Keep Students and Staff Safe with Social Density Mapping
My Campus Pulse generates heat maps to help higher education institutions visualize where large groups are congregating on campus. This is also called social density mapping, and it shows universities where students are on campus, who is on campus and when they’re on campus. This tool empowers decision-makers with data-driven insights to support current and evolving safety protocols.
It also helps that Degree has an interactive dashboard that is user friendly. Since the data is provided visually, it is easy to absorb. It does not take a rocket scientist to digest the analysis.
Users can sign up to receive daily and hourly reports with real-time data. This way, colleges and universities can make well-informed decisions if an emergency arises.
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Lower the Risks of an Outbreak for Just $2 per Student
One of the platform’s best features is that the barrier for entry is low. Schools would only need to spend $2 per student to implement My Campus Pulse. The per-student pricing is important to note because similar solutions often charge by analytics consumption —which can quickly cause spending to spiral out of control.
How can Degree afford to charge so little? Does it sacrifice quality to do so?
The opposite, in fact, holds true. My Campus Pulse’s seamless integration with pre-existing wireless infrastructure is what allows the program to be not only affordable but also incredibly efficient. It retrieves and analyzes data from wireless networks and integrates directly with learning management and student information systems to effectively cover all wireless access points.
One major benefit of this is that it makes adoption easy. Since My Campus Pulse’s data collection is agentless, schools will experience little adoption resistance from students and staff. As soon as someone connects to the campus wireless network, he or she is agreeing to participate. While similar solutions typically require users to download an app — which often leads to adoption resistance — Degree makes it easy for colleges to deploy the program by skipping this extra step.
Perhaps most important, Degree will also be offering contact tracing support. Daily and hourly reports can help universities look back and identify all potential interactions on campus from a certain point in time. By sending contact tracing alerts that identify contaminated locations, My Campus Pulse makes it possible for universities and colleges to respond immediately to worst-case scenarios — with data-informed decisions.
This article is part of EdTech: Focus on Higher Education’s UniversITy blog series.
