{"id":114321,"date":"2019-07-24T16:16:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T22:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=114321"},"modified":"2019-07-26T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T17:02:10","slug":"lockwood-and-santonastaso-earn-first-place-at-cu-innovation-and-efficiency-awards-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=114321","title":{"rendered":"Lockwood and Santonastaso earn first place at CU Innovation and Efficiency Awards Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The UCCS Mobile Orientation App includes a campus map highlighting important buildings and services for new students.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nick Lockwood, director of orientation and new student outreach,\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>Hailey\u00a0<\/span>Santonastaso<\/span>, orientation program coordinator,\u00a0<\/span>noticed that new students are increasingly reliant on their phones during the student orientation experience. Students take photos of presentation slides to reference\u00a0later, sign up for academic departments\u2019 Facebook pages, pull up maps of campus and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Lockwood and\u00a0<\/span>Santonastaso<\/span>, \u201cWe wanted to adapt the [orientation] program to fit the learning styles and needs of the students<\/span>.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With the support of the orientation team, Lockwood and\u00a0<\/span>Santonastaso<\/span>\u00a0designed the UCCS Mobile Orientation App to give students a centralized location on their phones to access orientation materials.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Students can pull up details on specific orientation day events providing need-to-know information.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the annual CU Innovation and\u00a0<\/span>Efficiency<\/span>\u00a0Awards,\u00a0<\/span>the team<\/span>\u2019s app took first place \u2013 and the $1,500 University Controller\u2019s Award for Excellence.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Lockwood and\u00a0<\/span>Santonastaso<\/span>\u00a0originally<\/span>\u00a0discovered that other universities were developing mobile apps for new student orientation at a conference.\u00a0<\/span>The two reached out to peer institutions to learn about the development process and determine their priorities for a UCCS orientation app.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to\u00a0<\/span>Lockwood and\u00a0Santonastaso<\/span>,\u00a0“We put a high priority on simplicity, accessibility, and university branding.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Professional development for their student staffers was also a factor. \u201cIt was important for us to incorporate student involvement and perspective in the process. Orientation student staff joined us from the beginning initial design phases, meetings, and trainings, and played a significant role in the development and maintenance of the app.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The two hope that the new app helps to ease some of the pain points inherent in transitioning into a new college environment.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>We realize that orientation can be a stressful and overwhelming process,\u201d\u00a0the two say, \u201cand it is our hope that the mobile app has helped alleviate stress and uncertainty while promoting a positive introduction to campus resources and support.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the annual CU Innovation and\u00a0Efficiency\u00a0Awards,\u00a0Nick Lockwood and Hailey Santonastaso’s UCCS Mobile Orientation app took first place \u2013 and the $1,500 University Controller\u2019s Award for Excellence.\u00a0 (More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":114350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,49],"tags":[44,263,66],"class_list":["post-114321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-campus-announcements","tag-administration-and-finance","tag-enrollment-management","tag-orientation-and-new-student-outreach"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/UCCS-Mobile-Orientation-App.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-tJT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114321"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114356,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114321\/revisions\/114356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}