Techno-News Blog

By Patti Zarling, Education Dive
More than 60 percent of freshmen walking the Stony Brook University campus in New York this fall downloaded the new Guide app onto their smartphones — a type of personal college advisor in their pockets. But Stony Brook isn’t the first institution to take up this trend.  Actually, it’s one of 50 schools throughout the U.S. to be an early adopter of Guide, which helps students choose the right major, navigate requirements from financial aid to course registration, make advising appointments and stay on top of important dates and deadlines. About 5,100 Stony Brook students — half of which were new and the other continuing students or upperclassmen — downloaded the free app.

https://www.educationdive.com/news/how-stony-brook-u-launched-a-successful-mobile-app-for-student-engagement/512335/