This is a YouTube video titled "Vivi Customer Spotlight: Kennewick School District" featuring Ron Cohn, the Executive Director of Information Technology at Kennewick School District in Washington State. The content is a detailed testimonial about the district's experience with various screen mirroring solutions, highlighting the successful deployment and positive impact of the Vivi system in classrooms, emphasizing ease of use, reliability, and teacher engagement. The video was created in October 2020.
Hi, I'm Ron Cohn, the Executive Director of Information Technology with the Kennewick School District. We're located here in south central Washington State on the Washington, Oregon border. One of the things that when we first were looking around, we were looking for a screen mirroring solution that would work. When we deployed it in every classroom at a building. We tried every solution. We get a demo or a purchase unit from the test. We tried full scale deployments on two vendors and neither was working well. One of the things that would break for us was the playing of videos. So as soon as the teachers would play videos, we'd break the systems. The teachers were frustrated, the IT staff was frustrated with inconsistent performance of the products. We tried network tuning, separate VLANs and more in attempts to get to a stable and consistent environment. Then I ran into Vivie's booth at ISTE and figured, well, this is one more traits or one more solution to try. You guys had a convincing argument that your solution would work. So we went back and we got a test unit and put it in place and everything was working good. So we decided that we would go forth with a trial on a full deployment at a building. And we had our new Amistad elementary from the remodel opening up. And so we deployed all those devices into that new school. And the one thing that caught us was that, you know, we were just right at the start of the school year when we were doing that. And so we just barely got the devices put in the room before we turned around and had to kind of stop and start school. And we were figuring we would come back and do some training and stuff. And the teachers just loved it. They took off with the product and they just absolutely loved using vivi. The impact for the IT staff is that the system is simple to manage and easy to deploy, so they're very happy with it. Updates are simple. The teachers, they just love it. It's so easy to use and it just works. There's not a problem. They never, they're never asking for a how to or why doesn't this work or why did it break today? They just love it. It just, just works all the time for them and they are super excited when we get it. We are constantly getting requests from teachers across the district wanting to know when they can get a bivy in their classroom. They talked to so and so or they saw a demo of it when somebody was using it to train on a product. My final thoughts are just, we have been completely impressed with VIVI as a company. How you continue to innovate, add features to the system, how easy it just continues to be for the teachers to use it. And we know that it's affecting instruction in the classroom because the teachers do find it easy to use. And because of that, they're much more engaged. And that's teachers all across the board, from those that do not usually use or like technology to those that loved and embraced it. That was part of it that was impressive to us was the fact that all range of the teachers instantly were using the product and loving it.
