Our Customers
Available worldwide, campusM is already the preferred mobile solution of more than 25% of UK universities.
Our Solutions
Mobile solutions for all your communities – from students and faculty, to prospective students, alumni, and visitors.
Our Technology
campusM is unique in the education sector – offering user features and management tools you won’t find elsewhere.
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It couldn’t be easier to get mobile services up and running smoothly at your institution with campusM.
campusM is:
A trusted solution
Available worldwide, campusM is already the preferred mobile solution of more than 25% of UK universities, including global league table leaders Imperial College London and University of Edinburgh.
Everything you’ll need
The campusM platform is all you need to build a world-class mobile presence. Solutions for student recruitment, the student experience and alumni communities are part of the standard package.
Quick and safe to deploy
Our hybrid cloud apps require no local infrastructure or technical support, so customers are up and running within weeks, but at the same time, all your data remains secure, inside the institution.
Easily update in-house
From simple map changes to entirely new screens, you can publish your app updates to all user devices with immediate effect – eliminating time-consuming upgrades to the various app stores.
Packed with Features
Our apps offer a comprehensive set of out-of-the-box services that integrate securely with back-end university management and learning systems:
- Mobile-specific analytics
- Single sign-on
- Campus Pocket Guides
- Maps and directions
- Find a Friend
- News and event feeds
- Links to social networking sites
- University directory
- Search library catalog
- Renew and reserve library items
- Unique mobile file manager
- Works with leading LMSs (VLEs)
- Course and exam timetables
- App Tour
- Feedback – support & feature ideas
- PC and Printer Availability
- Offline working
- Accessibility features
- Alerts and push notifications
- Collections of multimedia resources
- Recents – navigation short-cuts
campusM™ Enterprise
campusM Enterprise offers mobile services tailored to meet the needs of individuals as well as key groups.
Personalized services
campusM Enterprise works with your university directory to match user profiles with mobile services. It provides a framework for designing personalized content aimed at individuals and groups such as prospective students, faculty, alumni, and, of course, your students.
Single or multiple apps, your choice
Create unique versions of campusM for different communities, and deploy as multiple apps or as a single mobile app for your entire institution.
Personalized experiences for all your communities
Learn more – Lancaster University
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Lancaster University
With the flexibility of campusM Enterprise, Lancaster University is delivering tailored experiences to existing students, according to their stage of study.
Chris Dixon, Head of Service Delivery and Operations:
“We’re developing our own apps using campusM App Extension Kit, and deploying onto all the mobile platforms – iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Android and the web – with a single set of code. That’s really useful, and the developers at campusM are very helpful.”
Learn more – Copenhagen Business School
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Copenhagen Business School
With campusM, delivering personalized mobile services to 18,000 students is easy even with a small IT team. Using campusM Enterprise, CBS are also mobilizing their conference operations.
Tonny Hjelmberg Laursen, Project Manager and Programme Director:
“We deployed quickly because campusM already had a lot of the functionality we needed. Other universities were using the solution, so the support team were familiar with the environment we work in, and we could also share outputs with the community.”
campusM™ Students
campusM Students delivers services that meet the individual needs of today’s learners on their mobile devices.
Taking more university to the student
Smart institutions select technologies that fit personalized services and learning into the student lifestyle. campusM makes it easier to communicate with even the most hard-to-reach students, wherever they are.
Experiences that exceed expectations
campusM offers well-designed personalized mobile services, from course and exam timetables, to campus maps that can even locate available PCs. Students are freed up to focus on succeeding in their studies, and can navigate the university’s services with ease.
Wherever your students go, your institution goes with them
Learn more – Imperial College London
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Imperial College London
Students can use the Imperial mobile app to succeed at this prestigious institution by finding relevant library books or articles, the location of their next lecture, and where the available PCs are right now. They can even identify and contact staff-members for help.
App Store review:
“Good stuff. Very useful app that gives you careful infos when you have no access to your computer but only an iPhone in your hand!”
Learn more – University of Edinburgh
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University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh app integrates with campus systems such as the VLE (LMS), timetable, the help desk, the library, and the finance system, to provide students with personalized services and information.
Simon Marsden,
Director of Applications:“This is a great beginning, and the campusM team has been really helpful.”
campusM™ Student Recruitment
Our recruitment apps attract tomorrow’s talented students to your institution.
Improving recruitment outcomes
campusM streamlines recruitment processes whilst generating valuable marketing insights and effective communications. By delivering positive experiences to prospective students, institutions nurture an early sense of belonging and enhance their own prestige.
A taster of life and learning
campusM opens up relevant resources to guide prospective students. It can send out application deadline reminders or Campus Open House (Open Day) invitations, and adds an interactive mobile dimension to decision-making. Informed choices translate into higher levels of satisfaction and retention among your students.
Making an early and enduring impression
Learn more – Staffordshire University
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Staffordshire University
campusM acts as a mobile prospectus, transforming recruitment processes with course content and an Open Day (Campus Open House) booking form which integrates with the CRM system.
Amy Winter, Marketing Executive:
“It’s so easy to customize the solution to look like a branded in-house application. I look at other universities’ campusM apps and it amazes me that they’re all from the same product. The support team are incredibly helpful – we just email the service desk with any problems and they’re onto it right away.”
Learn more – University of Bradford
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University of Bradford
Prospective students interested in studying at the University of Bradford enjoy an innovative approach to recruitment, with attractive mobile information accessible on all devices.
John Fairhall, Mobile Technology Advisor:
“None of the products in the marketplace can match campusM on flexibility or speed of content creation. From your first conversation with their sales people, you can have a mobile app up and running within two months.”
conferenceM™
conferenceM transforms the conference experiences of delegates and organisers, with compelling mobile apps which enhance the prestige of your events.
Smooth and seamless conference delivery
Universities can publish event information and deliver interactive experiences in real time direct to the mobile devices of all participants. conferenceM generates insightful data to drive future event revenues and successes.
Everything your delegates need
conferenceM takes care of everything – from venue maps and floor plans to conference programs – and can even locate nearby parking and colleagues.
A must-have app for organizers; a problem-free experience for delegates
Learn more – Apple
Apple Conferences
Apple
conferenceM mobile apps are a regular fixture at Apple’s Education and Retail conferences across the globe.
They contain the information you tend to find in delegate bags – agendas; floor plans; delegate listings – along with personalized schedules and copies of session materials.
During Apple events, delegates may receive personalized push notifications, annotate conference documents and interact with both peers and Apple staff.
Learn more – UCISA
UCISA Mobile
UCISA
With full event programs, venue information, delegate lists and real-time alerts, it’s no wonder that delegates at UCISA conferences prefer the mobile app to the printed handbook.
Peter Tinson, Executive Secretary:
“The fact that so many of our delegates use the app at our conferences speaks for itself; they really value it. The staff at campusM have always been incredibly helpful and have worked closely with us in partnership, to our common aims.”
campusM™ Solo
campusM Solo takes your own content and delivers it as a mobile app within minutes.
Create an app in minutes flat
You can build content and deliver it on the fly to any mobile device. Designed for information that requires no integration with in-house systems, it’s perfect for producing university guides or supporting events such as Campus Open House events (Open Days).
Easy to manage, easy to grow
campusM Solo is a fully-hosted solution that needs no IT support. And it grows with you, through flexible upgrading to campusM Enterprise.
Apps delivered simply and effortlessly
Learn more – University of Wolverhampton Open Days
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University of Wolverhampton
The University of Wolverhampton created a mobile app, using campusM Solo, to optimise the Open Day (Campus Open House) experience and drive recruitment with campus maps and guides.
Colin Addy, Director of IT Services
“With only a small project team to implement the campusM app, the provision of efficient technical support and expertise was invaluable. We’ve found the company to be a very good partner to work with.”
Learn more – University of Exeter Welcome Week
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University of Exeter
The University used campusM Solo to deliver, in tight timescales, an informative app for Welcome Week, with details of all events, maps and even a message from the Vice-Chancellor.
Sue Milward, Head of IT Innovation:
“We’d become increasingly aware that we had no mobile presence at Exeter, and we were really pleased with the Welcome Week app. The campusM team was very responsive throughout.”
Push Notifications
Send push notifications across the university, or to individuals, using the campusM Alerts Server to iOS, Android and RIM.
Automatic updates
Users know they always have the latest features and content, with our synching framework that deploys updates instantly.
Single sign-on
Our security framework simplifies authentication by allowing users to log in once and access different systems.
Timetables
Personalized course and exam timetables, linked to campus maps for ease of navigation.
Recents
Navigate around the app quickly with shortcuts to the home page and recently-visited screens.
Navigate your campus
Search for buildings and other amenities by name, pinpoint them, and navigate with campus maps, using GPS.
News and events
All the latest university news and event feeds delivered on the move.
Connect with social networks
Share exciting news and events or any content in the app on Twitter, Facebook, BlackBerry Messenger and email.
University contacts
Search the university directory. Phone or email contacts and add them directly to the phone’s address book.
My library account
View your library account details, reserve or renew books, and find learning resources in the library catalog.
Pocket Guides
Everything you need – from campus tours and the student handbook, complete with maps, to emergency help, even calls and email – within the app itself.
Courses
Students can view assignment or course details, and find out grades.
Videos and photos
Tune into mobile collections of videos, podcasts, and other resources.
App Tour
A helpful guide to features such as navigational shortcuts and app feedback.
Capture feedback
Users can submit feedback and ideas for future enhancements. Support issues can be sent directly to your helpdesk system.
PC Availability
Check PC availability across campus and use GPS to locate the nearest computer.
Offline working
Users can carry on working when they’re not connected, with our advanced caching framework.
Links to web pages
Follow links to web pages from custom icons on the home page or within the Pocket Guides. And single sign-on means no extra login, even to secure areas.
Accessibility
Our app responds to iPhone accessibility features by changing behavior to help users with impaired vision.
Find a Friend
Locate friends and family on campus. Make contact and meet up more easily.
campusM™ Hybrid Cloud
With our hybrid cloud apps, campusM institutions enjoy all the benefits of our shared mobile platform, while keeping their sensitive data inside the institution.
Lower total cost of ownership
Deployment takes place within the short timescales that typify cloud-based solutions. With minimal in-house skills and infrastructure requirements, campusM eliminates the burden of recurring upgrades, and reduces maintenance requirements dramatically.
The very latest mobile innovations
campusM updates the mobile devices of all your users automatically with the latest features and platform innovations, without any intervention on your part. Customizations and integrations are safeguarded during upgrades. With campusM, your mobile services are fully available and highly resilient.
campusM™ App Manager
The campusM App Manager is a powerful portal that makes it easy to manage, customize and publish updates to our mobile apps.
Putting you in control
From a simple interface you can update features, campus maps and geolocations, mobile branding, and manage content, without specialist skills.
Publishing updates to all mobile platforms
The publishing feature updates mobile apps on all platforms directly with changes and customizations as you make them – eliminating time-consuming upgrades to the different app stores.
campusM™ Mobile Apps
Our cross-platform strategy delivers the best possible user experiences on every device.
All the inclusivity of multiple-device support
To deliver rich experiences across all devices, we design and develop native campusM apps for the iPhone®, iPod touch®, iPad®, Android, and BlackBerry. We also make available a mobile web browser app, so everyone can access your mobile services.
Advanced integration and synching
With their own secure integration framework, campusM apps integrate easily with legacy and third party systems. Our apps also detect updates on the campusM App Manager and perform automatic synchronizations.
campusM™ App Extension Kit (AEK)
Our AEK gives you the power and flexibility to extend campusM apps, meeting local needs with features developed in-house.
Support your in-house developers
Based on HTML5, the AEK gives your developers the power to extend campusM apps with screens, toolbars, new menu items, and integrated services.
Write once, deploy instantly
Developers need not develop separate solutions for each mobile platform. Once a new feature is built, it is automatically deployed across our platforms instantly – eliminating time-consuming upgrades to the different App Stores.
Here's a few examples of how customers have used the AEK:
- Student Finance
- Live Bus Timetables
- Help Desk Integration
- PC and Room Booking
- VLE/LMS Module
- Student Surveys
- House Finder
- Mashups of Announcements from Blackboard and Sharepoint
- Moodle Extensions
- Live Washing Machine and Dryer Availability
Student Finance
Students can view their university finance statement - invoices, credits and payments.
campusM™ Insight Analytics
campusM Insight gives you full usage reporting designed specifically for today’s mobile environment.
Business intelligence for your mobile services
campusM Insight goes beyond website-based analytics to capture mobile-specific data such as button-press metrics, and the devices, operating systems and platforms in use across the institution. campusM Insight records the offline usage that is common with mobile apps, and reports on features and pages added locally to your mobile app.
campusM™ Alerts
campusM Alerts is a cost-free and comprehensive communications channel delivered in real time.
A joined-up alerts system
The campusM Alerts Server can send university-wide push notifications to iOS, Android, and BlackBerry mobile devices anywhere in the world. Where a user has registered more than one device with campusM, the Alerts Server simply messages both devices. Your alerts can include rich text with links to campus maps and other resources.
Flexible Personalized Alerts
The campusM Alerts Server integrates with university back-end systems to send out timely personalized communications. Keep your students on track with timetable changes, assignment deadline reminders and library notifications. Our alerts also work with text messaging systems to keep your SMS costs down.
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Imperial College London
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University of Edinburgh
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University of Wolverhampton
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University of Roehampton
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Lancaster University
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Harper Adams University College
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Manchester Metropolitan University
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Coventry University
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Liverpool John Moores University
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University of Derby
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London South Bank University
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Plymouth University
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University of Leeds
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Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Keele University
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CQ University
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University of Exeter
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UCISA
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Copenhagen Business School
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University of Bradford
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University of New England
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UCL
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LSE
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Apple
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Trinity College Dublin
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Royal Holloway – University of London
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University of Southampton
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Staffordshire University
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University of Winchester
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London Metropolitan University
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University of Sheffield
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University of Birmingham
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University of Sussex
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University of Westminster
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Bournemouth University
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Kings College Road
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University Centre Milton Keynes
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University for the Creative Arts
campusM™ Implementation
We offer a range of professional services to suit your institutional skills and the scope of your implementation.
Transferring all the skills and knowledge you need
We give your staff the training and ongoing support they need to manage your mobile app independently.
A track record you can rely on
With well-proven processes in place, we will get campusM up and running at your institution smoothly and quickly. Our technical consultants have a strong track record for rapid deployments. Their deep knowledge of higher education systems means ease of integration with legacy and third party systems.
campusM™ Integration
Integrating campusM mobile apps with your campus systems delivers rich and convenient services to your users, wherever they are.
Fully-integrated mobile services
campusM complies with leading standards, simplifying integration with legacy and third party systems. Our wide range of pre-built connectors to the most popular university management and learning systems minimizes deployment time.
Experience you can trust
We have successfully integrated campusM apps with an impressive range of back-end systems.
Design & Branding
Smartphones and tablets are changing the way the world interacts with higher education, so your mobile presence needs to be in the vanguard of brand design and management.
Mobilizing your institution’s prestige
We deliver exciting unique designs specifically for mobile. Customized and styled by our mobile design specialists, our apps help to generate and sustain brand recognition and loyalty from the earliest interactions.
360 Degree Support
We are always available to help you meet your mobile goals.
Thrive after go-live
Our customers can count on us to help with anything from basic queries and managing app store processes, to bespoke customizations. Our standard 360 Degree Support package includes regular health checks of all customer deployments, and recommendations to keep them ahead of the pack with leading mobile experiences.
Welcome to the campusM community
Join the campusM online community, and access its growing knowledge base. Let your developers share customizations and marketers discuss best practice. We listen closely to our customers, feeding their ideas into the product roadmap.
oMbiel is recruiting for a Marketing Manager
In its ongoing expansion into new markets, oMbiel has identified a need for a Marketing Manager. Based at our Wolverhampton office, the Marketing Manager will manage all aspects of the company’s marketing activities, including lead generation e-marketing, company websites, social media, marketing collateral across a range of media, events (internal and external), partners and sponsors, PR, advertising, and market / competitor research.
This is a demanding but rewarding role for an energetic marketing professional who can also make a broader commercial contribution to decision-making in such areas as pricing, product development and routes to market.
Interested? Send your CV to enquiries@ombiel.com.
MMU wins Guardian Student Experience award
A couple of us went over to Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) recently to deliver their annual health check (part of the standard campusM package). The University had recently won the Guardian Student Experience award, and in conversation, staff-members saw campusM as part of that success.
MMU has been making use of a range of technologies, including campusM, in its root and branch overhaul of curriculum design and delivery – the focus of the award. One objective was to provide personalized information across a range of channels, including mobile, as The Guardian itself reported:
“Students were also keen to integrate mobile technologies into every aspect of their university lives: this included personalised information on timetables, deadlines, reading lists and learning resources.”
At the end of the day, though, what MMU has achieved is the successful completion of a far-reaching programme of change.
Congratulations to everyone at MMU, from the campusM team.
iLancaster mobile app shortlisted for Times Higher Education award
Lancaster University has been shortlisted for this year’s prestigious Times Higher Education awards, in the category ICT Initiative of the Year. The team at Lancaster has played a pioneering role in using the campusM mobile platform to extend its iLancaster app, meeting local needs and student expectations. By sharing good practice, which they are always happy to do (Lancaster’s Brian Green is Chair of the campusM User Group, for example), they drive up standards of mobile provision right across the sector. Among the raft of features on iLancaster that make university life easier, is a service that Brian and his team have developed to locate available washing machines in the various launderettes on campus.
So fingers crossed for Thursday June 20th, when the winners will be announced.
US-based Empire Education Group chooses campusM
Empire Education Group has selected campusM to provide its students with personalized information from its student records system on any device. Empire, which runs more than 100 beauty schools in the US, first heard about campusM through an Educause event. We’re now planning implementation project – due to start next month – which will provide mobile apps to Empire students across 21 states.
LinkedIn goes native
In what’s been described as “a stunning reversal”, LinkedIn has become the latest social networking provider – following a similar move by Facebook last year – to break from HTML5 and return to native mobile apps. In this interview, Kiran Prasad, Senior Director for Mobile Engineering, reveals that LinkedIn has suffered from memory problems as users spend more and more time in the app, and HTML5 has also limited the development of an attractive look and feel (animation, for example, is smoother and more sophisticated with a native approach). One striking quotation from Prasad: “we recognize now that HTML5 is not allowing us to do the best for our users” sums up LinkedIn’s current position and really chimes with our own thinking here at campusM.
campusM is now recruiting for a Moodle and E-Learning Systems Developer
Having developed a core set of features to integrate our campusM mobile platform with Moodle and other VLEs, we’re looking for someone who can help us to deliver its full potential.
Are you the Moodle and E-Learning System Developer we’re looking for?
You’ll need seasoned business skills to identify future developments for the mobile learning component of the campusM platform roadmap. Technically you’ll need to be able to develop Web Services, run our VLE test environments, and generally pitch in with our hard-working and dynamic mobile technology team here in Wolverhampton, where the position is based.
This is a full-time position reporting directly to the CEO of oMbiel. Interested? Check out ombiel.com (on the Careers page, under the About Us tab) for further details, then send your CV to enquiries@ombiel.com.
Counting down the days to Thursday’s campusM User Group meeting
Thursday’s campusM User Group meeting will be Andrew Taylor’s first as Client Satisfaction Manager. He was telling me this morning that almost 50 representatives from UK and European Universities have signed up to attend the all-day event which University College London (UCL) has kindly agreed to host.
In response to feedback, we’ve filled the agenda with customers telling their own stories of campusM developments. We always look forward to CEO Hugh Griffiths’ update on the campusM roadmap, and I know that he’s planning to demonstrate a very exciting new development at the meeting. Finally, in case you’re not aware, we’ve lifted the technical developer sessions out to a separate event which we’ll be running some time in July.
See you at UCL on Thursday?
campusM delivers Offline Prospectus Order Form for the University of Derby
Jon and Mike went to the University of Derby a couple of months ago to deliver some AEK training. A key requirement identified by University staff was a solution to capture prospectus requests from visitors attending UCAS recruitment events, where internet connectivity may not be present.
In collaboration with the University of Derby we built a mobile service to help staff at the event to record expressions of interest onto an Offline Prospectus Order Form using their iPads. After an event, the team upload the data from each device, and by calling the University’s Web Service, campusM is able to feed the records into University systems. Marketing staff at the University of Derby have now attended a number of events, and are delighted with the service.
Anglia Ruskin University invests in campusM Enterprise
Anglia Ruskin University has signed up for campusM Enterprise to deliver what every higher education institution needs – well-designed mobile apps providing personalized information and services to everyone from prospective students to academic staff. At last week’s Technical Discovery Workshop (a one-day familiarization session that is part of the standard campusM package), the enthusiasm right across the team at the University was palpable. They’re setting to work on customized services for staff and students, and have plans to use the mobile app to support open days and conferences. They really like the alerting facility, and may use it for overdue library book notifications and for timetable cancellations.
We’re all looking forward to seeing what innovative new services they come up with using the powerful combination of Enterprise and the AEK (App Extension Kit).
Try out our location-based services at UCISA’s annual conference in Liverpool
This year, campusM is once again partnering with UCISA to provide a mobile app for their prestigious annual conference.
For this event, UCISA is working with us on a bit of an experiment. We’ll be placing QR codes and NFC touchpoints at key locations across the venue, mainly outside presentation rooms. Delegates can use these touchpoints to find out, on their phones or tablets, what’s happening next in that room, or maybe get more details about the current session.
We’ve been developing ideas around location-based services for universities for some time now, and this will help us test them out. So if you’re at UCISA next week, we would love to know how you get on with these touchpoints. Come and visit our exhibition stand and give us your feedback.
Deploying campusM at your institution
We can deploy campusM at your institution within short timeframes and manage ongoing updates on your behalf. Through technical knowledge transfer, we support you in customizing and branding your app as required.
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