When 73 schools share one platform, consistency is not optional.
Managing SharePoint across a school district of 50,000 students and 3,800 staff is not a configuration problem. It is an architecture problem. Plano ISD solved it.
Does this describe your SharePoint?
- Documents are scattered across drives, folders, and personal storage
- No one is confident they have the right version of a document
- Searching for content means digging through multiple disconnected sites
- Each team or location looks and works differently, with no consistency
- Adding a new site or team requires starting from scratch every time
What Armely built for Plano ISD
Plano ISD needed SharePoint Online to work consistently across 73 schools, two special centers, and four early education centers. Each campus needed its own identity, while district administration needed to stay manageable from the center.
Armely rebuilt the environment using a Hub and Spoke model: one central hub for district-wide navigation, search, and governance, with individual spoke sites for each campus.
Every campus kept its own branding and identity. The district gained centralized control.
At a glance
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| Documents scattered across servers, folders, and personal drives | Centralized document library with versioning and access controls |
| No version control, with wrong documents constantly in circulation | Full version history on all content, easy revert, and clear audit trail |
| Search required navigating multiple disconnected sites | Centralized search across more than 73 spoke sites from the hub |
| Each campus managed separately with no shared governance | Hub and Spoke model with centralized permissions and consistent navigation |
| New sites required manual setup each time | New spoke sites inherit settings and branding from the hub automatically |
| One generic look for everyone with no campus identity | Each school has its own branding within a consistent district framework |