Innovate with the Great 58 — that was the theme of our very first Engage @ event, held at the RTP Wake Tech campus on Tuesday, March 14.
We had such an enriching time with partner schools and others from all over the NCCCS as we explored innovative ways to recruit and engage North Carolina community college students.
Staff from various departments at Element451 delivered presentations on relevant topics such as innovation, integrations to do more with less, how to streamline the full student lifecycle for maximum student success, and using data and insights to make the best decisions possible to reach your goals.
Below are the slides for every presentation from Engage @ Wake Tech.
Take a look, explore, and connect with us to learn more about how Element451 can help you innovate to reach today's students.
This interactive session surveyed the 10 Types of Innovation and gave attendees a proven framework that can be implemented within teams or institution-wide to speed up the innovation process, yield stronger results, and create better value for our audiences.
Why do some great innovative ideas fail while others exceed all expectations? Three reasons:
Our product roadmap presentation got attendees up to speed on exciting new releases and features inside the Element451 CRM.
We covered previous updates and releases such as:
We also looked ahead to new, upcoming releases such as:
And last but not least, our two latest AI-powered innovations, Bolt Copilot and BoltBot!
Powered by Open AI, the same tech behind Chat GPT, Copilot helps you streamline your content generation and copywriting tasks, while BoltBot is your newest team member — a conversational chatbot that can answer questions 24/7.
AI is the missing link to empower resource-strained teams of any size. Ready to revolutionize your communication with Bolt Copilot and Boltbot?
This presentation explored using your CRM to create a holistic student experience by:
The results?
Our insights presentation recapped recent updates to our enhanced Insights dashboards including:
Think of Insights as a cool cousin to your NCCCS Dashboard family. NCCS Dashboards provide great visualizations and a space to compare to other NCCS schools, view your historical trends, and track data outside of admissions and enrollment numbers beyond the initial admission acceptance.
Insights is going to get into the nitty gritty of admissions activities with students and staff members. And you don’t have to leave your Element instance to view it, and the data gets refreshed daily.
Element451 CEO and founder, Ardis Kadiu, tackled how schools can positively impact student success in all areas including outcomes, engagement, retention, and graduation through the Power of Early Alerts — Identifying what are the circumstances, events, behaviors (or lack thereof) that can provide an early indicator of need, of difficulty, of risk - and the necessity for intervention and engagement by the institution.
With smaller budgets and decreased departments, it's time we shift our dependancy on human interactions for early alerts.
If we shift our approach to be digital-first students can talk to a chat bot, who can change their personality and can be a counselor, friend, or a coach they can get answers and guidance towards their issues and they are more likely to reach out. We can then combine that with other signals that don't require human intervention such as:
Website CRM integration is when your website sends or receives information from your CRM.
Why is it necessary to integrate your CRM + website?
From efficiency to effectiveness to enhanced communication, there are plenty of ways that this process can improve recruitment.
We had the chance to hear from four incredible Element451 partner institutions in the NCCCS, including:
Integrations are critical. Our goal is to allow you to integrate with systems that you need.
For some schools, that’s the Common App. For public colleges in North Carolina, this generally means Colleague and CFNC. The great thing is that by using Ethos, it provide a lot of flexibility for clients as it’s used by both Colleague and Banner.
In this presentation, we provided a step-by-step guide to both integrating with CFNC and Ethos for maximum streamlining. We also show you ways to create connections with your tools thorugh a variety of methods like:
Because we've built a lot of these integrations with NCCC schools in mind, you can see how our experience with large and small institutions has helped us create a system that is easily scalable and is beneficial to our partners.
We know most schools don't have the right tools to do efficient marketing and recruiting. At Element451, we help schools with software that keeps students engaged and enrolled.
We'd love to partner alongside you to increase your staff's efficiency while reaching today's students in the ways they expect.
Let's connect to brainstorm how best to impact North Carolina community college students.
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