Case Study: Iowa City Community School District delivers AutoCAD and Adobe CC to Chromebooks with itopia

Iowa City Schools delivers virtual education to distance learning students on Chromebooks

Iowa City Community School District, a fifth-largest school district in Iowa serving more than 14,000 students across 40+ schools, needed a better way to deliver specialty Windows applications to secondary students. Its existing Citrix XenApp setup was unreliable, hard to manage, and costly to upgrade, and the COVID-19 shift to remote learning made it urgent to provide apps like AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Office Suite on Chromebooks. itopia was selected as the cloud-native alternative.

With itopia’s cloud automation and orchestration solution, the district delivered mission-critical apps to students and teachers through Google Cloud with centralized management, stronger reliability, and flexible scaling. The district reported easier administration, fewer technical issues, and the ability to expand or reduce usage as needed, avoiding large upfront infrastructure costs. According to the district, itopia helped them provide the apps students needed whether learning remotely or in person.

Iowa City Community School District

Adam Kurth

Director of Technology and Innovation