“It was an absolute 10. Students were incredibly engaged in the guide and made communication with them so easy. Thank you for meeting with me prior to the event to go over the attendance manager role, everything went smoothly.”
“Our app costs 29% less than printing. A team of 5 people used to spend 400 hours creating printed materials. With our app, it takes 2 people less than 25 hours.”
“With schedules frequently changing, we needed a flexible solution to accommodate updates in real time. The team would print 40,000 programs to hand out at the events, which were costly, bad for the environment, and once printed, couldn’t be updated with any changes.”
Give students a central hub with a campus community app that keeps them informed, engaged, and connected to everything your school has to offer.
Keep students interested with a student engagement app that provides real-time updates, personalized schedules and event details on-the-go.
Make it easy for students to register, engage and participate in campus events with streamlined event management tools.
Ditch paper schedules, printed programs and repetitive manual processes with an affordable campus app that cuts costs while improving engagement.
Eliminate the need for printed materials by updating event information instantly within the app. This approach saves time and money while reducing waste, helping lower your carbon footprint and can support your school’s efforts toward LEED certification.
From creating a branded event app to setting up a website, managing registration and sending push notifications, you can do it all – no coding or IT team required.
Keep students interested with a student engagement app that provides real-time updates, personalized schedules and event details on-the-go.
Make it easy for students to register, engage and participate in campus events with streamlined event management tools.
Showcase campus events like orientation, athletic events, club activities, student workshops and more. Give attendees the flexibility to build personalized schedules if needed.
Provide a space for students to connect, share content and engage through a built-in social feed. Enable direct messaging for 1:1 communication and to strengthen their sense of belonging.
Help students and visitors easily find key landmarks, parking and event venues with interactive campus maps and floor plans. Add audio tours for a personalized, self-guided experience.
Eliminate the stress and disruption of last minute changes by instant notifying everyone about schedule changes, weather updates and other important reminders.
Easily promote your event with an integrated website, streamline registration and manage event details—all with Guidebook’s easy-to-use campus event management tools.
Bowdoin College connects current students and alumni with a Homecoming guide in their personalized app. People can use the app to access exclusive homecoming discounts, check which of their favorite facilities are open to explore, and peruse local dining options. The Schedule Tracks help organize the schedule based on inaugural events, athletic events, and even events with virtual offerings so everyone can find something that interests them!
Spelman College uses Guidebook to support events across the entire student journey, from Admissions and Orientation, to Commencement and Alumni gatherings. This full-lifecycle approach keeps students informed at every stage while helping families and alumni stay connected. Schedule tracks make it easy to navigate events, even with hundreds of attendees on campus. Plus, with real-time push notifications, last-minute changes are communicated instantly, ensuring a smooth experience for everyone.
“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 a career fair event on our platform. Most of our customers would not describe themselves as tech-savvy, and our drag-and-drop system makes it easy.
Absolutely. If at any point you need to make a change, just jump back into our system, make those edits, and hit Publish. Within seconds, your updates will be live. You can also send last-minute notifications through push notifications 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, along with a unique QR code. Our app Builder also gives you tools like email promotion, posters, and social media templates to streamline your event promotion and app downloads.
Absolutely! Many smaller colleges and universities generate extra revenue by offering sponsors premium ad placements within their campus event app. These options give sponsors prime visibility to a highly engaged student audience. You can sell sponsorship packages that include prominent banner ads, exclusive push notifications, dedicated sponsor pages and more. Speak to us today to learn more about how our mobile event solutions can benefit your school.
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 throughout your campus event planning process.
Not everyone can download an app, and we get that. Those individuals can access your app content through their phone’s browser or desktop computer on Guidebook Web, at no extra cost, so everyone stays connected to the experience and event details.
Yes! We know how hectic education event management can be, so we’ve integrated our app Builder with tools like Eventbrite, Marketo, Cvent, and Splash. Our Zapier integration also allows connections to 10,000+ systems, and we offer an Open API for even more flexibility.
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.
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