New city, new premises, new friends…. Every new school year is made up of changes, not always obvious. To help future students, each institution has its own tools and methodologies, more or less effective. The latest, the Welcome app, seems to be the best digital solution. Here is a closer look at this type of application YourDay.

Welcoming students with a Welcome app

“I was really nervous when I arrived on the first day of term in September. I was afraid I wouldn’t find the right lecture theatre or might miss the information about freshers’ events !” explains Clarita, a Master’s student of economics at the Université Paris Dauphine. These first-day worries are experienced by many new students.

So to calm their anxiety, further education institutions are committed to providing students with a great deal of practical information in documentary form. This ‘onboarding’ process is designed to extend the best-possible welcome to newcomers. “Last year at my graduate school, we all received a huge and indigestible PDF by e-mail. I seem to remember that it contained long lists of nearby places and a map of the buildings. But I don’t think anyone ever read it” says Clarita.

This year, Clarita noticed a huge difference. Even before the first day of term, she received an e-mail from her graduate school containing a link to an onboarding app. Using the app, she can now access all the latest news, advice and suggestions, important dates in the timetable, and even useful practical details like the administration office opening hours.

Why is the Welcome App popular?

Welcome app is becoming increasingly common in student settings. That’s because they’re a gold mine of information for students and student services.

They can be updated in real time, and they bring together a broad range of different types of information. The result of the Welcome app is an information source that will be useful to the maximum number of students, at the same time as amplifying the impact of other internal communications and events.

After the long periods of solitude imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, digitalising the onboarding process in this way is a particularly effective way of combatting social isolation and anxiety among these young people. And that’s something that further education institutions seem to understand very well.

Create your Welcome app with YourDay ! 

YourDay allows you to generate a progressive web app in a few clicks that can be customized and is easy to use. The ideal way to bring together all the students of a school with a Welcome app that is quick to create and on which all the information specific to the school can be entered: logo, internal events, documents to be sent, class photos, etc.

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