How to Create a Card Culture in Your School District

There are a lot of questions after deciding to bring in an ID card for students to use alongside a new program.

How do you print the initial card? How do you handle the potential replacement of the original ID cards? How do we make sure the students continue to use the cards?

These questions may seem daunting and even add pressure to an already busy day for school admins. However, there is a way to not only ensure the ID cards are ready for the students, but to implement a continued use of the card, or as we like to call it, a card culture.

How It Starts

As for getting the initial print of the ID cards done, CI Solutions can help create a high-quality ID card for your students, allowing school admin to focus on operations at the school. Not only will our ID cards support whatever new program you are introducing, but our card can also be used for any other programs the school may have including cafeteria and library programs.

Initially, you’ll meet with CI Solutions to discuss how many cards the school will need along with any accessories you may need for the cards. This could include lanyards, carabiners, and plastic card holders to protect the ID cards. Having these accessories helps to eliminate some of the potentially lost or damaged cards that will come up after the initial print.

Once you decide to go with us, you’ll meet our design team, who will work alongside you to create your custom ID cards that will feature nothing but the best in graphics. Once the final proof is decided on, the ID cards will then be printed and distributed to the schools to be handed out to the students.

How To Ensure It Continues

As mentioned earlier, after distributing the initial print of the card, the obvious issues of students losing or damaging ID cards start to come up. To ensure this doesn’t become a burden for faculty or whoever may be handling it, there needs to be a process in place and CI Solutions can help with that. Our card managed services allow you to easily print replacement cards and encourage a card culture.

Our managed services include an RFID card printer, camera kit, our cloud-based ID card software, Badge, and service support throughout your agreement. The printer will allow you to quickly and easily print replacement cards and if the students want to retake photos or new students need photos for their cards, our camera kit will take the perfect high-definition photo for the ID card.

As for managing the photos, cards, and student information, Badge can handle that. The software allows you easily manage student information and makes printing ID cards easier.

With these services, you’ll also have CI Solutions’ support team by your side the entire time. Whatever issues may come up during your agreement, rest assured our team will provide quality support to make sure there is no downtime in your ID card printing. Also, if any of the hardware we provide is beyond in-house support, we will hot-swap the hardware at no additional cost to you.

Creating a card culture might seem like a tall mountain to climb but we here at CI Solutions can help you every step of the way. To learn more about our products and services, please feel free to contact us today.