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For student life teams

Student engagement software students actually open.

Your event email got a 12% open rate. Students said they didn't know it was happening. The five who always show up were already going to. The quiet middle matters for retention, and they're invisible until they stop registering for classes.

Guidebook gives enrolled students one app for every event, org, resource, and deadline on campus. And gives student affairs teams the data to find who's disengaging before it becomes a withdrawal conversation.

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Trusted by leading universities to drive year-round student engagement

Why student engagement is harder than it used to be

Comms are split across email, Instagram, the LMS, flyers, and the portal. Students check the portal for grades, nothing else. By the time the email lands, the event filled. The students who need resources most aren't on the channels where you're announcing them.

Reach beyond the inbox

Student .edu emails get buried. Push notifications hit the lock screen of the phone students already carry. That's where they actually read things.

Find the disengaged before they withdraw

The five students at every event aren't your retention risk. The ones who stopped showing up and went quiet. They are. Right now they're invisible.

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The quiet middle, on the home screen.

"It's been a tremendously helpful annual event calendar for our programs."
Marissa Toffoli
Editor, New Student Services

Key features designed for student affairs teams in higher education

Reach the quiet middle.

From first-year belonging to commuter inclusion, from org discovery to wellness resources, Guidebook gives student affairs teams one platform to reach every student, along with the engagement data to act on what they find.

Every event, club, and meeting, on one map

The org fair on the quad. The lecture series in the union. The wellness pop-up at the rec center. Pin every campus event to a real place, so students don't decide not to go because they couldn't find it.

From "get ready" to "stay close"

Get ready: event reminders, week-ahead previews, club-fair previews. On campus: day-of nudges, location updates, push when the speaker arrives. Stay close: post-event check-ins, follow-up surveys, the next event in the same feed. Reach the quiet middle every week, not just at orientation.

Spot the disengaged early

Average time in app. Items tapped per session. Comments and likes on event posts. See which students opened the app, which never did, and which dropped off after week three. The data your student affairs team needs before retention shows up in spring registration.

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75% of the top US colleges use Guidebook

See how real campus teams put it to work

Louisiana Tech University

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Louisiana Tech University brings orientation to life with Bulldog’s First Bite, a Guidebook-powered app that welcomes new students with everything they need in one place.



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Inside the app, students can:



  • Explore session-specific schedules and interactive campus maps.
  • Access handbooks, directories, and key campus resources.
  • Connect with campus culture through photos and social feeds.
  • Stay organized with built-in notes and real-time notifications.

Louisiana Tech University

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Louisiana Tech University brings orientation to life with Bulldog’s First Bite, a Guidebook-powered app that welcomes new students with everything they need in one place.



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Inside the app, students can:



  • Explore session-specific schedules and interactive campus maps.
  • Access handbooks, directories, and key campus resources.
  • Connect with campus culture through photos and social feeds.
  • Stay organized with built-in notes and real-time notifications.

Louisiana Tech University

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Louisiana Tech University brings orientation to life with Bulldog’s First Bite, a Guidebook-powered app that welcomes new students with everything they need in one place.



‍

Inside the app, students can:



  • Explore session-specific schedules and interactive campus maps.
  • Access handbooks, directories, and key campus resources.
  • Connect with campus culture through photos and social feeds.
  • Stay organized with built-in notes and real-time notifications.

Louisiana Tech University

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Louisiana Tech University brings orientation to life with Bulldog’s First Bite, a Guidebook-powered app that welcomes new students with everything they need in one place.



‍

Inside the app, students can:



  • Explore session-specific schedules and interactive campus maps.
  • Access handbooks, directories, and key campus resources.
  • Connect with campus culture through photos and social feeds.
  • Stay organized with built-in notes and real-time notifications.

University of Florida - Tours

The University of Florida's Gator Way App is a key piece in a prospective student's experience on campus, and gives a feeling of what it feels like to be a Gator. Their app allows students to:

- Tour campus with a guided route, audio descriptions.
- Register for sessions relevant to their major, and other interests.
- Connect with various departments on campus.

Students and families leave campus after a strong first impression, and can revisit the campus at home in the app to view anything they missed.

What EDU teams have to say

“With schedules frequently changing, we needed a flexible solution to accommodate updates in real time. The team would print 40,000 programs to hand out at the events, which were costly, bad for the environment, and once printed, couldn’t be updated with constant changes.”

Open Days Team

University of Manchester

“With Guidebook, we use an audio tour guide to help prospective students navigate campus, learn more about university offerings, and feel part of the campus community - even if they’re unable to visit in person.”

Steven Kelly

University of Calgary

“With Guidebook, administrators are able to create the app themselves without any IT support and non-technical content creators can easily upload and publish content.”

Meredith Aden

University of Memphis

“We went from 200 hours and 5 staff members to just 25 hours and 1 person - compared with creating a website and printed programs.”

Kristin Sargeant

University of Edinburgh

“With Guidebook, we use an audio tour guide to help prospective students navigate campus, learn more about university offerings, and feel part of the campus community - even if they’re unable to visit in person.”

Steven Kelly

University of Calgary

“We went from 200 hours and 5 staff members to just 25 hours and 1 person - compared with creating a website and printed programs.”

Kristin Sargeant

University of Edinburgh

“When we started we yielded 40%. After implementing Guidebook our yield grew to 82%. We believe Guidebook had a strong impact on that growth.”

Andrea Crilly

Indiana Tech

“Our app costs 29% less than printing, and our student yield increased by 105% once we began using Guidebook.”

Andrea Crilly

Indiana Tech

“With schedules frequently changing, we needed a flexible solution to accommodate updates in real time. The team would print 40,000 programs to hand out at the events, which were costly, bad for the environment, and once printed, couldn’t be updated with constant changes.”

Open Days Team

University of Manchester

“With Guidebook, administrators are able to create the app themselves without any IT support and non-technical content creators can easily upload and publish content.”

Meredith Aden

University of Memphis

“With Guidebook, we use an audio tour guide to help prospective students navigate campus, learn more about university offerings, and feel part of the campus community - even if they’re unable to visit in person.”

Steven Kelly

University of Calgary

“We went from 200 hours and 5 staff members to just 25 hours and 1 person - compared with creating a website and printed programs.”

Kristin Sargeant

University of Edinburgh

“When we started we yielded 40%. After implementing Guidebook our yield grew to 82%. We believe Guidebook had a strong impact on that growth.”

Andrea Crilly

Indiana Tech

“Our app costs 29% less than printing, and our student yield increased by 105% once we began using Guidebook.”

Andrea Crilly

Indiana Tech

“With schedules frequently changing, we needed a flexible solution to accommodate updates in real time. The team would print 40,000 programs to hand out at the events, which were costly, bad for the environment, and once printed, couldn’t be updated with constant changes.”

Open Days Team

University of Manchester

“With Guidebook, administrators are able to create the app themselves without any IT support and non-technical content creators can easily upload and publish content.”

Meredith Aden

University of Memphis

The student life app your campus actually needs

Less email. Less noise. One branded app where students find what's happening, join what matters to them, and your team sees who's engaged and who needs a nudge.

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FAQs

[faq] Q: How does Guidebook help student affairs teams reach the quiet middle? A: Guidebook gives students one branded app for events, organizations, resources, maps, deadlines, and updates. That helps teams reach students who are not already at every event and not yet on a crisis list. The quiet middle gets a clearer path to connection. Q: What makes Guidebook different from another campus calendar? A: A calendar tells students what is happening. Guidebook helps them act on it: save events, follow interests, find locations, get reminders, access resources, answer surveys, and receive targeted updates. It is a more useful student engagement app because it lives where students already are. Q: Can Guidebook support student organizations and campus departments together? A: Yes. Student affairs teams can organize events, resources, org content, campus maps, wellness information, deadlines, and announcements in one branded app. Students do not need to check email, flyers, portals, and social accounts to know what is happening. Q: How does Guidebook help with retention? A: Belonging is often visible before retention is. Guidebook can show patterns like app opens, event interest, resource views, saved sessions, push engagement, and survey feedback. Those signals help teams see who is connecting and who may need a nudge. Q: Can messages be personalized by student group? A: Yes. Teams can target updates by audience, event, interest, year, cohort, or program. That means commuter students, first-years, student leaders, or wellness-program participants can get relevant messages instead of another campus-wide blast. Q: What student engagement software keywords fit this page naturally? A: The strongest terms are student engagement software, student engagement app, campus app, campus event app, and student life app. They should appear inside answers about what Guidebook actually helps teams do: reach students, organize campus life, and measure engagement. [/faq]
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