Campus Labs

What do you like best?

Recently, our University switched from OrgSync to Engange which is a software provided via Campus Labs. It has been a great central hub for us to collect information on both student organizations and departments. We are able to collect more data than before, including full rosters of organization members, positions held with the organization, student ID information which can be scanned in at events, and even org advisor information. For departments, we are able to categorize whether the groups are staff based, faculty based, college division or athletics, etc.

What do you dislike?

A few of things that we have disliked is that the API has not been great at feeding into our other programs, such as EMS. The feed can be a little tricky. When successfully working, we are able to capture all of this data - whether groups are current or expired, who the current officers and members are, whether an employee switched departments, etc. - and use it for processing events on campus.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

This platform has definitely helped us with organization registration and re-registration, engaging students, improving our record keeping, and allowing us to communicate with all parties in the system. The main benefit to this is that we are able to see an up-to-date record of who is in which organization/department and what position they hold.