The Rokwire platform earned the 2024 Innovative Technology Award from the National Association of Campus Card Users for or being “a unique technology-based solution” for building a comprehensive app at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Posted on November 29, 2023
The Daily Illini
Rokwire is setting up new Illinois app contributors for success and will be adding features to the next release in early 2024.
Rokwire will serve as a title sponsor of the 2023 annual conference of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities. This year’s theme focuses on ways “campuses and cities embrace shared understandings and a commitment to fostering greater resilience.”
The Daily Illini
Learn how the Illinois app is making the student experience better. “A lot of our efforts are trying to understand the barriers to students’ success . . . and how we can use this technology to reduce those hurdles.”
The Daily Illini
Rokwire’s Illinois app allows anyone with a NetID to create a group chat for friends or people with shared interests. The group function is one of many new abilities available in “Illinois 4,” the updated version of the Illinois app.
Illinois News Bureau
Learn about how the Safer Illinois app supported the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s efforts to keep the campus community safe during the pandemic. This article summarizes the findings of a recent journal article published in Nature Communications that provides a thorough report of the University’s SHIELD: Target, Test, Tell program.
The Daily Illini
Learn about how the Illinois app’s building access function ignited a conversation about displaying preferred names vs. legal names.
CU-Citizen Access
Get the behind-the-scenes story of how researchers at the University of Illinois developed their saliva-based test and processed 100,000 tests a day, with the help of the Rokwire Safer Illinois app.
Daily Illini
The University of Illinois is recommending that students, faculty and staff transition to using the Illinois app to display their COVID-19 Building Access Status.
The News-Gazette
Rokwire is developing an app-based tool to help reduce crime and violence in the C-U community.
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