Contact Tracing at Universities: Complying with Health Regulations using a Mobile App

Matthew Sherlock, Ex Libris

Much has been written about the impact that COVID-19 has and is likely to have on higher education as students return to campus in the face of this unprecedented global pandemic. Significant effort has been invested in understanding what the return to campus will look like and the challenges that staff, students and higher education in general will face.

When talking to our customers, the challenges are many – adapting to changes in policy, maintaining safe working environments, modifying service to operate both remotely and face to face, reassuring returning students that academic quality and their academic experience will not be compromised, maintaining student engagement and levelling up the digital experiences available – to name but a few.

At campusM our goal has always been to allow higher education institutions to make students’ lives easier by providing them with an engaging and empowering experience where they can get stuff done. And this has never been more relevant than it is at this moment.

Listening to our customers in in-depth conversations and roundtable discussions, and understanding the multitude of projects and changes they are facing, we have created a range of quick-to-deploy, simple-to-use product features that target these challenges and help institutions and their students adapt to the New Normal. From including active links to online classes directly in a student’s live timetable to providing regular symptom and sentiment checks through our Quick Polls, we are focused on providing useful, powerful tools that enable HEIs and students to return to campus with confidence.