# How Illinois Principals Association uses Colossyan

**75%**: “How the Illinois Principals Association creates professional training 75% faster with AI video”

As published on [colossyan.com](https://www.colossyan.com/case-study/illinois-principals-association-creates-professional-training-using-colossyan/), August 2025. Captured by usedby on 2026-10-07.

- Company: [Illinois Principals Association](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/illinois-principals-association.md)
- Tool: [Colossyan](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/colossyan.md)
- Teams: Professional Development

## What the story says

The association creates and updates professional training videos for educators using AI avatars as presenters, replacing studio filming and on-camera subject matter experts.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Colossyan and Illinois Principals Association, not ours.

> By eliminating traditional filming requirements, Colossyan reduced costs by 75% and cut production time by around 60 hours per video.

- **60 hours**: “By eliminating traditional filming requirements, Colossyan reduced costs by 75% and cut production time by around 60 hours per video.”
- **$100**: “The Illinois Principals Association had to spend about $100 for every minute of a video, covering both production and travel costs.”

> It was easy to go in, create an actor with a voice, and get the course back up and running. Faster than redoing the course, and bringing the person in again whenever we needed reshoots.
>
> Kathleen Barnhart, Content Specialist

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-07.

- Checked: the figure 75% is printed word for word on the page, near the name of Illinois Principals Association.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Illinois Principals Association.
- Checked: the publication date is read from the page’s own metadata, never guessed.
- Checked: Illinois Principals Association uses Colossyan. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-07.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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