GUIDEBOOK FOR EDU

Admissions & Enrollment Management

Engage prospective and new students with self-guided campus tours and mobile apps for recruitment events, college nights and more.

College Nights

Hitting the road to meet students from your feeder schools? Mobile apps can send push messages to high school counselors and faculty on your route.

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Awareness Programs

Students check their phones 157 times per day. Use Guidebook to easily create your own visibility-raising mobile app complete with your institution’s logo and branding palette. Make it downloadable from Google Play and Apple App Store with one click.

Open Houses

Bringing prospective students and other members of the community together on campus? Use a mobile app to provide campus maps, directories of campus contacts and more.

Staff Resource Directory

On the road and in the air. Admissions counselors need instant access to information and the ability to connect with their peers. Guidebook allows them to stay connected wherever they are.

Financial Resources

People prefer apps to surfing websites from their mobile devices. So don’t force parents to search your institution’s website for financial aid information. Instead create a mobile guide with essential information right on their phones.

Campus Tours

Campus tours represent one of the most influential aspects of a prospective student’s decision process. It’s also one of the most difficult to staff and scale. With Guidebook, you can provide a self-guided tour apps anytime without the need to hire more student ambassadors.

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Top schools around the world use Guidebook

University of Freiburg

Student Services team creates an app for 4000 prospective students attending the University’s open days.

  • Replaced paper schedules and maps
  • Included contacts and locations of campus resources
  • Students created personalised agendas from over a 150 sessions on offer

Santa Clara University Campus Tour

Admissions and Enrollment Management scale tours to address the demands of Silicon Valley.

  • 24x7 access to campus information for any prospective student or member of the local community
  • Multi-lingual interactions via English and Mandarin
  • Able to serve ~25% more visitors with the same number of staff as before

Monterey Peninsula College

Student Success team replaces paper maps with interactive mobile guides, student stories and more.

  • Photos of campus buildings, student stories and directions
  • Separate apps for specific recruitment events
  • Links to admissions FAQs

Resources

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New Student Orientation Apps Webinar

In-depth insight for professionals trying to choose the best event app.

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Mobile Campus Tours Webinar

Top-to-bottom Advice for throwing an event in the digital age.

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The 3 Elements of an Admissions App Strategy

Learn how to implement an app and make money with it at the same time.

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Our commitment to mobile apps

Our mission is to make it simple to create and manage mobile apps. Over a hundred thousand organizations have used Guidebook to power their mobile experiences. While we’ve had a lot of success powering conference apps, corporate meeting apps, and university campus apps, our platform has been used for thousands of different use cases. Forward-thinking professionals are using Guidebook’s simple app builder to make interactive mobile guides for their student orientations, college campus tours, venues, corporate campuses, parks, and airports. Start going green with iPhone and Android apps built by the best event app company in the industry.