Modo-Powered Mobile App Facilitates Vaccination Incentive Program at STLCC

By Andrew Yu, founder and CEO, Modo Labs.

St. Louis Community Faculty, the region’s premier greater academic institution with 26,166 college students and 2,127 faculty and employees, endeavors to improve the communities it serves as a result of the success of its college students. Portion of boosting university student success has been meeting college students exactly where they are – with a cell application where by they can link to college or university providers, news and information and facts.

To make that constitution a fact, STLCC’s Director of Company Expert services and Functions, Data Technological innovation, Khouloud Hawasli, led the program of developing cell ordeals geared to recent and possible students, college, team, alumni, pals, mom and dad and readers. She and her group delivered the job in phases through the tumble of 2020 and drop of 2021.

Driven by Modo, a small-code app-setting up system, the STLCC cell app lets pupils register for classes, check out their schedules and college student data, acquire notifications and accessibility gatherings. Possible college students can investigate the college, implement instantly, and chat with reps via the application. School and team can accessibility their pay out/getaway information, directories, and assistance desks, although parents, readers, alumni and good friends can be part of the alumni affiliation, request transcripts, check out occasion calendars and additional.

Incentive Method Succeeds with Basic safety, Velocity and Privacy

As the drop 2021 session approached, the higher education was exploring means to deliver college students back for in-man or woman finding out safely and designed a vaccination incentive system for students, faculty, and personnel. The sticking level was in how to carry students’ private health and fitness info into their method securely. When asked to investigate 3rd get together equipment to permit the software, Hawasli smiled, “We previously experienced a safe link in between the STLCC cell app and the college student information method. It was an uncomplicated response.”

She received to do the job, collaborating with Modo and integration lover N2N, which experienced currently designed the protected knowledge port amongst STLCC’s scholar information program, the Ellucian Banner ERP (company useful resource planning technique) and the Modo app system.

“The entire vaccination app was finished in 5 weeks. I wrote the enterprise necessities and scope, and when the committee accepted it, I arrived at out to N2N to question, ‘how rapidly can we create it?’ Their enhancement was really speedy and agile, and our advertising group did a great occupation building the UI and the screens. We’re capable to transfer so speedy with Modo and N2N. Our partnership is a really full workforce.”

With the STLCC cell app, students, faculty, and staff could speedily, effortlessly, and securely add vaccination proof, although a backend method attached and indexed the documentation to every individual’s student or staff report, enabled validation by licensed reviewers, and despatched notification back again by way of the pupil or staff members data technique, so every individual could look at the status of their acceptance inside their non-public history. Incentive payments for authorized submissions had been deposited instantly into university student and staff accounts.

The incentive program was a good results, and the result was sizeable, a 67% improve in verified personnel vaccinations in comparison to pre-incentive numbers and a whopping 235% raise in pupils. The program also drove downloads of the STLCC cellular app total. Right now, somewhere around 5,459 of learners and college/workers have downloaded it.

With the results of the plan, STLCC is in the approach of placing it up once again to operate in progress of the Spring 2022 session. “This time we’re hunting at working with thrust notifications inside of the application to advise pupils about the application,” stated Hawasli. “For the initial system we used email to notify them, but learners really don’t have a tendency to read e mail. We foresee obtaining even superior success communicating it by way of the cellular app.”