WHAT VZOS® DOES | UNDERSTAND
Understand what happened across orientation.
Orientation creates information as people move through the experience.
Who registered, what participants completed, who arrived, where they participated, and other operational activity can give an institution a clearer view of the orientation experience.
VZOS® can help bring that information together based on the parts of the orientation operation the institution uses the platform to manage.
EXPECTED & ACTUAL
What was planned and what actually happened are not always the same.
Registration can tell an institution who was expected. Check-in can establish who arrived. Attendance or participation information can add another layer to what happened during the program.
When VZOS® supports those responsibilities, the information created across them can help staff understand the orientation population from more than one operational perspective.
BEFORE ORIENTATION
Understand what happened before participants arrived.
The work leading into orientation can matter too.
Where VZOS® manages institution-defined tasks, requirements, or other preparation activities, staff can maintain visibility into what participants have completed and what may still be outstanding.
That gives the institution a clearer operational view of preparation without assuming every participant has the same requirements.
DURING ORIENTATION
See participation in the context of your program.
Attendance only becomes useful when it reflects what the institution actually needs to understand.
VZOS® can support visibility into attendance and participation across the sessions or activities the institution chooses to track, helping staff understand what occurred within the orientation experience.
The institution determines what participation matters and why.
DIFFERENT POPULATIONS
The whole population may not tell the whole story.
Orientation programs may serve different student populations, sessions, groups, or other institution-defined segments.
Where that information is part of the orientation operation, VZOS® can help staff understand activity within the contexts that matter to their program rather than treating every participant as part of one undifferentiated population.
OPERATIONAL QUESTIONS
Start with the question the institution needs to answer.
Different orientation teams need to understand different things.
One institution may need to know whether participants completed required preparation. Another may need to understand attendance across sessions, participation by program, or how registration translated into actual arrival.
VZOS® can help institutions bring together operational information from the responsibilities the platform manages so staff can answer the questions that matter to their program.
CONNECTED ORIENTATION
Understanding grows when the operation is connected.
Registration, preparation, and delivery can each create useful information on their own.
When an institution uses VZOS® across connected responsibilities, those parts of the orientation operation can provide a more complete view of what happened from registration through participation.
That does not require VZOS® to own every part of orientation.
Your institution determines which of these responsibilities VZOS® owns.
INSTITUTIONAL ADAPTATION
What you need to understand depends on how you operate.
Orientation reporting should reflect the program being operated, not force every institution into the same definition of success.
Some information may appropriately live in VZOS®. Other institutional reporting or analysis may belong in an SIS, CRM, data warehouse, business intelligence platform, or other campus technology.
The goal is to make the information created through the orientation operation useful while allowing each system to continue doing what it appropriately owns.
EXPLORE THE WORK
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Orientation Check-In & Attendance for Colleges and Universities
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TALK WITH US
What does your institution need to understand about orientation?
Every institution has different questions about its orientation operation. We’d be interested in understanding what your team needs to know, where that information comes from, and what role you need the technology around it to play.