Queen’s School of Engineering and Utilized Science has a protracted historical past of constructing communities that collaborate to resolve unbelievable issues and construct lifelong friendships whereas doing it. The College wished to take that tradition constructed out of a ardour for engineering that extends past the classroom into an equally impactful digital area.
This was solely accelerated with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, as they acknowledged the significance of quickly replicating that neighborhood engagement expertise, notably for brand new college students coming again this fall who could expertise campus otherwise than their later-year friends.
Thankfully, the college was forward of the sport, because it had began evaluating varied campus app applied sciences previous to the pandemic. The READY Training campus app was the clear alternative for Queen’s Engineering’s imaginative and prescient of a handy, collaborative and centralized communication platform.
“College students had lengthy informed us that they wished extra technique of communication than the online and e-mail, and extra intuitive methods to search out details about their lessons.”
Stephen Hunt, Senior Director of Data Know-how and Services, Queen’s College.
From the focused push notifications designed to ship college students the fitting message on the proper time, to the suite of peer-to-peer messaging instruments, and the compelling occasion engagement system, Queen’s College tapped READY Training as its centerpiece in a digital transformation initiative. The app will give Queen’s engineering college students a chance to copy a few of the memorable in-person experiences in on-line communities that cowl each facet of pupil life. Additionally, Hunt added that the READY Training platform, “permits college students to get publicity to occasions and companies that previously they could have principally discovered by strolling round.”
The app will probably be launched this coming September on Android and iOS gadgets and rolled out to college students who will be capable of create and be a part of teams, message their friends, get course data and interact with occasions.
