INTEGRATE ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS ACROSS YOUR CAMPUS
WITH AN ON-DEMAND COLLEGE PORTAL 

More Than a Fancy Front End

A college portal is more than a fancy front-end to your administrative system. It must solve an abundance of challenges institutions face. As the institution administrator responsible for ensuring reliable, timely, and appropriate communications for all your constituents, your challenge isn't about finding an online solution, but deciding which best fits your needs. With CampusCruiser college portal and it's modules you get an integrated suite of communication modules that are hosted on our servers. This means you can:

Send Security Alerts/Campus Notices: When you have important 'flash' information that you want to get to students, staff, and faculty, quickly, using a mass notification system like CruiserAlert is ensures that the messages are delivered as planned. Constituents can sign-up, opt-out, and update their contact information at any time so they can keep track of what's important to them.

Track your Communications Effectiveness: Because onilne communication passes through your campus portal, it is much easier to keep track of campus-wide communication and track student activity in online courses hosted through CourseCruiser ,the Learning Management System. Questions such as 'Who posted questions and when' 'Who viewed certain pages, and when?' 'Who responded to surveys?' and more. Armed with this information faculty can adjust teaching plans, administrators can modify schedules , and more based on 'hard' data, rather than hunches.

Stay Ahead of the Curve: With a CampusCruiser network on your campus, you can communicate with your students using the online communication tools they are already familiar with -- and expect to be able to use--email, blog, wiki, chat, text messages, and more.

Notify Staff of Programs/Policies: Keeping staff motivated starts with keeping them informed. Building communities exclusively for staff groups, departments, teams, and others can help you keep your staff on top of policy changes and program successes.

Answer Questions: Community leaders have an opportunity to engage with community members by answering their questions in the community message boards for others to view.

Seek the Opinions of Others: The college administration needs to know what students, staff, and faculty are thinking. With our Survey Tool you can target specific groups for feedback about institution changes, policies, events, and academics.

CampusCruiser is an essential tool for performing academic, administrative, and transactional activities at colleges. The CampusCruiser college portal provides the type of environment where members of the community connect with one another and remain connected with the college. And CampusCruiser delivers individually targeted services and information -- a must have for today's digital natives. Through its full range of digital campus portal communications channels, CampusCruiser:

Communication is Everyone's Job

Timecruiser's solutions help you keep faculty, students, and staff up-to-date with what's happening at your institution. The better connected they are, the more engaged they become.

  - Notify everyone about school delays, closures or security incidents by email, phone, text or voice message

- Engage your stakeholders with online surveys, polls, and two-way, online communication

- Allow users to sign-in once and have access to all the college's online tools

Community Engagement: By proactively seeking feedback from your stakeholders, you can validate your plans, make data-driven decisions, and determine where you need to make changes to meet your institutional objectives.

Administrative Efficiency: Through collaborative networking, greater departmental, cross-departmental, committee, class, faculty, and other integration, you can streamline communication processes, which in turn, make institutional workflows and process run more efficiently.

Timely Communication: It is important to get alerts or other critical notices to your stakeholders quickly and make key information available 24/7/365. Using the campus portal, assures that your message gets to your target audience ahead of other, less reliable sources.

Cost & Environmental Savings: While integrated online communication isn't the only channel you use, it can save dramatically on print and postage costs, while decreasing your institution's ecological footprint.

How does the campus portal make it all happen?

Single Sign-on (SSO)
Sign in only once to access your SIS, LMS, and other systems directly through the campus portal.

Decentralized Content Management
Any designated administrator – such as department heads, instructors, admissions officers, and committee chairs -- can create and manage their content in the college portal.

Speed and Scalability
Delivers the speed, scalability and flexibility required by today’s colleges and online universities.

Affordability
CampusCruiser’s on-demand campus portal services and rapid implementation services are affordable for colleges of all sizes.

Support
Our project-management model allows you to implement your portal with limited resources.

done with very limited resources.

Campus Portal Tour 

Our college portal provides unique blend of services that includes:

• Email & Calendaring
• POP3 Access for Staff
• CruiserMobile: Mobile Device Accessibility
• CruiserCafe: Academic Networking
• CruiserAlert: High-priority SMS Messaging
• Community Building for Academic Collaboration
• Announcements
• Forums & Chat
• Blogs & Wikis
• RSS Publishing
• SurveyTool: Polls & Surveys
• Photo Albums & Shared Files
• Gradebook
• Assignments
• Online Journal
• CourseCruiser
  • Faculty Workstation
  • Course Designer
  • Assessments
  • Student Tracking
  • Attendance
• Administration & Reporting Tools

Find out how your institution can gain the edge, contact us for a Personalized College Portal Demonstration.

 

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