as we continue to find reasons to need something different, the AppsAnywhere team find reasons to fit it in there.

Changes to Campus Life

A great deal has changed since SC implemented AppsAnywhere including the COVID 19 pandemic which hit in 2019. However back when their journey with AppsAnywhere began, remote learning wasn’t part of their strategy.

Thankfully, due to their digital toolkit, SC were able to seemingly switch to remote learning, meaning their students didn’t miss out on any of their education.

We would have never survived in the last year and a half if we didn't have AppsAnywhere. We would have failed miserably during the pandemic to be quite honest. It was just a real-life saver.

The Mission

SC’s mission is to be recognized as a pre-eminent student-centered institution, with an unyielding dedication to giving students the tools to reach their goals. The fact that they assessed their software delivery before the pandemic, as well as building a unique solution to fit their needs, proves how committed they are.

They may be a smaller college, but they tackled the big problems early on, meaning their students always had the tools they needed. We cannot wait to see what the future has in store for this small college with big ideas.

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