Case Study: Cleveland Community College streamlines file access and saves IT time with Dropbox for Education

Cleveland Community College - Customer Case Study

Cleveland Community College, a tech‑forward community college in Shelby, NC serving more than 13,000 students, struggled to support faculty and staff who worked across multiple devices and off‑campus locations. A legacy server required manual backups that led to accidental deletions and heavy IT involvement, and many employees were already using personal Dropbox accounts to work around these limits—prompting the college to seek an enterprise file‑sync‑and‑share solution.

By adopting Dropbox for Education, the college gave staff seamless access to materials across devices and locations, enabled paperless assignment workflows and real‑time Office collaboration via the Dropbox badge, and integrated single sign‑on for secure access. The result was rapid adoption, more reliable access, improved backup and recovery, and a measurable reduction in IT and administrative time—freeing educators to focus more on teaching.

Cleveland Community College

Athena Smith

Instructional Development Coordinator