ABOUT SAINT LEO UNIVERSITY
• Located in Saint Leo, Florida, about 40 minutes north
of Tampa.
• 16,000 students on campus, on-line and on about 40
locations in seven states
• One of the top 10 providers of higher education to the
military
• Oldest Catholic college in Florida
• Diverse Issues in Higher Education ranks Saint Leo
among its Top 100 institutions producing minority
graduates with baccalaureate degrees.
What not to do:
How should we get started? Apps are
cool, we should have a mobile version
of the Saint Leo website. Lets spend
$300 instead of $10,000.
How did that work out for us?
You get what you pay for!
• Key constituencies gather each December to determine strategic
priorities (Key Results Areas) for the coming year.
• 3-5 KRAs are chosen, Mobile Apps is a 2012-2013 KRA
• In January, teams are formed for each KRA to
1. Determine what a successful end result will be
2. Outline a plan for the year
3. Determine how to measure the results
4. Plan a feedback loop to determine follow-ups
• In the annual budget process, KRAs are funded before any
operational or capital budgets
• Teams meet through the year to work on tasks and review status.
Results are reported in December’s meeting for the current
year’s KRAs.
MOBILE APP STRATEGY
• integrate the user experience with our three cornerstones
of improved learning, increased efficiencies and access to
additional services or information
• needs assessment on how our students will interact with
our mobile environment and what services would be best
utilized
• Why do we need an app and do our users even know they
need one?
• success is dependent on understanding our faculty, staff,
and students and their needs for mobility.
MOBILE APP STRATEGY (CONT’D)
To be successful, apps need to do one of the
following:
• Make things easier – i.e. mobile access to grades, campus
maps, catalog, access to e-books and class discussions
from anywhere at any time?
• Make it fun and engaging – i.e. make a game out of the
apps. (Scavenger Hunt for NSO) include social interaction
and allow the choice not to
• Transactional – i.e. search and sign up for available
classes
FIND LOW HANGING FRUIT, SURVEY
The easiest apps to find are those connected to our major systems.
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Colleague/Campus Maps*
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Library
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Acalog** (College Catalog)
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R25** (events system)
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eCollege* (LMS)
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Polycom (videoconferencing)**
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Tutortrac* (academic tutor scheduling)
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CBORD- Dining Services meal card*
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Prezi*
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University Tickets* (events ticketing)
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Presto Sports- (Athletics)*
*available from vendor, **live or coming from vendor by summer 2013, ***custom
REQUESTED APPS
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Course schedule ***
University Phone Directory***
Educreations* (video lessons)
Teaching observations***
MLA/APA FormattingStudent
Financial Aid FAQ ***
DOE’s FA app Studentaid.gov: http://apps.usa.gov/studentaid-gov.shtml
Dining menu placed into calendar with events ***
Dining menu interface to nutrition software***
Campus News***
Re-load meals on ID cards*
Groupon-type discounts (bookstore, sporting events)
Interface with parking counter
*available from vendor, ** coming from vendor by summer 2013, ***custom
IPADS FOR STUDENTS AND FACULTY
• Recommended to President that incoming residential
students get a choice of a laptop or iPad
• In order to be eligible for an iPad, students must have access
to a computer of their own.
• A survey taken after 60 days showed that students who chose
both devices were equally satisfied with their decision. The
survey also showed that students used the iPads almost as
much for schoolwork as those with laptops
• Approval received to continue iPad program next year after
which we will again determine whether to continue, modify or
change the program
• Grant program created for faculty to experiment in teaching
PROGRAMMING NOTES
• App needs to be integrated with existing systems and
data
• They need to have good performance
• Excellent look and feel- many functions easily
navigated with a single access point
• Good to use native OS functions such as Geo Location
• Available in multiple device operating systems
© 2013 Kinvey, Inc
TO BE COMPLETED
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Prioritize/
determine apps to
buy/build
Select vendor(s)
Implement with
QA/feedback loop
Measure results
• Develop and follow
up with metrics for
measurement of
usefulness.
• Keep content fresh
and keep users
coming back.
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