Build an Innovative Educational Institution with Mobile Apps
In the tech driven world we live in today, it is shocking how many educational institutions still lack a means of mobile communication. Almost every other industry is stocked with mobile solutions and apps, but in education they are nowhere to be seen. This is about to change. Your students have smartphones, their parents have smartphones, as do you and your faculty. So why aren’t you putting them to use?
A mobile app for your educational institution will make the lives of your students, parents and faculty much easier. By streamlining every day processes such as attendance taking, parent/student notifications, reward system management, and much more, you can turn a typical school into an innovative tech savvy institution.
Push Notifications
•Implement an easy to use system for notifying students, parents, and faculty
•Manage your notifications across iOS, Android, Facebook, and Twitter
•Target specific groups of users based on the notification
•Provide users with easy updates and important information instantly
•Develop a reliable notification system
Loyalty Cards
•Implement a mobile system to reward students for activities such as attendance
•Manage your students’ reward activity via your mobile device
•Develop different levels of perks to better reward your most reliable students
•Provide students with an incentive to show up
•Increase student attendance and decrease attendance conflicts
Mobile Reservations
•Implement a reservation system for events such as parent teacher conferences
•Manage your appointments with a beautiful built-in calendar
•Receive notifications via email when appointments are scheduled
•Provide parents with easy appointment management
•Book more meetings and increase show up rates
Custom Forms
•Implement custom forms to gather pertinent information
•Manage mobile submissions via email
•Receive requested information from students, parents, faculty, etc
•Provide a simplified process for gathering information
•Build rapport with students, parents, and faculty
See examples below to build custom forms for your institution:
Hi Tyler, is it possible to have a different appointment for each teacher/instructor? If this via each teacher tab, that might not be able to pass iOS approval.
Hi Jorge,
Yes you can! When you are setting up the Mobile Reservation tab within the app builder you have the option to select an existing booking service or a custom booking service. Simply select “custom” for your booking service, and then click the “edit” button. This will bring up a page that allows you to add “services” that can be scheduled. For your particular question, you would add a new service for each teacher/instructor so that they can be scheduled independently from one another. The end result allows users of the app to open the Mobile Reservation tab, select which teacher/instructor they want, and then schedule an appointment on their specific calendar.
With the setup described above, you will have no issues with iOS approval- this is a feature used by many if not most of our resellers on a daily basis.
Thanks!
I saw the Push Notification and love the versatility. Is there a way to segment via classroom. Another app builder allows each class to send push notifications to their students in that class, can we get that incorporated into BizApps. I have had several schools ask for this feature.
Hey Jeanne!
We hope to have customized group notifications available with our future release. Users will be able to send notifications to specific groups of users that are designated in the builder. For example, you could create a group of students (maybe a particular classroom) and then send the notification to only this specified group. Again this feature is in progress, so stay in touch as it should be available sometime later this year!
Tyler, I really appreciate the way in which you break down how the technology can apply to this underserved industry.
I’m also very interested in Daniel’s specific question about targeting users based upon other custom-defined attributes. Do you have a sense of if/when this feature will be made available?
Hey Tom,
Thanks for the read! We are currently working on this feature and it should be available sometime later this year. For more detailed information about our releases and updates please take a look at our Help Desk, or feel free to email [email protected] to chat directly with one of our reps.
Thanks!
Super cool tech that you guys have embedded into your posts. I do that email form in every app. Usually I just speed thru it but literally just saw a little diddy that I hadn’t even thought of with the tiny banner up top being a different color. Again nice layout and we are living every word of your post with the group of 20+ schools that we made apps for. They LOVE it!!
Thanks Ken,
It’s always great to hear about current success using our platform!
Hello, your article is very useful and i just have one doubt, you mention this “Target specific groups of users based on the notification”
Do you mean that i could send a push notification just to 1st grade parents? How could i do that?
Thank you
Hey Daniel,
Great question! As of now we provide a few different ways to target specific groups of users with push notifications. First and most simply, when drafting your push notification we offer the ability to choose what types of devices will receive it. For instance I could send my push notification to only iOS users, only Android users, or perhaps both. In addition we also provide the ability to connect to Facebook and/or Twitter to post your push notifications on social media outlets. All four of these options can be selected in combination if you wish to reach the maximum number of users.
Additionally our platform provides geo-fencing capabilities. After drafting your push notification you are then able to decide if you want to send the notification to all users, or only users within a particular area that you define. If you choose to use our geo-fencing technology, you are then able to setup either a circular radius or a custom shape on your map. Any of the pre-selected users (iOS, Android, etc) will then receive your notification if they are already in that geo-fenced area, or if they cross “the fence” into that area. This is by far one of our most widely used (and useful) features, and I definitely recommend taking a look at it! Here is a link to an article in our help desk, which explains how to setup the various push notification features.
I hope I was able to answer your question, and we appreciate the feedback!