WHAT VZOS® DOES | DELIVER
Operate the orientation experience as it happens.
Once orientation begins, the plan becomes an operation.
Participants may need different schedules, groups, locations, sessions, and information while staff need to know who is expected, who has arrived, and what is happening across the program.
VZOS® can help institutions coordinate the orientation experience around how their program is actually designed and delivered.
THE PARTICIPANT EXPERIENCE
The same orientation does not have to mean the same schedule.
Orientation programs may include shared experiences alongside sessions or activities that differ by participant.
VZOS® can support institution-defined schedules that reflect the experiences different participants need while giving each person a clearer view of where they need to be and when.
The institution designs the orientation experience. VZOS® helps put that experience into operation.
GROUPS & EXPERIENCES
Who participants are with can matter too.
Orientation groups may help institutions organize participants, distribute people across the program, or create different experiences within the same orientation.
Where groups are part of the institution’s model, VZOS® can support participant group assignments and connect those assignments with the orientation experience around them.
ARRIVAL & CHECK-IN
Know who has arrived.
Check-in is often the point where the expected orientation population becomes the population actually in front of you.
VZOS® can help staff check participants in and maintain visibility into who has arrived so the institution can operate from current participation information rather than the reservation alone.
Because check-in remains connected to the orientation operation, arrival can become useful information for the work that follows.
PARTICIPATION
Arrival and participation are not necessarily the same thing.
Knowing that someone arrived for orientation may not answer whether they participated in the sessions or activities the institution needs to understand.
Where the orientation model calls for it, VZOS® can support attendance and participation tracking within the program so staff can maintain a clearer picture of what actually happened.
What the institution chooses to track depends on the program and the purpose that information serves.
WHEN THE DAY CHANGES
Orientation does not always happen exactly as planned.
Schedules change. Locations change. Group assignments or the people supporting an experience may change while orientation is underway.
Because VZOS® schedules can be connected to the event groups, locations, and leaders that shape the orientation experience, changes to the operation can be reflected in the schedules participants rely on.
The schedule stays connected to the orientation being delivered, even when the plan changes.
THE PEOPLE DELIVERING ORIENTATION
The participant experience depends on the people operating it.
Orientation professionals, student leaders, and other campus partners may each need different information to carry out their responsibilities during the program.
Where VZOS® participates in that work, the platform can help make the appropriate operational information available to the people responsible for delivering the experience.
The technology supports the operation. The people still deliver orientation.
CONNECTED ORIENTATION
The experience can build on what happened before it.
The information needed during orientation may begin taking shape long before the participant arrives.
When an institution uses VZOS® across connected responsibilities, information established through registration and preparation can help support schedules, arrival, participation, and other parts of the orientation experience.
That connection can reduce the need to treat each part of orientation as an entirely separate operation.
Your institution determines which of these responsibilities VZOS® owns.
INSTITUTIONAL ADAPTATION
Technology should adapt to the orientation you designed.
Some institutions operate orientation over a single day. Others use multiple days, sessions, populations, groups, locations, or experiences.
VZOS® does not require those programs to become the same.
The goal is to understand how your institution delivers orientation, determine what VZOS should own within that operation, and allow other campus systems to continue doing what they appropriately own.
See How VZOS Fits →
EXPLORE THE WORK
Go deeper into delivering orientation.
Personalized Orientation Scheduling for Colleges and Universities
Explore how orientation schedules can reflect different participants, groups, sessions, and experiences within the same program.
Orientation Check-In & Attendance for Colleges and Universities
Explore the operational difference between knowing who was expected, who arrived, and who participated during orientation.
TALK WITH US
How does your institution deliver orientation?
Every institution operates orientation differently. We’d be interested in understanding how your program comes together, what your team needs while orientation is underway, and what you need the technology around it to own.