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“It allows us to meet them where they are - digitally. We can engage with them on mobile devices while walking on campus. We want high engagement.”
“We use Guidebook for the conference so students will be familiar & have the guide already, so they can get resources and notifications on their phone in that one same place for year-round engagement.”
“We went from 200 hours and five staff members to just 25 hours and one person - compared with creating a website and printed programs.”
Students can create personalized schedules for different events on campus, from club fairs to guest lectures, with easy-to-update schedule tracks.
Push notifications allow you to send timely reminders about events, campus news, or last-minute changes, so students are always in the loop.
Share essential information, like how to join clubs, access tutoring, or find important campus services, in one convenient student engagement app, reducing the need for students to search multiple websites.
Encourage student engagement by offering opportunities to network and collaborate through the app (if you wish), fostering a more connected campus community.
Organize training materials, schedules, and resources in Document Libraries for easy access by your student leaders, streamlining the entire training process.
Lower your carbon footprint and help your university achieve LEED certification when you replace printed programs with a simple-to-build campus event app.
Position campus programs and resources critical for student retention. Promote events that support student networking, involvement, and access to resources to aid their college experience.
Develop a holistic campus resource guide for first-year students. Compile orientation, welcome week, transfer events, and valuable resources for the first-year transition.
Create schedule tracks that can be synced to the campus calendar to help students navigate different events.
Announce new programs, events, schedule changes and more in an instant.
Put important information into students' pockets. Provide access to student leader training materials, campus safety information, student club information, FAQs, and more.
Build community, share news and foster peer-to-peer interactions with our student engagement tools.
Understand the success of your campus event app and digital resources - see which content resonated, what your audience wants from your app, and continuously iterate.
Want to promote your event with an integrated website? Or manage registration? Guidebook’s campus event management platform can do it all.
CSU’s Buc Nation app makes it easy for students to stay engaged with campus life. From athletic events to concerts and plays, students have access to a full schedule of activities. The app also connects students with mentors, provides access to key campus resources, and encourages interaction among classmates, fostering a vibrant campus community.Â
With Guidebook, Fairfield University connects students to essential resources that support their success on campus. The “Fairfield Thrive Guide” offers quick access to campus platforms, including recreation and residence life information, while also providing important public safety updates. Students can easily navigate university services, helping them thrive throughout their time at Fairfield.
“We lead around 14 orientations each year. With Guidebook, we can copy app content from a previous orientation and use it as the foundation for the next one to save time.”
“With Guidebook, administrators are able to create the app themselves without any IT support and non-technical content creators can easily upload and publish content.”
“We went from 200 hours and 5 staff members to just 25 hours and 1 person - compared with creating a website and printed programs.”
Yes, you can. If you’re comfortable sending an email or putting together a few basic PowerPoint slides, you can build an event on our platform. Most of our customers would not describe themselves as tech-savvy.
Absolutely. If at any point you need to make a change, just jump right back into our system, make those edits, and hit Publish. Within seconds, your updates will be live. And, if you need to send any last-minute notifications to your users, you can do that straight from your phone or tablet with our Mobile Admin capabilities.
Upon publishing your app, you’ll have a custom landing page to share with your audience - as well as a unique QR code. Our app Builder also gives you tools like email promotion, posters, and social media templates (and more) to make promoting and downloading your event app super simple.
Many of our higher ed customers have highly engaged app audiences. This is great for local businesses, the campus bookstore, and other departments to get their message in front of more eyes. Sell options like banner ads, sponsored in-app social feed posts, push notifications, and more. Speak to us today to learn more about what you can sell and how.
Of course. Guidebook’s award-winning customer success team has reps in the US and the UK. We pride ourselves on fast response times and on becoming a trusted advisor to you and your team.
Not everyone can download an app, we get it. Those individuals can access your app content through their phone’s browser or desktop computer on Guidebook Web, at no extra cost, so everyone can feel connected to the experience.Â
Yes! We know how hectic using multiple event planning tools can be, so we integrated our app Builder with the tools our customers use most. We connect with software like Eventbrite, Marketo, Cvent, and Splash. Plus, our Zapier integration allows connections to 10,000+ systems. Want to do more? Contact us to learn more about how our Open API works.
Our mission is to make it simple to create and manage mobile apps. Over a hundred thousand organizations have used Guidebook to power their mobile experiences. While we’ve had a lot of success powering conference apps, corporate meeting apps, and university campus apps, our platform has been used for thousands of different use cases. Forward-thinking professionals are using Guidebook’s simple app builder to make interactive mobile guides for their student orientations, college campus tours, venues, corporate campuses, parks, and airports. Start going green with iPhone and Android apps built by the best event app company in the industry.
