Ai-Powered Student Engagement Mobile App & Web Portal
Over 750 Institutions Trust Unifyed As Their Digital Transformation Partner
About Unifyed Student – Engage
Unifyed Student – Engage helps institutions communicate with students more effectively and provide them with a
personalized campus experience. It enables students to say engaged with the campus community and provides them with convenient access to services that can help them graduate timely.
Features
Groups
Unifyed Student - Engage includes Groups that enable faculty and staff committees to student clubs and Orgs to collaborate, share documents, create awareness about their group, to run events, and to communicate with their members.
Messaging & Nudging
Unifyed Student - Engage includes an omnichannel, targeted Messaging, and Nudging which supports push notifications, in-app notifications, lytebox, SMS, and email. Students can be providing timely reminders of financial aid filing dates, notified when their grades are posted, and nudged to clear their balance when they have a hold placed on their account.
Campus Social Media Wall
Unifyed Student- Engage provides a Campus Social Media Wall, similar to LinkedIn, where students, faculty, and staff can select their interest preferences ranging from student Orgs to job opportunities and like and comment on posts.
Academics & Finances
Unifyed Student - Engage enables students to access their courses and student services ranging from billing and payment to financial aid and housing by integrating with the popular 3rd party applications ranging from Canvas® to Blackboard® and Banner® to Peoplesoft®.
Content Management
Unifyed Student - Engage includes easy-to-use content management with approval workflow so that staff can update resources targeted at students without programming skills.
Artificial Intelligence
Unifyed Student- Engage includes, Yoda, a chatbot, that helps admissions and student services reduce their workload by automatically answering repetitively asked questions such as "What is my application status?" and "How much do I owe?". It enables prospects, applicants, and students to receive better customer service experience by getting quick answers to their questions.
One-on-One Chat & Chat Rooms
Unifyed Student - Engage includes One-on-One chat so that faculty and advisors can mentor students on their progress, conveniently. Engage also includes Chat Rooms that allow faculty and staff that are part of committees and students who have opted-in to student clubs and clubs to communicate with each other.
Pricing
Pick a plan of your choice
Basic
$0
Lite
$4
/Student/Year
(Volume Discounts Applicable- 5.5% for every 1000 users beyond 5000 users, upto a maximum of 60%)
Premium
$6
/Student/Year
(Volume Discounts Applicable- 5.5% for every 1000 users beyond 5000 users, upto a maximum of 60%)
| Features | Included | Included | Included |
|---|---|---|---|
| Native Mobile App |  | | |
| Web Portal | | | |
| Single Sign-On |  | | |
| Personalization | | | |
| Role Based Access Control | | | |
| Group Synchronization | | | |
| Targeted Messaging and Nudging | | | |
| Smart Targeted Messages | | | |
| Content Management | (Limited) | | |
| Groups | (Limited) | | |
| AI Chatbot – FAQs | | | |
| One-to-One Chats | | | |
| Chat Rooms | | | |
| Codeless App Maker | | | |
| 3rd Party Integration Applets | | | |
Student Services Applets:
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Academics Applets:
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Finance Applets:
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Communication Applets:
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Human Resources Applets:
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| Engagement Insights & Analytics | | | |
Support Plan
Basic Support
$2000
per year
Access to Knowledge Base
Monday – Friday 8:00 – 5:00 PM
30 Incidents
Email Support
Bronze Support
30%
of subscription cost
Access to Knowledge Base
Monday – Sunday 8:00 – 5:00 PM
60 Incidents
Phone and Email Support
Platinum Support
45%
of subscription cost
Access to Knowledge Base
24/7/365
Unlimited Incidents
Phone, Email and Chat Support
Frequently Asked Questions
Unifyed™, estabilished in 2010, is the only AI-first, microservices-based, cloud-native student information system provider and serves over 750 colleges and universities in seven countries. Unifyed Student is a beautiful and easy-to-use solution designed to help partner colleges and universities recruit, engage, educate, retain and graduate 21st century students.
Columbia University entered into a long term reseller agreement through Columbia Technology Ventures (CTV) to license and make its higher education software available through Unifyed. Unifyed Student is built by Columbia University’s Information Technology (CUIT) team with support from Unifyed.
For more information on the Unifyed & Columbia University venture, read Campus Technology’s article on Columbia SIS Replacement Project Gains Pickup at URL below:
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2020/08/27/columbia-sis-replacement-project-gains-pickup.aspx
Unifyed Student – Engage helps colleges and universities improve student engagement and communication. It offers unique features such as single sign-on, targeted messaging, groups, one-on-one chat, pre-built apps that integrate with enterprise applications, student engagement apps, content management and engagement analytics. Students and staff can access Unifyed via all browsers and app stores.
Unifyed Student – Engage helps institutions communicate with students more effectively and provide them with a personalized campus experience. It enables students to say engaged with the campus community and provides them with convenient access to services that can help them graduate timely.
A student remains with Unifyed Student – Engage till the time he/ she passes out from the institution and becomes an alumnus. Unifyed’s mission is to drive student engagement that helps a student stay connected, remain active and be part of both academic and non-academic curriculums that challenge coursework and related areas for their overall development and upliftment. For example – quick and easy access to day-to-day apps such as grades, assignments, schedule, events, etc. Unifyed provides an intuitive dashboard to students to monitor their Schedule, To-do list, Campus Events and more.
Unifyed Student – Engage (mobile and portal) can be easily customized with institution’s brand, logos, colors, graphics, etc.
Further, the institution will have full control on the branding of the Engage app. Unifyed provides customization for the following interfaces of Engage:
- Theme Manager:
- Header Background
- Header Foreground
- Footer Background
- Home screen Background
- Home screen App Label
- Branding:
- Background
- Logo inside the App
- Splash Screen
- Launch Icon
- Ability to write custom CSS
Yes. Unifyed Student – Engage is mobile responsive. Unifyed Student – Engage comes with a fully responsive theme which makes the user interface slick, mobile- friendly on browsers and customizable on any device such as desktop, laptop, tablet, and smartphone devices.
At the minimum, Engage supports the following standard operating systems and browsers:
- Windows: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera
- Mac: Safari or Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Opera
- Linux: Firefox, Chrome, Opera
- Mobile devices (tablets and smartphones): Safari, Android, Chrome
Yes, Unifyed rolls our monthly updates to the Unifyed Student – Engage platform. Updates to a version happens when a client chooses to implement it.
Updates to latest version of the Unifyed Student – Engage mobile are ensured through global updates by sending in-app notifications to users which can be sent by institutions app admin.
Since the application is cloud based, Unifyed ensures that the update/upgrade process does not affect up time. Hence, downtime, if any is taken during non-business hours or during weekend. Unifyed send advance notifications to clients for any scheduled downtime and takes necessary approvals before doing so.
Unifyed Engage leverages RESTful APIs and Single sign-on for bi-directional integration between Unifyed Student – Engage and enterprise backend applications including:
- ERP/SIS: Unifyed Student – Engage integrates with Ellucian Banner®, Ellucian Colleague®, Oracle PeopleSoft®, Jenzabar®, PowerCampus®, Campus Management® and Workday®.
- LMS: Unifyed integrates with all major LMS systems including D2L, Moodle, Blackboard and Canvas.
- Email: Unifyed integrates with Microsoft O365, Microsoft Exchange and Gmail.
- CRM: Unifyed integrates with TargetX Salesforce®, Salesforce®, Ellucian® Recruit®, Technolutions Slate®, Oracle® PeopleSoft®, Campus Management® – Engage, and Workday®.
Unifyed Student – Engage provides robust analytics, in-app data collections and reporting capabilities on app usage, app downloads, features usage and activity on the app to understand utilization trends and patterns across the institution. The solution provides performance and engagement statistics, reports on page visits, click rates, bounce rates, popular search items, etc.
The proposed solution provides robust Engagement Analytics to view and measure users’ behavior as well as reporting capabilities on the following:
- App and Features usage
- Track and report app adoption
- App downloads
- Creation of app registration questions
- User’s engagement metrics
- Student survey creation and dissemination
- Response collection
- Benchmarks and activity on the app
In addition to the built-in analytics, Engage also integrates with Institution’s Google Analytics to track workflow, usage of the solution and produces reports highlighting visits, page views, etc.
Yes. Unifyed Student – Engage provides Institutions access to its administrative interface, Unifyed Studio.
Unifyed Studio is a self-service portal/ mobile app development platform which lets you design and create your Institution’s app through easy-to-use screens and without writing a single line of code. Unifyed Studio has various dynamic capabilities to change look and feel, display order, branding, etc. in the proposed application.
Unifyed Studio has various dynamic capabilities to change look and feel, display order, branding, etc. in the proposed application. There are multiple configuration parameters that can be controlled from Unifyed Studio.
Unifyed Studio comes with a built-in Content Management System (CMS) and is a cross mobile and web platform that enables the delivery of integrated services giving access to a range of static and dynamic information thus creating an interactive and engaging campus experience for prospects, students, faculty, staff and alumni.
“Unifyed Student – Engage supports notifications, messaging, push notifications and targeted messaging capabilities using Unifyed Studio which enables multiple authorized users to send targeted alerts/notifications to individuals and groups during emergency and non-emergency situations.
Notifications and messaging capabilities are provided through the following modes:
- Notifications: Notifications including coupons, alerts, campus emergency messages, room changes announcements, deadlines, etc. that can be sent to the users by using Unifyed Studio platform. The Studio platform enables multiple authorized users to send targeted alerts to individuals and groups based on user characteristics with appropriate security roles defined in the AD.Messaging: Manual messages can be sent to groups of users or individual users, defined in AD. Messages can be delivered using multiple channels such as email and SMS. Users can opt out of any delivery channels based on their preference.”