How To Better Engage Students With Our New Mobile App!

How To Better Engage Students With Our New Mobile App!

Campus mobile apps are a must for higher education institutions! They help establish better communication and engage students.

Todayโ€™s college students are almost exclusively digital natives. They grew up with mobile devices as part of their daily lives and want everything at their fingertips and on-demand.

To adapt to this new generation, universities and colleges are upgrading their digital assets. Dedicated mobile apps are increasingly used as a tool to get information, learn, and socialize on campus.

Mobile apps reportedly contribute to higher student engagement, retention, and success rates. They are used by Student Life administrators and students for planning, communicating, tracking, and reporting.

Based on our experience working with 200+ Partner Campuses, this article outlines how a mobile app can better engage students.

Our newly revamped mobile app goes even further in:

๐ŸŽฏ Serving as the Go-To Resource for Students.

๐Ÿ“ฒ Being User-Friendly and Customizable.

Since we know that having a powerful tool only goes so far, we also provide:

๐Ÿ“ˆ Tips on How to Increase App Adoption and Engagement.

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How to Enhance Your Next Alumni Event Experience

How to Enhance Your Next Alumni Event Experience

The pandemic-era has brought monumental change to many aspects of our lives.

The way we conduct business, collaborate and engage with the world around us has changed and will continue to do so. Higher education technology for alumni engagement is no exception.

With a busy event season upon us, this is a great time to evaluate the event experience for attendees and administrators alike.

Improve your event experience using the CampusGroups mobile event app. There are many benefits for both alumni and administrators, to have a dedicated mobile-app for alumni events.

While face to face interaction will never be replaced, mobile apps enable a more engaging, sustainable event experience for attendees. They also create a more efficient event management experience, enabling staff to focus their time on engagement instead of logistics.

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Simplify Class Attendance Tracking with Self Check-in Technology

Simplify Class Attendance Tracking with Self Check-in Technology

Allow students to check themselves into class

Keeping accurate and comprehensive classroom attendance records is an inherent need on all campuses around the world. To help simplify the attendance monitoring process, CampusGroups developed a state-of-the-art attendance tracking feature which allows students to self check-in to classes by QR code scanning.

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When Attendance is Critical: How to Prevent Cancellations & Promote RSVP Responsibility

When Attendance is Critical: How to Prevent Cancellations & Promote RSVP Responsibility

For some of your events, cancellations are not an option. You have invested a lot into your event. Your team has organized the venue, facilities, AV needs, supplies, food, drinks, scheduling, invitations, flyers and other promotional materials. You've locked down a VIP speaker, great event sponsors and wonderful giveaways.

And, naturally, you have asked that students RSVP responsibly with the firm intention to attend.

Good news: We have created an option to prevent cancelation for specific Registration Options in your events.

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Commencement at City College New York: Ticketing, Attendance Tracking & More

Commencement at City College New York: Ticketing, Attendance Tracking & More

For graduating students, commencement is a once in a lifetime occasion celebrating years of hard work and academic achievements. After countless assignments, essays, group projects, all night study sessions and challenging exams, the final semester has wrapped up. Family and friends gather to honor their loved onesโ€™ important capstone event. As each new grad crosses the stage to well-earned applause, classmates beaming and cameras flashing, each student looks boldly ahead, ready to take the next big step into the future.

College graduation is a tremendously momentous occasion!

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Engagement Checklists: Create a List of Requirements

Engagement Checklists: Create a List of Requirements

Efficiently manage programs and initiatives with checklists

With CampusGroups, students and administrators know at all times whether they are satisfying mandatory requirements and meeting goals set forth. Student participation data is automatically pulled at optional and mandatory events, career fair attendance, advisor meetings, workshops, evaluations or any other tasks you would like to require.

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Assessing Learning Outcomes & Student Engagement on CampusGroups

Assessing Learning Outcomes & Student Engagement on CampusGroups

CampusGroups provides a full suite of tools that can help you to achieve your Learning Outcomes objectives

Current research indicates that co-curricular involvements have a strong, positive influence on student performance, success and degree completion. Accordingly, accurate assessment and measurement of individual student engagement is a vital component to achieving Learning Outcomes, identifying students that may need help and determining the best strategies and requirements to meet your school's goals.

More centralized data, more visibility

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Salute, Vino 2016! CampusGroups Launches Groupment Event App for Grand Italian Wine Week Conference

Salute, Vino 2016! CampusGroups Launches Groupment Event App for Grand Italian Wine Week Conference

Italian Trade Commission partners with CampusGroups for VINO 2016

More than a few corks were popped as thousands celebrated Italian Wine Week in NYC, commencing on February 7, 2016. Italian wine producers, distributors, importers, experts, journalists, tastemakers and other industry professionals flocked to midtown Manhattan for VINO 2016, a leading 3-day wine event in the US presented by the Italian Trade Agency.

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