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“We rely on Guidebook to ensure our Residential Life student staff are fully prepared for their roles. The app includes comprehensive training schedules, contact information for the entire team, departmental procedures, and quick reference details for campus resources and programming tools.”
“We use Guidebook to welcome families for Family Weekend, offering event schedules and insights into Wildcat traditions.”
Help students make the most of their time in their residence hall. Your app allows them to share pictures on the app's social feed, connect through direct messages, and stay informed about recent announcements. And students can receive notifications for any emergencies.
Ensure residents and housing staff stay updated with real-time information. During key events, push notifications can quickly communicate any changes or important updates. Throughout the year, use notifications to engage residents with campus activities, important reminders, and community announcements.
Reduce your alumni event’s carbon footprint and contribute to your university’s sustainability goals like LEED certification.
Create your app in just four simple steps: pick a template, drag and drop the features you need, upload your content, and hit publish. Your team has full control throughout the process.
Provide students with up-to-date schedules and calendars for everything happening in the dorm and around campus. Want to know what residents thought of last nights social event, send a quick form for immediate feedback.
Let parents and incoming students know where to be, when to be there and what to bring. Provide maps, directions and details to ease the process of transitioning onto campus.
Equip your resident assistants with everything they need to lead their communities and provide supporting resources for residents. Communicate with the entire crew or just those in specific locations using Guidebook’s Users & Groups feature.
Store training materials and presentations so student staff can reference throughout the year.
Share key information such as emergency contacts, policies and procedures, and campus resources.
Build community and strengthen team dynamics with our engagement tools.
Quickly update the entire team or specific communities with push notifications - no more relying on students to check their email, Slack, Teams, or GroupMe.
Organize users into groups (by team or residence hall for example) to personalize their experience. Compete as a team to earn points on leaderboard, receive team-specific push notifications, and gated content.
The University of Notre Dame wanted to make sure their Residential Life student staff were fully prepared for their roles. They turned to Guidebook to simplify training and keep everything organized.
With Guidebook, we created an all-in-one training guide for the Residential Life team. The app features the training schedule, contact info for everyone on the team, and departmental procedures. It also offers quick access to campus resources and programming tools, making it easier for Hall Staff to support residents throughout the year.
By bringing all the key information and resources into one handy app, staff are better prepared and can provide more effective support to residents all year long.
“Our app costs 29% less than printing, and our student yield increased by 105% once we began using Guidebook.”
“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 app 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.
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.
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, and we pride ourselves on fast response times, and 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, so everyone can feel connected to the experience.
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.
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.
