The ConexED Blog

insights

Last week, I presented some best practices for facilitating a successful virtual meeting: checking your technology, creating a professional background, having resources available, using engaging tools and structures, and determining next steps and making sure to follow through.

Nick Jacobs

Creative Director

insights

In Part 1, we talked about four effective instructional strategies and ways to implement them in virtual settings.

Nick Jacobs

Creative Director

insights

Learning online is a vast landscape. Most of us would describe learning online in one specific way: learning on a computer.

Nick Jacobs

Creative Director

Equity

After nearly 3 years of pandemic fallout, the Golden State of California has created the Basic Needs program which has the potential to serve struggling students in the most relevant way possible.

Katie Bevilacqua

Operations Director

Equity

There’s officially a crisis of food insecurity plaguing college students, and it’s on the rise nationally, with some 3 out of 5 students going hungry and being pushed closer to the dropout edge.

Katie Bevilacqua

Operations Director

Equity

As the nation’s largest higher education system launches its new academic year, its millions of students and their families should know that the state of California and its partners have got their backs with a new and stronger safety net.

Katie Bevilacqua

Operations Director

Equity

Access to food pantries and CalFresh is essential for many California students and their families. Using ConexED, schools can manage CalFresh eligibility, food pantry pick-up schedules, and inventories all in one, easy-to-use platform.

Katie Bevilacqua

Operations Director

Equity

Witnessing the value of social-emotional learning (SEL) over the course of the last decade, SEL has quickly become the topic of online education discussion groups, teaching manuals and scholastic articles the world over.

Katie Bevilacqua

Operations Director

Equity

Nearly 50 years have passed since Congress signed Title IX into law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally-funded education programs. While steps toward inclusivity have improved dramatically since, members of the LGBTQ+ community continue to face challenges in education.

Katie Bevilacqua

Operations Director

Equity

Established special education systems and language programs are mandatory on campuses nationwide, but the same level of support is not available online.

Katie Bevilacqua

Operations Director

Equity

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA, passed in 1974, is the guiding legislation for what educational bodies can and cannot do with student information.

Nick Jacobs

Creative Director

Engagement

Wichita State University – Campus of Applied Sciences and Technology has taken a big step towards addressing student equity on their campus.

Katie Bevilacqua

Operations Director

Engagement

First the headlines: Food insecurity is becoming an epidemic for students struggling to make a better life by attending college In this new post-Covid world.

Katie Bevilacqua

Operations Director

Engagement

One of the most alarming trends in higher education is a growing concern among college administrators nationwide: increasing college dropout rates.

Nick Jacobs

Creative Director

Engagement

A year after the worldwide spread of Covid-19, The Chronicle of Higher Education offers valuable insight on ways to improve the remote student experience.

Katie Bevilacqua

Operations Director

Engagement

For K-12 and higher education, case management is now an integral part of a student’s experience.

Katie Bevilacqua

Operations Director

Engagement

Academic advisors adapt their approach based on the needs and strengths of individual students.

Nick Jacobs

Creative Director

Engagement

A growing number of college students are working full time, caring for dependents, and taking classes online. And, in the era of COVID-19, they’re also dealing with anxiety about the future.

Nick Jacobs

Creative Director

Engagement

While higher education has embraced online learning—and one-third of students were taking at least one online course before schools went remote in spring 2020—some institutions have been slower to roll out virtual student services like academic advising.

Nick Jacobs

Creative Director

Engagement

As COVID-19 forces classes and student services online, many colleges and universities have turned to Zoom for virtual meetings

Nick Jacobs

Creative Director

Engagement

Cory Stokes has a big title for good reason. As Digital Learning Officer and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Utah, he oversees online programs, digital learning infrastructure, the testing center, and curriculum administration service teams.

Nick Jacobs

Creative Director

Engagement

Virtual meetings provide a great opportunity to meet with students and diversify the circumstances in which to connect.

Nick Jacobs

Creative Director

Enrollment

Ongoing advancements in technology have allowed humans to connect more now than at any other point in history. Constantly surrounded by screens, we have the ability to text, call, video, and read up on just about anyone, whether overseas or in an adjacent area code.

Katie Bevilacqua

Operations Director

Enrollment

As U.S. colleges and universities explore their options for reopening in fall 2020, more than 65% are now planning for in-person instruction. But as they prepare to welcome students back, they’re also developing contingency plans for fully virtual campuses.

Nick Jacobs

Creative Director

Enrollment

In 2019, when prospective students applied for admission, no one had ever heard of COVID-19.

Nick Jacobs

Creative Director

Enrollment

By Dennis O. Cambara, M.A., DSPS/RISE Counselor/Instructor at the Chabot College Disabled Student Resource Center (DSRC)

Nick Jacobs

Creative Director

Product

Because predictive data analytics technology has been around for nearly a decade, the technology is antiquated at best, and with Covid-19 creating uncertainty throughout the entirety of modern campus life, the demand for new technology is paramount for student support services.

Nick Jacobs

Creative Director

Product

ConexED, a fast-growing, ed-tech company specializing in student success solutions, announced their partnership with the modern workspace design startup ROOM to produce the first ever Campus Anywhere.

Nick Jacobs

Creative Director