Modo-Powered Mobile App Facilitates Vaccination Incentive Program at STLCC

By Andrew Yu, founder and CEO, Modo Labs.

St. Louis Community Higher education, the region’s greatest better instructional establishment with 26,166 students and 2,127 college and personnel, endeavors to strengthen the communities it serves through the success of its college students. Section of boosting student success has been assembly pupils in which they are – with a cell app where by they can hook up to university solutions, information and details.

To make that charter a actuality, STLCC’s Director of Enterprise Solutions and Operations, Information and facts Technological innovation, Khouloud Hawasli, led the application of making mobile ordeals geared to current and prospective pupils, faculty, staff members, alumni, close friends, parents and readers. She and her staff shipped the job in phases by way of the slide of 2020 and drop of 2021.

Driven by Modo, a reduced-code application-constructing platform, the STLCC mobile app allows students sign-up for lessons, view their schedules and college student details, receive notifications and obtain functions. Potential college students can discover the college or university, use instantly, and chat with associates by means of the app. School and staff can access their fork out/holiday information, directories, and assistance desks, whilst mother and father, readers, alumni and mates can sign up for the alumni affiliation, ask for transcripts, verify celebration calendars and additional.

Incentive Program Succeeds with Safety, Pace and Privateness

As the fall 2021 session approached, the higher education was exploring approaches to provide students back again for in-man or woman studying securely and created a vaccination incentive plan for students, faculty, and team. The sticking point was in how to carry students’ non-public overall health details into their program securely. When asked to explore 3rd bash applications to help the program, Hawasli smiled, “We currently had a secure connection involving the STLCC cell application and the college student information and facts procedure. It was an easy respond to.”

She got to work, collaborating with Modo and integration lover N2N, which had presently designed the safe data port amongst STLCC’s college student info procedure, the Ellucian Banner ERP (business source scheduling program) and the Modo application platform.

“The total vaccination application was carried out in five weeks. I wrote the business specifications and scope, and when the committee approved it, I arrived at out to N2N to talk to, ‘how rapidly can we make it?’ Their development was quite speedy and agile, and our advertising team did a good work coming up with the UI and the screens. We’re equipped to go so rapid with Modo and N2N. Our partnership is a very full staff.”

With the STLCC cell application, pupils, faculty, and team could rapidly, very easily, and securely upload vaccination proof, when a backend approach connected and indexed the documentation to every individual’s university student or staff file, enabled validation by authorized reviewers, and sent notification back by means of the college student or employees data technique, so each individual could check out the standing of their acceptance within just their non-public report. Incentive payments for permitted submissions were deposited immediately into scholar and worker accounts.

The incentive method was a achievements, and the end result was considerable, a 67% maximize in confirmed personnel vaccinations compared to pre-incentive numbers and a whopping 235% enhance in learners. The program also drove downloads of the STLCC mobile app all round. Now, somewhere around 5,459 of students and college/staff have downloaded it.

With the results of the software, STLCC is in the procedure of setting it up once more to run in progress of the Spring 2022 session. “This time we’re looking at working with press notifications inside of the application to advise students about the method,” said Hawasli. “For the to start with system we applied e-mail to notify them, but students don’t tend to browse email. We foresee obtaining even far better outcomes speaking it by way of the mobile app.”