How APSU Upgraded its Campus Experience with One Platform

Prior to GovsConnect, APSU relied on multiple engagement tools, including separate mobile and involvement platforms, with some departments still using paper-based systems for events, inventory, and attendance tracking. This created several challenges:

• Disconnected campus experience, leaving students to navigate multiple logins, platforms, and processes, limiting involvement and success.

• Fragmented systems across departments, making event management, payments and budgeting cumbersome and inefficient.

• Limited attendance tracking, requiring manual check-ins or multiple QR codes.

• Data silos, preventing administrators from having a holistic view of student engagement.

The university needed a single, unified system that would integrate with their existing student information system (SIS), support both mobile and web, and accommodate diverse departmental needs—from academic affairs to student organizations.

GovsConnect replaced multiple legacy tools with one centralized platform, offering features such as:

• Events & Attendance Tracking – Tap-to-check-in using student IDs, eliminating QR codes and speeding up entry.

• My Courses & Academic Integration – Students can view schedules, room locations, and connect with classmates.

• Groups & Connection Programs – Enabling peer-to-peer and student-to-faculty engagement.

• Campus Feed – Giving students, faculty, and staff the ability to share upcoming events, ask questions, and connect.

• Forms & Event Management – Consolidating event creation, RSVPs, and approvals in one place.

• Email Campaigns & Analytics – Providing administrators with open rates and engagement insights to reach students more effectively.

• Badges, Tracks & Checklists – Helping administrators monitor engagement levels and identify disengaged students to provide targeted support.

• Enhanced data analytics – Enabling in-depth analysis of users, logins, attendance tracking, and checklist tracking.

Additional outcomes include:

• High Student Adoption – A unified, mobile-first design encourages consistent student engagement.

• Improved communication and outreach, with student organizations using targeted email tools and tracking engagement.

• Higher event turnout and RSVPs enabled by calendar syncing and reminder notifications.

• Centralized engagement data through badges, checklists, and completion reports, enabling early identification of disengaged students.

• Stronger cross-campus collaboration, as administrative and academic units analyze co-curricular engagement alongside academic progress.

By implementing GovsConnect, APSU has successfully unified its student engagement ecosystem, providing a central hub for students, faculty, and staff to connect, track involvement, and participate in campus life. The platform’s intuitive tools, mobile-first design, and robust integrations have strengthened engagement, improved data-informed decision-making, and positioned APSU for continued success in supporting student retention and achievement.